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When I was 15 or 16 my mom took me to grocery store and sent me in to get her something while she waited outside. Inside I ran into a few girls I knew from school. I said hi. They giggled and smiled. My ego was stoked. I go back out to the car and my mom asked how it went , noticing my shit eaten grin. I told her about the hot chicks I ran into and how they were all smiling at me. She asked me if it was because they liked me or was it the gigantic booger on the end of my nose. What I thought the girls were all smiling at wasn't me after all. I was the fool thinking one thing when in fact I couldn't have been more wrong. Call it how you want. You are wrong Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

This thread become so much more than I could have ever dreamed.

Finally made this. Dunno how, exactly. Just looked straight through trees as I approached the ledge, and rode right through. I think I keep getting hung up by looking at the ledge. Line perpendicular to ledge points at that tree on the left, so I always turn a bit that way, then end up riding right into it. This last time, I don't think I even looked at the stupid rocks and just rode through the tree gap. I should probably do that more often (not look at stupid rocks.) As far as 1/4 Notch goes, last obstacle I need to work on is up sponge bob. Smashed a testicle last time I tried, though. Not in a hurry to repeat that.

Your good work is poised to go down into the anals of AMTB.com history. (yeah, that's how I spelled it)

What you will find about sleep as you get older is that the wakeup time is anchored in stone. If you want to impact your total sleep time, you need to work on starting earlier.

So.....I ride with Bartman regularly. We recently had a great trip to Colorado and he hung out with my wife and I this past weekend. I’d love to see his take on the person “featured “ here for creating so many posts. Perhaps I will log on and hand things over to Bartman. I may be banned as a result, but you know it’d be some great reading! 🤣

Last week a group of us hiked the proposed route thru Walnut Creek Park from the current "end" of the big sidewalk to the east side of the park. There were several issues to bring to the group - 1) - PARD is saying NO NEW TRAILS. After the current section of the sidewalk replaced several of the exiting trails, we were allowed to replace those trails. PARD is saying that will not be allowed this time. The new sidewalk is planned to replace a long section of the existing trail that in my opinion, is not a high priority to Mtbr's. Most of that section is along Pool Lot Trail. (see attached map). I don't see that trail being a big loss to Mtbr's. Most riders on that trail are just getting to a 'real trail' to ride. I think we can share that part with the general public with out too much trouble. 2) - Charlie has proposed and flagged a parallel path to allow Mtbr's to bypass that section. PARD was adamant that that trail would never be allowed. 3) - The climb at 250 - 252 - 254 is likely to be closed. There were concerns about trails entering the sidewalk with blind entrances. Those trails are fall line trails that are eroding and exposing oak roots. My opinion is those trails should probably be closed but only if there are allowed to be replaced. If they are closed with no replacement - then keep them open. Sorry - an adamant edict gets an adamant response. 4) - The biggest problem is where the new sidewalk will cross Walnut Creek east of the Main Creek Crossing (see lower right red circle on the attached map). That is a highly used and popular trail. The City was proposing to build "board walk ramps" to allow Mtb's to cross the sidewalk at (roughly) right angles. The theory was that the climb on to the sidewalk level (I'm guessing 5 to 6 feet) would slow the bikes down to prevent collisions. I said that riders would get as much speed as possible to gap jump the concrete. I see potential for major collisions if they build these ramps. I suggested allowing the existing trail to be moved so the revised trail could go under the bridge that will be built over Walnut Creek. This would be similar to what was done at the bottom of Powerline Flow Trail. The engineer and PARD people did walk over and look at that area. There was NO commitment that this would be allowed. There was little commitment that it would even be considered. I think the folks were we talking with were afraid to make commitments that may not happen because they are overruled by higher ups. These were worker bees - not management that sits at a desk and issues edicts. 5) - There were a large number of trees with red survey tape around them. There was MUCH concern that the red survey tape meant the tree would be removed. We were told that the red marking meant the tree was surveyed - not that it would or would not be removed. Since some of these trees were HUGE old trees - several people walking the proposed sidewalk were relieved to hear these trees were not marked for removal. 6) - Overall - I think the big sidewalk is a good thing (I hate to call a concrete, ADA compliant structure a "trail". It is closer to a road than a trail.). This can be a place to ride when it is too wet to ride dirt. We can stay away from cars with drivers on their phones. Maybe, just maybe, we might be able to build new trail off the new sidewalk like at Brushy Creek. I support the big sidewalk even if it takes out some real trails at Walnut Creek. That said, these are my opinions ONLY. I am about to hand this off to others. They may have different ideas on how to handle it. You can see what the City has posted on their web site at the link below. http://www.austintexas.gov/page/walnut-creek-trail-system WalnutCreekMetroPark_LargeKiosk_2019-09-07 NWCRT.pdf

I have a new Specialized Fatboy 1.25" slick and Presta tube you can have.

It was a booger eating joke, not a reference to cannibalism. Hope that came across correctly. And I'll never put you on ignore. You make this place way more entertaining and seem like a genuinely good intentioned person, albeit a stubborn and quirky person.

I most definitely have a 10 speed king hub that started as 135QR, converted to 142 x 12 thru axle, that uses the original 10spd Shimano free hub that came on the 135 king hub and it worked great with 11 speed and even 12 speed eagle. so I doubt that is your issue

Note above where I said the "soft costs" (design and management) would be close to the "hard costs" (labor and materials to build the sidewalk). WatersPark links to why those costs are so high. It costs money to 'manage, report, comply with laws, and make transparent'. Note that I am pointing out reality. I am not complaining or blaming anyone. When the 'rules' are made to cover any project no matter the size, the costs of complying with those rules becomes a MAJOR percentage of smaller projects.

San Antonio is quite a bit ahead of Austin with respect to these concrete hike and bike trails. When they started planning the first one through our beloved Leon Creek trails we were pissed that they seemed to be following the established paths, in many cases, instead of flagging a new path, and that we were losing a bunch of trails or having them interrupted. In the end, the system of paths are a major win for bike and foot traffic. You can commute or just do a safe paved ride. A new, planned section will connect two long existing sections to create what is probably 40 miles of contiguous paved trail that cuts through the NW and NE sides of town. https://www.sanantonio.gov/Portals/0/Files/Parks/GreenwayTrailMap.pdf?ver=2017-03-30-141506-633 My only concern is that the Austin paths are a little on the narrow side in many spots. Like Little Walnut trail. Little Walnut also has a ton of boring-ass nothingness it passes through, but that can't be helped I suppose, until we can plant some trees and shit. ha. I love being able to ride paved path from Mopac/Duval area to Walnut. Five million bucks will seem like a bargain in 20 years. That'll be the annual property taxes on an average single family home by then!

I have a set of Avid SD5 v-brakes and levers you can have. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah, I used to ride my Ross 10-speed to work every day in Chicago as a teenager, including all winter when temps at 6am were often -20F. Here people bitch that anything under 55 is too cold to ride. My Austin record is 28F for a ride to work.

Geez, I visited Montreal once. There was a "major heat wave" where the temperature approached 90 in July. I saw old ladies riding in wool skirts up a fking mountain in heels on 3-speed cruiser bikes. Texans are weak.

This! I catch the multi-use path on Lincolnshire and ride over to the library on Amherst. I love seeing all the people out and about using the trail, especially families. Also great because there are quite a few apartment complexes that border that path on both sides of MoPac, so it's a great way to get out of an apartment and exercise. I do a social roadie ride every Tuesday morning on the Southern Walnut Creek Multi-Use Path and found that I wish it were wider by about three feet on either side. Use is about 90% cyclists and it's just not quite wide enough to sometimes safely pass the pedestrians that venture on to it. A few weeks ago there was an extremely fast group of (maybe 10 or 12) guys (Mellow Johnnys? BSS?) riding in a pack that kinda scared the crap out of everybody. They did manage to stay in their lane, but had they come around one of the bazillion blind corners on that path and discovered some walkers dead ahead with oncoming bike traffic, it would have been game over. The riders that had been dropped from the pack were also going extremely fast trying to catch up, riding close to the center line. I was in Atlanta for a wedding in May 2018 in a great neighborhood (Poncey Highland), close enough to walk to the old original Sears building, which is now the mixed use Ponce City Market. The railroad that went by Sears has been converted to a paved multi-use path and was about 6 feet wide on each side, with incredibly heavy foot and bike traffic. Because it was so wide, it easily accommodated everyone. ATLANTA BELTLINE EASTSIDE TRAIL Atlanta plans ultimately to have a beltline multi-use path the encircles the entire city. I hope it comes to pass. Anyway, thanks, CX Agent for being on top of this with the City.

I went to Mojo and asked Bart to please come get RA.

Seriously, dont sweat the offset right now. Find the frame you want and go from there. The last 2-3 forks I built were basically from scratch buying steerers, legs, dampers, and airshafts separately. It's an easy swap to make if you ever decide to do so. Plus pike steerers are super cheap comparatively. I've had 100-135mm 29er trailbikes and IMHO, a 120ish mm is the sweet spot for around here. Anything less is tough to get the rear suspension dialed since there's such a small amount of travel, and more just feels like overkill for general use.

We have re-opened a trail at City Park. I doubt MTBR's know about or ever used this trail. So chances are good MTBR's will never find this trail or start using it. But it exists and is rideable now. There is short bypass near the top of the Main Loop. This trail starts on that bypass and parallels the drainage channel until it hits where the fork of the drainage comes together. From there, there is a trail to the west that ties back into the Main Loop. This trail was EXTREMELY important to the motorcycle trials riders so they could get to their riding areas without doing the entire Main Loop. Since it was clearly outside of any critical water quality zone we were allowed to reopen it. If MTBR's want to ride it - it is legal trail. Please stay on the trail and don't create bypasses or new trails. This is a two-way trail so be careful of on coming traffic. You should plan to yield to motorcycles regardless of who is up hill or down hill. You know they are there but they don't know you are there. Attached are two maps. One an aerial view where the trail is located but it is hard to see the other trails. The other map has TONS on old information but shows the other trails. I 'circled' the re-opened trail in red so you can find it among all the info shown. Ef LongMotorcyclePark-1996 Existing Trails - Shaded Sections - N-S Trail.pdf

Just buy one quickly. We need the rain.

Come on RA. Take a hint. You do not contribute in a positive way to this forum. Maybe it's time...you know....to move on.

I rode last night and noticed a log was removed from the trail on Picnic. It was that one where you split right at the Y in the trail and then there's 2 logs to hop before you cross the little dry creek. One log has now been removed by a helpful novice.