Chongo Loco

Use more water. Trust me, it can take a lot some times if there’s several layers of paint. If you’re getting dust it’s just plain not wet enough. The Sheetrock will dry out in a day without mildew, soak the crap out of it. The paper will get soft so either switch to a plastic putty knife or scrape at a real shallow angle so there’s less dings to fix up. I’ve resprayed mine with a thin layer of texture in most rooms so it covers a lot of imperfections and makes the paint look much better. Oh and mine is from 1982 so no asbestos but there’s lots of other crap you don’t want to breathe in I’d gear up for! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

My last office over at riata/183 shared a floor with a 2 shift data center full of shower sandal wearing just fell out of bed messed up hair millennials. Regularly saw Sneezing coughing scratching their nuts while on the phone not washing their dirty hands youngsters. Hated having to use the bathrooms. Our suite the admins ran a tight ship. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

That and people washing their freaking hands. Damn large office building communal bathrooms with talking on their phones not washing their hands peckerheads have gotten me sick several times. And that’s after getting the flu shot every year for 20+ years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No idea. Not like anyone pays attention to that. Clearly that group doesn’t care what’s on signage. [emoji849] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Aerial number? AB did you WiFi your bike too?! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That guy lists multiple bikes a week. No idea if he’s buying local or off the web to fix and flip here. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just plain Dawn detergent and water usually gets the stans off tubes, valve cores. Degreasers like simple green don’t seem to help. [emoji2369] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

As a person who did work for land developers in the late 90’s and early 00’s that purchased impervious cover offsets, I saw it happen. They may not currently be allowing this, but 20 years ago it definitely occurred. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yep it was a land grab on both ends. The city let developers overbuild and violate the impervious cover Regs by donating land of offsetting footage to BCCP. The city and the developers profited because the city got more tax base for property taxes FOREVER and developers got bigger profits in the short term. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I got the J&J shot thru H-E-B’s website at their Killeen location on Saturday. Really they were doing the mass drive thru at a nearby church parking lot. If you hop on their site it lists all the available slots statewide, usually next day. Be quick, because they disappear quickly. Refresh constantly. Got kid in at Ed Bluestein in store on a weekday. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Same way they get the fu out of a toe! [emoji1738] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Lots of Ash trees split in half in my hood. One fell into the street one car in front of me as I was driving to get some food during the outage Thursday. Spent couple hours trimming my neighbors ash tree that was sagging onto both of our roofs. Couple of huge live oaks split along our park and greenbelt. [emoji853] Cracked up that all these people are scouring the neighborhood picking up the cut trees for firewood. They’re knocking on doors to ask if the can cut up all the downed trees! Good luck getting wet green live oak started. One plus to a gas fireplace. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There’s a nice gated dog park off Howard Ln in a neighborhood just before Dessau. Big gated separate areas for large vs small dogs. It’s the dog owners that prefer the trail. There’s places for dogs, it’s the dog owners that insist on fucking up everyone else’s parks. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Back before I lived here, like 94/95, that was the shop closest to my in-laws when we’d come to visit. Went to that location several times on visits. That was when they were changing that stretch of 183 from hwy to expressway. Got to be a nightmare to get to which is probably what killed that location. The whole area was different by 98 so never could remember exactly where it was. Like many my first encounter with Hill was he and Laura dressed as the Clause’s on their tandem while awaiting the start of the Jingle Bell Ride from the Toomey location. Did it every year from 98 when we first moved here til they stopped. The last few dragging my kid in a trailer. Jingle Bell, poker runs, kids bike rodeo, women’s ride clinics, as well as being title sponsor of TMBRA’s paydirt program for nearly 20 years and sponsoring sanctioned races in every form of cycling that came along. That’s a big hole in the community a corporate store just isn’t going to fill. That’s also the reason I tended to buy and service my bikes there. Most of my work for 30+ years has been for small local businesses and I try my best to give my money to people that put their time and money back into the community. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Had time to kill this a.m. while kid was at dentist and took doggies for a walk at Milburn Park. They sure have upgraded the track since the last time I was there 5-6 years ago! All the ramps are concrete and the wall is 8’ at least. Was pretty soggy so didn’t get off the trail to look closer at the full track. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

FYI, those 3” are 27.5+ tires, not 27.5. The sidewalls are taller on 27.5+ making the diameter fairly close to 29er tires. If you move to a 27.5 x 2.3 or 2.5 you’ll be putting on a shorter tire which will change the geometry on the bike somewhat and she may get some unexpected pedal strikes. There’s 2 options I’d think. Either go with some lighter 27.5+ tires like a 2.8 Rekon or move to some 29 wheels and narrower, lighter tires. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Cedar Hill I always describe the trail as kitty litter. Seems every time I went it was super dry and the clay crumbles to the consistency of kitty litter on all the ups/downs. Wife used to go visit a friend not far from there and if I got drug along I would do a lap or two for shits and giggles. Haven't been since they moved a decade ago. Like Cody, I just considered it a place to go turn some miles, nothing technical, and if I remember correctly pretty open with lots of mesquites.

I don't think anybody's regularly maintained BLORA in 15+ years. Even then it was a PITA if you didn't know the trails. They had the signs on posts that the longhorns like to use as scratching posts so they'd get knocked all around. It was hilarious that you'd go into the building to pay and if you weren't paying for lake / picnic access they'd look at you with this whatever good luck with that attitude. LOL

For me it’s gap jumps. A table or ladder drop I’ll launch, but if there’s open space between the takeoff and landing I get timid which never ends well. Ramps with curved up lips/kickers I’m also sketchy at. I was never a bmxer so no air skillz. Trackstands were actually one of the better skills I brought over from my college roadie days. Riding in traffic with snug toe straps and riding rollers make you learn to trackstand or kiss the pavement a ton. I cringe when I hear all the push/pull counter balance stuff people like to preach. To me the key is learning to keep still. The more you bob the more you have to focus on fighting to keep the bike up and can’t look up at the obstacle. Learning to keep your head and upper body still and only moving your hips let’s you look ahead and doesn’t pull your focus. From that you can easily do a back pedal to get your dominant foot up. Then to go up, squeeze the brakes, drop your shoulders and yank back to get that front wheel up as you do that power stroke. On multi ledges you can tap the brakes and repeat the trackstand to power stroke if you aren’t doing at that bobbing. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Yeah, we used to take it from 1st and Congress over to Texas Chili Parlor every now and then. PITA to have to repark twice to go to lunch downtown. I never saw the logic of all their “smart growth” plans if they took away free public transportation like the dillo. Think it’s all bullshit that they’d rather raise parking rates and charge for nights and weekends as a revenue booster than do any actual smart growth planning. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

On Tuesday or Wednesday at lunch they had a 10% Mechanic’s special so you got stuff for just a shade lower than the website and it covered the sales tax. Used to snag all my consumables that way. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Bitter End was before NXNW by several years. Was close to my office and we’d go almost every Friday for their chicken fried chicken lunch special and a pint. Was pissed when the owner turned it into a parking lot. I laughed my ass off the first time I went into Copper Tank and saw they sold Bud in a can. Don’t think I’ve been in it twice since in nearly 20 years. One of my old bosses downtown used to call Las Manitas the revolutionary cafe from all the politicos that used to hang out and bend the sisters ears. Loved that you could hop up to the bar and be in/out in 20 min. Great when I was on deadline and it was right across the street. Probably one of the last decent inexpensive places to eat downtown. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No more dickin around in the mountains. [emoji3064] Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

VERY old school. Had roadie friends doing it in college in the mid 80’s. Yes it works probably a little better than wax based drip lubes. Yes it is a lot more work. Most people I know that do it have multiple chains they swap out and re-do the whole bunch at once. You can buy cheap paraffin in the baking aisle and a tube full of graphite to toss in it at HD or pay a ridiculous amount of money for premixed wax. Edit: also useful to buy a small crockpot at a garage sale to dedicate to the garage for the job. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If there were more water they sure as shit would be. It was 80 on Saturday. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk