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  1. I have seen a ringtail at BC one night a few yrs ago. That was pretty cool. 

    Last summer I was stopped by some dude wearing fulling on DH kit, Full face, Chest pads, Arms , Legs, Full length pants and long sleeve jersey , he had to take his mouth guard out to speak to me. He wanted to know if he can ride an e-bike on there. 

    We were on Peddlers Pass . I wondered if he knew knew something I didnt know about some hidden features

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  2. 48 minutes ago, Albert said:

    As long as there's a line around this crazy drop, I'm good.  😄  I haven't been to Brushy in a few months now, which makes me sad (broke the frame on my Epic, it's out of warranty of course, and I don't have a new mountain bike yet, really need one, and sucks that another long wave of rain just started).

     ..Al

    A lot of deals going on now 

     

  3. 3 hours ago, Tree Magnet said:

    Mixed emotions on this.  On one hand, they need to survive so they're finding new avenues of making money.  On the other, if every shop out there went and bought up these basic supplies and marked them up, there wouldn't be any in the grocery stores for people to buy.  

    I seriously doubt this will dent the inventory of HEB. I think its pretty cool 

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  4. 24 minutes ago, throet said:

    I've been watching the magnitude of kids riding bikes by the front of my house over the past couple of days. One day last week I saw what appeared to be a sister-brother combo racing on opposite sidewalks. The sister was on the sidewalk on my side and I was watching in amusement as she kept glancing over to the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street to gauge where her brother was. As they zipped past pedaling furiously in competition with one another, I turned away with a smile thinking back to all the crazy stuff I did as a kid. Within a second or two though I heard this god awful "clank" and turned around to see she had run straight into the aluminum light pole a couple houses past mine. Luckily she was wearing a helmet, although I'm pretty sure she still got her bell rung pretty good.   

    So she was seeing lights?

     

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  5. Few yrs back before I learned the value of backup bikes .. I broke a frame and was without a bike. A buddy of mine here in my hood lent me a old Kona SS MB with drop bars to use while I waited for a new frame. I just remember how much fun that was. I am seriously tempted to put drop bars on my Ventana SS.

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  6. 40 minutes ago, Barry said:

    It is still quite steep though. It will not be quite the fun Chamois Hagar would induce.

     

    As much as I dig the CH, I just can't see me paying that much for a carbon gravel/touring bike, when I don't even like the concept that much. I was thinking...you could go much cheaper with a custom steel frame built to the CH's geo, but maybe add some track-ends for more fun options, or even shorten the CS. You could even add a Lauf gravel fork and stay way under the CH price. 

    How would a ride the CH do on trails like Brushy?

    I think that it would be fun on most all of it except DD

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  7. 19 minutes ago, GFisher said:

    How is Brushy looking mid day (or mornings) during the week? No way I am going in the afternoon/evening, but I would like to make it out there soon.

    Between me  and  you and the fencepost,, Mornings are great. I'd say for the real riders , early  before 10. And then dusk to dark with lights. 

  8. 25 minutes ago, AntonioGG said:

    It's definitely doing it, which is why I suggested to my employer to implement sick days and not just generic PTO, and encourage people to stay home.  Too many times a bunch of people get sick at work b/c we're all workaholics/driven and we're trying to save precious PTO for vacations.  I bet there are studies that show a positive $ impact to sick days due to less loss of productivity.

     

    I was also wondering about food poisoning and other such communal (venereal too) diseases.

    My wife in her role at UT manages a bunch of people and one of her biggest struggles\complaints is trying to get sick people to not come in. But-- they dont want to burn PTO or they are not paid very well and need every cent.

     

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  9. 6 minutes ago, Albert said:

    I'd have a hard time not physically responding if someone tried that shit with me.  Especially if he was already being an asshole by not giving me an opportunity to pass for some time before that.  Guess it would be a good idea to sport a GoPro for situations like this..

     ..Al

    I am lover not  a fighter,,, Like I told my wife ,, I would not have been shocked to see a knife 

  10. 1 minute ago, HoneyBadger said:

    That guys been riding Peddlers for years. He's a grumpy sour puss. Never says hello and comes riding through our build area without slowing down. I haven't had the pleasure of riding behind him yet. I wonder what would happen if someone got around him and slowed down to a snail's pace?

    I tried to pass him under the bridge-- he literally , like no shit,, he literally bumped my bars as I went by him. 

    You know me -- I am not what you would call intimidating by any means-- But damn I would have chased him down and , shit,, I dunno what-- but I would have not been pleased. 

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