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    Ride Suggestions for Pisgah Ranger District

    I'm heading down to Pisgah next week for 5 days and the plan is to find a camping spot and ride for 3-4 days from the campsite. I think I'm going to camp somewhere off of yellow gap road near bradley creek, and now I'm trying to plan at least 3 routes. I think I've got one planed out that goes...
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    Anyone in Asheville area want to ride on Sunday March 16th?

    I'll be in Arden NC next weekend for a bachelor party at my buddy's parents mountain house. It's a 9 hour drive for me so I'm going to bring my bike to hopefully get at least a day of riding in. I'm familiar with a few trails in the area, Black mountain, pilot rock, farlow gap, mostly trails...
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    Trip Report: Mapping Trails and Riding in Nicaragua

    This last December I had the opportunity of a lifetime, an all expense paid trip to Nicaragua for 10 days to GPS map current mountain bike trails and give a site analysis for building new trails on a 2700 acre resort on the pacific coast. I'm fortunate enough to be good friends with a retired...
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    Getting rid of a Car Payment.

    Forgive me if this is long winded... I have a few life changing events on the horizon, I proposed to my GF this last Xmas, we are getting married in fall of 2015, and we are about a year away from purchasing our first house. We are not expecting and help financially for either the down...
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    New Trail Bike - Odd size shock and offset bushings

    My new trail bike, Kona Process 111DL is due to arrive in March so I'm planning the build right now. The frame comes with a Monarch RT3 in a weird size: 184x44mm (7.25x1.75). I was hoping to upgrade the shock to the Cane Creek Double Barrel Air but quickly discovered that this size shock is...
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    We're Number 1!!!! USA!!! USA!!!!

    15 Ways The United States Is The Best (At Being The Worst)
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    Fender Bender Question

    A little over a week ago I brushed up against a woman's car a few blocks from my house in Baltimore. She was parked in the middle of the street (no attempt to get out of the lane of traffic) waiting for a parking spot. I was trying to make a green light about 500 feet in front of here so I...
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    Machine Shop Monkeys: Anyone have a lathe?

    I'm wondering if anyone can help me out, two years ago I bought two of the Sram Flytrap Fork mounts and mounted them inside my truck bed. I bought them primarily because they held 20mm forks without any adapters and mounted right in my truck bed, at the time I only had bikes with 20mm along...
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    Any CPA monkeys? 1099-k and paypal income question

    Unfortunately I was unemployed for a chunk of the year and I used that time to clean house and make some money to pay bills. I essentially had a giant yard sale on the internet, old laptop, ipod, clothes, and a ton of bike parts. Because of this, I crossed the 20k threshold for Paypal and was...
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    Anyone have to deal with Fed Ex damage claims?

    I shipped a brand new complete bike to a guy via Fed Ex ground, I was covering shipping so naturally I used the cheapest route. The buyer e-mailed me two pictures today showing the headtube dented (it looks like it's dented to the point where the frame isn't usable now). I don't recall paying...
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    Anyone ship something to Brazil recently? What am I doing wrong?

    Someone wants to buy a complete bike I'm selling, he's in Brazil, which normally isn't a problem. But the USPS website is saying 600 dollars for a 17 lb 27x27x8 box (I was planning on breaking the bike into two wheelset sized boxes). The USPS website only gives me Global Express as a shipping...
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    Printing photos from facebook? Where to do it? Quality?

    One of the gifts I'm planning on giving my GF this year is a big picture collage with pictures of us and our dogs. I bought the Picture frame already, it has 7 individual 5x7" picture frames all attached to one another. Now I need to physically have pictures to place in them, but all the...
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    “You’re not aware of the bum hunts?”

    Arizona Army National Guard recruiters hunted homeless with paintballs
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    New Puppy Coming Home Tomorrow. Supplies, equipment, accessories?

    As I mentioned in the Doggy thread, I'm picking up a new pup tomorrow, I didn't want to derail that thread so I made a new one. I haven't had a puppy in about 10 years so I'm not familiar with some of the latest and greatest doggy equipment and accessories. I know the basic things I need to...
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    Mysterious Account on my Credit Report

    I moved to a new place and called to put the gas and electric in my name, they had to run a soft credit check and came back and said I would have a leave a security deposit of 490 dollars which is fully refundable (with interest) after 12 months with 10 out of 12 payments made on time blah blah...
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    Cutting the Cord. Network setup tips?

    My gf and I are moving into a new place next week and we've agreed to cut the cord, no cable or satellite, just internet. We currently have 1 apple TV for the living room and plan on getting a second for the bedroom, we have Netflix streaming and I have a ton of torrent and DVDs I'm in the...
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    Clemson DH Race this weekend!!

    Since Butch asked for it. I'm not even going but I hope everyone has a good time!
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    Video Converter for iTunes and Apple TV

    My GF gave me an apple TV for Xmas and I want to import the video files I already have on my PC into itunes so we can watch them through the Apple TV. Almost none of them seem to be in formats supported by itunes, most are from torrents, .Xvid, .MKV, .AVI etc. Does anyone know a good (free)...
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    Looking for Cheapish Vacation Ideas

    My GF has the Groupon and living Social apps on her phone so we have been looking at deals on vacations just about every day for the past week. We'd like to go somewhere warm for 3-4 nights and keep it under/around 800 per person for airfare and lodging. Groupon has some in Mexico and Costa...
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    Fixie's gone mainstream

    Stumbled across this on a movie website I frequent. 302 Found What will the fixie hipsters do now that they've gone mainstream?
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