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We had no choice but to get outside. There was very little to keep me in the house. When I was a kid cartoons were only Saturday until like 10:00 AM, no video games although my buddy had an original pong console but rarely played it. We had more fun building forts, riding bikes, playing jail break or just exploring places in the woods we had never been to. Parenting has changed so much from those times. My parents would tell me to get the hell out of the house and play outside don't bother me! In the summer I would leave my house at 7:30 in the morning and be gone until it got dark. Now parents are afraid to let their kids do anything without supervision. Hell we didn't know what supervision was we learned our lessons the hard way. Surprised I survived sometimes. Did a lot of stupid things when I was a kid. I learned to ride a two wheeler with no training wheels at 4 years old. That was my first taste of freedom and I loved it, been riding ever since.

A lot of times the ticking is just a dirty contact point between the bars and stem. Cleaning and repasting the contact points usually works.

Damn this rain!

Little too late for me. Next week.

Rode this morning , but could probably ride tomorrow if anyone's game.

Just got back from a ride. All is good. Conditions moist and sticky.

Stop looking at the weather! You know it's usually wrong!

Looking towards the top on tough climbs is a demotivator.

If the trails are good so am I.....maybe. Two weeks off the bike is gonna hurt:)

Jester is steep but Beauford is so steep they've textured the road surface for bad weather. The texture also make the climb a bit more difficult. As far as getting up the really big ones breathing, cadence and regulating effort are key to not blowing up before the top. Another good technique is just looking down at your wheel and not at the top of the hill.

360 climbing up to 2244 is a leg burner also. One more just for fun, Ladera Norte.

Much easier climb than Yaupon. That climb gets tough at the end because you've been climbing for a bit and it pitches just before the light at Comanche. When you do the damn loop starting from 360 that climb can be hard.

I've done Yaupon it's definitely a tough climb. Rain Creek? Do you mean Lime Creek heading towards Anderson mill? Thats a tough climb as well. On the triple bitch you get two spots were the road levels but they're not long enough for any recovery. Blew myself up the first time I climbed that. Don't forget Courtyard, Beauford, City park, Adirondack Trail, Bluffstone.... There's a bunch of great climbing in the Austin area if you have the lungs and legs for it.

Same here. Going nuts not riding. Fortunately I have a couple wheels to build to help stay sane.

I trolled Craigs list last year and found a Thule T2 XTR in like new condition for $175. Nice rack for the price. The price of bike racks is a bit exorbitant.

How am I not surprised.😂

The red wasps are the worst. Sting feels like someone is putting a cigarette out on your skin.

Rained pretty hard at my house last night. Have to think trails are f**ked.

I have a set of 3T carbon bars that got damaged due to a brake clamp not being as round as it should be. I replaced them immediately. After replacing them I tried breaking the damaged bars by hitting them on the floor of my garage and the brick corner of my house. They would not break. Once again I believe that these incidents are preceded by damage and ignorance. If carbon is failing it will usually be making noise before it happens. I had a carbon seat post on my road bike that was damaged and I wasn't aware until the post started creaking. Not saying we should ride with damaged carbon parts but carbon is exceptionally strong.

My understanding is no. No motorized vehicles on county trails.

I used to roll off Collarbone instead of using the switchback between the rocks until onetime I rolled up to it too slow. I realized as my front tire was rolling off the edge that I was moving too slow and tried to ride it out. No OTB but lost control and landed on my left shoulder blade and felt something spear me in the chest. Tore the cartilage front and rear on my ribcage took about two and a half months to heal.

About same as you. Sometimes it's worse then others. Usually goes away during ride. Like I said I blame the angle that my wrists are at. If you're sitting upright you'll see that your wrists are put at hard angle, but if you lower your body more over the bars you'll see that when your elbows move outward the angle at your wrists becomes less severe. The downside to too much back sweep is steering input becomes weird like a boat tiller because it starts to move your hands behind your stem if you're running a short stem.

I have the GA3's on my bike and like them a lot. As far as hand and finger numbness I attribute that to not having having enough back sweep on my handlebars. The less sweep on your bars the more of an angle your wrist has when holding the bars.

Carbon paste definitely helps. It allows you to get enough torque without slipping or over tightening. Something else to consider is how sharp the edges of whatever you clamp to your bars is. The sharp edges of clamps can damage the carbon in ways you can't see.

I had a set of Chromag bars for my bike. Didn't like them, way too flexy. My Easton bars are much stiffer.