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wd40

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  1. don't deserve? because you stored your bike outside? 😜 SLX checks all my boxes: tough, reliable, relatively cheap.
  2. my Fox experience is limited, basically ending in 2009 with the 80mm air fork I spec'd on my SS. have never loved it, but I don't hate it, exactly. it would be unrealistic to expect a fork like that to make a hardtail feel plush over the rocky stuff we ride here in Austin. I liked the Vanillas I had, at least until the springs wore out. main reason I never gave Fox another shot is pricing. just never seemed like a good value. and those Talas forks of theirs, packed with "features" like adjustable travel. I just want smooth functionality with low maintenance; and all that fancy stuff just seemed counter to that MO. I assume they're easier tune now than they used to be. I had a Zoke for a while. liked it a lot; much more than the Foxes. sort of a custom Frankenstein build by a former employee of theirs that started a side business doing rebuilds and refurbs of their stuff. when I went up to 29" wheels on the trail bike, it just became a wall hanging in the garage. academic, because I love my Lyrik. never thought I'd say that about a fork. performs great, I got a nice deal on it, and it's super-easy to tune and maintain. good luck with the new ride, 2X. I probably would have stuck with the Marin for the SLX drive train, but that's upgradable on the Ibis, if you're patient and watch for deals (eBay can be a good source).
  3. so, not a stoner or an inline skater, eh? @shank: SING IT, MUTHAFUCKA
  4. all these brokedicks that can't send an email without cc'ing 3 levels of management, as if I won't respond without their entourage in tow. I can't believe we pay these people. just tattoo it on your ignorant forehead, you worthless piece of shit: "I am the 80%".
  5. oh, they just blamed him for everything
  6. but SAP is staying to help degrade Russian production.
  7. not to go all Nicole BDE, but I think it was fenix that triggered this for me. Dear Ukraine:
  8. some of you dipshits need to work on your manual ignore skills. just enjoy the tits, skip the text, and keep scrolling.
  9. I don't SS on the trail much anymore. it was a lot of fun for a while. teaches you a lot about floating bumps and planning your accelerations to get up stuff. but the bike geometry is way too different (69* head angle, which was considered slack back in '09), and only 3" of travel on the front. my old bones just can't do it, anymore. I still take it out on the street for training. still geared for hills (32-20). did 8.31mi with 824ft of climbing, one day last week. cut it short when I felt some moisture on my calves that turned out to be Stan's spraying out of a puncture in my back tire. no kit. house key on a string. held long enough to get me home, though. took 3 strips of bacon to fix it. still need to ride-test it. did Spider again, yesterday. Sidewinder is easily my new favorite trail there, so wanted to film it. wish I could jump. uncorked one on Antidote off-camera that launched me over the landing zone into a nose wheelie for 5 or 6ft. so I slipped back into my usual wet noodle style for the rest of the day. did get a taste of the wall ride, finally. transition's not nearly as abrupt as it looks. since I was up there and it was blowing (gusty to 30+, as it turned out), I went for a sail, afterward. wanted to test out a new camera setup. put the 6 on top, and the old 5 on the boom, (where it usually goes). water was cold (56*), so my feet were numb when they weren't cramping from dehydration. it'd be nice if @G650's boys could up their camera game to match their sailing. I need to do the opposite. enjoy.
  10. no bike shop is ever going to care as much about your bike as you do. I didn't start doing all my own wrenching because I'm a cheapskate (well, ok, I am, but that's beside the point). I did it because I got tired of having experiences like that. but, yes, was a great day to ride, if not film (high contrast shadows everywhere). 9.16 miles and 1189ft of climbing, today.
  11. They were 2A champions now for for two years running But he says they won't be this year, no they won't be this year...
  12. got some of what passes for snow around here, this morning. crunching through packed sleet and ice. traction was surprisingly good, except on some of the fast, flat corners that had fully melted. no down trees, which was good. most of the little frosty crystals that were standing up on my tires had melted by the time I got my phone out of my pack for this pic.
  13. second from the left must be Aunt Boobs
  14. leveled-up my cheese hinge game, today. stuff is legit. the back of my head was sweating. one with yellow mustard, one with spicy brown to mix things up. Dixieland Hot Chow-Chow. no racist.
  15. back on a less expensive topic: I'll see your TP roll and raise you a butter stick
  16. guy on the left looks to me like Gunny Hartman, demonstrating the proper technique for strokin' it in the Marine Corp.
  17. already got 87 lids, we don't use. she found one that fit, so crisis averted for her lemon ginger tea. don't need any more lids, thanks. besides, my wife and daughter had a 10 minute conversation at the dinner table this week about which hair conditioner to use that didn't have parabens(?) or silicone or whatever other toxins in it. pretty sure suggesting silicone pot lids would be met with more fecal epithets.
  18. where were you yesterday when I was reheating a leftover cheeseburger patty?
  19. so you're just getting more value out of your kitchen staff. cool. I guess.
  20. this may be more about getting old than wife shit. my wife bought this little 1qt sauce pan a while back. no lid. cool, whatever. nice pot. sees plenty of use. but this is at least the third time we've had some version of this exchange. Wife: where's the lid to this pot? Me: dunno. never had one, far as I know. I assumed you picked it up at TJ Maxx or someplace and it didn't come with one. W: I got it at Tuesday Morning M: there you go. I figure that's why it didn't have a lid and didn't want to get my lid bitten off for asking about it. W: turd M: see?
  21. when did they start making dashboards out of corian?
  22. can't get more American than that. anyhoo, smoked feral hog naoch.
  23. not to fire up the cheese snobs in the Shank thread, but isn't American cheese just glorified Velveeta?
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