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  1. hi I was having some knee pain and instability about 10 years ago. at the time, I was increasing my mountainbiking a lot. the instability was mild, and I'd been dealing with it for a long time. for example, if in a frog stance, if I rocked one way or the other, it felt like it was just gonna give out. pretty sure that was from dislocating it at work back in the early 90s. it popped right back into place, so I just went on and said nothing. but it popped out a few more times much easier, after that. creepy but whatever. anyway, it was the pain keeping me up at night that sent me to see an ortho. highly recommended doc, at the time. I think he's out of that biz, though. last I heard, he's into some alternative treatment methods that I've heard are hitormiss. so I had the meniscal surgery. did PT with their in-house team. pain wasn't going away. I asked the PT and she said, "oh, your IT band is probably tight and pulling your kneecap out of place. here's a foam roller." and walla, the pain went away. so, did it help? yes. it definitely solved the stability issue. it was NOT the cure for the pain. remember: the MRI order is a loaded question. 'look for possible meniscal tear'. well, whadiya know... also, once you start down that path, be careful you don't get addicted to regular 'clean-outs'. a buddy of mine did that. bone on bone. gym rat, too, so lots of power lifts and whatnot. had his knees replaced before 50. I know a great PT guy. supposedly, you no longer need a scrip to see a PT. he's awesome, but he's a one-man show. no billing dept. pay for service, and he'll give you the codes to for you to file for reimbursement with your ins company. as far as surgeons go, I can rec Joshua Fox. he rebuilt my other leg after I shattered my tibial plateau. 16 screws and a plate. cool guy, very honest, I thought. good luck. ps. lay off the pistols. split squats worked great for me without the extreme pressure on the joint surface that the pistols seemed to produce. jmho.
  2. did my usual Brushy bit this morning. kinda moist up there, so cut it a little short. I did see a new drop they're building. holy shit. made my hands sweat, just looking at it. big gap huck. I guestimate it being about an 8' drop, at least at the moment, but I think they're not done building up the LZ which is still pretty flat. they had some twigs laid across the launch pad, sort of suggesting it's not yet open. Buck, Gnargasm's really not that bad. fairly high penalty for failure, sure. but like I said above, if you focus on where you want to go, and not where you are and what could go wrong, you'll be just fine. it's just the same 8-10" width you keep your tires between on flat ground. just keep rolling.
  3. dumb question amnesty requested: what if you keep location services turned off, cellular data off, wifi assist off, and are not logged in to any google-related accounts? does that keep you out of these edragnets?
  4. yup. and College Roadhouse just south of there is a hidden gem. area is much sketch, after dark, tho.
  5. gentlemen and/or possible ladies, can we please give this discussion the seriousness it deserves? I believe the clinical term is panniculus.
  6. pretty breezy day down here, too. I found myself simultaneously aroused and horrified by this weather looks to be perfect for this weekend.
  7. what do we mostly use gifs for? the fact that Futureman is a soft g guy just confirms it's a troll job, all the way.
  8. yeah, that's kinda the point. I did two other lines from the top in preride mode: Jaws and Sweet Skull, marked black diamond and blue, respectively. after seeing those, Flow Track would be a 'green'; and it was for most of it's length. I could just relax and hammer it, floating the table tops and small gappers. then it crossed a jeep road. iirc, this was the first ttf after that. maybe the second. after the crash, I walked back uphill. at about the base of the launch ramp, off to the side in the shade, was a little laminated paper sign that had some down arrows and 'caution' on it, stapled to a stick and spun around backward so that if you even saw it, you couldn't read it. a big rocky death gap was the last thing I expected to find. if I hadn't hit the brakes, I'm pretty sure I had enough speed to clear it, assuming I could avoid a mid-air freak-out. and I'm older than your mom.
  9. camped at RPR, this weekend. hadn't been in a while. they got a bunch of big Enduro stuff out there now. what wasn't changed is getting lost and turned around a bunch of times. anyway, there's a new jump on the flow track that has some serious consequences. first guy cleared it. second guy cased the fuckout of it, bending his big ring so bad we just broke it off with some pliers to make the bike rideable. but before we could work on that, he had to unpack a 1/2" of his face from between the lense and the frame of his glasses from bouncing high side into the landing zone. pic below was after he'd been working on it a while. this is how I ended up. I was a little ways behind Two, trying to get enough speed to hit it proper, judging only by the size of the ramp, not having seen it before, but figuring it to be reasonably safe, regardless. I was about two bike lengths from the lip when I saw Two laid out in the LZ, slammed on the brakes, and endoed hard into the boulders in the gap. somehow, all I did was jam my thumb, probably at about the same spot Two hit on the lip of the landing ramp. only time in my life I wished I had gripshift. below is what you're supposed to do. stills from a phone video of One going back up and hitting it again while Two worked on his bike (he also flatted in the crash). then we went back up to the top, puttered around taking in the view from Decision Point, then hit Super D and got lost a few times trying to ride as much single-track as possible back towards camp. good times.
  10. whatcha got there, besides pyros for company? some freet-toe paahhhh in a three hour away town over Jesus. not forever, just for now.
  11. where the fuck is Menchaca Road? I thought this thread was about Austin.
  12. eh. go throw another shrimp on the barbie.
  13. this is how it started
  14. welp, no whites at Tejas, yet. got a small largemouth bass on my first cast of the day with a clouser, and that was it. needs way more flow, imo.
  15. yup. besides losing knobs, they were famous for the "Nevagoiter", like you got there on your Maxxis. although, I think the consensus was it was a combination of Stans (which voided the warranty, iirc) and leaving your bike in the sun for too long (like leaving it on a hitch rack all day before an afterwork ride). but they sure do hook up, around here. I switched to Minions on my squishy, a few years ago. if I'm gonna take a trip to AF or Bentonville, I'll get the DoubleDown version. once you get used to the weight, they're nice to have around here, for all the sidewall cut risk we enjoy. I run Igintors on my hardtail. still love them as an XC tire, and it annoys me that they seem to have quit making it for 29ers. can still find them on Amazon.
  16. my bad for assuming you were thinking of a scenario that's actually relevant, today. either way, you still had choices, back then. Thank you for volunteering not to recline! where are they gonna put the statue?
  17. no, it's an absolutely shitty analogy. so you choose to go to that extremely rare restaurant that still permits smoking. then you demand that the house rules suddenly change, just for you. then you call the smokers selfish for balking? I don't smoke, and don't like being around it. but if I make a choice to go where smokers are granted an exception to do their thing, I accept the circumstances or go somewhere else. for the record, I don't recline much or often. but I do have recurring shoulder pain, so if a particular airplane's seat is pushing my head too far forward and firing it up, you're goddamn right I'm going to recline. I'm not short, and I have a bad knee. so what I do is book a seat with extra leg room where I can put my bad leg in the aisle when I need to. it's not hard. you'd rather be a victim and leave it up to a bunch strangers to service your special needs. hell. I'll always give you the first exit row. you get your special space and neither you nor the person in front of you can recline. should be heaven, right?
  18. I'd put that in my pie hole and gouge on it. FRRT-FRRT those fritos are legit. excellent application.
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