Election Day(s) Thread.
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Like I said, you have my full support. Git sum!!
this is a civilized society, I'll have you know.
Um, yeah, sure...
Have you looked around lately?
and he might win again in 2024 if they both arent dead, in prison, or senile...
cali started meeting at 5:00 EST. hurry up and finish it off, you slackers!
I hear Trump has signed a contract to host a remake of a popular reality TV show.
The Biggest Loser.
The Biggest Loser.
I assume all the delegates from California are busy telling everyone they are from California.
And they are Vegan?
Stephen Miller claims that they will send alternative electors to Congress to certify the results on January 6th. There are other roadblocks that individual congressmen can throw up but there seems to be rules to prevent any of it becoming reality with a Democrat majority in the House. Now if there was a republican majority, there really is nothing preventing a majority party from maintaining power ad-infinitum, scary.
All spelled out in this fun read:
All spelled out in this fun read:
We need to ditch the electoral college entirely and go by the popular vote.
This is insanity.
This is insanity.
You're not wrong.
Any Rep or Senator can challenge the results of a state. It will then cause both houses to retire the joint session, debate and make a simple majority vote on whether to count the ballots, a simple majority is required from both houses to not count the votes.
In the case of multiple or "alternative" votes being sent in, the results certified by the governor of that state are counted.
When society falls I am going to use my old Hope Monos as a garrote to take motherfuckers out. Pretty risky proposition as I will have no confidence in their engagement point.
Brian actually became a US distributor for karpiel when someone tried to revive the brand years after Jan Karpiel fled back to poland.
That actually happened. Because the world needed 68 degree headangle dh bikes in 2010
That actually happened. Because the world needed 68 degree headangle dh bikes in 2010
There is a gap in the market for those who want 15" bottom brackets.
I have a set as well. You can have them
So what's the deal with Karpiel and RideMonkey ? Must have been before I joined. Remember the bikes quite well as there were a few around here in the 90s.
I remember Brian bringing his Karpiel to Downieville when we had a mini western monkeyfest
Anyone who lived around reno/tahoe/norcal had probably ridden one in the early 2000s and compared to what else was out there, immediately knew they were going to own one (myself included). They were hands down the best bikes around, by a mile. The bender shit was such a horrible distraction from how well the bikes actually worked when you didn't do all the dumb shit to them that he did. If you look at the kinematics of the old disco volantes, pretty much all modern dh bikes have that leverage curve. It's like the east coast fascination that used to exist here with brooklyn machine works except karpiels didn't suck dick to ride.
Then the owner eventually fucked around with everyone's deposit money for a while (worldwide customers mind you) and started sending out frames that weren't even heat treated, which of course failed and could have killed someone. Jan Karpiel returned to the polish motherland not too long after.
Then brian thought like 6-8 years later the brand had such a good reputation he'd help bring them back at a time when geometry on dh bikes was changing for the better almost yearly, but karpiels were pretty much the same other than some suspension changes (which was the last thing they needed, but......longer shocks and stuff).
#jobcreators
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I sold a bike without brakes because I couldn't have any one else ride them from an ethical standpoint.
Saw a Disco Volante get hucked into an amphitheater. Massive huck to flat.
*sigh*
to be fair though what long travel bike made from 1999-2004 did you NOT see doing some stupid chuck to splat somewhere?
to be fair though what long travel bike made from 1999-2004 did you NOT see doing some stupid chuck to splat somewhere?
Without a doubt one of the dumbest things I have ever done on a bike was ride Farlow Gap, the gnarliest trail in Pisgah, without a functioning rear brake. Specifically a Hope Mono. Pull the lever all the way to the bar, and nothing, not even the teensiest bit of rotor drag. My friend had driven up from SC and the desire to ride was greater than my sense of self preservation. 0/10 would not do again. Nope.
Yeah, but this had a rather large staircase to clear before le huck du flat.
One time in Perú we had used burros to get bikes up to 15,500 feet near Huaraz. (Hondo Pass). The Burro guy severed my rear brake hose...I rode down 7,000 feet of absolute high altitude chunky jank in the hail with just my front brake. It was ‘character building’. I made a Hayes bleed kit out of surgical tubing and a syringe from the local health ministry, and found some DOT 4. Saved the rest of the trip.
tRy THAT oN a sAnTa cRuZ sUpEr 8!!!!!!
My front and rear brake levers would go to the bar 1 in every 100 times. So you started a ride thinking everything was cool, but never knew what you were going to get.
Fortunately shimano bought that technology in about 2015 and has really mastered the execution beyond what hope with their niche market and lesser development tools could have really ever accomplished.
I ran at least one full bottle through them, had three different shops work on them, and even sent back to the factory for service. Still didn't fix them. Hopeless pieces of crap.
My 2016 XTs do that weird thing with the lever but the pistons have never faded or failed.
Who said anything about pistons failing, I'm just talking about instant no braking technology™
They may have moved the failure to the levers but it's still just as effective and even more instantaneous.
and heads up: every single set of shimano brakes (like a dozen in the last 8 years) I've owned has in fact ended up leaking fluid at the piston
They may have moved the failure to the levers but it's still just as effective and even more instantaneous.
and heads up: every single set of shimano brakes (like a dozen in the last 8 years) I've owned has in fact ended up leaking fluid at the piston
Never ran them. The only thing I really care about with brakes is consistency. I like TRPs enough in that regard I put them on both of my modern bikes. I did have to perform a satanic ritual when setting them up to make sure rock jesus didn't try to haunt them.