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I've had luck pulling out bearing races with my slide hammer. But then I look for any excuse to use my slide hammer.

We are in the Ruidosa area now. Rode at Cedar Creek a couple of days ago. We are boondocking near Capitan in a free BLM campsite with unlimited dirt roads and supposedly 75 miles of trails.

Two reminders - 1. If your bikes share a garage with your kids, regularly check your shock settings. My bike felt like crap last week. Turns out some kid thought the rear shock damper was fun to turn and firmed the return up all the way. 2. When you pick up significant altitude over Austin, like say Colorado, re-sag your suspension. I had a long ride yesterday, including some ski resort downhill, and barely used 70% of my travel. Guess that altitude changed by fork and shock numbers.

The Turquoise Lake trail is always fun and was in great shape last month. I don’t know how familiar you are with the area, but they added several miles of new single track on Southeast side of the lake late last year. It would be easy start by the dam and do an out and back along the lake trail, then explore the new single track. My Strava is private so a link might not work, but the pic will give you an idea of how much single track has been added. I went back over St Kevins to get back to town. This was a 31-mile 3.5 hour ride.

X3, I've done this on stuck inner and outer races. The hard part is doing it slowly and controled, ideally you don't want to go too deep and knick the surface of the rocker the bearing contacts. I like a dremmel because it's alot easier to ease in than a pneumatic die grinder. If you go the hammer method, use a large diameter socket to rest against the bottom face of the rocker, it will help have a good surface to pound against. Hard to explain, I can draw a picture if you want...

Trails like 1/4 Notch may be good late today, otherwise I anticipate most trails will be good to go by tomorrow. Pretty wet out here now. The above also assumes that we get some sun and no additional rain of course.

Sweet. I was thinking just the lake singletrack, skip some of the new stuff just to keep it closer to 20 miles. Thanks for the heads up.

Few more pics from the Salida, CO trip.

Cairn Lizard at Palo Duro.

Came across this big feller right off the edge of the trail outside of Salida during an evening ride. Luckily one of the guys I was riding with looked down and spotted him as the rest of us would have just kept going.

Yeah, I lock my bike to my 1Up for two reasons If I screwed up tensioning the bike rack, I'd rather it fall off and be dragged then end up in someone's windshield. If I need to quickly pop into a store on my way home and I want to deter the "opportunist thief" Look up lockpicking lawyer on YouTube, just about anything can be defeated. Just depends on how much time/ cover you give the thief.

hey guys, let's all talk about shorts now.

nitwits could always carry guns so this will change nothing since criminals and nitwits don't obey nanny laws anyway. There were loads of "there will be blood in the streets!" cries back when concealed carry was being debated in the 90s....nothing happened. Then again when campus carry and open carry were being debated in 2016...nothing happened. Then yet again this year, the same sky is falling cries....but the >dozen other states that have had permitless carry don't have a problem. I've carried every day for the last decade, never came close to drawing. The two dogs that chased me had short legs haha.

I love a good fish and chips. And once again I'm pissed about Uptown Opal Divine's closing. Guess this will have to do.