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That's a great link, thanks. I was just wondering over the weekend how much distancing is also knocking out flu this season.

It has a fairly good instruction set on the website too. But it looked like it needed a lot of specialty tools. I've rebuild shocks before, I just don't like it. This particular shock has another issue as well, the rebound damping dial appears to be decorative. Luckily, it is pretty much exactly the damping I need, but fully up and fully down seem to have no effect. Fox has a 2 year warranty, so I really need to send it back to them before next February.

I quite like it. I fully intend to get one at some point, or something like it if a much lower priced variant is produced by someone else.

I think it's their follow up to the Chamois Davis Jr. I don't think they've made a Chamois Sosa.

I absolutely will. It looks like it would line up nicely with a Pedernales or Reimer's Ranch ride. And I'm pretty sure I can take it back that I haven't tried one of them. It was either at Whiskies of the World or one of the TX whisky festivals that Opal Divines used to put on. I can certainly recall the bottles, but at whisky festivals you drink so many different whiskies that it gets lost in the fog.

This has certainly gotten worse with the increased traffic. I was literally screaming as loud as I could trying to get the attention of two different women at WC last week. We just talked about this recently in the trail running thread too.

I haven't! But I really like what's going on with US single malts currently.

I haven't really gotten into Jefferson's that much, but folks really like it. I had one bottle maybe 6 years ago, and never really went back. Interestingly they are the fourth company who I'm aware that ever sold a sourced ADL rye, but it hasn't been on the shelves in about 6 or so years. I don't know about a top 5, but I can certainly name a few of my $55-100 favorites. I'll break it down by region. Rye: I said most of this up there ^. WP 10 year ($70), or a cask strength store pick if you can find it (~$80). You might also try Masterson's ($65), it's very good, but at 45%, it has lower ABV than WP. These are both Canadian "flavoring" whisky that was originally distilled and barreled to be blended proofed down to rubbish, but were bought and resold as 100% well aged rye by US companies. A wild card here is the much harder to find High West A Midwinter Nights Dram ($70-99+). It comes out a the end of every year. This is their Rendezvous Rye finished in port barrels, and it is amazing. Similar but WAY more available is Angel's Envy rye ($75). This is an MGP rye finished in rum casks. I can't drink it often because it is very sweet, but I always have a bottle on-hand. [Interestingly every rye I've mentioned here happens to be sourced whisky. The last two are sourced from US companies.] Irish: I'm not huge into Irish, but Redbreast 12 yr Cask Strength ($80) is freakin' great. Scotch: There are an embarrassing number of spectacular single malts in the $70 range. The list just goes on and on. But if you can dig on a peated malt, I suggest my favorite, Ardbeg Uigeadail ($67-75). Expect deep smoke with a background of sherry sweetness. Bourbon: Unlike a single malt or even a rye, I think bourbon has diminishing returns once you get over the $70 range. Most of my favorites are in the 25-30 range! But my all time favorite is the hard to find Elijah Craig Barrel Proof (MSRP is ~$59, but it is usually a LOT more. Get it if you see it, but don't pay more than $80). Almost as good but also hard to find for about the same price is Stagg Jr. Way more available and also very good is Maker's Mark Cask Strength ($45-55). Availability and quality is what has driven me to JDSBBP these days.

I'm really enjoying this as well. I've long been a fan of Alberta Distilleries (ADL) rye, and was super happy when WhistlePig released this 6 year version about a year ago. I was watching closely, but it didn't hit Texas until about 6 or 8 weeks ago--and now I'm 2 bottles in. If you haven't had it, I also suggest the 10 year version for about $70, which is significantly better still. And if you haven't had it double extra suggest you keep an eye out at Specs or TW for a cask strength store pick Single Barrel version for about $75-85, because that is about as good as whiskey gets, in my opinion. Interestingly, this is also same ADL distillate that I posted a couple of pages back of my real good cabinet, the 16 & 18 year Lock, Stock & Barrel from Cooper Spirits. Someone was whinging a couple of pages back about sourced whiskies, but I'd much rather a distillery put out sourced whisky while their own stuff ages, rather than rush out their over priced and underaged craft garbage. WhistlePig is now distilling, aging and selling their own, but it's still really young. Currently they blend it with both ADL and MGP (that big plant in Indiana) rye in their Farmstock offering, which I don't particularly recommend yet.

I really depends on what you're into. I'm a big fan of smoky Islay malts, so other smoky whiskies also work well for me.

According to their Facebook:

I haven't looked at he link yet, but as soon as droppers became a must-have for me, I started wanting the steepest possible STA.

Maybe it's for demonstrative purposes, but it looks to me like dude is exaggerating each style. Especially the new style. Even with a very modern geo bike, I try to stay back from the BB a little, but not so much that my arms lock. And I'll roll basically anything. One example was the 2018 Big Bend fest, the "remember where you are" stair steps on the Rincon and Epic Loops where I was the only one on the advanced rides that did it, while some dude was standing at the bottom yelling at me to be carefull.

210x50. I'm mostly looking to score a cheap ebay option. I'm not in a hurry because my DPX2 seems to be holding up quite well.

Well the rig weighed 60+ pounds and he rode it slow AF. It worked better that way anyway. And he typically had all other manner of tools loaded up on it as well.

Awesome. Those leaves are super slick unless you stay real high on the berms. Of course in central NY leaves were a huge pain every fall. But we had this one local guy who mounted two leaf blowers to an old hardtail, one on the front, one on the back, and it did a spectacular job of clearing the leaves off the trails. He called it a trail zamboni.

I'm actually a lot better than I used to be...I was notorious for letting bikes fall apart. There's a photo somewhere on the forum where @Seths Pool gave me shit about a rotor I let get paper thin...after I gave him the rotors (for non bike purposes, one assumes)! But that was a really old rotor, and that disregard has changed significantly over the last 12 or so years. I take care of my bikes and my wife's bikes so she only has to worry about riding. Each MTB ride at a minimum sees a drivetrain wipe down and re-lube, and a quick frame inspection, (since I've broken so many) and a spoke check. For less regular things, I try to keep on top of chain changes, but I'm changing them out about as regular as as I change tires, which keeps my rear cassette from wearing prematurely. I go through tires at a rate of about 6-8 weeks/1000-1200 miles per pair, so I'm changing those out about every other month. Usually the tires go faster if I'm riding GB or GW more often. They last longer if I happen to be riding WC too much. I also use a tire change as a trigger to push grease into my lower linkage Zerk fitting. Like I said above, I clean up pistons when I change brake pads--so 2-3 times a year. And I seem to be either breaking or just plain wearing out rear derailers at a rate of about 3-4 a year. The wife and I both currently use 11 speed E13 cassettes on XD hubs, and those are noisy bastards if you don't keep on top of them. So about every 4-6 weeks I have to pull the cassettes off and thoroughly grease them. And I change housing and cables maybe twice a year. For even less regular things I work on them when a need presents. I'm not going to do even a regular PM on most things unless they present as an issue of some sort. My bearing change over the weekend was because I had play in the suspension. And the bearing change didn't fully fix it, but I did find a worn axle. SC put in an order to send me a new one (free of charge and shipping!) when their warehouse guys go back to work. Where the old me creeps back up is forks and shocks. I don't enjoy that work and I don't look forward to it, so sometimes these things really get away from me. Like currently my right fork stanchion is leaking a bit, and has been for a few weeks. I know eventually it'll stop leaking, so maybe I'm just waiting for that! No, I have the rebuild kit, I just have to do it. But for the shock, I'll probably send that off for rebuild. But first I'll try to score a low cost backup shock to use during the rebuild.

After looking at the video above and seeing the internal operation of the caliper (which I was never completely clear on), it seems I should be using mineral oil instead of Phil's on the pistons. Next time!

I do every time I change pads. I push one piston out, clean it up, and lube it with Phil's. Then I do that 3 more times. I'm sure my neighbors wonder wtf I can be doing to spend all that time in the garage at a bike stand. But then, so does my wife.

There's at least 1 cop on a bicycle in ATX that I'd hate to have chase me!

A LOT of distilleries, maybe most, are making hand sanitizer right now. For many "craft" distilleries, it'll be the highest quality product they've produced.

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Wait...are you boys talkin' about stompin' chunks?

Unclear. Here is the section on Travel. Biking falls under Outdoor Activity, and Essential Activities as defined below. It looks to me like you can drive to the trail. But more clarification is needed, I think.

And here it is: http://www.mayoradler.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Order-20200324-007-Stay-Home-Work-Safe.pdf Edit to share the other important thing under Essential Businesses: