Ericbike6

So started this a month or two ago. The SO wanted a live edge floating shelf. After keeping my eye open for the appropriate piece of wood, for several months, finally found a guy out near Hutto how sels them. Went out on Saturday afternoon, found this nice piece of ash. Finally finished it up last night and installed it. Turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself. And the SO is super happy with it! The plan is to make two smaller shelfs with the remaining wood, and mount them bellow and off to the sides of the larger shelf.

They are closing the location in burnet and moving it to RPR, they will also have their e-bike rental fleet out there. They never really got the burnet location off the ground, covid hit and they were really unable to dedicate a person to that location, with needing all hands on deck at burnet road. Brant will be their guy on the ground at RPR, used to be one of the bike mechanics at spider. They officially will be opening on Sunday this week. So on weekends when they are there, you will actually check in at their building onsite, and do the normal self check in during non business hours. I think they will be staffed Friday afternoon, thru Sunday at noon, exact hours I am not sure of. I too have referred newer riders over to them, and they have bought bikes and been very happy!!

This is a great idea, and well worth the install. Center of the roof in the garage, you can even get solar powered ones so that it will turn the fan on at a certain temp. Worked great in my last house. Need to do in my current house, but the builders put a flat roof on the garage(mid 70's house) and I want to create some pitch on the roof. So most likely a project for next year. Otherwise leave the cars outside if you plan on doing any work in there, the heat soak from a car that was just running will raise the garage temp 15-20 degrees easy.

Just bought my tickets for this year. And there was no mention of a bike night. They are doing a trail run though.

One thing also to remember is that the tow capacity takes a lot into consideration. Brake size, axle strengths, support for where the hitch will mount., not just power to move the load. On a trailer that small I doubt it would have trailer brakes, so you would be relying on the cars brakes to stop everything all the time. And I would bet that the 1500lbs is empty, what is the gross weight of the trailer? Once you had a few changes of clothes, some fluids, all the stuff you can cram in there for an enjoyable weekend, you'll be way over max towing capacity. So I would see what your max payload is, most likely a sticker on the door. Then you can add for gas in the car, 2 people in the gear in the car, add on the tongue weight and see where you land, my guess is you will be over loaded. Could it be done, yes would I want to tow that far over the limits, with such a small vehicle? Not really to be honest.

I'll second the oval is great statement. Love mine!! With that running a 32 oval and 46 x 9, 11 speed cassette. The 46 gives me the confidence to slowly crawl over or up anything. It's not as big as some pie plates out there, but works well. And I don't think I have spun out in the tallest gear yet. This is on my 29er.

That number rings right to APD, go ahead and place your order!!!

Looks like I will be out there tomorrow after all. We are planning wheels down around 8:00. If you see me say hi! Flat black and grey Epic, with inverted fork. Middle aged fat and slow guy riding it! Eric

All depends on what your looking for. The beginner loop(blue) is a good overall representation of what's out there. The race loop(red) gets more technical and is a lot of fun. Plus all the down hill lines, I enjoy hitting flow trial into Flodelo, then normally once down El Patron, and then new beginner line right there not sure if it has a name yet. On my normal ride out there I'll hit the race loop out of the high fence gate. Till it crosses the beginner loop after the creek crossing(going clockwise), then jump onto beginner, to decision point trail, turn left there. Climb to the peak, then jump onto the rattler loop/Carozzo loop. Follow that back around to you come back onto the beginner loop near the creek crossing. Follow beginner all the way around to Flow, then Flodello. Then back onto the beginner loop, back up to the high fence. That will be a good 17ish miles out there. And lots of fun! One thing I would mention is tat when you at the high fence gate, you can see across the valley on your left another ridge. We get to play mostly between the ride you're currently standing on and that one. So if you get turned around just keep heading down, till you get into the valley and find RPR trail. It's marked in yellow, and is the yellow brick rode to get you back up to the high fence gate. And if you are lucky enough there will be people at the range, and it's a great way to orientate yourself on the ranch. Have fun!!

Having done my fair share of wiring over the years, they don't look any smaller in size then a normal wire nut. Plus I would like the actual physical contact of the wires being together, with wire nuts. Let us know if they work good.

Yeah I saw this also this morning. Couldn't believe they would be so short sighted. Hopefully there is a penalty for breaking the contract. Won't effect me much, as I think I have only been in that store 2-3 times, and a couple of those times was for Rattler pick up. Now there really is no reason to go there.

And neither did TheX, was just countering his point

I would rather use tubes, then this product!!! Had a bad experience with one of their salesmen years ago.

Facebook post said he was headed to a funeral today, and be back on Thursday.

Rode the nut early Saturday morning, wasn't to bad. Rode Brushy yesterday morning, it was sticky for sure. Will start riding in the evenings after work. Have stopped riding to work during this heat, will start riding again, when we get into the 90's. Hydration is the key!!

RPR good to go 24/7 thru the summer. This week's status. just practice social distancing when parking and riding. City and county approved

Not gonna lie, that's pretty fuckin impressive!!

I switched from Sprint to Verizon about a year ago. So much better coverage at RPR, I am guessing the coverage would be pretty close to the same out at spider. I've never ridden there, have driven by though, never checked my service though. I can be in my camper at the pavilion and watching movies on my phone, couldn't do that with sprint.

1. Love mine. Most claim it's easier to climb with, I notice it more coming out of a corner, right when you start to apply power again. Bike just wants to launch. 2. I have Absolute Black on my bike, no way to mount it incorrectly 3. I was running a 30 round, went to a 32 oval. Actually feels better then the 30 round. If I had the legs, I would think about a 34 oval. All depends on how big a cassette your using, I'm using an E-thirteen with 50 - 9 gear ratio's. If I didn't do most of my riding at RPR, I would already have the 34 4. Do it, you won't regret it!! I took about 6months off last year from riding, started back up basically the first of this year. Rebuilt my bike while I was off of it, and put the 30 round back on it. Just about 3 weeks ago put the 32 oval back on it, felt my legs were up for it, climbed to the peak at RPR up Decision point Trail, with out stopping or having to push my bike, I really think the oval helped with that!

I've started wearing an ear bud while riding. Especially if on an extended ride or out by myself. And I can barely hear it in my ear for safety reasons, and this low amount of input really helps with my tinnitus. I doubt that if someone were to try and sue me over wearing them, I doubt it would go very far. I think nonattentive riding would be a much larger issue. And for the record, I cant stand guys blaring their music on a blue tooth speaker zip tied to their handle bars. I truly enjoy the crunch of my tires and the being alone aspect of riding.

And daily till we are thru all of this.

Normally the best time to ride this one is around 3-4am

Soon to come the ability to reach out to mile at RPR Range......

I am guessing that he is the owner of this forum. Most of his posts seem like an attempt to keep this forum relative. I could be wrong though.