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  1. depends on what you mean. Iconic? Barton Creek Green Belt, maybe City Park. easily navigable? CP first, BCGB main trail, second. However, the maintrail is packed with peds, dogs, and dogshit on the weekend. CP is a one way loop and well marked, but it's all rocks, all the time, moto trail, originally. used to be my favorite, but the fucked with it several years ago and I rarely ride there, now. Brushy Creek is fun, but probably a hike, depending on where you're staying. not much elevation, but a little bit of everything (including yoga pants on the main paved path). I know nothing of SATN. Kurdt, or Austinvines would have to chime in on that. supposedly pretty good. bunch of unmentionables, but they are, like BCGB OFF the main trail, mazes with lot's of choices. loads of fun though. loads of climbing, too. send up a flare if you want a guide. here lately, I've been soloing on sunday mornings. too much life happening with my crew.
  2. nice pics, but shit, KuRdt. where the video at? just back from NW Arkansas. Lake Leatherwood was awesome, especially with shuttle service. Coler Park in Bentonville was a mess when I rode it. pouring rain, lightning, etc. of the two ridable trails, Fireline (blue) required pedalling almost the whole way. Cease and Desist (black) was much better in that regard, but was loaded with doubles, which I suck at, especially in those conditions. I got some footage of a dude Dropping the Hammer (described as "an 8' gap ladder drop", but is more like 15', of you carry down the steep landing zone). the drop on CnD proper was doable (about 5', standing next to the end of it), but I wasn't excited about the long, curving, wooden thing you had to launch off of in the rain and my ability to carry enough speed on it to clear the flat. Back 40 on Friday was fun, but painful, at my current fitness level. 22.5 miles, >2000' of climbing. cold (40s) and wet, almost til the end. my feet were numb, the whole time. I started at the Buckingham trailhead, going counter-clockwise, which as it turned out let me start out on the best downhill stretch of the whole trail...into the lake. had to do some wading around to get back on the trail. another crossing was thigh-deep. kinda epic. anyway. here's a clip from Leatherwood. song came on during the drive home. this was the only run of the whole trip where my lense wasn't splattered with mud by the time I got to the bottom. gopro 6 is smoooove. 1080p
  3. can't wait for CA to ban Gil Bangs. the entire population of the state would instantly vanish (in a perfect world). SBB's not bad. just keep him on his boat.
  4. you must be feeling better, knox. that's good. I lost the front wheel on a wet limestone slab on a section called Leche, a while back. almost took a core sample of my left lung with my bar end, just under my moob. that shit takes forever to heal. I'll bet if you think back, the two wrecks today were fulfilled prophecies, and you were distracted/focused elsewhere on the crack landing. don't think. it can only hurt the ballclub.
  5. forgot one. don't know how
  6. I like this one. and these
  7. ish, yeah. at two weeks, I took the stitches out with the nifty little scissors the little blondo PA offered, since they were just gonna toss them when I checked out. so it was a few days after that when I was on Cat. you can see the scar on my left shin. on grips, everyone's different. some like spongy, some want paper thin and hard. but everyone I know who has Ergons loves them.
  8. my personal favorite, but you have to do the voice.
  9. we do not know. all we know is he thinks he was trying to pull a wheelie on a little rise and just over-rotated. I think it was a combination of being on one wheel, slightly off vertical, and rolling over a loose fist-sized rock that was in the middle of the trail. you can sort of see the rock in the super-slo-mo replay. oh, and @Loco, I saw a dude a while back on little shorter version of that, cruising down the northbound frontage road of 183 at McNeil in 5pm traffic. I was like, "he's dead".
  10. ummm...no. I haven't been on a well in 30 years, and I even I could tell it was probably a hose left on, especially after checking the psi at the pump. to let it ride for a week like that? do you not ever shower or wash your hands? stanco, indeed. I call that one a team effort.
  11. depends on if you're happy with picture quality like this
  12. funny. as long as that technology has been around, it's about time they got onboard. I wonder what happens if you crash while skiing and go into a starfish. does it just look like you're suddenly cruising downhill sideways while the camera keeps the frame upright? I like the idea of not having a gimbal. just seems cumbersome. I've hit my camera on my saddle several times, as it is. but I can't see spending $320 on a 7. looking at getting a 6. from what I've read, the 7 isn't any better on picture quality or stab. it just has more features for me to ignore or get frustrated with, being the old fart that I am. Thanks for the info, and the video tour of Reimer's. been trail riding for 20+ years, and I've never been there.
  13. I would say 'not as plush'. you'll feel more vibration and rattling in your bones on rockier trails. but you get dialed to whatever you got, eventually. for me, I don't know if it's worth spending Felt money on a hardtail, esp if I'm not a racerboi. if it fits, is a screaming deal and the frame's in good shape, go for it. I would think about that stem, tho. it's a mile long by today's standards. if the cockpit feels short when you demo, I would walk away. I wouldn't want to go longer on that stem. endo city. a setback seatpost to compensate is a dubious babdaid. the trend has been toward shorter stems and longer bars. now that I'm there, I know why I was so scared all the time on technical decents.
  14. damn. now my wheels are turning to get a 7... as far as the angle of the camera. if you hang it upside down, there's a lot more trial and error to setting it. but you have a lot more 'upside', in that you can set it higher for downhilling when your chest spends a lot more time being horizontal. for around here, I find just setting it upright, adding a short female-female knuckle between the chesty plate and the camera, and angling it all the way back puts the handlebars right at the bottom of the frame, which is optimal, imo. the major downside to hanging it upside down was that it seemed to bounce a lot more. but the internal stab on that camera looks like it is more than adequate to compensate.
  15. you should see flat spots on sides of the Stan's valve cores. grab there with some needle nose if it's too gummed up to unscrew with your fingers. I'm not aware of any special tools for this. while you have the cores pulled, I would try to clean them up as much as possible. should be able to pick out any dried latex around the threads and the stopper. make sure it moves easily. to answer your question, I assume you using a Stan's injector syringe. if you're just doing a refresh, one full load should be fine. if you're on 2.5s or bigger, you should probably go 2. wait. 29er? I'd go 2 shots each. especially if it's been a while.
  16. I'm confused: was the bruised anus the win, or your wife not wanting to inspect it? Kurdt: I should also mention that if you're armoring up to do lift-served trail in NM, wear your chest protector on the outside of your clothing. when I did AF last year, I wore a moto jersey over the top, and it effectively lubricated the chesty over the hard plastic of the body armor. almost all the cold early morning footage was trash. similar slickery effect happens if you wear two layers of jersey material. if you can feel the camera bouncing, your recording earthquake simulations. I briefly experimented with a chin mount on my fullface helmet. sucked. it was smooth, but was too far forward, so no handlebars and I couldn't ever get the angle right.
  17. I use a Hero4 silver on the standard GoPro Chesty. camera shake has alwaays been a problem. I ran that thing as tight as it will go. some trails are smoother than others. not gato. constant rattle. my cheapskate solution was simply to tie a couple knots in the straps to where there's almost no stretch left. that thing is so tight now, I either keep it in my pack or unbuckle it for sustained climbs or whenever I'm not filming. a friend of mine recently offered to loan me his gimbal. I'll probably take him up on it. but you have me scared that it takes too much work. personally, the gimbals are so smooth, it hardly looks like mountain biking. it's a very visceral thing, for me. I find videos that look like flight are often boring. it's more about reliving the experience. speaking of, rewatching the video from yesterday, I noticed the first major mistake I made on my crash: I forgot to drop the saddle. (the second mistake was fixating on the rock I eventually hit, instead of looking far ahead). can't remember if I shared this one. shorter and less shaky than the other video I made.
  18. sonsabitches who reply to everything with a video. related, but the opposite: I get excessive pleasure when I enter the men's room and the lights come on automatically. usually means I can breath like a normal person, immediately. once in a blue moon, though, there's a camper in there, like your friend.
  19. my buds all went to Brushy for a second day in a row. I had my mind set on this place, weather and fitness be damned. sketchy ride today. damp and snotty in places, hero dirt in others. at least the wood was dry. tweaked my wrist very early in the ride (toward the end of the video). really didn't even notice it when it happened, but the pain ramped up through the whole ride and was a major distraction and confidence killer. riding solo didn't help. skipped out on a couple of goals. trying to get more comfortable on TTFs for my upcoming trip to Bentonville. as usual, a song stuck in my head and I had to make a video with it. Dirtbombs, again. 1080HD.
  20. you need some air, dude. but I think anyone running <25 psi is insane, especially if they're not running procore. I run around 28. I was having some intermittent squirreliness a while back, and I thought it was my shock. turns out my floor pump has gone out of cal. I pump the needle up to around 32 now, and it feels good. I was probably running somewhere south 25, but because the gauge said 28, I had convinced myself that the softness in the squeeze test was just my massively strong hands. everyone's comfort zone is different. but if I was you, I'd try Maxxis Ignitors (w/ EXO casing). I love those. I run them on my hardtail. any rolling resistance you think your saving with those Rekons is cancelled out by the low psi. you've got a full-suspension. no need to roll marshmellows and risk your rims on a root or rock. again. personal taste. and no, the patter of the weep doesn't indicate anything, that I know of. the Nevegals I used to run were solid ooze on the sidewalls. never had a problem there. the knobs would wear out or tear off, or I'd get a big rock puncture in the tread that leaked even after plugging it. that's when I'd replace the tire.
  21. just Stan's weep. not a big deal. just a reminder that hot weather dries it out faster, and need to refresh it. I probably do mine twice during the summer. maybe three tumes, if the heat comes early. at least around here, your knobs will be shredded before you need to worry about the weepage.
  22. no shit, 2x. great job, Braff. that made me look back at my Strava feed from when we did South Boundary Trail, last year, after 3 days of DH at AF, last year. we started at the Osha Pass climb: 10.1%, but only 1.4mi. I was seriously sucking wind. took me 52 minutes. KOM is like 18. anyhoo. what happened was the saw, like this one https://www.lowes.com/pd/Corona-RazorTOOTH-18-in-Pruning-Saw/1000108027 made too quick work on the cut. half-fallen tree I was working on gave way suddenly, and the pressure I had on the saw drove it down, the tip going into my shin, just next to the bone. I'd never seen a fountain of blood like that before, and I didn't take the time to see if it was pulsing before I tied it off with my shirt and started (briskly) hiking out of there. short drive home from the trailhead, stopped off at my neighbor's house where the kids were and asked him to drive me to the ER. fuckin mess. shoes are trash. only 5 stitches, but I've found I have to keep a tightish dressing on it if I'm on my feet for any length of time or it will start flowing again. dunno. probably ok, now. just feel these needly little tears sometimes when I try walking around with it uncovered. PA that stitched me up was hot, though.
  23. off the bike for a couple weeks. trailwork oopsie, the other day. good thing I don't give a shit about paydirt.
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