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  1. El Santo

    Moving to NorCal (again)

    IMO, stay on the peninsula. Burlingame is a close hop by Caltrain (20 minutes) or car (variable time) to SF, and taking your bike on Caltrain is free at all times. BART limits when you can get a bike on, unless you ride one of those fold-up-jobbies, plus it's loud and slow. Riding on the...
  2. El Santo

    Moving to NorCal

    If you're working in the city, seriously consider the Caltrain commuter towns along the peninsula. My wife and I split a commute and live in San Mateo, which is about halfway between Palo Alto an SF. I ride the train to work every day. Mid-pen benefits: 1. *very* close to all the mid-pen...
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    Foes is Ebaying Missy Giove's '99 race bike

    That is officially funny.
  4. El Santo

    Arizona riding

    South Mountain has some of the most technical trails I have ever seen. I have made two trips to Phoenix specifically to ride SoMo. If you are into buffed-out singletrack, SoMo is not for you. If you like line-picking (even on a big bike), and absurdly technical trails, commit these to memory...
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    Lift to Downieville

    If you are headed up to Downieville on Friday, have space inside your car and an empty tray on your rack, and are in need of scintillating conversation about the right tire pressure to run on Butcher's ranch, I'll pay for gas for a one-way ride up there. PM me if you would like to give me a...
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    Breaking Newz: Lost Liberty Hotel" Proposed on David Souter's Land

    This must be a tough call for you conservatives... On one hand Kelo vs. J.Crew central is a huge handout to corporations (these people's cribs tend to get razed to make way for Wal-Marts and Costcos), which is what you Conservatim seem to be all about. On the other hand, Kelo vs. J.Crew...
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    I Salute All Riders...

    LOL! That's hot.
  8. El Santo

    Good Machine Shop- Ala Disco Volante

    I know the Stanford machine shop makes lots of one-of-a-kind doodads for the physicists there - they are reported to be bad ass at machinining things. I don't know if they'll do outside work, or how much it'll cost. Here's the link. Good luck.
  9. El Santo

    NorCal Photo Gallery

    That's a sweet pic. wow. grande.
  10. El Santo

    Heim 3 Ring Guide?

    The metal piece that the rollers were attached to was very, very flimsy, and any time he hit a rock the metal piece had to be bent back (which could be accomplished by hand). Not an extremely durable product IMO. To be fair, this was about 4 years ago, so perhaps the design has changed a...
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    Heim 3 Ring Guide?

    My buddy used to have one. IMO, they suck. Bolt on a DRS and forget about it.
  12. El Santo

    OMG STOLEN stuff!!!

    Just so everyone here knows, I, too have a red, faded, salty old '02 Camelbak Hawg. So if you see a guy on a blue bullit with a pack that fits this description, don't clothesline me or toss a stick in my spokes. Besides, I doubt El Chimichanga would want to get within 10 yards of my...
  13. El Santo

    Trails in HMB?

    Check out Purisima OSP - it's right above HMB off Skyline. In the summer, Whittemore Gulch is bad ass buffed-out ST - it's legal, but I think it might still be closed to bikes (it closes to bikes seasonally). If you are in a gnarly XC mood, climbing Harkin (sp) ridge from the bottom to get to...
  14. El Santo

    NorCal Photo Gallery

    I like it. Much mo flow. The drops are just as big as they were, and the wallride is *hot*. Wadsworth McStackton on some trail Wadsworth getting his minishore on And if my HTML skills don't suck, maybe a few of me doing something similar attached.
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    Pacifica sanitizing

    As of Saturday, the two doubles on the right side of the trail just above the turn off to Nelson's still have standing water pools below the trannies, so let those dry a little bit before you hit them. As people have mentioned, there is a tree down on BS just before the sharp left hairpin...
  16. El Santo

    Dirt Jump Mayhem

    That's probably for the best. I'll pretend that he was wearing a helmet in that one. I hope he likes applesauce.
  17. El Santo

    Postride Grubbage

    This post brings up the obvious topic: where are the best places to go for post-ride eats and drinks? Maybe there should be categories: 1. Mexican 2. Beer coupled with something greasy (1) I am going to go with Pancho Villa Taqueria in downtown San Mateo (partly because it's close...
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    MROSD drops $1M on a ranger house

    Hmmm. Good catch, I missed that. An acquisition budget is indeed a different thing than an operating budget. Does this mean that MROSD automatically spends $15M a year on land? If so, it sounds like they should be adding a good chunk of land every year (maybe they do this, and I'm just too new...
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    MROSD drops $1M on a ranger house

    I absolutely agree - this article is clearly framing the data in the least-favorable way possible. - but - The data are what the data are. True, land prices around the bay area have skyrocketed in the past 30 years, so I agree that the average price per acre is designed to shock rather...
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    MROSD drops $1M on a ranger house

    Your property tax dollars hard at work. x-post from the ROMP listserv. ------------------------------------------------------------ Article Expensive digs for a ranger OPEN SPACE DISTRICT'S $1 MILLION COST FOR CABIN RAISES QUESTIONS By Paul Rogers Mercury News A Silicon Valley...
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