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  1. WHAT DOES IT MEAN???
  2. "ok, everybody shut up." [normalize breathing] "this's wd, what's up.?" heat rides? every week. carry a platypus of semi-frozen electrolyts, take breaks, all good. hang your jersey in a tree on breaks, and it actually feels cold when you put it back on. gravel (for isu dude) heat (for Texas dudes (three bikes ago...this video makes no sense unless you ride there (as usual)))
  3. fifb
  4. bruh: five-seven-five I was told there'd be no maths ok, cool. hook 'em
  5. it was brutal. it was the threat of resorting to cannibalism that incentivised me to keep the pace up. jk what kurdt said. welcome to centex. I love that tech climbing. Twin Oaks would have been boring as a climb; but was fast, fun, and a little hucky 'backwards'. a little adventure on a different trail. good times, good company.
  6. what's to figure out? it's Dallas. the feds are involved. kill shot came from The Grassy Knoll.
  7. the article is accurate. rules on leaders, hook size, etc. you say snag, but I think what you really mean is foul-hook. here's how we hooked up. to me, this is snagging because they're not feeding. you're hooking them in the mouth, but on the outside. maybe they react to the bright color, but not because they're hungry.
  8. just curious, what do salmon running upriver to spawn eat? sure, you're not 'matching the hatch', but you still have to execute. you still have read the water, put the fly on target, at the right depth, then wrestle 20+ lbs of fish to the net with a fly rod. I would absolutely love to get back out west and do the kind of fishing Colt's doing. but this definitely had it's own challenges and aesthetic appeal. but you're right. downtown is a circus. we fished the DSR, which has controlled access to keep it sane. much nicer area down-river, closer to the estuary. downtown DSR
  9. non-Colt is correct. Pulaski, NY, last fall. mostly king salmon, but a few steelhead. guide said my rig was way too light, and he wasn't wrong. smoked my drag on the first day. had to palm it, after that, which made it more fun, esp on the steelies. going back this fall, with a new reel.
  10. so Spider Mtn is pretty cool, but the have a lot of trail still to build. just 4 trails, but they're fun. I think my favorite is the double black. there's really only one scary rock garden on it, but it's the steepest trail out there which levels the playing field for me to keep up with the moto guys I was riding with. they're much better at looking far down the trail and picking the fasted lines into the turns. I'll get there, some day. I too have a lot of work to do. sorry, song's been in my head for a week, but it seemed appropriate.
  11. here's a Chas Parker I got for free from my dad who bought it for $5 at a garage sale in FL with the intention of making a few bucks off it at the scrap yard. it has not been restored, but the beer has been opened. works perfectly. here's a Scout 4 1/2 holding up a piece of 2x2' 1/4" plate to go on my square firebox. got it off eBay for about 30 bucks. Thanks for turning me into a vice nerd, Shank.
  12. great pics, gents! makes me want to go ride, except I'm sore all over---like from a car crash. got a decent nap, though. 2x: glad your feeling better. get out of your head. this place is fucking scary. but I can't get it out of my head. I hope I survive it. plays in hd, as usual.
  13. my wife didn't know that Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis were two different people
  14. if I was you, I'd ride pedernales and hike bcgb from the Hill of Life entrance. it's the far end of the main trail, so gets less traffic. there's a spur with some awesome views off the big dog leg in the trail where it continues down to the creek.
  15. oops. yeah, I forgot how close Muleshoe is to the water. now that I remember, I think it was a little silty in spots the last time I was out there, back when my wife thought she might like to try trail riding (it was the anaerobics that killed it for her). I would agree on the Pedernales rec. always forget about that place. did all the enduro runs at FCCR about a month ago. that place is a blast. need to get back out there.
  16. AV covered it. Bicycle Sportshop is prettymuch it for rentals. Barton Creek is a huge network, but I would call it intermediate-advanced once you get off the main trail that follows the creek. on the weekends, the main trail gets packed with hikers, dogs and dogshit. be prepared to cross the creek several times if you want to do the main trail. based on stuff you've posted, I would recommend either Pace Bend or Muleshoe Bend. fun terrain, ease of navigation. last time I was out there, anyway. plus I think they still do XC races at PB so it has a well defined loop, as does Muleshoe. both are about an hour drive to get there, though. but there's a pretty decent bbq place (Opie's) right near Muleshoe. I've never been to Rheimer's, so I can't say anything about it. same for Slaughter Creek, but for what I know about it from a buddy who lives out there and rides it with his young son, it's probably too far to go for not much trail. Brushy Creek is probably also a hike for you, but is a good option. it has a wide paved path down the middle of it, with the creek on one side, and a hill on the other for the whole length. Deception is on the hill side. there is a trail that runs along the creek with lots of technical options, but is generally just fast, flowy hard pack. there is a flat loop between the sports complex entrance and Parmer Lane, bordered by Brushy Creek Road. you can probably get 10 miles without messing with Deception (which really isn't that bad---just rocky).
  17. this thread is like crack on so many levels
  18. I appreciate MCM. my only problem with it is my wife can't stop buying pieces off craigslist with the thought of restoring them. so we have 2 or 3 half-started projects, mostly out in the shed now, because I got tired of working around them in my garage. we had a chair like the ones in the OP, but it was kind of a dark purplish brown with chrome legs. it was comfortable, but it lived in the kids' room, usually filled with stuffed toys until she sold it for some reason. it was a good chair for reading to them.
  19. that is all yours, Gunga Din. I like to think I like the cold, but I think the novelty of those conditions would wear off for me real quick. that's one of those once every couple years 'epic' deals. but good use of the fat bike. couple from this weekend. pretty lame, really. first one I've been picking away at for a while but needed someone to chase for perspective. fortunately for me, he was blinded by cold wind tears, so I could keep up. still can't get out of my head for the gap jump at the bottom, but Holy Trinity as a substitute is a good bit of filler. second is just messing around at Brushy by myself on Saturday, since I'm old and can't sleep in for a 10am wheels down meet-up with a couple friends, both will play in 1080p
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