Cold and wet at the airport. Meh......
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Cold and wet at the airport. Meh......
Wet and warm here. Still trying to figure out how to approach our trail bandit.
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Ditto. Smoke detector in one of the kid rooms started chirping at midnight. I couldn’t localize it (didn’t want to open doors and wake kids or snooozing wife) and replaced the batteries in a different one in the hall, to no avail.
This morning I replaced the 9Vs in the upstairs bedrooms including the offender. Why does this always happen in the middle of the night?!
with an ax in one hand and a chainsaw in the other
coffee
We had a rider up Monkton way who chose to create some singletrack on the land of a very touchy farmer. The farmer dropped trees across that, and has subsequently been blocking trails both on his own land and on that of a few other land owners. The rider's pretty much of a loner and a little hard to deal with. I have met the owner a couple of times, and had been quietly negotiating for access over a period of years, now a bomb has been dropped in the middle of that. I need to figure out how to get the farmer talking and see if we can negotiate a truce.
Two rides yesterday up in the mountains, explored some new to me trails and demo’ed bikes. Ended the day at a brewery that gives free beer if you ride a certain number of miles and/or vertical in the area, verified by a ride tracking service. So basically, show ‘em your Strava for free beer. My gal and I rode 12.5 miles and about 2k vert, Good for a free pint for each of us even though I’m the only Strava dork.
Buena suerte.
I too would like to subscribe to this service.
If there’s no cap you’re going to drink them out of business with the vert you guys do.
Wife let me take a ~3 hour nap. Win.
Rode with some old friends in the Whole forest in Lowell in the morning, before the alleged storms would hit. It rained all night, I woke up to a hot and humid day, the ride was super slippery (all rocks wet and slimey) and fun. Now I am pooped but I have a long todo list for the rest of the day. A G&T will give me back my missing energy, right? Right?
Trying to talk wifey into a 50 mile ride today.
She doesn't want to leave kiddo to rot his brain on the internets.
I'm selfish...
She doesn't want to leave kiddo to rot his brain on the internets.
I'm selfish...
My FiOS internet has been in the shitter for the past couple of weeks. I could not do a simple skype voice call with my parents today. Terrible latency, low speed, intermittent connectivity gaps. Trying to resolve this with VZ agents, I don't believe in a resolution anytime soon. What makes me truly pissed is that the only alternative is fucking Comcast...
Looking into getting a hitch for the wife's new car. Anything else I should consider besides Curt? When I had my Tacoma I had uhaul install one. Considering self install this time around.
A Curt would run me ~$200. From uhaul it would be about ~$260 installed.
Only looking to carry my bike rack.
Only looking to carry my bike rack.
Uhaul are probably installing the same Curt.
On what car? I underestimated the effort to install a Curt, big time.
@6thElement - how soaked is everything up there?
This.
And this. The Uhaul route is a time saver and not that much more expensive. Plus liability IIRC.
Not sure, will know later.
I think it was about an hour to install an Amazon supplied curt on our Subaru. Maybe check YouTube or curt site to see how much hassle it is for your car.
No, different model different price.
18 outback. Directions say exhaust has to be dropped, and drilling and trimming required.
In my case, the arms of the Kurt needed significant bending to fit in the pre-drilled holes in the car frame, there was no way I could do it myself without a car lift and another strong dude.
Uhaul that shit up then. And take off the logo afterwards, especially if it’s not aligned just right, eh?
I've installed a few curt and hidden hitches (via https://www.etrailer.com/) on a couple of our subys.
I did have to drill or widen a hole or two and fish the line (with washers and nuts attached) on the last one, a 2010 Forester.
It was a bit frustrating (mostly just wiggling the rubber grommets off to lower exhaust, recommend lubing the grommets with silicone spray or WD40) but not too bad.
A 2 beer job if I recall... would bang again
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Yeah, I need that. Luckily, I know Tom, and our conversation has been respectful to date.
Woah. Always amaze me how one person can screw up the work of others so quickly.
Just sold a stem on eBay...dude's name that won was Colin Reekie.
That's a bit unfortunate of a name.
That's a bit unfortunate of a name.
Just checking in to everyone knows I'm still alive. I don't know what I ate last night, but I woke up farting death juice. It smells TERRIBLE.
Better the back door than the front.
Meh. I managed to put together a rain barrel stand from two pressure treated 6x2s without cutting any of my fingers off.
Now chugging some Redbull because who is the lucky guy who has to work tonight to make my new bosses a little happier tomorrow?
Now chugging some Redbull because who is the lucky guy who has to work tonight to make my new bosses a little happier tomorrow?
Don't do this. It just sets unrealistic expectations...who is the lucky guy who has to work tonight to make my new bosses a little happier tomorrow?
Scored an Osprey Raptor 14 at REI for 25 percent off. Snuck in a ride at Thuper Awethum before T-Storms. Went for a short hike down to a waterfall on my way home. Now tacos.
I win Sunday.
I win Sunday.
Dude... come on. Cycling backpacks are so 2012.
Get yourself a fanny-pack, foo'!!
