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This is a good idea. IMHO, if you are racing you need a full day or two of riding there to get a feel for the trails.

Wife and I finally made it out to Bandera for some practice before the race. Place has a lot of potential, staff were courteous and the views are pretty sweet too. Trails are typical CTX gnar but with some gravity thrown in for the fun factor. If you've ridden cat mountain then this place should feel very similar but with an optional shuttle for people who want to get the most out of their time there. We hit all the green/blue stuff and will head back in a week or so for the more advanced trails. Big and small jumps, doubles, off camber and loose steep stuff are the name of the game and there's a little something for any skill level. Wife was finally hitting some jumps for the first time. Race is gonna be suh-weet😎 https://www.instagram.com/p/B3mSZn9HPZP/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

my kingdom for a downvote/neg-rep option

Cold isn't as bad as SLC as Boise doesn't have the same issues with inversion (smog) that salt lake did. We would go 45-60 days without seeing the sun but drive past 7k to park city and it was sunny above that layer of gunk. Our last trip to Boise was for a gravel stage rally out by idaho city in june, and we had jackets on😁. Such a beautiful area of the country and boise was a surprisingly diverse city with a cool university/downtown area. So much good stuff in that part of the country, you really cant go wrong if you're into the outdoors.

Nice find! That frame in the low setting is a perfect mullet build candidate.

Lived in SLC for 7 years and the snow there is hard to beat. The salt lake dries it to some of the best powder ive ever seen. Never skied ID but visited often and can say Boise is one of the best kept secrets in the west.

This is another concern i have with loading our rigs on a plane. Lots of fancy carbon bits for some less than gifted TSA employee to rummage through and hap haphazardly reseal. I was a regular traveler for work in a previous life, and loved every aspect of travel but flying. Its just a shitshow.

That's something my wife is gonna have to be in charge of🤣

Can confirm. Nice bike

I'd like to roll the dice on that but its such a crapshoot. How many times and any advice?

I'd do the same for sure. Biggest frustration is just how uneducated the employees are on company policy, and that goes for businesses outside of the airlines as well. Try getting a price matched at blowes or the home despot sometime. Shipbikes has been the cheapest way for me to send stuff. I use them for freight on just about everything i can. It's essentially access to a fed ex commercial account for a fee. Looked at bikesflights but they were out of their minds. Sentinel + EVOC bag and gear was just under 70lbs so that has been the biggest issue for buddy flying on delta.

Have a buddy who travels with Delta for work and uses trips/points to take is XL sentinel in a EVOC XL bag. He says after all is said and done, it's not worth dragging the bike on an airline as there is always some sort of lack of understanding of fees and charges between employees and airports. He now just rents demo bikes or ships through fex ex beforehand. We're trying to plan a trip to Quebec next summer using our miles on SWA. Unfortunately southwest has the crappiest provisions for taking bikes on a plane and any average sized MTB will never meet the linear inch requirements. We're probably just gonna do the box/ship thing from kinkos to kinkos through shipbikes.com. I can buy three boxes for the price of one EVOC bag and shipping will be cheaper than the $1K + for tickets on an airline that accepts larger bikes, and then still having to haggle at the counter. F@ck the airlines. https://www.shipbikes.com/

JC is still kickin it into his mid 90s. Dude is a badass.

Been a month without booze and it has its moments😁 Make sure that road cassette fits the hub on 3.30HD correctly, as chief just found out road cassettes are slightly wider than MTB causing the lock ring not to thread in.

I say if no mods will check him, then at least give us some neg prop/downvote the share the love

Talk to chief about MTB/road cassette issues. He just went down this road with his Jake.

The ability to also down vote a thread or post would be epic😉

Found the Mattoid on Stanhope's podcast. Always brings a smile😁

My money is on victim of love.

When I was looking to swap drops on that Jake, those conversion levers were the best bang for the buck. Plus I got to keep the 40t for the MTB trails.

This new BKXC video has us planning another trip to MSA next summer. There's so much good stuff to ride around QC now!

"I got two words for Don Henley--Joe Fucking Walsh--okay? Thanks for calling, Don. How long's your pony tail now, okay? -D. Leary"

Do opposites attract? Maybe.