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Just to close the loop on this, we ended up picking up a nice 27.5 bike in a small size for my son. Watching him progress on his new bike the past 6 weeks or so has been awesome. He regularly asks to go ride and wants to session stuff until he can clear them. I wish I had moved him to bigger wheels earlier.

Riding Mulligan backwards - I clipped a bar and this is where my bike landed. If I went OTB - I would have fallen down that cliff to the stream that divides the trail from the golfcourse. My eyes got REALLY big when I noticed where I was heading.! Front wheel is actually over the edge!

Bravado.

"Bigger than a trail": Grand Valley's Palisade Plunge set to open after 10 years of planning and partnership Palisade, CO is just east of Grand Junction. The Plunge starts atop Grand Mesa and descends 6,000' over 34 miles. Lots of exposure. Lots. The Palisade Plunge (and its 6,000' descent) will be one of Colorado's crown jewels Purpose built by Singletrack Trails and shuttle-able.

Sounds good. I'll PM you with my cell number in case you can't start at 8 but want to meet up with us a little later. It's easy enough to create a route the would bring us close to one of the parking areas.

I may try to get in on this depending on if I have to take kid to school or not Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk

Sounds good. Same place - 183A overpass?

I hadn't ridden Muligan for a long time, and recently decided to give it a try. That area you are at, with the stump that sticks up right about bar or pedal strike area, has become a very thin line IMO. I don't know what it is about that trail, but it has caused a lot of rider damage over the years. I just don't even consider it fun anymore. But then again, I'm old and feeble.

@Barry - if the R&I still exists, and if you still go, we could take the lights for a run after the clocks change.

Maybe I don't bounce around as much as you do! The strap looks pretty beefy, but I checked the box and it also comes with a screw-in Go Pro fitting, which I could combine with a K-Edge bar mount I already have.

Thanks for the link, just ordered one!

I recently decided - with hopes of perhaps pulling off an EB this year - to upgrade my lights, since the EB (for me, at least) starts and may end in the dark. Since I purchased my last set (Light & Motion / Magic Shine) both bulb technology and battery life have come a long way. I was able to replace both my helmet light and my bar light with products with built-in batteries -- no more cables! Here's the headlight, uses a Go Pro mount on my POC: https://www.outboundlighting.com/hangover/ 100g weight, runtime > 100 min Here's the bar light, mounts with a solid rubber strap: https://lightandmotion.com/products/seca-comp-2000 216g weight, runtime of 90 min on high alone, way longer on med / low Haven't tested them out on a night time ride yet, hope to do so once it cools off a little.

This is a good one out of Hawaii...habenero papaya...all thier sauces are a fruit flavor ... I got the guava liliquoi one as well but its a little too sweet for me http://hanahotties.com/product/hanahotties-gourmet-papaya-hot-sauce Sent from my SM-A115AZ using Tapatalk

Our hot evenings tend to be fairly dry. And swamp coolers work great when I've experienced them at local restaurants. Unless you have an air conditioner running most folks work with their garage door open. A dehumidifier doesn't make sense in that situation.--you'd effectively be running it outside.

Each to their own. I can't claim to be a truffle connoisseur, but I do like hot sauce. This is a good hot sauce.

Is it hidden under the rocks?

Swamp cooler may be better. They make a huge difference. I have a West facing garage so that's why for me the insulation made a huge difference. The attic above the garage was not insulated but it had plywood. When I had a company come put an extra 6" of blown insulation they blew some in there. I highly recommend getting some extra insulation, and some at all for places like the garage. I think it's the best bang for the buck. For my garage doors, I went with the Owens-Corning fiberglass kit for garage doors b/c it had the better R-value. @ATXZJ I don't think I would have survived building my race car in that tight a confine! How did you jack it up?

I wish I had a little more time to do a bigger writeup. But my youngest is 11 and we've been on this same track as everyone else for a while now. My little dude has shown a quality aptitude for riding so I've tried to keep him more in the "sweet spot' for bike size and fit. He's currently 4'10" and is fitting just right on an XS 26" Giant XTC that I've custom built with some pretty nice stuff: SID fork, Stan's crest wheel set, 1x 10 Sram with XT disc brakes. The step up from 25" to 26" was really good for him and I think he's prolly 1 yr away from a move up to 27.5". This photo was taken about 2 weeks ago on Monarch Crest Trail in CO standing at about 12k ft.