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I'm 3 weeks post-op and still pretty much laying in bed most of the time. I try sitting for a bit every day, but just end up squirming around trying to find a comfortable position. Understandable I suppose considering the multiple anchors that are still holding my hamstring tendon onto the sit bone. Hopefully once those get absorbed, the pain will diminish. When I'm not careful, it seems I end up aggravating the sciatic nerve and dealing with excruciating pain for several hours. I'll be really glad when I can start moving around in a few weeks and start PT.

Go to Voler.com. I’ve used their shorts for years road biking. Look for specials you get some pretty good deals.

Registered. Looking forward to my first pedal bike enduro.. Been 10 years since my last dirt bike enduro...yooiinks

Im always cautiously aware when bombing either direction there. I’ve had a couple couple close calls there. You always need to be ready to brake.

You are 110% right. It is a vague notion in my head for sure and risky. But damn its fun.

OK I'll see your Dirty Love and raise you a Jewish Princess😀

He’s out, but I believe he was due to be deported — if Bart didn’t hunt him down first.

Gigantor LIVES! 😲 (kinda sounds like the title of a Japanese monster movie) Good to see you hanging out with the riff-raff in the new digs here at AMTB. Was sorry to hear of your, ahem, injury. I'm just so happy that Spicewookie was there to share it with you. I know it meant a lot to him. 😏

Mine is dialed how I originally envisioned it as of this weekend. Super happy with the turn out and deals I got on the bags with patients. Planning to do some light touring trips in a few months when it cools off a bit. Heading to Bastrop SP, Pedernales SP, and Inks Lake SP. Then plan to do the big loop in Big Bend SP in the winter. Bike: Salsa Journeyman size 54, apex 1 build, 700x43 gravel king sk tires, 2 salsa anything cages on the fork Bags/gear: Saddle bag is a 14 liter Revelate Designs terrapin system. Inside is a spare can of cooking fuel, sleeping bag, and my clothes which are just bibs, poly shirts and socks. Fork bags are Road Runner Buoy Bags. Did a lot of research looking for the biggest I could run here these are 7.5 liters each rolled 3 times. Great capacity for the fork. Right leg is my entire Cloud Up Ultralight tent including footprint and my pillow. Left leg has gas canister, cook system, rain jacket and a liter of water Handles bar carries 3 bags. 1 stasher bag 3 can (Orange) that carries my sleeping pad. 1 stasher bag 2 can (black, hard to see, attached to orange) that holds all my spare tools and parts, pump, and spare tube. On top is a Revelate Designs Egress pocket which nutrition/food and battery pack, wallet and a few small nic-nacs. Top tube is the salsa bolt on top tube bag that has easy access nutrition for riding snacks, phone, chap stick and the small things I will always need to grab in motion. Carrying 3 20-21oz bottles in Power Cages. Bigger, more isolated rides and I may throw on a camelbak for 3 more liters of water, but it would have to be cooler weather for that. Looking forward to many trips on this thing!

Holy shit ole timer! This is not a competition, ya know? hope you get it worked out and you're back out showing these damn single speeders the right way to do it!

Dude! You are a mess Miss running into you out there Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

You don’t realize how much work your ankle does to keep you balanced when walking. When you’re riding your ankle doesn’t rotate like when you’re walking.

Ride that little off-shoot with caution like everything else, but especially a blind drop like that. It is a dick move, but that little off shoot is not part of the "official" trail. Imagine if there was someone riding through at the moment you are bombing down - there is no sight line for either of you and no time to adjust. I'm not trying to harsh on your stoke, just saying, like everything else in MTB it's all a somewhat calculated risk.

I had a shoulder injury kinda like that (twice actually). I could ride no problem, but couldn't lift my arm above my head.

Good to see you again, Ed. -dburatti

Kind of a weird injury situation for me. Sprained my ankle really bad playing basketball a few weeks ago (went for a rebound and landed on my foot at an angle and lucky nothing broke). It still hurts a lot when I turn my ankle in any direction and put pressure on it at the same time. I have to go down stairs slowly and getting in and out of my car can be a chore at times. But I have absolutely no pain when I ride my bike. I've been riding 3 days after the injury happened, hitting jumps and all and as long as I have a nice pedal platform I'm good. Friends find it weird that I can go shred on my bike, but then have a limp when I walk.

That certaintly looks painful.

I don't know the best way to describe this spot. If you're heading east from the toll, just before you get to an up ramp with a rail on the BCRT, right around the 0.75 mile marker. You can stay to the right and it drops down and immediately back up into a small single track that will take you up to the "end" of double down. Anyway, the section where it drops down into the creek bed and goes immediately back up had a huge pile of sticks at the bottom. Considering that section has been dry for over a month, I assume it was some asshole trying to send someone OTB, so I threw them all back into the woods. It wasn't enough to really do much (about as much as the pile of stick you bunnyhop at the east entrance of picnic), but it certainly caught me off guard coming the opposite way.

Teenage boys in the house? I do SB when I must. Mostly at home but my favorite coffee house in town is Thunderbird.

managed that in a single run, no repeat trip required. yep xl frame 700lbs spring.

The folks who prefer Starbucks prefer " steamed coconut milk and three pumps mocha". I like my coffee black and prefer the stuff I made at home to either DD or Starbucks, but I do still drink plenty of Starbucks out of convenience. (Sometimes black, sometimes "mocha frappuccino no whip".)

I find most folks that prefer DD like "lots o' cream and lots o' sugar," to quote Mr. Wolf. And most folks who prefer Starbucks like it black. "When I buy coffee, I like to taste it," to paraphrase Jimmie. I've seen it go the other way, but that's how it usually shakes out.

I will bring an extra beer for you.

Wow those are some nice bikes to 🙁. Hope they jail the s.o.b.'s. I had a guy come into my store saying his buddy found his bike at a homeless camp downtown and I went outside thinking it was some random huffy but it turned out to be a 2012 stump jumper.

I haven't ridden that in a long time, probably since they built the subdivision up on top. When I first started riding there it was almost always dry. I used to climb up it on my bike and that was actually more fun than going down it. The wet started when they started building up top and it's been wet ever since. I think some of it may be runoff from people watering their yards. I have slid on my ass getting soaked a few times while walking the dogs out there. People are unbelievable "let me take this beautiful work of nature and fuck it all up with some stupid handholds so my entitled ass can get up it". Thousand of years for erosion to create that and some idiot fucks it up in a matter of minutes. Stupidity and entitlement make me want to get off this rock ASAP! I was totally blown away by how amazing it was the first time I was ever up there, to be able to stand in something like that really lets you know how insignificant we really are. Pics included.

Your injury is a set back - not an end. Start planning on next year. And I recommend doing other events as part of the preparations. Just keep it fun. When it is not fun I get tired of it. If I am "working" I want to be paid for it.

Hi y'all! Welp, today was the T100/40 and I ended up bailing on it. I fell crossing Walnut three weeks ago and twisted my knee, chipped a piece of cartilage and sprained my ACL. Will get arthroscopy to remove the chip and smoove over the joint after I get back from vacay. I did feel good enough to do a Gondola assisted 20 miler over much of the same trail and WOW the trails here are magnificent. What I learned: 1) it was good to come here and gaze in wonder at the Black Bear Pass climb from town. It looks even worse than the Strava tracks I'd been obsessing over for months. It was also good to become familiar with some of the trails, with how the race is conducted (I volunteered as a course marshal up on the mountain), how to dress for the weather, how I'd feel at 8500 feet, how I'd perform at 8500 feet, etc. I still learned a lot even without racing. 2) I changed up my riding patterns and I am pretty sure I saw improvement in my fitness before I messed my knee up. I did several weeks with very little intensity, just "sweet spot" and lower including a ~4-5 hr "sweet spot" ride on Saturdays. Then added some intensity during my work commutes, 3-5 minute high effort intervals as the streets and lights allowed. I think I'd just do "more" in the future. More hours if I could fit it into my schedule and extend my one long ride to 5-6 hrs. 3) I put together a hardtail for the event as my XC ride and I think it would be perfectly sufficient for this race. The singletrack is SO F*CKING buff! A full suspension trail or XC bike would def give me more confidence on fast, narrow DH sections but my new-to-me Indy Fab was a hoot. 4) I'd do more work on sorting out what works for me in terms of nutrition. I was going to go with Tailwind, which almost entirely carb based. I was more focused on "just riding" and getting my bike ready. 5) Maybe do more events to avoid putting all of my event eggs in one basket. 6) These racers are BEASTS!! 7) Telluride is beautiful! My family has loved vacationing here. Wife initially thought I was sticking us in the boonies just to serve my desire to do this race but she loves it here. Thanks for all of your advice and tips! If my family will come back, I might try it next year! (though Black Bear Pass scares the shit out of me)

Serious badasses.

I own this box set. It's awesome!

No wonder I can't walk straight! Had an MRI due to a torn anterior tibialis tendon a few years ago, and the MRI result incidentally indicated that 2 of the 4 ligaments in my ankle were completely severed from past trauma. Nothing but snap, crackle, pop coming from the ankles these days.