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  1. 'tis indeed the season for night riding.

    keep your head up and be careful of fallen trees lurking in the dark, kids.  the shadows can play tricks on you.

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    9 stitches.  can recommend Care Now by between Target and the ATT Store at 360/183.

     

     

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  2. On 9/22/2021 at 10:07 PM, Sam Lin said:

    Pull forward parking strikes again.

     

    On 9/22/2021 at 12:55 PM, Steel Shank said:

    With my man NMAS on this one, kids.

     

    On 9/22/2021 at 11:50 AM, nnm said:

    The only configuration for which your point makes sense is the herring-bone style lot, where the spaces are angled in favor of the vehicles’ direction of travel. In that situation, it absolutely makes sense to go nose-in because of the flow of traffic. However, backing out of that space is just as dangerous as backing out of any other configuration.


    Backing out is inherently more dangerous, particularly for serious injury and fatality incidents. Many, many industry groups have studied this and universally agree.  Here’s one: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1369847819308812 

    In all other configurations, backing in is many times safer, and no less time consuming. The guy backing in doesn’t hold you up as much as Karen five-point backing out her Excursion, and is a much faster exit. Yet you focus your derision on the safer driver.

     

    On 9/22/2021 at 11:30 AM, Felix said:

    I bet I can back in faster than you can park forward.

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  3. been wanting to watch Star Trek II again, so picked up the dvd, this week.  decided to watch it with the fam tonight, none of whom have more than a vague familiarity with the original tv series.  fine.

    opening credits are rolling, naming all the major cast members, wife laughing at "DEEforest" Kelley.  oh, boy.  gonna be one of those nights.  whatever.

    Chekov and Terrell are captured on the Botany Bay.  "Khan" starts taking off his mask and whatnot.

    wife:  is that Rod Stewart?

    me:  ...

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  4. 21 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    Two full days at the family ranch outside of Gonzales for T-giving. 17 people under one roof, including 7 kids between the ages of 3-16, one of whom is a 14 year old girl recently released from a mental hospital for being suicidal. Just found out that my BIL is bring his morbidly obese girlfriend -- the one who once drove around the ranch chasing him with a gun (allegedly) after she found out he was cheating on her. Normally, I would expect drunken fighting between my wife, her sister and their mother in some triangulation, but having the girlfriend out there introduces a new dynamic into the mix. It's going to be a shitshow either way. Not looking forward to this, at all. 

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  5. I'll be 52 next month.  I'm riding faster now than I did 10 years ago, especially downhill, but that has as much to do with the bike as anything.  I do Strava occasionally, just to check mileage on new loops and see where I am on repeat rides.  but you can usually rationalize the differences.  a work call stoppage, or a rock slip here or there can add just enough time to put you behind the pace.  watch for trends is all you can do.

    but shit's breaking down.  about every morning, I have to pop my SI joint back into place.  my 'good' knee I had scoped about 12 years ago has loosened up again, so getting up off the floor from said stretches is an adventure.  arthritis in both feet, so switching to hiking is out.

    eh, whatever.  gonna enjoy it while I can.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Steel Shank said:

    We used to hit Pancho’s on Oltorf between two-a-days. Pretty amazing.

    Rebel?

    Gatti's buffet in the same shopping center was our goto around there.  occasionally hit The Pit bbq, a block or so up Congress, but it usually took too long, and we would have to stop and grab donuts for the class on our way back.  

    we did 99cent hamburgers on Riverside for a while, until one us unwrapped a burger from his bag-o' with a bite already taken. 

    probably the favorite was to haul ass down to Ben White and hit Taco Cabana, back when it was all the rage.

  7. almost had to surrender my man card.  been so busy with work I had a package of bacon expire a week ago, as it turns out.  plastic was still tight, so I threw it in the oven today with nothing to lose.

    my happy place

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  8. 34 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

    My wife complains that I don't listen to her anymore, which is true.  But it's not my fault.  I used to listen to her; every word.  What has happened in the intervening 12 1/2 years is that I have slowly been trained by the fact that about 80% of what she says is irrelevant filler.  For example, if I ask her, what's the agenda for this weekend. She could tell  me that kid 1 and kid 2 have a playdate on Saturday from 10-2, kid 2 has a birthday party from 3-4:30 and on Sunday kid 3 has birthday party from 2-3:30 and that is all.  Instead, I hear about her new hairdresser (hair appointment on Friday, not the weekend and during a time that doesn't affect me), something about her car, something about her mom, something about our health insurance and a bunch of other shit I just completely tuned out.  It took her at least 10 minutes tell get it all out.  When she was finished I asked her, "So, just to confirm, kid 1 and kid 2 have a playdate on Saturday from 10-2, kid 2 has a birthday party from 3-4:30 and on Sunday kid 3 has birthday party from 2-3:30 and that's it, right?"  Her:  "Yes, that's right." Tone.

    he talked for 45 minutes, and nobody understood a word that he said,

    but we had fun fillin' out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench, there...

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  9. 7 hours ago, KuЯdt said:

     

    lol, nice!  Yeah that's a good spot for an urban ride.  Back in the day we used to do "coaster" races there at night.  We'd start on the bridge above Comanche Street and race down to the Quad.  Only rule was no pedaling once you hit that first set of stairs.  Lots of fun on 90's era XC bikes.

     

    Speaking of Angel Fire, I'll be up there 2 weeks from now.  Planning on a couple of park days, and also to ride the South Boundary Trail.  Has anyone here ridden it?  I'm gonna try to have my wife shuttle me, since our Airbnb is near the starting point and trying to estimate the time.  It's 21 miles with about 1800' ascent and 4400' descent, so I'm thinking it will take me 2-3 hours although it is at 10k feet for much of the ride.

    I was wondering about the 'coaster' part of the video title.   I couldn't make even those minimal hucks without pedaling some.

    SBT solo?  bring a good map and don't get too tired and zone out because there is some route finding to be done.  I stayed out of it, because what good was one more finger on the map gonna do?  specifically, there is a park for equestrian access, so you end up riding for a bit on a dirt road.  just took some thought as to which way to go, there.  we were also lucky in that there was a race a week before, so there were no downed trees to deal with.

    the first climb from the trailhead on FSR 76 up to Osha Pass is brutal.  1.4 miles, and my Strava avg speed was 1.7mph.  I started out too fast, and didn't recover til we were over the pass.  but I'm a lowlander.  not bad at all after that.  second grind up 1000' was easy compared to the one at the start.  this was a few years ago, my first trip out there.  the guy driving the SBT ride wanted to start at the bottom of 76, but got easily overruled, esp after 3 days of park.  so the big guy not doing SBT hauled us all up there, packed into a chevy pickup.  at the other end, the condo owner we stayed with piled us into his cargo van with our bikes, and drove us to La Cueva in Taos for lunch.  epic day.

    I think we saw maybe two people until we got to the last descent into Taos, where it was yabba-dabba-do time on the switchbacks to the end.  kind of a culture shock, plus dealing with kids and dogs on hairpins.

    there's an awesome overlook, just before the final descent.  kinda subtle turn off at a dogleg, but it's a good spot to celebrate the achievement.

    have fun.  be careful out there.  gets pretty chunky in spots, in the last 4 miles or so.

     

    2x:  springs wear out.  very good chance it's shot, with that kinda mileage.  had it happen on my last der.  usually bend a cage before that happens.  not saying the cassette, chain and chainrings aren't due for replacement, but diagnosing the spring on the der should be pretty easy.  if there's a belly in the chain...

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  10. 2x:  I perch on an Origin8 (off Amazon), nowadays.  I loved the fit of the WTB RocketV for years, but figured out the stitching was wearing out the seams in my shorts.  new saddle is similar shape so comfortable, but without big seams.  everyone's sit bones are different.  ymmv.

    Stink:  Psycho Rocks looks like fun in that pic.  youtubes of it further up show some serious pucker factor.

    family trip to NM, mostly to use up an airbnb we had booked during The Fucking Blizzard and had to reschedule.  I got one day at Angel Fire, tho.  monsoon conditions, and dealing with tendonitis in my forearm.  preride mode on the double blacks.

    oh, @KuЯdt, thanks for the route intel.  been meaning to do an urban assault at SWT for years (saw a video long time ago, but no satellite maps, back then).  scratch one off the bucket list (getting close).

     

     

     

     

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  11. so I've come into possession of a metric shit-ton of windsurfing gear:  two boards, and almost a dozen sales, plus a harness and other bits of hardware.  I haven't looked at it all in detail, but I think it's mostly wave sailing stuff.  probably going to need to get a new base and extension (the ones I got are kinda sloppy).  super stoked.  was thinking about buying a new rig for days too windy to take out the Force 5 (at least for my skill level).  but I haven't windsurfed in 20 years.   I'd like to find a beginner board for the kids (and me, tbh).  maybe I can talk the shop at Bird Island into selling me one, cheap.

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  12. 10 hours ago, mchookem said:

    i hike Bull Creek and St. Edwards parks frequently during the week...and i'm already wary in Bull Creek bc i've stumbled across some gentlemen in, uh, some compromising activities more than once (i'm prone to taking the 'road less traveled' but boy have i stopped that there!). adding a homeless camp is basically going to make me give up Bull Creek altogether. how can that possible be a desired goal??? idiots 😡

    same (well, bike).

    they should put them in Forest Ridge.  call it a "gated community".   I mean, FR is already a giant fuck-you to the taxpayers.  might as well make it a fuck-you to the birds and birdfags.  

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