Taco Man

Interesting... LG decided to get out the business, too many escalating costs.

I went to Korea and toured the LG Solar Plant there, they have a 'gun' that launches frozen ice balls (hail) at the panels simulating..... Storms in TX to test their durability. So a very high quality LG is designed for hail, a medium quality Polycrystalline probably cant take it.

So yesterday I replaced my Gravel Tires- why. I rode the Come and Grind it and walked away with a leak in the front. (last time I did this ride I got 3 punctures) Tire went flat sitting in garage, pumped it up, spun it and it held better. Pumped it up, and rode and held well. Great 4 days later I see a giant puddle under the wheel and sure enough it leaked and stopped up. Reviewed the tire and its a tiny hole- too small to just insert bacon. Choices- ream it out and put bacon strip, consider new tire. I looked at the tread and realized they had a good life (~1500 miles) and called it a day, replaced both. These stupid tires come from EU somewhere (no one in US stocks them) and take like 6 weeks on the slowest boat to get here so thankfully I had just gotten those tires in about 3 weeks ago when I thought these might be ready to hit EOL. When I commuted to work years ago I saw someone say on Mojo when X flats happen its time to change them. Well I hate getting stuck somewhere- adding bacon, adding a tube, running out of CO2 and calling someone. So yeah I said yep time to go.

I dont think the DA has any plan to change anything he has/ hasnt done. Start at 1.33

Never subscribed to it, only use it like others to find trails where I dont normally ride. I use it to find a "route" export the GPX and add to my garmin. Wonder if that will now be a paid option- like Strava does.

Got this from Garmin today. Its not unique to user but Garmin as a whole.

Only rode it once before I moved to Dallas, came back and it was locked up tight.

Pretty sure I have that somewhere as well.

This is what my bike looked like back then... SWMBO convinced me to lend to my nephew who promptly lost/ sold/ traded it away.

I moved back in 96', rode the Greenbelt a few times but mostly used my MTB to commute to work. I was playing about 54 holes of golf a week and playing soccer on Sundays. A kid in your life will take all that free time away, so it was easy to ride out my garage door onto trail and back in 60 minutes. I will give credit to the old BikeMojo forum for letting me learn about more trails.

BCBG maybe 89 or 90. Originally we parked at Barton Springs and rode from there. Later as I had time I would ride from 45th and Guadalupe to basically HOL and back. Moved to Dallas and gave it up in 94, wasnt till I moved to this neighborhood I got back into it ~2002

I either ride the trails in my neighborhood- .1 miles from my house or I drive. Its "possible" to ride to a trail but thats 12 miles to nearest trailhead

shout out to Leif D aka Wookie for Starting Pace Bend.