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  1. dunno, to be honest. but for the 29er version, I believe 160 is the max, which is what I bought, to replace my 160 Pike. got the same 42mm offset. so, geometry should be the same. the difference, besides 5 years of wear and tear on the Pike, is the Lyrik is is stiffer where you need it (bigger stanchions and boost), and softer where you want it (better damping, etc.). had to get a Problem Solver kit to keep my existing non-boost wheel. thought about servicing the (Hadley) hub while I had the rotor off, but it's still buttery smooth, so I left it. got lucky and happened to have the correct 203mm brake mount adapter from a previous ordering fuckup (old fork was 160 native, new one is 180 native, as it turns out). the usual shitshow in my garage, in otherwords. just need to figure out how to tune the bitch.
  2. boioioioioioing
  3. I would totally do Sailor Moon if I was a teenaged cartoon character
  4. what about down at the station house with the cops? also, *here
  5. I roll the shit out of my R's when speaking the spanish. sorry for the phonetic fuckup. it's a fluid situation out there, to be sure. if some idiot comes up behind me to park next to me, I'll dump a bunch of speed quickly to let them go, then resume my speed. it's funny to see their reaction, sometimes. they flip out being all alone out front.
  6. I don't get plodding along next to each other like a herd of sheep with nowhere to be. I prefer to drive a little faster than the flow to keep my blindspots clear and stay the fuck away from all the idiots talking on their phones, putting on makeup, stuffing their faces with ding-dongs and dorritos, or just generally having their heads up their asses. so, >90% of my fellow drivers at any given moment. it's safety thing, not a time thing.
  7. the other right? or maybe he's using the jt method.
  8. so it's warm, greasy, meat-flavored Gogurt? pass.
  9. I've still never been to Reimers. it's a bit of a journey from my house, and from what I've read about it, it's mostly flat and there's not a lot of shade. deal breakers for me, in general. I would be driving by a lot of primo (and free) trail to make it out there. maybe one day someone will shoot some cool vidyas of whatever gnar and funstuff it has to offer... freakin broke my helmet, apparently. no idea when it happened, but I noticed a crack in the styrofoam and gave it a wiggle to find out it goes all the way through the plastic cover. it's under the visor, too. you would think an impact there would get dissipated. best helmet I've ever had, in terms of comfort and durability of the pads. it's taken it's share of low branch hits, and it's 5 years old, but damn. $225 later...
  10. sucks out there all day, now. wheels down at 8:30 this morning and I was dying after 2 miles. heat index when I got done was only 93. felt like a total pussy, looking at that number. the whole trail is about 3.25mi, with 1k ft of climbing. tuesday afternoon was just as bad with half the humidity on mellower trail.
  11. no stinkpots at all. I learned most of what I know about sailing, windsurfing at Bird Island. the rest I learned hanging out in the trapeze of an old Hobiecat 16 on LT, a buddy bought for $500. but all that goes waaay back. pre-oughts. speed on the water like that is addictive.
  12. interesting. those spots are totally on the other side of the lake from where I was. the ramp I'm talking about is on 2341, well upriver from Spider Mountain. lake's relatively narrow up there with a lot of submerged brush and whatnot, although looking at it again, the little cove it's on, facing SW, would put me in the main lake much quicker. I'll have to take a look at those spots you mentioned. Thanks.
  13. you're welcome
  14. oh, no. there goes Tokyo
  15. been probably 10 years, but I finally got to take my Force 5 out, yesterday. Buchanan. nice sandy beach at the back of a cove to rig up and launch from, but tight, with the wind blowing straight off the shore. nice shakedown, and the hull was bone dry when I got it back up on the trailer, which was nice (fixed a leak during the hiatus). anyone know of any ramps/parks on LT that have similar terrain? Windy Point is closed, last I checked, and I assume most of the other county parks are, as well. there's a public ramp further up LB, but it's on a small, rocky cove, iirc. geared more toward motorboats.
  16. anyone else read this in Alice Cooper's voice?
  17. fixed Looks great! there's one sherman there in the middle of the last pic that I swear has a Dracula face in the camo pattern, with a big yellow dot on his forehead. but I'm probably just a little punchy from my ride, this afternoon.
  18. 7:45 start, this morning. Lanced some boils, so to speak (literally, on a particularly chunky/tight switchback where I nose-wheelied in the middle and fell against a swiss-cheesy limestone boulder...more of an ex-foliation). humidity seems to be calming down. would have felt great had it on almost any other trail. felt well enough afterward to grind up a nearby hill to do the gdh run. anyhoo, at the first rest stop, I asked my buddy, who's a bit of a mtb wrenching wizard, about a noise coming from my crown/headset area (swapped out the headset bearings a month ago, and it won't go away). pretty sure now it's the bushings in the fork. 2x, if you hadn't already figured this out or fixed it yet, have someone hold the front break while you hold the fork and rock it back and forth with some fingers where the stanchions meet the seals. if there's play there, or up where the stanchions meet the crown, there's your answer. so now the dilemma I'm faced with is: the cost and insane lead-time for a fork service these days, or buying a new fork, which will likely mean a new front wheel, since mine is non-boost. or see if I can get an adapter kit to mount my current front wheel on a boost fork. bikes, man.
  19. the last of some brisket enchiladas. nuked from orbit, just to be sure.
  20. very nice. you got access to a press brake, or did you buy that shelf off the shelf? that's one of the other little projects I have on the list for mine.
  21. pm Derka
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