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Look, I get not wanting to sanitize the trails too much, but did you see the .pdf? That crack is almost half the height of a penny! How the hell am I supposed to ride up that?

Thanks, good info. I thought replacing all the base meant the base under the path, good to know it is just the side fill. Shame about Waters Park Rd, it's a great route, but a bit sketchy by the Hideout on a Friday evening. Especially when I don't have time to stop in for a beer.

That sounds fine, but it looked like the Milwood NA initiative linked by the OP is calling to have the whole path ripped and replaced. Commuting, I just use the sidewalk on the south side of Duval. Not ideal, but it's not for very far and there are almost never pedestrians on it.

I live in Milwood and I'm kind of against this. My main concern is that replacing the whole path would mean it would be closed for multiple years while they do it. I would rather it just stay open in whatever state it's in. It doesn't need to be super pristine for hikers, joggers, or us. I've never seen a wheelchair or rollerblader on it, and some parts are likely too steep for either. Commuters can use Duval or Adelphi/Waters Park. So is this just for people that don't like to ride their road bikes on roads? I would much rather see widening for sidewalks and/or bike lanes on Waters Park Road to make those new "sidewalks to nowhere" on Adelphi more useful.

I think the reason is simply that you can make them shorter but you can't make them longer. Just like a fork steerer, everyone will want a different length so they just make it long.

You've convinced me. Unfortunately your arguments were ineffective with my wife.

Hrmmm... That was the implication, but the explanation takes the fun right out.

Most adults don't eat them. As time goes by their immune systems get progressively weaker. Coincidence?

Right, well back on topic then... . . . Wait what was the topic?

OMG babies are cannibals!

Saw this on reddit a couple days ago. According to him you'll be fine. https://www.reddit.com/r/MTB/comments/d11q3n/rode_16_miles_today_with_my_fork_on_backwards/

The reactions need an "all of the above" option. I laughed and like that you posted this, but it also made me both confused and sad.

This sounds great. The current trail alignment was fine when it was an up instead of a down, but as a down it's kind of bad. It just begs to be dropped, but the sketch runout makes it not worth the risk, so I have just been rolling it which feels a bit lame.

You should have saved that for after the R&I.

IIRC, the a motorcycling term for that is "head on a hamburger".

By your logic we should eat kittens. Seriously, how did you jump to that?

I commend your valiant attempt to get this thread back on topic.

Your assertion that an e-bike is "pedal propelled" because it won't move without the pedals is flawed. One example illustrating the flaw: the fact that my car also does not move without the pedals does not make it "pedal propelled". Whether an e-bike is "pedal propelled", and by extension, whether it meets the definition of a bicycle, is a little more nuanced. It *can* be pedal propelled, but it can also be propelled by a motor. However, it is not the first vehicle with this property, such vehicles in the past have been classified as mopeds. The main difference between an e-bike and a traditional moped is that an e-bike's motor is controlled by force on the pedals instead of by a hand-operated control. I view the method by which the motor is controlled as a triviality, and therefore, still consider e-bikes as a type of moped. Of course this is all just pedantic wankery, as none of these technicalities or semantic gymnastics have anything to do with whether e-bikes should be ridden on any particular trail.

It was a bad argument. The same could be said of a car.

I thought bits were for horses. Guess I need to get out more.

The Lanterne Rouge just finished. She apparently suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and started riding a bike in November. WTF?

You guys don't remember being teenagers, huh? Well, maybe if you'd worn helmets...