The Tip

1 hour ago, Ridenfool said:

To follow your example to conclusion, unsweetened tea would then be "Tea Tea."

 

I ain't drinkin' no Tea Tea! I piss on that idea!

I think I'm going to start using, 'bike bike." 

"The ebike was broken so I took my bike bike."

Old lady #!: "That restaurant has terrible food"

Old lady #2: "Yes, and the portions are so small too."

At least there is more parking available there now. Six more general parking spaces

acoustic

analog

push

traditional

regular

simply, "bike"

Will we ever come up with a generally accepted term? 

Throet, the Dana Peak Saturday ride was SOOOOO much fun for me. But I would have never been able to keep up with that group of youngsters on my h-bike (human powered! lol)

sigh, It's true, Sometimes I will order from Amazon to get it quicker and cheaper than from HomeDepot that is only two miles from me.

It's definitely not too early to reserve a spot. Maverick RV fills up very quickly. I've already got my spot.

Anyone going this week should message me their email so I can put you on the discussion about it.

5 hours ago, Ridenfool said:

The Monsoon season appears to be upon us. Monday, RHR received an inch of rain and the current forecast for the next ten days is for daily showers totaling another 3.5 inches through mid-month.

Snorkel and fins are optional.

 

The time lapse radar yesterday was very interesting. There was a big red blob over LaGrange for about four hours straight. The storm line wasn't moving at all. Very different. I wonder what they ended up with

One of the good things about a new house is getting to reorganize your stuff. Nice.

That RV looks very wind proof! Woot!

Nice pics.

Reimers is a under rated I think. There are 17 miles of gravel type trails there, That includes the all purpose trail you mention

But I don't understand your "spaghetti bowl" comment. Reimers single track secction is designed to ride all 18 miles (all one way) in an easy to follow manner. This includes jumping off the "track" to do the Flow Trail section one circuit.

A do it all day at Reimers would be 35 miles. Hardly anyone does anything besides the single track part.

Cedar Hill State Park on the DORBA trails

Kid: "Hey Dad, can I have a new bike?"

Dad: "No! What the heck, you think bikes grow on trees or somethng?

Kid: "Uhhh, well..."

...you slap your forehead and say, "why didn't I think of that two years ago" when you realize you could have done something better originally. 

I had this happen recently. The original trail went under an overhanging, too big to cut, tree limb. Group rides were a constant, "Head!"  warning shouting, Then I had that revelation, Just take out the brush to the side of the trail to not go under that limb. Stupid easy. Now I shake my head in embarrasment every time I ride past that spot! lol

But ARR is pushing to develop Area 51 into a destination. Tons of potential there due to the elevation changes.

So let's do it again. This weekend was picked because it had the most RV spaces left. There's not many. If you have even a chance of going, book now, then cancel later if you can't.

https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232570/availability

There are lots of tent camping sites available. Sites 21-25 are tent camping only, but with electric. Sites T1-T8 are basic tent camping only. Just a space on the ground with a fire ring.

RV sites can have more than one tent on them too. We've had tents on our RV site every year.

Nobody has said anything. Wrecky asked me about it and we were supposed to bring it up at a Crank and Drank. But then we just drank beer instead.

Pick a date and we'll make it happen. I forget if the consensues was to have it later to be warmer and less windy, or earlier to be cooler.

Another successful Desert Fest Redux. We had 19-24 riders on each ride. Weather was perfect. Was good to meet JRIDER and his bro. Good times.

Next year's dates Feb 21-25. Make your plans now.

2021...Snowpacolypse

2023...Icetastrophe

2 hours ago, AustinBike said:

Well, our block was, a little, um, interesting this morning.

Hit a neighbor's car but did no damage luckily. 

I've recharged my chainsaw batteries 3 times today helping neighbors clear their driveways and front walks.

This looks SO similar to a tree two blocks over from my house. Saw it on my "look at the neighborhood walk". Went back with my chainsaw to help make the street passable. As we were working a huge branch fell from a tree across the street. No warning noise at all. Just "BOOM." Don't walk under ANY trees right now!

Just walking down the street was amazing. Creaking trees, rattling ice, snapping branches. Amazing. This Icepocalypse is going to be WAY worse than the Snowpocalypse.

It's misting on us in south Austin and it's slightly below freezing. The streets are fine but I believe the trees are still collecting ice. I was just helping to clear a road blocking tree a street over from my house. As I was chain sawing the fallen tree, a huge thing that fell over from the roots,  a big branch snapped and fell down across the street from where we were working. No warning noise or anything. DO NOT go walking on your favorite trail yet! Or under any trees on your "look at the neighborhood" walks.

Our power was out from 3:40 am until just now, 2:10. I've been watching Austin Energy's Power Outage site. The number of customers without power has risen steadily all day. It is currently at the lowest percentage (69.9) "total customers with power" that I've seen. This means that trees are still falling. 

It's going to take a LOT of work to get the trails cleared. A lot. I agree that it will be worse than the last one. That one was mostly snow.

14 hours ago, June Bug said:

Public or private?

Come on! It's a "thang." Not sure exactly how many are planning to go. At least 10. Some are staying at Maverick RV, some at spots in Terlingua next to Starlight. This is the

"they're not taking Desertfest away from us" event. Last year we went in the state park, then the airport trails, then the state park again. Great fun

Whew! You scared me for a second. 

But our event is planned for Feb 22-26