AntonioGG

Best wishes to Tony on his recovery. This is my motivational video for rehab after an injury.

I think I may join @tomreece and pick myself up a bmx bike to mess around with.

How do you like the bike so far? How did you decide on the Sunday? I am shopping for a bike for my son. I'm looking for quality used bike, but will also look at a new Sunday, and the Mongoose L100 seems to be recommended too.

Done. One of the good things to see is how many people use the trails—and want more trails —for mtb running hiking as opposed to just hiking. It was often the top category.

This keeps me awake all night every New Year's and July 4th with all the neighborhood idiots that light massive (like pro level) fireworks be there a drought or not.

This is not something I had tried. I'm looking forward to trying this out soon. Thanks!

I'm looking forward to Seth's follow-up of the internals. Though, I bought the 1 liter container. It's way more economical than buying the small bottles, and since it's mineral oil, you don't have the issue with the opened brake fluids. I do love my Hope brakes (have them on 2 other bikes, rode 10k miles in one of them, only had to bleed them when I damaged a hose). The negative against the Hopes is the DOT 5.1 fluid. It's pricey, and it absorbs moisture.

Sorry for piggy-backing onto your post AB, hopefully we both get sorted out here.

My calipers say BL-M987 on them. I forgot, I tried this too. I got them to a point they were decent, but.... ...yeah, it only took a couple of months of riding and some pad wear and I'm back to having to pre-pump the brakes before I really want to brake. I did some calculations and I think I posted them on the other thread. It doesn't take much wear on the pads and disc for the small volume in the tiny cylinder to become a limiting factor.

I do all the work on all my bikes, and bleeding XTR brakes may be one thing that causes me to take it into the shop. There's something about the master cylinder and caliper design that makes it hard for bubbles to come out. I've looked into a syringe adapter to screw onto the master cylinder to draw a vacuum. If you read up on this, you'll find people put their bike vertically (or bleed them off the bike), tap on the lines for a while, leave the cylinder open overnight, etc. I've done all these and I still get not solid feeling brakes. One thing I recommend is to check your disc thickness. I discovered mine were thinner than spec and that was not helping on the brake feel.

When I used to wrench a lot, I used to wash everything, rags, clothes, gloves. People that wrench know that combo smell of sweat, gas, wheel bearing grease, gear oil, regular oil. I always used extra soap and Oxy (2-3x recommended per load). One time I washed rags that were probably too grease soaked to wash and they left grease spots in my washer. I just used some white gas to clean it up. Never had an issue with the smell of gas.

How is Walnut Creek today? Which trails are OK and which are to stay away from?

As of yesterday, trails are closed due to rain Friday night/Saturday early morning.

7.96in in September vs 2.99in average, double the average October precipitation (7.74in vs 3.9in), a bit under average for November (1.73in vs. 2.95in), more than double the precipitation in December (5.84in vs 2.4in), already 0.4inch above the January average (2.58in so far vs 2.2in average) with 12 more days to go.

I think one that fits in the seat tube but has a remote stick-on antenna on the bottom of the seat would work.

what's that piece of furniture on the right rear corner?

Same here with a rental in India. I didn't go off-road but it still took getting used to.

That was my old home trail. It was boring then.

They make them. Aeotec makes a 40A 220V Z-wave outlet but it costs more than some window units. 🙂 The main reason I want it to be automated is to have it run in the coolest part of the day during the summer without having to leave the garage door open. Right now, I put two box fans on the window pointing out, and I crack one garage door. I don't have an AC in the garage. I've tried one of those standing ducted intake units. It worked for hours to get the temp down to 85°C. My double window is too small for a unit the size I need. I mainly needed AC for when I had my trainer in the garage. For working on stuff I don't need the AC. I just point my pedestal fan at me.

Great idea on the proximity sensor to turn on lights. I was just looking more into the exhaust fan and it seems many z-wave devices (compatible with SmartThings and IFTTT hubs) include a temp sensor. For $20 I can get a window sensor that includes a temp sensor, then use weather data to compute the delta and have the hub switch on an outlet. I could also get an indoor air quality monitor that would give me more data and criteria to switch the exhaust fan on (most have CO2, some have VOC sensors too.) My biggest challenge now will be to figure out an air inlet into the garage.

Good idea on the outlet! have a smart things (Samsung) outlet I use in my kids room and control it with a schedule or with my phone. It hadn’t occcurred to me to suggest that. Hmm, now I’m going to look into it to see if there is a smart things temp sensor so I can automatically vent my garage in the summer.

Anyone have any updates on Warda? Even any EE reports would be good. I'd like to go this weekend or next weekend if possible.

https://flatcreekcrossingranch.com Parts of their website are out of date, but the calendar page seems to be updated.

Same as happened to my friend and I last week. We finished 1/4 notch with a light drizzle. I took my tire pressure to the lowest I've ever ridden with. Probably about 15psi on my front 2.35" tires and 22psi on my rear 2.2" tire. Normally I'd have burped that rear tire, but with zero side load it was totally fine. I bet your chubby girl's tires were even better!

I remember bombing down St. Ed's with the rushing water. For me the rain started coming down on the downhill. It was strange going as fast as the water. It was interesting. By the time I got to Thumper it had stopped raining but it was extremely slick. I think it took me 2+ hours because it was mostly walking.