mack_turtle

That's a nice fork. When did you do a full service on it last? I take my Reba apart every 6 months or so. There are always nice parts in the market, but a Rev should do ya fine if you take care of it. Look into basic maintenance, of course, but also bottomless Tokens and aftermarket dampers.

what fork do you have now? do you "need" an upgrade, or could you get more out of it with a rebuild and tune?

www.statesman.com/news/20190607/lakefront-tax-break-why-mansions-on-lake-austin-are-exempt-from-city-taxes https://communityimpact.com/austin/lake-travis-westlake/city-county/2019/06/10/roughly-400-lake-austin-properties-may-soon-begin-paying-city-property-taxes-for-the-first-time-in-33-years/

400 Lake Austin homes have not paid property taxes in over three decades. Discuss.

A track to where? Inquiring minds!

Do you folks follow Peter Flax and Bike Snob NYC? They cover a lot of this kind of stuff.

I wish that was possible. There are zero alternatives that don't suck ballz. I had a pair of Giro Jackets with Vibram soles for example. I stopped wearing them after a dozen rides because the pedals dug a hole through to sole that fast.

Five Ten used to sell Stealth rubber resole kits but stopped for some reason. I have a feeling that reason has something to do with greed and disregard for the environment. You might have some luck with a company that resoles climbing shoes, but I don't know if there are any locals for that.

Fascinating! I wanted to go to that and know I'd regret missing it. Might be a good thing, because it sounds like the kind of thing that would get in my head and distract me from doing anything else for months.

16,000 Australian is about $11,156.

Edit: the source is Australian. $16,000 AUS is a bit over $11,000. So it's a typical $10k Halo bike. Nothing to see here.

What does a bakfiets do that a trailer does not, besides take up a TON of space?

Claiming that knife is probably a bad idea. The last time I found a knife under a bridge, it was next to a discarded purse. Nope!

Good point- what features do you "need" on a GPS unit? Unless they have gotten much better in recent years, GPS for navigating trails is useless. Or is it? I used my phone with Strava to record my rides, then a cheap Garmin watch, then bought a used Fitbit Surge a few months ago. Of course those are not helpful for navigation but I just want to know what time it is, how much longer I can be out before my wife gets mad, and upload it later so I can recall places I have ridden and if I am keeping up with the other local Freds.

I recently sold someone a XT rear mech with clutch, SLX shifter, XT 11-36 cassette for a song. A used setup like that or something NOS on discount online should get you going for cheap. if you want the latest XTR 12 speed or whatever that will cost you. It sounds to me like having "the latest" is the last thing on your mind though.

Sounds like a fun idea, but I'll bet there will be a million legitimate legall hurdles in the way

Mini pump track? We can never have enough of that!

Which part was Pivot expecting to fail in this scenario: the shock or the frame?

Hiking buddy at Ink's Lake.

It would not surprise me if you are the first person to break a bike in this way.

It's possible that someone attempted to block the trail with some logs, then the creek washed a ton of debris that way and it piled up there. There's no way someone took all that time to pile all that debris there by hand, but they might have started it.

This becomes a RA self martyrdom thread, complete with an English lesson about the origins of various words, in 3... 2... 1... (I should have just waited for the inevitable rather than call it so early.)

I don't always drink frat boy piss, but when I do, I drink Dos Equis.