Morealice

Tricky spot at Muleshoe

I have the Kuat arm (don’t remember the model name) with Thule T2 rack and love the setup. I camp virtually every free weekend. This weekend will make 3 weekends in a row, and I’ve never had an issue. Great for getting to firewood and other shtuff.

Are you guys always wheels down at 5:30pm? Is there a subset that rolls out later out of necessity? I work until 6pm and can be at the park to wrap up work and sign off, thus rolling at 6:05. What’s the situation? Looking to maybe be not so antisocial. 👀

I found 3 pairs of my favorite, now-out-of-production shoe online last night and bought them all. Should be good for 5-6yrs! I was so stoked. I was ready to buy the ugly ass colors too, but they all had black.

Cicada killer maybe?

Haha that’s right! I forgot all about that. I injured my back picking up a pair of socks off the floor. *eye roll* Had to ride her Novara for two months or so. I absolutely thrashed that thing and only broke the pedals and bent the large chainring riding over The Log (when it existed) on Picnic. It was so comfortable it had me kinda wanting one.

I’m an old XC weenie and I’ve done basket and Cru Jones on my old cyclocross bike, both when I was around 42. 46 now. Basket was wet when I did it, lol. Cru really is nothing on a full suspension rig. You got that!

Not to drag out the chain thing, but have you or anyone had the pure joy of using these trail side and did they perform well (enough)? Genius if so. Will purchase if so.

Me either! But this one has an arrow on each plate that goes the direction of the chain. Now I know. It’s a Sram XO1. The two I bought last night afterwards along with chain tool are XX1…assuming the same thing. Dude removing those things without a tool is an artform…one at which I am terrible, plus I don’t like the wear on my hands these days. Getting older. When I need that tool, with my negative experiences, it’s gonna feel like the best $16 I ever spent. No slipping pliers, no bullshit strings…just buhduhloop…done.

I love you both. Replaced my cassette, chain, and chainring (went with oval for the F of it) earlier so I’m excited to feel that connectedness again in the tranny. Funny part was I put my master link on backwards the first try and tried undoing it with the string method (investing in a master link tool tonight) and blew up like 2 links of my chain, lol. Good thing I knew I’d fuck it up and bought 2 chains. I’ll be replacing my chain like 4 times a year now. I was gonna go blingy light cassette but wussed out. not sure why I’m typing bold but YEAH SON looking fwd to riding in the soupy ass AM!

Any updates on conditions? Thinking Deception would be doable no? edit: asking for a friend. If I don’t hear from y’all then I’ll go in the AM and chance a road ride 😬 hoping at least i can get the hard rough stuff.

I’m don’t know why in the world but I actually LIKE a little cigarette smoke smell. It makes me chuckle when I smell it out on a trail where there is usually cardio type activity occurring. I actually saw a dude on a bike stop for a cig on Picnic once. Classic!

I’ve been wondering why so many men (usually) smell like cologne out on the hike n bike. I pass so many dudes that smell like Drakkar or Old Spice that are riding or running. Are they hoping to get some ass while they’re out sweating and nasty? Am I doing it wrong?

Only spent a day in Salida but it seemed pretty nice and chill. Great location, too. Headed to Buena Vista this Sept. Love that area of CO but I see it growing fast as hell in large part from us Texans. I’m ultimately hoping to find something somewhere that looks like a plain jane single story house from the road but has a National Forest view from the deck out back, and I’ll be patient and deliberate about it. Getting that raise is going to be necessary first, however. Divorce be expensive. Roughly 1,825 days. ⏰

Nice! Where do you own land? My plan is to buy a small RV when I’m out from under child support and rent (yes i know renting is a waste but I’m not buying for only 5 years in this market and no desire to be a landlord pff) and get a huge “raise”. (whole other story) I’m going to stay in National Forests and whatnot for at least a year with my RV, dual sport moto, and mtb and move from Montana to Arizona with the weather and find out where I’d like to buy a house. Then I’ll use the RV to escape winter if desired and never ever live in this kind of uncomfortable heat and exponentially growing congestion ever again.