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If anyone needs help with transport of any lumber donations, I can help with that. I have racks on my truck I use for hauling kayaks, lumber, and ladders.

This. My 4yo grandson took all of 10 minutes without training wheels to figure it out. They learn fast once they decide they want to do it. He's crashed numerous times since by trying to go off curbs and such but he always gets back up. We've done a good job with him in having him get up and try again whenever he fails at anything. He's been playing ice hockey and skating since he was about 2.5 years old and every time he fell, we would ask him, "What do you do when you fall down?" His response is always, "Get up and try again." We used the same thing for the bike recently and it works. Hopefully it sticks with him his whole life because we all know life will knock you down quite a few times and the best thing you can do is get up, brush yourself off, and go at it again.

A McLeod is a hoe/rake combo and a Mattock is a type of pick axe. Grandpa was a farmer.

This is how I feel. It's not expensive and if you like it and use it frequently, is it really that big of a deal to compensate the people that are giving you something you enjoy? Free stuff is great and all but in the end people have bills to pay and they cannot do that if they aren't compensated for their work.

Make it more fun. Then maybe the people that take Strava seriously enough to be pissed about a change you're describing will stop riding there area which will make for less douchiness on the trails! I know a couple folks insanely serious about Strava and they aren't fun people to be around.

Yeah. I was out from 4 to 5 yesterday and it was pretty miserable. 97 degress with 70% humidity. Ran Peddlers, Mulligan, and Picnic up and back before I gave up. I drank all 2.5 liters of water in my camelback in 45 minutes.

Delivered some pressure treated lumber. Took some pictures of some of the features but getting -200 errors uploading. 2x12x12: 2 2x6x8: 6 2x4x8: 8

That's my assumption as well. Untreated will fall apart fairly rapidly.

I set up a quick and dirty google doc with the types and numbers you need so people can check off what they are bringing. Wouldn't be much help if four of us only brought a bunch of 2x12s and none of the others. Also, where to drop off and what times would be best? Just drive down the fire road? Do we need to walk it all from the church parking lot? For folks that want to contribute just plug in your name(similar to what I did) in and what you'll bring. @El Gringo I just put in some random amounts. Please edit and add what you think will be needed and then folks can just fill in what they can bring and you'll end up with what you need and not eleventy billion 2x4s and no 2x12s. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-q6-2HA7cSH414l3q__Ccftn5IKls3shZcgleZGqnew/edit?usp=sharing

I can pitch in once you get everything set up. Maybe send out a shared google doc with what materials are needed and anyone can mark their name down as providing those materials? Possibly a gofundme/kickstarter campaign? I can also help out with labor on weekends and in the evenings on weekdays if I have a couple days notice.

While I generally agree with this, there are a ton of examples throughout history where a single scientist and their theories were considered crazy and wacko by the majority of the scientific or medical community. You mentioned above that we do not need to give the flat earth equal time and I agree. But remember there was once a guy that went against the current scientific knowledge of his time and he proposed that the earth revolved around the sun. He was accused of heresy and his idea was suppressed. His name was Galileo. A few other "mad scientists" who were rejected by the scientific community of their period. * William Harvey was the first to describe the human blood circulation in the 17th century and was ridiculed by his peers. * Gregor Mendel, father of genetics and his work in pea plants regarding recessive or dominant genes was considered crazy and wasn't recognized until decades after his death. * Ignaz Semmelweis implemented hand washing at his hospital in Hungaria which helped reduce death rates from fever of women giving birth from 10 to 2% at his hospital in the 1840s. He was ridiculed by other doctors because they felt he was saying they were dirty. The medical world completely rejected him for it. He ended up committing suicide. People finally saw the light decades later from Lister and Pasteur's work. * William Coley's work on ulcers caused by bacteria in the 1980s was dismissed by other doctors. It was common knowledge then that ulcers were only caused by stressed. Coley actually experimented on himself to prove his theories. So there should be peer reviews, studies, research and the like, but just because current knowledge points to a new idea being batshit crazy, it doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong. We'll need studies over the next few years to really determine exactly how COVID works and how to prevent it. Use multiple sites and resources when researching stuff and pretty much ignore anything you see from Karen or really anything on Facebook or social media.

I used regular SG on my sport bike a while back but so many people have said it hastens aluminum corrosion(my swingarm, wheels, rearsets, etc) so I stopped using it. I never noticed any issues after using it for about a year but I'm also a nazi about thoroughly rinsing. It's my baby though so I stopped using it.

100% agree. I'll take Phoenix at 105 deg with 20% humidity vs Houston at 95 deg with 90% humidity.

Anyone ever use Simple Green Bike Cleaner & Degreaser? I'm a huge fan of the regular Simple Green product for cleaning gunk around the house and I'm thinking of giving the Bike version a shot. They say the following: Simple Green Bike Cleaner & Degreaser is a non-corrosive formula that cuts through caked-on mud, dirt, grease, grime, and other road and trail soils. It's safe for use on all bike parts including metal, rubber, carbon fiber, plastic, painted surfaces, chains and derailleurs. https://simplegreen.com/news-and-media/common-bike-cleaning-mistakes/

Yep. I don't have a rotor tool but a crescent wrench and a shop towel worked just fine. Good as new!

It's certainly possible but I read it as more likely just a decrease in income from competing trails along with an increase in insurance costs because that's what insurance companies do. Increase costs on a regular basis.

Stormlight Archives is a fantastic series. I probably need to reread those. I'm actually looking for a new fantasy series so if you have any recs you been through recently... Lately for me I've been reading some Peter Zeihan. He has a few books on geopolitics(not normal politics that we all hate) that are very interesting. Accidental Superpower, Absent Superpower, and Disunited Nations. He talks about how America's geography was instrumental in the US becoming a superpower, the shale revolution and energy independence, the US withdrawal from being global police, etc. I'm normally not a fan of these types of books but all three were pretty darn good.

I love dog threads. Here is the world's laziest border collie.

On the bright side, new bike day was last Wednesday. Sadly that seems to have caused an endless week of rain and I already bent a rotor this past weekend by falling off skinny wood features I suck at.

You could always just avoid people without masks the same way I avoid walking through the 5th ward in Houston wearing gang colors. Just treat the non mask wearers like most people treat the homeless, give them a wide berth. When this shit is over we need to get together, have some beers and solve the world's problems.

I wear one in stores but I don't have a problem with others not wearing them. It's their choice imo and they shouldn't be forced to. And granny was up on the sidewalk both times. I have no idea how she still has a license.

Also, my apologies for this train of posts. I got a new bike last week and that has clearly caused the rain for this entire week so now I'm bored out of my mind and on the interwebs spewing nonsense.

Good point but my reasoning is more that term limits would hopefully help lessen the grip of Corporation Inc. on our congress. The lifetime politician's pockets are so full of kickbacks that they will never go against Daddy Warbucks' wishes. New blood every 6 years or so could possibly help prevent that even if the new blood is still aligned in the same manner as the previous. I'm not a completer hater of AOC. I think she means well but just doesn't have a good grasp of basic economics. But her ignorance makes her dangerous. What's the phrase? The path to hell is paved with good intentions? But I could be entirely wrong in my assumptions. Wouldn't be the first time and won't be the last.

I would love to see some campaign reform, congressional term limits, limited corporate lobbying, etc. I think we still have one of the best countries and systems in history but we definitely need to start limiting the influence of corporations and politicians.

I don't wear a seatbelt but I ride a motorcycle. 🙂 In my previous post, the idea was to open up for those who CHOOSE to take on the risk of possible infection from someone else and possibly death. No one would be forced to go out and about. So any deaths from infection would be by people who accepted that risk. There would obviously be outliers but hopefully I'm being a bit more clear here. I understand where you're coming from but at some point people have to realize that life has inherent risks. I could walk to my mailbox right now and get hit by lightning, shot in a drive by, hit by my granny neighbor that drives like crap, slip in a puddle and break my neck, catch COVID, etc. Yes, most of those are unlikely(except my neighbor granny who has almost run me over twice) but the chance is still there. Now we can mitigate greater risks to society as a whole by making more rules and giving governments mor control on how people can interact, but how much freedom are you willing to give up for greater security/less risk? I think that is where all the arguments lie and I thinking giving governments more power over our lives, even small seemingly innocent things, is a slippery slope. It's a sliding scale and everyone lies somewhere along it. Anarchy is at one end with unlimited freedom but zero security and huge risks. A police state is at the other where you lose most of your freedoms but enables the government to force us into submission a la China's response to COVID. I don't think any reasonable person wants either of those extremes and most people are somewhere in the middle. I probably I lean a bit more toward the freedom side at the expense of security and greater risk while others prefer more security and less risk and are willing to give up freedoms for it. There is no right answer and lucky for us in the good old USA, we can have some input on our leadership and our rules for ourselves. The problem is that we keep electing poor leaders all across the board!