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  1. damn. Mom: go cut yourself a switch seller:
  2. G650 just came. old school geo is different, for sure. rode my SS on trail for the first time in a while, last week. couple near-miss OTBs on some tight switchbacks. it's become prettymuch a training bike, last few years. strictly road. but I did pick up a replacement for the Baldwin EXO rear, so it may see some more dirt, soon. 5 straight days of trail. gonna hit Colorado Bend with the fam tomorrow, bikeless. maybe catch some fish.
  3. you gonna get roofied. don't get married to that cash. NO ONE in a real estate deal has your interests in mind except you. that includes the inspector (unless he's your dad or somebody, maybe). they are there to get paid. they're all scum and should be filleted. but that might be the cazadores talking. I'm saying the roof is probably just the tip of the iceberg. and I agree with Luke on the quality of the job you can expect from getting the seller to do it. also, if COA, you might check for open permits on the property. I could tell you a funny story, but it would only have a happy ending if EVERYONE WORKING FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT WAS SET ON FIRE HAHAHAHHAHAHA FUCK THEM. wait what? was that out loud?
  4. she's just getting ahead of the crowd on panic-buying electricicles.
  5. this like a jazz composition, what with all the layers and complexity, and all. but still a unified, cohesive whole. call it "Kind of Cheese".
  6. well, I have some good news for you: I don't see your name anywhere on the guest list, "nuggy".
  7. this is borderline 'lately shit', but I think the absence of greenery qualifies it here. Braf's sammich upthread reminded me I haven't offended my wife with sauerkraut in a while, so I picked some up, along with some knackwurst. I backfilled my homemade curry ketchup stock recently (for which I expect to be crucified), and wanted to test drive it. dinner a couple nights ago on what Trader Joe's generously refers to as "hotdog buns". wife bought them. I'm just taking out the trash. wandering the internet for knackwurst ideas, I came across a thing called a sailor sandwich. attempted one for lunch today. pretty good, except I used sauerkraut instead of the peppers I didn't have. SIPing, and whatnot.
  8. Thanks. and thanks for the superview tip. I think I do like it better than linear. Crystal is semi-public. Crystal Falls subdivision contracted with some pros to build it. there's no pay or sign-up or anything like that. it's definitely not Freeride512. more family oriented, I guess you could say, but there are a couple side loops that require a little more focus. it connects to a trail owned by Travisso subdivision that ends at 1431, but that trail is closed due to new road and utility construction. CF is an out-and-back, about 9 miles, round trip. best part about CF is it rides very well in wet conditions. there are a few spots that are permanently wet. on one of the side loops (to the left of the big mulch field we jumped onto from the deadend road) there are a couple wooden bridges that are like ice when wet. otherwise, no mud to speak of and good traction.
  9. they sink a spent menthol butt in every can
  10. flowin' with the Leanderthals.
  11. cool vids, Braf! everyone gets to learn about the camel dong dangle the hard way. it's like an initiation ritual for mountainbike youtubers. I have to say, I've been getting a lot more saddle time since this whole SIP thing started. more of my friends are on more flexible schedules, so we can knock out lunchtime rides. Sunday south, catted around on Wednesday, got thumped on Thursday evening, (went fishing on Friday) and did Crystal this morning (superview test video uploading, as we speak).
  12. jt method, to align with the fucked up direction this thread has taken. HARRUMMPH!!1
  13. Saccone's
  14. to each his own. I'm just sayin' it's an indicator. dollars to donuts, she needed a come-along to zip that dress. could be dangerous to be in the same room.
  15. lunch-lady arms. wnb
  16. anyone else's wife unable (or unwilling) to make the connection between the concepts of "Where Things Can Be Found" and "Where Things Go"? I've learned to deal with it, for the most part. it's the borrowing of my tools that grinds my gears. I will say she's figured out how to put away her personal yard tools. yay. she bought herself a set of mildly useful Ryobi cordless gadgets because she doesn't like swinging my heavier gas powered trimmer and blower, and doesn't approve of the frequency with which I choose to use them. she hangs those back up without fail. and her chargers have taken over my workbench. on the otherhand, I no longer have to patch extension cords, which she liked to nick with the hedge trimmer, and she's shaved about 2 minutes off my edging time. so there's that. Thanks. I feel better.
  17. this is no place for science! I think I'll try super view, next time. I think my old gopros had either wide, medium and maybe one other (zoom?). medium had the most vertical range, which was good for mtb stuff to show more trail. the fisheye thing still bothers me, but SV does show more of the trail and seems a little more 3D on passing objects, which I do like. I doubt VP has any image correction for fisheye. seems like gopro studio, being proprietary to the camera, knows the radius of the fisheye and can do the math more accurately. but that's just pulling thoughts out of body cavities. VP does have stabilization, but you end up with jiggly black borders of the frame as it tries to keep the image centered. the internal camera stab is 10000% better, even though it operates on the same principle. not sure why, but your FOV test would only play in 720p. thought my ipad was acting up, but no. mine still play in 1080HD. finally, I'm curious what you thought of the FOV/image quality on my videos before you made the conscious investigation.
  18. I'll take "Cool Shit You Find on the Trail" for $600, Alex great ride today with the old crew (at a distance, of course). started off sketchy, down a long, wet and ledgy descent, but traction was fine, after that. sun dried it up, quick. 3rd day riding in a row. lots of n00b hikers out on the trails, these days. everyone seems to be unusually respectful, but I imagine that has way more to do with minding the covid gap than anything else. one old lady got way off the trail and held her hand over her mouth and nose as we passed. on the gopro setup, for me it works best hanging upside-down and all all the way til it stops against the chesty plate. puts it at roughly a 45* angle to the plate. so if I'm standing full upright, it's shooting mostly sky, with maybe my throat/chin in the top of the frame. if your riding position is very upright, then you can add a knuckle between the plate and the camera to give more room to rotate it more parallel to the plate. I seriously doubt that's any mountainbiker's normal body angle, though. maybe if you're seated with the dropper post slammed all the way down. I used to run the camera rightsideup with the extra knuckle in there to push the bottom of the camera out far enough to get the same angle, but it's too clumsy, and on very steep terrain, where my body is near parallel to the ground, it would max out and still shoot mostly top tube. flipping it and taking out the extra knuckle lets me swing the camera up for long downhills (Angel Fire) when I'm parallel to the ground a lot.
  19. you're just Randall Flagging her Mother Abigail, you insensitive bastard (or, as my wife says, 'turd').
  20. to be fair, the correct answer is, "sort of."
  21. yup. I was in the NEZ, for that game. all that red on Hadnot's helmet...comin right at us.
  22. did Crystal (aka BFE) Falls, today. fast and flowy, with surprising elevation for the area. a bit of a hike to get there, even for me in '59, so clipped off some exploration to get back to work.
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