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Stumbled onto a 4-pack of this stuff while visiting family in Huntsville over the weekend. It was well worth the premium price.

Went sour this evening and it’s great. Also picked a six of Black Butte Porter and had Mt Hood Brewing Co double IPA and a whitbier with lunch after 4400ft of riding up, both special release. The IPA was OK, the whitbier was pretty good.

Due to crappy humid weather this has been my go to bike for the last 13 days. Decided to do a 30 rides in 30 days challenge. 19.1 miles per day currently at mile 247 as of today.

Serious question: in what manner were the bikes locked to the car, if at all? Just curious to see if theives are stealing "convenient" targets of if they are going to the trouble of cutting locks.

You'll lover the Fox 34 @130, one of my favorites.

Just picked up a sixer of Slightly Mighty. Pretty tasty for 95 cals.

That's because it's just a Pale Ale not an India Pale Ale (IPA). Still a great beer though and I believe you can get it at Randalls most of the time. Their Inversion IPA is pretty smooth too though.

I'll just lay it out here that people who like to ride mellower stuff, like me these days, be the ones who lay out and design the B lines, instead of the people who have created a need for B lines in the first place. B lines -- I'd prefer the term intermediate or mellow intermediate -- should be incredibly interesting and flowy with fun but doable challenges and obstacles at a lower amplitude than a black diamond trail. If you'd like to ride an insanely well designed and super fun intermediate trail, head to Dead Horse Point State Park above Moab and ride the newer part of the Intrepid Trail system east of the park entrance road. Stop trying to determine for everyone that there can only be one path in mountain biking -- advancing to and mastering increasingly more difficult challenges. Which is totally and completely legit for for some, maybe many, riders. However, I've been on more than one monthly ARR ride where a large group of riders just wanted to enjoy a fun, mellow ride, on mellow trails, away from traffic. They were super not interested in their ride resulting in a visit to the ER. Fun but interesting trails are good. The reason Walnut is so insanely popular is its high ride-ability quotient. Also, something I've seen in play more than once -- throwing in something ridiculous that can be, let's face it, ridden only by a few super technically accomplished riders -- because the trail builders thought the trail was boring or too easy. Alternate lines will arise on trails that are erratic in their technical demands. If you're going to be building a black diamond trail full of technical challenge, fine. If you're going to be building intermediate trails, then do that with consistency. If you want to combine both, then have alternate lines and be done with it, because, as we've all seen over and over, riders WILL vote with their tires, then everybody clutches their pearls and takes to their fainting couch over the sheer awfulness of it all. IMBA recommends stacked trails, with specifically black diamond trails further into the trail system, often as loops off a main route.