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  1. the warm glow from apparently royally fucking-over my fellow man is pretty epic.
  2. lol at all these dipshits in coach expecting to be comfortable. at all. I bet they never fart, never cut in line, never leave little bags of dogshit on the trail. never do anything with only their own interests in mind. as to this douche, he's got his little movie. he chooses to ruin it for himself. he could probably lean his head against the seat and be more comfortable than sitting straight up with his head hanging down. for me, I sleep better with my head in my arms on the tray table. and fuck her, too. air travel is about the destination, not the journey.
  3. yeah, it's a young man's sport, for sure. instead of parking lots, why not just bike to run errands or around the neighborhood? attack it like an urban assault. track stand every stop sign. hop up on the sidewalk (assuming no peds) to get out of the way of over-taking cars. ride the curb tops like skinnies as far as you can. all fairly low-risk, but it keeps it interesting and teaches you stuff, plus miles. 2x, you probably already do this sub-consciously, but lately, during very low speed moves, I've become more aware of ratcheting the pedals back a half or 1/4 turn to get them in position for optimum power or to clear a ledge. it seems like an under-appreciated technique, but I find myself doing it a lot more than I realized. it gives you something to do for that split second at the crux of a hump, as well as good power to re-start/continue over the top. anyhoo, today I took my bike in to figure out why my fork was at 140 instead of 160. being an old, I just assumed I had forgotten to get it converted almost 2 years ago when I got the p153, and bought a new air cylinder to finally do it. turns out I did have it converted back then. the internals were just so clogged with dirt, I was storing air on the negative side, and lost 20mm of travel. herpaderp.
  4. fwiw, both my Konas, each the slackest bikes I've ever ridden (66.5*, iirc) are also the most stable at very low speed. could just be I've just been riding so long and finally gotten ok at it, or maybe the low bottom brackets. so, I'm with Switzer on this: just go for it. focus on were you want to go, not where you are. that's verymuch easier said than done, but sooner or later, you have to trust yourself to execute, or it's just no fun at all. don't think I've posted this one before. turns out 4-footers are the same as going off a curb.
  5. When Waterloo Brewing closed down to put that shitty Fox and Hound in there to begin with. last week, I was at Billy's on Burnet and the bartender was wearing an old Waterloo Brewing shirt. turns out Billy's is owned by the same dude/group, as was DognDuck. I did not know that. next time I go, I'll ask him to bring back the Congress Avenue Burger. put me in the circa Y2K camp. someone, probably on hf, posted a good rant on how Austin used to be the home of The Cheap Good Time. I think that's about when it ended for good.
  6. so you talked your hand into it? whatever blows your skirt up.
  7. leftover porkbelly burnt ends (recipe from some Thermoworks spam). and yeah, that's fuckin cilantro. only regret is I apparently ran out of onion.
  8. do you sit on your lips first, to make them go numb?
  9. hay Braff! just another shitty winter's day in Awlllstin Tehxis, baby!
  10. I'd posted this link on the last page for dbeasy. it's fairly useful. here's another. probably more descriptive, but the videos seem old and don't account for some reroutes. or maybe I'm just terrible at recognizing stuff. but neither one has Snail Trail on it, which is interesting, because it's been heavily Stravulated. a bit of an open secret. anyway, I usually start under 183A, hit Snail, then Dave's ditch (IFF it's been dry for a while), 1/4 notch and double-down. if I have the time, I'll do Deception 'backwards'. then Picnic, which has numerous optional drops. no matter what, I do Picnic. if the conditions are such Picnic's unridable, I just don't go to Brushy at all. for some reason, Deception just doesn't appeal to me, but once I'm on it, it's actually pretty fun. very rocky, moderately techy ups and downs, and lots of cactus to keep you on the straight and narrow. very hot in the summer, whereas Picnic is always comfortably shaded. Mulligan is fun, but there's a couple little soupy spots for several days after any rain, so I'll just run up the mellower climb on the left of the big slope facing the paved path, hang a right and bomb down the steep one closest to the train tracks, like today. as I mentioned to dbeasy, really only Mulligan and Peddler's Pass are one way (PP being very well marked in this regard). just depends on where you start. ie, you could certainly make the case that Deception flows generally west, but that's only because the skatepark lot is the most popular starting point. the route I roughly described above, with PP, is between 8-12 miles, depending on whether I do any Deception or extra Snail repeats. just pulled an old strava record up that's 9.48 mi and a whopping 359' of climbing, with zero Deception. I tend to do Brushy solo on saturday mornings. if you want a guide, sing out. it don't make a shit.
  11. had a good ride at Brushy this morning. finally got good loft on both jumps up top on Snail2 (the plywood one and the big, angled one right after it). couldn't tell you how I did it. they usually throw my ass up for awkward, nose-heavy landings. craziest thing I saw today was a group of dudes on those Onewheel boards...riding trail. it was on the flattish, bermy section in the woods just east of Parmer. conditions were perfect for that today. K, you got me thinking about Spider tomorrow, but I think I'll just go South, and save the fiddy bucks. it looked like they reworked a section or two of the wood feature line, taking out a couple small ledge drops. but there's something to be said for riding a lift to get back uphill, esp toward the end of the day.
  12. you should tell her they probably meant, 'take a chance on the applicant not being as big a pain in the ass as you-know-who.'
  13. right on, man. I keep thinking I need to get back there and solve the table tops. can't just be speed. I get no pop. more cases than a Samsonite store. did I post this one? can't remember.
  14. not exactly the same as Red, but, these guys are good.
  15. Gil Bang, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Gil Bang. From California.
  16. man, I wore this video out.
  17. my wife left her purse at the DQ on 37 in Pleasanton on the way back from Corpus, once. I didn't even have to raise an eyebrow. she drove her own ass back down there to get it. but this isn't the humblebrag thread. I'll show myself out.
  18. one kid? not that it matters a lot, I'd still recommend ski school. as mentioned by others, diy ski school is a beating for everyone. I dropped my kids in ski school and everyone had more fun. then there's the parents dealing with their non-skiing kids in the middle of the trail that everyone else gets to deal with, too. anyway, I've been to RR several times (friends of my wife got married there, and they go back every year, so we joined the party off and on). I've only mountainbiked AF, so I can't really compare them for you outside of the stats available online for each, as far as skiing. for my skill level (blues and low-end blacks), RR is fine. not that it matters much this year, but RR has the most snowmaking capacity in the area. last time I went was 2 years ago, and it was packed with folks from AF and beyond because there was no snow except at RR, and very few runs open. fucking sucked. my daughter got taken out by some other kid thought he was Shaunfuckingwhite. I will say the town of RR has a lot more options for food and whatnot (although the grocery store in AF is bigger). it's also a lot more walkable than AF. RR recs: ---Copper King Lodge. not fancy, but clean and right at the bottom of the copper chair (double to mid and the top---NOT rec'd for getting to the school). nice hot tub, very cool play area for kids (bring deer corn). walkable to several restaurants ---Bull o' the Woods. fun bar with bar food, TVs. good beer selection. good wings and pizza, a block from CK ---Texas Red's. good steak place, across the street from botw ---Sundance. good new mexican food ---Dairy Bar. throwback burger and icecream joint. good wings. kid favorite. Capo's Italian is pretty meh. food's ok, but the service really sucks AF recs: really just El Jefe and Angel Fired Pizza for dinner. both were good. Angel Fire Bakery & Cafe had a good breakfast, but again, everything is spread out all over in AF, which was ok on dry ground with mtbs, I guess. dunno about winter conditions. no recs on where to stay in AF. we got to crash for free at a friend's condo. nice place, but can't speak to the value, per se.
  19. ok, Madge
  20. this. and take a few with you. but a gig better than lawyering? if posting on surly all day every day while printing money is a bad gig, sign me up.
  21. exactly. scrumptet runs around, drinking beer, wearing a blouse (if that's what we're calling it) designed to look like a bunch of renegade sperm cells on acid. 'a lady'? whatever you say, man.
  22. hear hear. lotsa words. 2019pics, but my dad is now officially hooked on the fly. Pulaski, again. couple kings, my dad with a nice coho. and a big brown, which made up for not getting any steelhead, this time. Galvan T8 is a sweet reel.
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