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I have discovered that I was a worn tire hoarder and it is killing me. where can I drop these?

Well, what I needed was the component selection. The problem is not which bike to take, but do I need to swap tires, swap wheels, swap forks, etc. My Frankenstein has an extra 1.5" of steerer tube coming out (the one I thought about cutting 2 weeks ago...) and the brake pads are noisy so I might need to swap with those on another bike because I do not have any spares....

According to the interwebs my Vassago is 4.98 pounds. I have never weighed the full bike but I am guessing, with a Fox fork and a dropper that I am just under 24. While a few more pounds does not seem like a wildly different amount, when you factor it into pulling the bike over ledges, etc, then that extra weight starts to matter.

Getting ready for a west coast road trip. Was trying to decide on bikes. Having more bikes actually makes things more complicated. Between tires, gears, wheel sets, forks, etc. I cannot find the right combination of “best for the rides” and “least likely to care if it is stolen.” I just spent 2 hours swapping things around and I still don’t know if I made the right choices. Very frustrating. Old man problems.

Yeah, I was running an 18t for years and just swapped to 20t when I thought SSTX would be at RPR. Haven’t gone back to 18t yet, may not. Screw it, I’m old.

Yeah, I am ~1 pound under you in bike weight for full squish and gears. Good ride yesterday I think fuel was more of a challenge than bike weight.

We cleaned up a bunch of trails. This one called for a reroute.

A friend of mine was going to a race and stopped at a McDonald's to take a crap. When he came out of the bathroom he said to the guy he was with "I just upgraded to XTR." So, there's that.

Is two rides enough? I have found that my body settles in and I get the feel of a bike after 3-4 rides, at least. The more different the bike is the longer it takes.

Is there a route under I-35 from there? I ended up back on Barker after I couldn't find my way out of there.

I put this up on my site. If new workdays come up in the future, sending an email to John at austinbike dot com will be a quick way to get it on the site.

Mine were a mix. We have a massive pecan tree that took a direct lightning strike 2 years ago, there was literally a spot in the bark where it had been blown off (and there were embers burning when we rushed to the window to see what happened. That tree only dropped one large limb, the rest of them were fine. When I took the chainsaw to the branch to get it out of the back yard, it did not appear to be bad in any way, looked healthy. Neither did the live oak branches that dropped on my shack. I was over at my in-laws who live up the hill from you and all of their branches that I cut seemed to be OK. I did see one or two distressed limbs, but 80-90% of the stuff that I have cut (so far) has been healthy wood. Here is my accumulated pile, just getting started on cutting this up for firewood:

100 for 100 was 2011. 100 for 90 is pretty common. That means more than a quarter of the year if you are doing the math....

We have family here so we can't leave now, but we are scoping places because of the weather. As it is we are paying to leave for the entire month of August and it is looking like 6 weeks might even be a better strategy. Can't live here in the heat of summer. TX can't deliver reliable power in the winter. And things are getting progressively worse.

Yeah, my in-laws are up the hill from you. We went over there to clear some limbs. It looked like a war zone trying to get to their house. With as bad as our neighborhood was, it looks like in your area it was 10X worse. Headed back up there this morning to get more cutting done now that my batteries are recharged for my chainsaw.

Well, our block was, a little, um, interesting this morning. Hit a neighbor's car but did no damage luckily. I've recharged my chainsaw batteries 3 times today helping neighbors clear their driveways and front walks.

I have only had one time where the water was trapped on the path. This week's water will not be an issue, I believe it needs a much larger amount of water.

Actually I have switched. You can go under Airport on that spur trail, then hit Mansell south (over the pedestrian bridge) and head east on Gonzales to pick up Shady. A little bit longer but no traffic lights or traffic to deal with.

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You need a 1X setup not because it allows a dropper but because it is simplicity at its finest. Less clutter, all the range. Weight? Eh, don't care about that. 1X is just so much smoother for me. Except singlespeed, that is smoother.

Then you're really gonna love the future of this country....

But that is a perfect use case for an e-bike. You should get one if it allows you to do the thing you want to do. Not only are there no prohibitions against riding one there, the city will give you a rebate. We got $300 on my wife's bike and after Jan 1 that would have been $600. It is worth consideration.

But "punchy, short, uphill bikes" is really a terrible name.

Yeah, Alberto Fujimori was their Prime Minister in the 90's.

110% in my tomatoes. Although, my produce does not technically vote.