Barry

3 hours ago, AustinBike said:

A porter is a beer. A port is a strong wine. Different things.

How are you still confused? Re-read what I wrote!

2 hours ago, AustinBike said:

Port and porter are two different things. Just like rye whiskey and rye bread.

I'm not sure what you're on about. I'm talking about the Celis Grand Cru. It's a Belgian Tipel that's been further aged in an ex port barrel. And I don't know what port produced the barrel which was used to further age the beer. 

Concurrent they also have a Coffee Porter which they've further aged in a Four Roses whiskey barrel. Indeed these are different things. 

On 12/25/2021 at 8:06 AM, AustinBike said:

A port? From where? interested, spent some time in Porto and love a good port.

No idea what port it is, although they mention the Coffee Porter whiskey barrel is aged in Four Roses. So presumably you could find out. 

4 hours ago, ATXZJ said:

Very tasty

They have both a port AND a whiskey (Four Roses, I think) barrel aged version of Grand Cru on tap at the brewery! Pretty good stuff. 

Word is that the tails have largely recovered from the weekend rains, and should be in reasonably good shape this afternoon.  

On 11/24/2021 at 12:39 PM, Barry said:

And damn it....with this Black Friday deal,  I just had to go and buy the DH package for 2. 

I got my shipping notice today! 2 days ahead of the 3-4 week window. 

On 12/2/2021 at 7:35 PM, throet said:

I've yet to try any Japanese whiskeys. Any opinions there? 

I haven't tried many of them. They are certainly very much in the Scotch whisky tradition...just more expensive. But I've thought the all the ones I've had were good quality. I have noticed that like a US whisky, they tend to age faster than a Scotch. So an 8 or 10 year Japanese whiskey may taste like a 12 or 14 year Scotch. Climate, I suppose. 

34 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:

I don't think I've even been able to bend at the waist and touch my toes for my entire life.

I don't think I can get within 18 inches of my toes without bending my knees.

That's good news for sure. 

And in more good news, it looks like major changes are underway for Hamilton Pool Rd, including shoulders on each side of the road. Hopefully this makes my ride-to-the-ride idea for Reimer's Ranch much more reasonable. 

https://www.newsradioklbj.com/austinlocalnews/txdot-to-break-ground-on-hamilton-pool-road-project/

16 hours ago, TAF said:

Heh - cept now you have to drink Celis ....

While I agree that OB generally has better offerings,  Celis has a few solid options. For me the Coffee Porter is always good. And currently they even have a barrel aged version of it!

2 hours ago, AntonioGG said:

For future reference, when it's below 60 does everyone leave before 7:30?  I couldn't detach from work earlier, I would have saved the trip and ridden closer to home.

I was looking for you. But yeah, sorry, R&I is dead. 

Edit to add: So come to the Celis ride instead!

The trails are in great shape. 

I like the implication here.

9 hours ago, Teamsloan said:

Barry, take a look at Tannus Tubeless Armor. They have a version for gravel tires, but they may only work up to 47 wide.

Thanks... I really like their plus option for my 5010. And indeed I sent them an email yesterday complaining that my ChamoisHagar rim/tire combo falls squarely between their XC and CX offerings. We'll see if they have any suggestions,  because I really like the looks of their non tubed option. 

I thought about super glue, and also considered 'welding' them with a lighter. But I figured those options had single points of failure so I tried this. Although super glue may have made it significantly less cumbersome to sew.

Super genius or dumb as fuck?

I like to ride ChamoisHagar on lots of the singletrack we have in the area, and I also like to protect my EIE ChiCarbon rims from various rock impacts. So I use inserts. I got about 4000 miles out of HuckNorris before I started having issues with them--front and rear. Unlike many inserts, HuckNorris isn't a contiguous circle of material, rather it's a single ribbon that you shove into the tire. They give you a cheesy little Velcro bit that you're supposed to use to tire them together. But that doesn't work at all, as one of the foam bits inevitably breaks reverting it back into a ribbon instead of a circle. So you just let it go and hope for the best. And that worked for a while, but then this ribbon starts bunching up on itself, and folding over in the tire. Well that's no good, since you have a very unbalanced rotational force that you can feel, and worse, you have sections of the rim wholly unprotected from the insert. 

So I'm on the look for another brand that works for this bike. But with 25.5mm IW rims, and 50mm tires, there are not many inserts that work for it. It falls between traditional gravel/CX and the typical small MTB versions. I keep looking. In the mean time, how to make HuckNorris work? I may have flossed out an idea!

Sew, yeah. I just roughly stitched the two ends together with floss. Only time will tell if it holds out, but it passes an aggressive tug test. And I suppose it's worth noting that I've never had this folding/doubling up issue with my 27.5x2.6 tires using the plus versions of HuckNorris. 

On 10/25/2021 at 9:33 PM, Cafeend said:

I had a pre SubNinja Flyby with this bike today...a really nice looking bike. Hopefully you were the one riding it!

Things are starting off nicely. 

We've been having good success for the past 2 years with the silly Amazon Shenkey on the helmet paired with a Lumina 1100 on the bar. But I've been jealous of everyone with Outbound lights. And damn it....with this Black Friday deal,  I just had to go and buy the DH package for 2. 

The Shenkey will probably still get road duty, but I'm not yet sure what I'm going to do with the also baller Lumina 1100 lights. 

31 minutes ago, jcarneytx said:

Been waiting all year for this release. 

Looks spectacular! Where can I find it?

Here is a link to that post:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1686726081631550/permalink/2701766173460864/

And a link to their waiver: 

https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/w/5fb53b72c809c/web/

2 hours ago, ATXZJ said:

Heading out to FB Sunday to scope these out and hit a few wineries afterwards. Have any of you ridden this?

Their hours are so limited that is hard for me to get there for a decent ride. Maybe @Jessica and I will give them a try sometime though. They post their odd hours on their FaceSpace though and it looks like you're GTG on Sunday.  

17 hours ago, AustinBike said:

Is this stuff any good?

You tell me. I've never bought Templeton myself because IMO it's effectively a liqueur instead of a whisky. It contains what they call "alcohol flavoring agents" (whatever that means) so they can presumably match some prohibition era whisky style. This is kind of reminiscent of some Canadian whiskies which by law can can have a small additive flavoring agent, like juice or chemical flavor additives, for example. US law does not allow this if the bottle has the word "bourbon" on it with no qualifiers (like "bourbon with...") or any whiskey with the word straight on it with no qualifiers.  They were sued in 2015 because of their labeling practices and they had to drop some of their claims on the label. 

The unmolested whiskey in the bottle is produced by MGP in Indiana and there are scores of better (IMO) examples of this whiskey on the shelf. I've said it before, but you can't throw a baseball at a random whisky shelf in the US without breaking a bottle of "craft" whiskey that is actually just sourced from MGP...not that there is anything wrong with that. But each bottle will have a story on the back about their great-uncle's grandfather who distilled in their basement at the turn of the century. Some of it is actually good stuff though. 

2 hours ago, TAF said:

The trails at Walnut have really gone to shit -- so much over-use. It was worth the extra drive up to Cedar Park -- 90 min ride without seeing a soul, and a good crowd at Red Horn after.

Right. Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. 

2 hours ago, TAF said:

I goggled them, out of interest - don't seem to be active any longer. 

Perhaps they formed a new protestant group?