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Now way they'd let me operate a tank with my blood alcohol level at that particular moment.

44cm bars and 3" tires...what's this, amature hour? How about 50cm (at the hoods) and 4.8" tires! And of course a drop post. I call it FattyFattyDropDrop. Joking of course, that bike looks like a blast, enjoy!

This is so true. The fact that flu-like illnesses are way down, yet our death rates from flu-like illnesses are going to be about normal (if we're lucky) is a big clue.

LOL, CiCis or PIzzaHut buffet FTW? Oof.

So it's the best pizza casserole, but not good enough to spell correctly? 😉 Other than the satisfactory Mangia, the only one on the list I've had is Uno (franchise), and it was wicked gross. I think I would have preferred sicilian, or (retch) Pizza Hut.

Last time I was there was last year's EB. At that point, the chunky climb had been dramatically sanitized and is unfortunately very easy now. Maybe erosion will "fix" the sanitation over time, HOL style. Maybe it already has?

No matter how good the pie is fresh, the next day toaster oven version is better.

I vastly prefer NY style pie like Home Slice. A plain cheese pie and some hot wings is all you need. If the wings are hot enough I'll even put some Coke and ice in my whiskey. But in general thick crust (Sicilian) pizza is gross. However proper Chicago style, like you can get at Mangia, is quite good. It's still pizza casserole though. I was actually surprised at how thin the crust (under all that topping) on a Chicago style pizza from Mangia is. It taste more like a lasagna than a pizza though.

Or ride with members of your household if that's a possibility.

Something about photo shoots lately. A couple of weeks ago I was headed up Windy Trail at WC, and noticed a photo shoot going on in the creek. The dude with the camera looked normal enough, but the lady getting photographed looked...well, the only way I could think to describe it would be butterfly goth. Super frilly, gothy dress--great big colorful butterfly wings.

I went with the "sad" reaction because there wasn't an "unlike."

Zac is a great rider, and that's some killer footage!

Thumper certainly doesn't get much traffic according to Strava heat maps. Walnut: City Park: Thumper is positively chilly:

I know, I know, I know... Ain't no sunshine outside, and now he's gone. RIP, Bill. And no, the corona' didn't get him.

I'm specifically talking about things like BTAC* and PVW*. Restaurants and bars across the country are selling their stock to keep the business going. *if you don't know those initialisms without looking them up, then this is too nitch of a discussion for us to continue.

it says, "All parks in Travis County will be closed throughout the Easter weekend..." Emphasis added. It's unclear whether this is only parks managed by Travis County Parks (for us, basically just PaceBend and Reimers), or also those managed by Austin Parks Foundation (everything else). There is an announcement on the TCP website, but not on the APF website. Either way, I would assume APF would follow suit eventually.

I didn't see liquor listed, unfortunately. In many states, folks are getting their hands on some hard to come by allocated whisky through restaurant sell-offs. I wonder if it is included, but not explicitly stated?

Yeah. Yesterday I saw some lady with kids playing on that first tabletop on Outer Log. Luckily that spot isn't blind, but there are a lot of fast blind turns on Outer.

Oof. Okay, maybe this is the Spring Breakers Bump? That's about 40 more than the 20 per day average we had been seeing.

I didn't think you were serious and didn't even remember 4.1 at the time, even though I am hyper vigilant to that date. But then, I don't think of you as weak sauce either, so that's probably why.

Good point.

Agreed. And what that ultimately means is that the death rate is likely much lower than is readily evident because so many more people are infected than is known. But I'd say the CDC has some good modeling numbers to reconcile this.

I would certainly ride it at Walnut and SATN. Brushy would be fun too, but for a different reason. My problem is that my wrists start killing me if I do too much tech without suspension. That's why I think the Lauf gravel would be good for what I'm looking to do. It seriously took my wrists 6 months to recover from two different rides I did at Brushy with my Monstertour.

I guess we can call this the Spring Breakers Bump...

I do see that a bit, but not always unfortunately. Two weeks ago on Peddlers I came across a fellow with a 8 or 10 year old without a helmet. I scolded the guy for about as long as he was in earshot. I personally loathe being a nag about anything, but it's hard not to feel self righteous and get preachy with these no helmet on trails morons.