AntonioGG

Will this happen today?

I've never had a problem with cuts in my old Camelback bite valves but I do have one Osprey that's leaking. I've ordered this. Thanks!!

It’s probably a metric century so at $1/mile it’s only really worth $62.

UCI track world championships. I’m really into the points race!

I really want to ride it but these days I’m struggling on the MTB even at Walnut. I’m not sure what is going on.

I always carry new spare cleats on a trip, and I have a single used cleat and bolt in my osprey pack and saddle bags.

As an engineer, I like watching shows like Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl, and reading about stuff like Dieselgate. All of them have things in common: excessive amounts of hubris, and a culture/corporate-culture that discourages speaking up. It's downright scary.

It's not binary though right? It's a spectrum. I'm on the end closer to the top one, but mostly have no problem passing a bike on to a new owner. However, having unused equipment does stress me out. Neglecting a bike (or old RC planes or cars, etc.) makes me question my keeping it. Also, I've saved several racers/teams at 24hr races with my bag of bolts/nuts. 🙂 I inherited that form my paternal grandfather who kept jars of Nescafe with every nail, string/twine, stuff he found while walking (he never had a car or drove, walked or took the bus everywhere).

You have a second calling as a photographer @CBaron!

That's what I thought....but your profile pic has some lines that made me think you had a Dali/handlebar moustache LOL!

That awful sound coming from my bike turned out to be the moon dust on my chain. I had to dip it in the ultrasonic cleaner and re-lube. @WhoAmI check that chain on y'alls test bike. I couldn't believe that was where the noise was coming from.

Which bike were you on? I was coughing up moon dust for 2 hours last night!

Yeah I loved it! I declined 2 meeting invitations for this afternoon (even though I have this time blocked out) so I could make it today. I’ll try to be as ruthless about declining meetings for this time at possible. I do have to admit it’s easier accepting those meetings when it’s 100F+.

see y'all in a few! Still meeting in the same spot?

Is this broken? When I click on this it doesn’t take me to the latest but maybe 5-6 posts up. Does anyone else notice the same thing?

Just once I would hope it was @HoneyBadger having this interaction so he could reply with, “well actually…” Red to print some of these out:

I have recycled so many computers we weren't using. In fact I have a mini computer (not a laptop, just a small case desktop) that was my media PC and it has Windows 7 on it. I'll boot it up and if it works it's yours. Sorry, I hadn't realized you're out of town.

What is the difference between Little Sugar and Tunnel Vision? I thought Tunnel Vision was the big loop, but maybe the big loop is Little Sugar and Tunnel Vision is part of it? There's other sub-trails like Tweety-Bird and such but I'm still on clear on the distinction as far as the loop name vs a subset of it. I found that loop really hammered my quads. I think it was done on day 4 of 4 solid days of riding for me and it was the day it rained. I say watch the forecast and save Tunnel Vision for any days with a chance of rain because you can ride it wet.

It's a black cat that accidentally ran under a white paint brush.

I did my time there now I’m out and reformed.

My wife has some videos of a green snake vs praying mantis battle in our backyard. We will edit it into a single video and post it on YouTube. I’ve seen a very healthy (probably ears dumb fluffy dogs and cats) coyote at the service road at the top of St. Eds. I stopped, he stopped, we looked at each other for a few seconds then we both went on our way. at UT Dallas going into class after work one day, a squirrel enjoying an acorn got bombed by a red tailed hawk. I was shocked at how fast that squirrel went from happy eating a nut to guts hanging from a beak. It was a handful of seconds.

I’m watching stage 19 right now. At some point we gotta get together over drinks and talk about la vuelta @GFisher @Sluggo

Awesome article and illustrates a nuanced perspective in which he doesn't throw up his arms if he can't do all the things that are good for the environment. You see similar things when it comes to a lot of things (like diet, or spending, or...). It also touches on something I've thought about a lot. The attraction toward lift parks or eMTB to ride up and enjoy the ride down with the assist of gravity. What if you ride an e-dirt bike on a non-mountain course instead? I started thinking about this as I read about some gigantic platform being built somewhere extremely flat so that they can enjoy gravity assist riding. I like the thought of e-dirt bikes some times, and analog MTB others.

100% this. My brother and I were on road bikes going up mount hood and two young guys on emtb passed us at a leisurely pace. They were doing the no lift option. I think it’s cool.

Yeah that is all over the place in North Carolina. That article is really good @June Bug thanks! It covers a lot of the sticky issues, but it makes me wonder about what is the essence of the resistance to e-bikes. Based on class 1 and class 2 (essentially an electric motorcycle limited to 20mph, and a bike above 20mph) being accepted but not class 3 (an e-bike all the way to 28mph and a bike above 28mph) it seems to me that most of the issues people have are with speed. And they must have a misunderstanding on how these bikes work. They did mention downhill riders being an annoyance to hikers because of the speed. So it seems it's nothing to do with cheating or not but all to do with speed. I do also think there's a sense of wanting to limit trail access. Nobody says it, but it does seem like there is an undercurrent of that. Finally, nowhere do they mention cheap Amazon/Alibaba e-bikes that catch fire and could cause a forest to go up in flames. I believe gasoline engine off-road cars and things like chainsaws must have spark arresting mufflers/exhausts. It seems to me that they should require only UL-listed (or similar testing agency) e-bikes only.