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Look atcha boi!! It aired on spectrum news last Friday. I didn’t get to see it until now. Pretty cool 🙂 https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2020/10/05/mountain-biker-hopes-to-elevate-sport-across-texas?cid=share_clip

Coming soon! I'm an idiot and forgot to order a headset with it, otherwise it would be on the road tomorrow.

Wife decided we were gonna take the dog to the park and teach it something new. To my surprise it actually went well😄 Dogs are awesome

Nice, but needs a new head coach...

A few months ago there was a story about how stadiums were trying to figure out how to get rid of beer since they can't just dump it down the drain, it first needs to be converted to urine.

So you're saying that there are most likely warehouses of untapped kegs going bad? Perhaps we could all find a way to band together and stop this atrocity. I'm willing to do my part.

Supply chains are not disrupted for the most part. Demand forecasting/capital is at fault for the current situation. When the shit hit the fan, bike companies were not in a position to anticipate the demand. It is also more likely that they went hard to the other guardrail, trying to preserve capital to keep the business above water. The business is very inventory-intensive. The weird part is that the dynamic shifted rapidly. DSO (days sales outstanding) has probably dropped dramatically, people will buy, quickly, whatever you can build, and shops are willing to pay quickly to keep getting inventory, but nobody was able to adequately forecast the April - June numbers and everything is a catch up from there. I've seen no indication that supply chains are being impacted at a macro level, in most cases it is the ability to react to market changes that is creating issues across multiple businesses.

Don't watch this then:

I talked a lot of smack around my house about being "a mountain man willing to go on adventures of solitude". But outside of a dozen camping trips (to CO) with my friends, I'd never done it before either. My wife is an introvert who's been completely smothered during this cover stuff, my kids are back in-person at school, and I have a few month window before I gotta get serious about a job. Given those set of circumstances I had that opportunity to see if I really meant all the crap I'd been saying for years. I'll be sure to answer that question after I get back from Bentonville next week.... 😉 Later, CJB

I looked at those and my biggest consideration was airflow in deciding. Not 00% sure that the protection is significantly better. Being too hot in the summer could lead to its own set of crash-inducing problems, so it’s all related.

I pretty much stopped flipping, people are getting worse. Reverb just raised rates too.

I now look for coverage of the helmet. Most MTB style helmets are wrapping around the head more. Generally, more expensive helmets give more coverage. A great helmet to consider is the Bell Super Air R helmet. It has a removable chin bar. When riding with the chin bar you can barely tell it's there. LARGE sun visors seem to be another fad that is becoming popular. My current helmet, Smith Forefront, has a nice normal size visor with 3 positions. I don't like anything extra in my field of view so I normally have it tilted up a notch or two. If I find myself riding into the sun I can tilt the visor down. For night riding, visors tend to get into the way of the light beam. Smith helmets claim their design is more safe than the typical styrofoam. It looks like a bunch of straw pieces stuck together. I can't say that I have seen real data to back up their claim. It doesn't breathe as well in the summer. And you can't scratch that itch on your head through a vent hole. I deal with those because my Smith rep gave me a free helmet.. Before the Smith helmet I had a Troy Lee A2 helmet. It was also a freebie from a rep. But I ditched it after using it twice because it somehow channeled ALL of my sweat directly into my eyes. I never anticipated a helmet could increase the amount sweat in your eyes, but this one did. Otherwise it was a really comfortable helmet. I currently have another Smith Forefront helmet on order for January delivery simply because I want to channel my inner Marco Cippollini...

You know of all the over-priced crap I've seen on CL & FB lately...dare I say that this almost seems reasonably priced?! -CJB

Weird...and here I'm the one jealous of all the people WITH a job! 😜 Cheers, CJB

They were really good at ACL.

Dogs ARE awesome!

I plan on doing my first loop out there on the 17th Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk

So far, I'm definitely buying what these guys are selling

Just something I slapped together yesterday. so much footage, so little time in the edit. let the good times roll! enjoy 🙂