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Your Mom

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  1. In order from smooth trails to Red Bull Rampage back flip drops you have: Cross country Bikes, Trail bikes (all-mountain), Enduro bikes (also sometimes considered all-mountain), Downhill bikes A XC bike will generally have less suspension travel and will go faster and climb better than a trail bike. A trail bike will have more suspension and a slacker head tube angle to make it easier to keep the weight rearward and to roll steep stuff without doing an endo. There will also be bikes that blur the lines between those categories, XC but with more travel... Trail but with faster geometry, etc... I'm old enough to enjoy the extra travel of a trail bike so my back doesn't feel all of it the next day, but that comes at the expense of speed. Either a XC bike or a trail bike will do you fine for the trails you mentioned. The trail bike will get you up and over chunkier stuff a little easier than a XC bike. But the best rider I know is a 19 year old kid down the street who regularly rides repeats up the Hill of Life on the BCG gets up it clean every time on a XC bike. Check the bike manufactures websites and see which bikes in their line are XC and which are Trail so you know which bikes compare to which across different brands. They will all have differences in geometry and the numbers might mean something to you but if you're like me you just need to test ride them to know what feels right. Ignore the Enduro and DH bikes... But if you ignore that advice I have a sweet deal on a Pivot 5.5 trail/enduro rig. And it's a bad time to be buying bikes. Manufacturers got way behind during COVID shutdowns and new bikes at shops are often back ordered by months. That has driven up the prices on the used market.
  2. This. Last Spring I bought a used Pivot 5.5 27.5 160/140 thinking it'd be more fun and easier to hop around on, hold manuals longer at slow speed off ledges, etc... I had been riding a 2014 Salsa Horsethief 29 130/120 for the last couple years and was planning to hand it down to my son and have it as a backup bike. I have learned that in anything moderately chunky I'm way better off with a 29. The Pivot is more travel, more bike, carbon and it's a blast on jumps and flow trails but around here I ride more on chunk than flow. I've compared them many times on identical rides and there are always a few spots I struggle or fail to get over on the Pivot and can charge right up on the Salsa. I keep telling myself I'm about to sell the Pivot and use the cash to get another 29... but only after I take it out the the flow trail at Reveille Peak one last time. One last time keeps happening but I swear I'm about to put it on the market.
  3. That's true. Don't get me started. I got my instrument and cfii at a field with only an NDB approach in old airplanes with shitty ADFs. Later in the RJ we were still doing DME arc approaches in Mexico with the old 10 degree turn at a time method when I get there. The younger guys were fucking baffled by it and begging to just let the RNAV fly it.
  4. Go tell that to Shelley Meyer. She started it.
  5. It's a Baron. Old school with a single yoke that can rotate over to either side I think.
  6. Looked like it was taken from the right seat with the throw-over yoke on the left. Cool set up though. Your avionics could fund a couple days worth of Urban's new salary.
  7. Wait are you telling us Telegraph isn't posting on Surly while flying his own plane from the right seat?
  8. My dad bought a booth from the Stallion at auction when it closed down and put it in our kitchen.
  9. I can't take credit. It came across my social media.
  10. I've attended 4 TX-OU games and we are 4-0 in those games. Sorry, not sorry. It's just a beating to commit a whole weekend to going to Dallas for that.
  11. You guys know a lot about flight tracking and Urban’s wife’s taste in food but you are really shitty at movie references.
  12. They were counting big horn sheep in a helicopter; pretty low level flying. Probably no more than a few hundred feet up.
  13. Can we just call a temp agency? A one year with a contractually required parting after the season regardless of results and then just keep bringing in a new one each year for the next few years. We'd probably get the same results we've had for the last decade at a much cheaper price. At some point the next Saban/Meyer/Swinney will emerge and we'll be ready when he does.
  14. I'd agree on the spots where people are building lots of them just because. But a single cairn in the right spot to help identify where a trail goes is perfectly acceptable.
  15. I think it’d be hilarious if ND joins a conference for one year, wins it, and then leaves. I find it amusing that the ACC might have to see their name stamped on a plaque somewhere in a trophy case forever. I don’t really like them but the amusement factor of fucking up the sanctity of the college football world is enough for me to root for them for a year. I’m tired of Bama/Clemson/Ohio St. Any new team in the mix not.named OU or aggy is good to me. And fuck rooting for OU. I don’t remember the scenario in 2012 but I don’t remember rooting for them ever for any reason. Maybe I just washed the stench of it off me and forgot about it.
  16. My dad always made turkey enchiladas with the leftovers. Great stuff. I've done it once but I'm usually too tired the day after to do any real cooking. It's usually sandwiches for me.
  17. There is a pretty active FB group in Austin with mountain bikes for sale. I’ve bought 2 bikes from Pinbike also with good results. You can filter the results to local only.
  18. Forgot to add that there’s also the manual trim wheel. It’s a plastic wheels that spins every time the trim operates. You can grab the wheel with your hand and manually stop the trim. And yes pilots have always been taught to fly with manual trim and also without trim altogether.
  19. MCAS shouldn’t be activating in an engine loss situation. Not that it can’t, just that engine loss isn’t a huge factor. 3 things have to happen for MCAS to activate: Autopilot is off. Flaps are up. Angle of attack is high than some specific threshold (not sure what angle that is exactly) Those things could occur during an engine failure but they could also occur without one. There is and has always been a kill switch. It’s the trim cutout switches. MCAS doesn’t really fly the airplane it just activates the trim. The trim runs on the same electric motors whether it’s activated but the pilot or the MCAS or one of a couple other behind-the-scenes systems that can activate it. The stab trim cutout switches cut power to the trim motors altogether regardless of what activated them.
  20. Your understanding of the forward slung engines is not wrong. But you’re missing the point. All those characteristics you pointed out make it less stable in a stall than the earlier models. Not unstable, just less stable. That’s only a problem because you can’t call it a 737 if it flies much different than the earlier models. The instability isn’t enough to make it an unstable airplane, but it is enough to require the software augmentation in order to make it feel like the other 737s. If they had branded it a different model they would not have needed to stick the MCAS on there because all those characteristics from the forward slung engines are still well within the margin of acceptability. They’re just not the same characteristics as the earlier models. There’s hundreds of different types and models within types and all of them have different stability characteristics from all the others. Some are more stable some are less stable but still well within the envelope of airworthiness and the max without the MCAS is well within that envelope. But there’s a tighter envelope you have to be in to be considered the same type as another But Boeing didn’t want to rebrand it as a whole new type because the airlines would buy less of them if they did. I don’t blame me if you take issue with that. There will come a day when you’ve changed the airplane so much that you just shouldn’t call it a 737 anymore and it’s a valid argument that maybe we reached that day. But the fact doesn’t mean that forward slung engines on a whole new airplane are inherently dangerous.
  21. No argument there. Except for the words “completely different”. It handles different to the degree that the computers were able to notice more force needed in the stall recovery but most of the test pilots were not able to discern the difference. It was enough of a difference to affect the certification but it’s a far stretch to say it handles completely different. All the rest of your post sounds about right to me.
  22. It corrects the pitch to satisfy the need to make it feel more or less identical to the earlier models. Had there been no earlier models and the Max was the first 737 ever built it would not have needed the MCAS. The low sling engines do make it less stable but that’s a far cry from being “unstable”. In the same way that one of your cars is probably more stable than the other but that doesn’t render the other car unstable.
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