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My plans for today. Oddly, they are all 12%

Oh my gosh - long white haired motherfucker with no helmet? I got stuck behind him a week ago. He cut me off several times as I tried to pass. Every time I hollered "I'm passing on your left" and he would swerve left as I came up beside him. Finally got around him just before Parmer, but DAMN. I had 2 others I was riding with and they had the same problem with him. Somebody's gonna take him out by accident or on purpose and Willie Nelson's gonna wish he'd at least worn a helmet!

Yes! Last night was mad. I did go for a hike with my daughter about 130 today on 1/4. Saw only 2 real bikers. About 3 the crowds started. I've decided morning rides or night. I dont blame people , especially those with little kids being out but the frigging cluelessness is outstanding. I literally rode about 3 feet or less behind the rear tire over most of PP because some long white haired , camo wearing , earphone wearing, old tool on POS bike refused to let me pass. Refused. Looked me in the eye. He saw he saw me. He could smell me I was so close. He refused. I decided (maybe wrongly) i was gonna use his forehead as a kicker if he fell. When i went to pass his ass under the bridge un Parmer he literally ran into me. Never ever in yrs and decades of riding has that happened. Rant over. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

he should have just hucked off that ledge and moved on.

Not saying that my beer drinking has slowed down, but I still have a few more of these left. It helps to finish them off when the wife tells you at ~1:30 "we better start drinking now."

You'd be surprised how much salt it actually takes to keep anything from growing. Ill never use roundup. There's enough of it in our food for me

Really old school landing: From:

I'm drinking Knob Creek Rye on the rocks on our virtual work happy hour on Webex.

If you HAVE to pedal to keep the front wheel up, then you haven't found the natural balance point yet. Front wheel needs to go higher. Once you are in the natural balance point you should be able to stop pedaling and the front wheel shouldn't drop. It's also much easier to control the bike left to right and it doesn't want to flop to one side like it does when the wheel isn't high enough. I've been practicing wheelies almost every day (when it doesn't rain) for the past 10 months or so. I'm not great at it, but it's definitely easier to find that balance point when the bike is already rolling fast. But the biggest thing to remember is that if you have to keep pedaling and pedal faster to keep the front up, you aren't at the balance point. Same goes for if your front wheel keeps flopping to the left or right really easily.

On board with this one. The US has been losing every war since WW2. This is no exception.

This was eye-opening for me. it makes a lot more sense than the typical marketing copy I see. most say things like "get a bike with the handlebar stretched out ten feet in front of you and the BB dragging on the ground and you can shred everything!" they often leave a caveat that you have to "adjust your riding position" or something similar, but I have never had anyone really break down what that means. NOW it makes some sense to me. I'ld like to see more of this. I am definitely stuck in the "old school" attitude. I rode a long, low bike for over a year and it made me start to hate mountain biking. I could not adjust and everything was terrifying and out of control, no matter what I did. I just felt like I was lost, swimming inside the bike with zero control over it. all of my riding technique came from riding BMX, though. I see a lot of people around Austin riding "old" style bikes and killing it, but this video makes a compelling case for making the transition.

I let the mom know they’re on a trail called Snake Alley.

I bet that banana seat let you sit your butt right next to balance point. That would be a fun bike to have just to ride wheelies on. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Maybe when e-mtbs have one of these, it won't matter.

Was the author of this thread's headline foretelling...

Damn! BA Mocha Legion has got to be off the charts! I recall a Jamaican rum barrel Legion a couple years back that I thought snuck into my top 5 beer group. Always been a community fan.

Funny how it seemed so easy on one these back in the day. I remember as a kid wheeling down the street effortlessly, slow and steady. Did the banana seat and sissy bar make the difference? There was no feathering the brake back then either!

People here probably already know, but the profile of hikers on SATN seems to have changed with the coronavirus shutdown. Families with toddlers are venturing far from trailheads and their usual hangouts at flower spots. I even passed a blind person and companion. So good time to keep it slow on blind corners, etc.

That video is great. Awesome riding in the early days. Two things, though. MTBing looks way more fun now than it was then, and I’m really glad that we don’t tuck white T-shirts into spandex anymore.

Cant mention old drops without Bender (1:45 for Jah drop) or Dave Watson

Good points. I'm actually much worse the faster I go. I can pop up and wheelie almost from a trackstand, and I feel that balance point b/c I can stop pedaling and keep the front end up. My yard is not even though, so naturally I lose and gain forward momentum and that's when I have to do a half pedal. But that feeling of being at this point is awesome. And yes, the moment I feel like I'm just speeding up I know I didn't pop it up far enough so I just start over. I skipped my practice today but did go on a good road ride. Gotta keep the fitness up too.

11am town hall said 400-500 layoffs coming in the next 14 days. Here we go.

Your welcome. My handchainsaw just didn't have the umph to finish it off, and since nobody was on trail, didn't have any help.

Swag deadfall removed! Thanks to whoever cleaned off the branches. Sent from my SM-G930P using Tapatalk

Things governments could do help out, if they really cared (Feel free to add on): 1) Open BCP/Forest Ridge to recreation to reduce density at parks/trails and keep up with Austin's population boom 2) Return the drinking age to 18. It used to be 18 (then 19) in Texas. Then, when Reagan tied highway finding to the drinking age, Texas raised it to 21. My son just moved back from Canada and could be fueling local establishments as he did in Canada, but he's only 20. He also pointed out to me that Texas should opt out of the funding anyway because it's a net loser for Texas: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/transportation/article/Lawmakers-say-Texas-getting-shortchanged-on-13733169.php 3) Abandon the asinine proposal to send US troops to the Canadian Border. We continue to allow travelers from hot-spot countries in other parts of the world with no screening (first-had knowledge of this) but now we're going to militarize the Canadian Border - I think there's more useful ways to deploy our troops? 4) Instead of tax breaks for solar panels, hybrid vehicles, etc., provide tax breaks for people to prepare for emergencies (outbreaks, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.) so they don't freakout and clean out the grocery store at the last minute. A home freeze dryer is $2,600. Awesome for being prepared and prepping your own custom meals for camping, etc. and the food lasts up to 25 years. 5) Declare defeat in the War on Drugs. This sucks up $51B annually of US taxpayer money and results in having to endure pedantic PSAs. We recently made multiple border crossings between WA and Canada. I was a CBR warfare specialist in a previous life and took all the precautions to maintain a "clean" environment while we traveled through WA and OR. Our biggest compromises occurred at the border. In Canada, paranoia that we were trying bring in "cannabis products" at 1:30AM resulted in a secondary detention, complete with swabs of our bodies, a tear-down of my truck, and a drug-sniffing dog. Talk about vectors for infection. Coming back into the US, same thing - repeated questioning over marijuana and "party drugs" followed by the customs agent wiping his nose and then rubbing his hands all over our passports. Despite a growing outbreak in WA and OR, not a single question about where we had traveled, whether we were feeling, well, had recently been on a commercial aircraft. My cynical side wonders if they weren't trying to spread it. No concern for COVID-19, but great concern over a natural plant - which, by the way, is legal for recreational use both in Canada and WA.

Was relevant then, and still now. ((((CAUTION NAUGHTY WORDS AND THOUGHTS))))

I THINK my technique is holding me back, but I don't know that for certain. I'll need to make a video or pay/ take a favor of someone to actually analyze my riding style to see what I am doing right and wrong. It's not a big enough deal that I am going to buy a dozen different bikes (no one brings hardtails to demos), and I am not even racing. I just want to have fun conquering difficult terrain instead of stalling on climbs and white-knuckling descents.

I was just about to post that same link.

I saw the people up there on the trestle. I have seen that before and if you are dumb enough to do that , well tell Darwin I said hi I think I might ride at night again to avoid. I dont care that people are using the trails really, but some are outside their pay-grade for sure. Now some folks have been super nice on the trails and get out of the way and are aware.

210x50. I'm mostly looking to score a cheap ebay option. I'm not in a hurry because my DPX2 seems to be holding up quite well.

Really appreciated getting turned on to this band. I'm so stuck in my classic library that I often overlook stuff that's come out over the past few decades. I've discovered a bunch of new stuff from this thread as well as from various mountain biking videos that include cool tracks. Finally got around to listening to a bunch of the Stereophonic stuff and tagged these as my favorites.

I've seen lots of funny event related things. Reaffirms my faith in humanity with how clever people are. But this one made me laugh until I cried.

I'm concerned about how e-bikes affect the time frame for the onset of the post-apocalyptic dystopia, although we might need to factor in corona virus at this point.