Albert

That's where I and some others are going tomorrow morning. Forecast isn't great, though, so will have to play it by ear.

Not until I get it to work. I've been given pointers by Invision staff on how to do this the proper way, but now I will need to setup a local development version of the forum. Which will make it easier for me to make additional modifications down the road. ..Al

Thanks for the report!

That sucks about the watch. It is nice to have on rides as there's a Strava client, and you can see text messages and phone calls without having to fish out your phone. And you can see the time if you care about that sort of thing. ..Al

Can you drink that if you run out of water?

That's too bad, I'll need to do an urban ride tomorrow morning. ..Al

Great, thanks for the report!

I have a pair of those loppers, they are great!

Depends what their margins are on ebikes versus regular bikes. ..Al

Also wondering about this.

I found the code responsible for displaying the popup on mobile devices and not doing so on other devices.. if( ips.utils.events.isTouchDevice() ) { ips.ui.alert.show( { type: 'confirm', icon: 'question', message: ips.getString('notificationMarkAsRead'), callbacks: { ok: function () { execMark(); } } }); } else { execMark(); } Unfortunately, this code is in a massive (2MB!) 'javascript.xml' file that is compiled and put into the database. I have not yet figured out a way to force the forum to recompile this file so the database is updated with my changes. Once I do, a confirmation should always appear when clicking one of those icons, regardless of what kind of device you are using. ..Al

I do have a single speed! I just haven't ridden it at Barton Creek yet. I do plan to do so soon, though. 😄 And there are plenty of other things I can break.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to ride LGT in the daytime if it was wet. Doing so at night would be inviting injury!!

I've broken two rear derailleur hangers over the years. First time was at Lake Georgetown, and I was close to Russell and parked at Cedar Breaks when that happened. Fortunately a park ranger was sitting in his pickup truck at the parking lot there and offered to give me a ride back to Cedar Breaks! After that I started carrying a spare derailleur hanger. Then a few years later I broke my rear derailleur hanger again, this time in Colorado. However, I could not loosen the bolt holding the broken derailleur hanger in place. Thankfully we were near the end of our ride and had already done the bulk of our climbing and descending. So we turned the bike into a single speed and limped back into town the remaining several miles. Brought the bike to a shop and even they were finding it impossible to get the bolt removed. They even had the damn frame in a bench vise! After some 30 minutes of trying they finally got the damn bolt loose and replaced the hanger. Which is good, since we still had additional days in our trip! More recently, as in a month ago, I was riding with AustinBike at Barton Creek Greenbelt. As we were ascending the rocky, technical climb on Jedi before reaching the top of Mulch Hill, all resistance suddenly gave way as I was conquering a large rock. My chain and rear derailleur got sucked into my rear wheel. At first I thought the hanger had snapped, but it turns out the bolt holding the hanger worked its way out. We reattached the derailleur, but the screw was stripped, so it could not be tightened. Also, the rear derailleur was bent pretty badly, and I could only use a few gears. We descended along the (newish?) singletrack along Mulch Hill and then rode back to 360 on the main trail at a slower pace than normal as I didn't want to put too much pressure on my drive train. We were near the end of our ride anyway. Did make it back, then brought the bike to the shop to get them to replace the rear derailleur and give the bike a needed tuneup. And I bought another rear derailleur hanger since I didn't have one on me, much to my surprise. ..Al

Yep, mine is in a zip-lock bag!

Man, I paid monies on MoJo to remove the ads. Maybe I should start running ads here. 😄

Man, this thread is going to make my CamelBak even heavier. I now always have TP in my pack, after really having to go sometime after City Park during the Enchilada Buffet. 😄 I also have a small first aid kit, don't know if there are tweezers in it, though! I'll have to look, as more than once have I managed to stab myself with cacti thorns. At Lake Georgetown and Pace Bend. When I'm doing a long ride, I usually have a small washcloth in my CamelBak. It's good for rinsing and wiping off my glasses, but I often use it to wipe off my face and arms (with water from a water fountain or other source) and reapply sunscreen after ~3 or 4 hours. I was going to empty my pack last week and start a, "What's in your pack?" thread. I'll have to follow through on that. I have too much in my pack and it's heavy, but I've used just about everything in my pack at one point or another. Things tend to get added to the pack after something happens on a ride and it would have been extraordinarily helpful to have that item. I even have a tiny vice grip that Spicewookie gave me eons ago, and that's been a handy tool to have in some situations. 😄 ..Al

Did it start raining on the first lap, or sometime after that?

Wow, I hadn't seen your Strava ride or comments, had no idea you were attempting that ride. On the surface it doesn't seem horrible, but the heat can make a big difference for me when attempting an epic ride like that. I've wanted to do a full lap of LGT at night for some time now, but have yet to do so. I'm not sure this Friday is going to be an idea time to do this, though, given the current weather forecast: Friday night: Saturday morning: I am certainly interested in participating in a full lap at LGT, whether you do it this Friday or some other day. ..Al

You're right, it happens on my iPhone as well, but not on my computer. Let me look into that.

Yeah, I've been looking over there periodically. The bots are still registering at a frightening rate, and they are still posting. However, someone is cleaning them up every day, but there are still waves of spam visible in some of the forums..

I'll look at this later today. Changing it is fairly easy. However, if I alter this behavior it will then differ from the thousands of other Invision forums out there that all behave the same way. This includes another forum I have been running on the same software for over a decade at this point, and I haven't had anyone complain (or it's been very rare) about accidentally marking forums as read. Although I'm sure it happens. As I stated above, I think it's a boneheaded move on their part. Especially as there is a "Mark forum as read" link once you open a forum up. I certainly do not want people accidentally marking forums as "Unread" and then not catching up on threads and interacting with them because at that point it becomes more of a hassle than it's worth. So let me dig into it a bit before I go ahead and make that change. Thanks for the feedback, ..Al

Welcome to the forum @GreenMTBrider! Thanks for maintaining that Twitter feed. 🙂

I wonder how it'll be in the morning. Would be nice to see more reports if anyone rides it tonight.

I haven't been out there in a while, as I had a pretty poor experience on my last ride. The trails in the back portion of the park were in sad shape, various trees down and the trails were in poor condition. It thoroughly discouraged me from going back. My last Strava recording from RHR seems to be in August 2015, and I managed 19.5 miles. I thought I'd ridden it more recently (within the last year), but that may not be the case. Kind of curious how it looks now. This used to be one of my favorite trails. ..Al