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  1. wrist is still not 100% (see skateboarding thread).  hit the greenbelt with the boys, this am.  

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    the pucker factor on the first drop in this video was huge for me, today.  after getting that out of the way, it was all good times.  10.5 miles and >1200ft of climbing.  not bad for only my second ride after a month off.

     

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  2. 3 hours ago, jw4381 said:

    I don’t have access to any, so no for me. 

    eh?  Angel Fire is just down the road from you (Taos, right?), and has a progressive drop zone off by itself, so you can session it.

    it's also 98% tables tops.  the few gaps are on the double-black trails.

     

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  3. 5 hours ago, markstanco said:

    So you skipped leg day every now and again? 

    Brutal, I hope you are doing better now. 

    yeah, that freaked me out.  I don't remember a lot from the early days (meds, plus being in 2016 or so), but you can see pieces of gauze stuck to some of the sutures, so I'm guessing I took that pic shortly after unwrapping it, some time after I got home from the hospital.  probably within 2 weeks of the fall.  it's like my body immediately decided I wasn't going to be using that leg for a while.

    My riding brothers found that skid in the woods (was an old trail bridge) and used it as a stretcher to carry me out.  I'll never forget that.  Glad I wasn't alone, that day.

  4. On 3/17/2024 at 8:24 PM, Armybrat said:

    That trumps Mrs. Brat’s wrist….

     

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    for me

    how it started

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    how it went

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    how it ended (the screws worked loose after I'd been back on the bike for a while, so it all had to come out)

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  5. 1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

    We are in full agreement. He lost for reasons he could not control: the voters don't want him.

    very possible he won because effective campaigning claiming the other guy was a MAGA-funded?  Garza, as a self-styled progressive sure does love killing trees.  I got shit in the mail from him almost every day.  for those that chose to vote in the Blue Team primary, with that "information" in mind, it would be no choice at all.

    in a non-primary election there's no way Garza wins....unless the Red Team guy is a MAGAdouche running in Travis Co.

    meanwhile some people may have thought more strategically and chosen to vote in the R primary simply to scuttle dickheads like Lyin' Ted.  fat lotta good that did, as it turns out.  it is truly depressing that the masses of California shitbirds flooding into this state couldn't be bothered to help break the cult.  thank you, you can go back home now.  dumbasses.

  6. 1 hour ago, Damor said:

    @wd40 Yes, it's the basic intro kit from Cabela's/Bass Pro.  I can see that it's good enough to get started, but like my other hobbies, I'll soon go stupid with it.  At least I'm under no pretense that I'm trying to save money by tying.  And it looks like Regals are as much or more than the Renzetti Travelers these days.  I think I'd get a lot of use out of the rotary function on the Traveler, but man, the Regals are just beautiful.

    @troph, as a dorky kid who had half-dried Testor's bottles scattered about his room, the same thought occurred to me.  We're just big kids, after all.  It's a little early for me to enter my "puttering" phase, but why not?  My younger son suggested I'll need a tying station with a pipe rest before long.

    My older one is off at school in Colorado, so I wrote him a little note and slipped that first ugly fly in the envelope for him to fish when it thaws out.  That was a pretty cool misty-eyed dad moment.

    I'll bet it'll look great stuck in a tree.

    the Regal I got is the Travel one, with SS jaws, on close-out at LW for like $180 (reg $273).  iirc, she gave me a deal on it below the markdown price of $191.  it's rotary function is good enough for me, but what I really like is the big lever for clamping the jaws.

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  7. I think I started out with that same vise (Cabela's?)  I eventually got a Regal, and it's night and day.  but even then, I struggled with the ROI.  a Renzetti, for me?  no way.   a magnifying desk lamp was way more bang for the buck.

    when I said Salida guy, I meant a wanna-be, like me.  I have an old binder with color printouts of midge patterns and whatnot from charliesflybox and some sites that don't exist anymore.  but I found them by looking for specific patterns that worked for me in NM and CO.  

    everyone absorbs info differently.  seems like everyone wants youtubes, now.  but I would start with the flies you plan to use to find the voice that speaks to you most effectively.

    the other thing is there's a lot of patterns out there that catch way more fishermen than fish.  simple flies actually work, and it's easier to knock out a bunch ahead of a trip.  you might find out you like tying as an end in itself.  I find tying relaxing, but the goal for me is to fish them.

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