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  1. my wife and kids had taken over the kitchen, making themselves breakfast for dinner, while I was at HEB (watching my spacing) to get beer and other essentials after fixing the mower. so here I am.
  2. username checks out
  3. Braff: I'm currently running a gopro6. most of the clips I've posted here were done on a gopro5. the first videos I published here with a 6 was the Bentonville stuff. the jump from 5 to 6 is significant. in terms of pixels, I reckon not much. physically, the removal of the enclosure for making the camera itself waterproof is hit-or-miss. opening the various panels to access the SD card, battery, and charging port is a lot more difficult on the 6, especially on th trail. on the plus side, not having the constant rattling of the plastic outer enclosure means you get nice stereo sound quality. for example, on the BCGB video, towards the end, you can hear my heartbeat, as well as the wind coming from different directions when I turn to cross the creek. the game changer is the internal stabilization. user interface is different (I won't say better), but with the 6, they finally got some MEMS tech to auto-flip the camera. however the 6 is more buggy than the 5. that auto-flip could be more reliable; but any halfway-decent editing software should allow you to flip the video in case it is recorded upside down. also, the one-touch feature (hit only the shutter to power on and start recording, vs pressing the power button first) has a tendancy to lock up the camera, requiring a hard reboot (popping it open and pulling the battery). all in all, I'm very happy with the 6. the stab is just amazing. not having to spend extra the money on a gimbal for about the same price as the whole camera, and not having that extra chunk of hardware hanging off my chest makes it totally worth it. with the 5, I had to tie a knot in the chesty to get the elastic tight enough to not bounce the video into unwatchability. WARNING: if you get a 6 and want extra batteries, get the gopro brand. the Fuel spare battery I got at Best Buy (had the coupons, so fuckit) fits, but just barely. closing the door is VERY difficult. I think @KuЯdt has a 7 or 8. I can't speak to whether the bugs in the 6 that I mentioned above have been addressed in either of those models. I got the 6 because I read the res and stab were reportedly not noticeably better in the 7. none of the additional features present in the 7 were anything I cared about.
  4. badass, Mom! your son's a shredder! I got all geeked on that huck where I could see him point his toes down and press back to grip the pedals. that's a split-second move I just can't execute reliably. which is why I run clipless (and why I'm totally the opposite w/r to your approach to the subject---but whatever works for you). so many questions: what music is that? those creekbed ledges look familiar...airport loop stuff, west of Lajitas, or is that in BBRSP? I know your son's an advanced runner, but no camelbak? how much water were you carrying? finally, when'd you get that bike, and what is it? I don't remember you mentioning it, and I don't recognize it. great job.
  5. triggered by fudge-striped cookies reference
  6. according to duckduckgo, since there's no fucking way Lobo is black, the answer is obviously Bell Biv Devoe. meanwhile, I vote predator drones with mini-guns. or just wall off Miami from the rest of the country. I'm good with that, too. sinking, anyway.
  7. Sets Cards Against Humanity any Rummy
  8. Haiku? for St Pat's? Do you even Limerick? Éirinn go Brách, bitch!
  9. whatever you do, don't eat the sandwich in the fridge. or drink the milk, for that matter.
  10. that's what is known as a bigothang eatchoass. good luck
  11. same thing for me, as far as the pain. I had my buddies grab a couple cedar sticks nearby and I splinted it with those and a couple spare tubes and jerseys. one guy knew where there was an abandoned wooden bridge off the trail, so they found that and carried me out on it like stretcher. that was pretty scary, as tippy as it was. fortunately, we were pretty low on the hill, and only about 100 yds, as the crow flies, from the trailhead. my wife came and took me to the ER, and my friends ferried my bike and truck home, after their ride. good thing we were kind of a big group, that day. the worst part was when I had a reaction to the pain meds (dilaudid) in the middle of the night. itchy all over, dry-heaving. not sure why they switched away from what was working. but they couldn't give me anything else for a while, for some reason, so I had to ride it out. that's when it really hurt. oh, the on-call ortho surgeon didn't want to have anything to do with it, except call whoever I wanted to do it. very glad to have had a choice.
  12. yuck. wheelie practice is definitely a good application for flats. I can't find the redacted xray pics of my tibia, but I posted the on the old site. this one probably freaks me out more. shortly after getting home from the hospital (you can just see the tape over the sutures).
  13. I don't feel like I can trust futureman. how can he be the future if he doesn't speak 100% in the past tense?
  14. +1 clipped. so much easier to work the bike though the rock gardens and twisty stuff. only one guy in our crew runs flats, and that's mainly budgetary, as he's recently getting back into it. I wish I had the skill to ride flats and be as connected to the bike as I am clipped. I guess it's just a choice of which bones you're ok with breaking when things go south. I blew up my tibia putting a foot down when I stalled out on a skinny. if I'd stayed clipped, it would have been an arm or collar bone. I run Shimanos now. I've run egg beaters and Times in the past. (XTR) Shimanos are my favorite. I had some cheap Shimanos years ago when I first went clipless, and they kept having metal fatigue issues. broke one preriding at Lajitas. that sucked. got lucky that someone had an extra (worn out) piece to fix it. better than nothing. speaking of finessing the bike: we had a fun, if moist, ride this morning. same hill as the 031013 video on page one, to give you an idea of the terrain. always good to change it up from that wide-open Enduro stuff. different kind of sketchy.
  15. also, lol at Burnt being "a tad" OCD.
  16. in order to keep my family's natural defenses energized, I feel a good tactic is to maintain diminished air quality in the house. so I had a little after dinner snack while I was finishing up some work: leftover refrieds and chips, drizzled with chipotle tabasco and that habenero sauce that coms in a little bag. sorry about the plate. I'm saving my few remaining paper ones in case I need them to wipe my ass, during this crisis.
  17. magic mushroom thread is <-------
  18. fixed for inevitability. 2x, unless it's getting in your head about whether your wheel can take the punishment, and thereby diminishing your confidence on the trail, I would just fix the one you have. is there something wrong with your front wheel? seems like all the issues are in the back, which is not surprising given the torque load on top of just bouncing over stuff on the trail. so if you decide to replace anything bigger than a spoke, that's all I'd do. your front should be fine. if having the match is the most important thing, you're more interested in fashion than riding. I'm not familiar with those AC wheels, but just for grins, I went to prowheelbuilder and spec'd out the same rear wheel I built myself for my current bike, but set it for them to build. I assumed Boost, which is a $16 adder to the hub. I also assumed you don't need micro spline (no upcharge, anyway). not feather-light, but smooth and bomb-proof, my dude. ships by 3/31. a new brake rotor would be another $30. I don't recall different hub colors were an upcharge, but I didn't look beyond my default, black. on your ladder drop question, you are correct. it's not a ramp, though. it's just a flat thing you ride off the end off. minimal skill involved, just rocking back so's not to nose-dive. you can practice on curbs. land your rear a split second ahead of your front. the difference to higher drops is having a little time to adjust while in the air.
  19. sorry I missed it.
  20. agree. they need to take another look at this guy.
  21. getting better. still chickened out on the big red ladder drop, tho. was kinda tired, kinda felt like I pushed my luck enough for one day. one day, I'll make a really good video of this place.
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