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asleep by 0830 awakened at midnight by some fool down the block lighting off M100s. espresso at 0300 same shit different year
T-20 to the end of the Orange one
T-20 to the end of the Orange one
Mornin!
Bicycle loaded and in the truck. I shall be departing to ride in a bit. First ride of the new year, and first ride in a solid month. Let's see if I can coax my fat ass around the trails.
Bicycle loaded and in the truck. I shall be departing to ride in a bit. First ride of the new year, and first ride in a solid month. Let's see if I can coax my fat ass around the trails.
Thanks for the reminder, we require a new record player. Time to peruse and see if I can piece together a reasonable system for a reasonable price.
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HEY. I slept 9:30 to 7:30. The year is off to a good start! Cold morning out there....I'll go for a run and then hit the covid market for fridge supplies.
first third of my transports done. Back home for a bit so I can start the beef chili in the slow cooker so its ready for consumption tonight.
Morning Monkeys.
Had my dates wrong, so taking the man boy and Lil Man out this morning to lose a few golf balls. Looking forward to riding with them soon now he's all moved in and Gateway Green is open.
Not sure if the Lumberyard will survive this year.
Had my dates wrong, so taking the man boy and Lil Man out this morning to lose a few golf balls. Looking forward to riding with them soon now he's all moved in and Gateway Green is open.
Not sure if the Lumberyard will survive this year.
We are supposed to be in for some sort of shit storm starting maybe ten PM, rain, snow, ice, all that shit.
My city boy ex brother in law is planning to drive up Tuesday in his Highlander to look at a house in Middlebury. He's running "all weather" tires. Good luck coming over the Greens if there's any weather, Nicky!
My city boy ex brother in law is planning to drive up Tuesday in his Highlander to look at a house in Middlebury. He's running "all weather" tires. Good luck coming over the Greens if there's any weather, Nicky!
I too went to bed at a decent hour and slept in reasonably late. In the process of extracting myself from bed. Espresso time.
Oh hey.....
Looks like the feds money machine went brrrrrrrrrrr into my savings account this morning.
Looks like the feds money machine went brrrrrrrrrrr into my savings account this morning.
Happy New Year People. I would like to say I’m going for a ride today. But again rain derailed that attempt. So it’s mimosas and foosball instead.
this Hannah girl sounds like a little brat. You should get rid of her and buy a new one.
Let me see, if he can get 30K for her and with a 1.5% interest rate on a loan he might be able to upgrade to the better model and break even within 3-4 years.
Nah. Sunken cost. Eat the loss and move on.Let me see, if he can get 30K for her and with a 1.5% interest rate on a loan he might be able to upgrade to the better model and break even within 3-4 years.
Happy New Year fellow monkeys, wishing you and yours a very good 2021. Actually, I'm wishing a good 2021 for the entire planet! May the goodness be shared by all.
I closed off 2020 by toasting the rear hub in my fatty. Blew the pawls apart. Lucky for me, my LBS entered the world of rebadged taiwanese carbon rims a few years back, and were the first to sell fatbikes in my town, so they have a large stock of spare fatbike wheel parts. I should have my wheel built up to a new hub by mid next week. I don't think I'll go carbon rim just yet, the weight savings for the cash outlay don't appeal to me. And I'm still scared of breaking carbon rims.
It was a good ride though. One of my buddies has spent a lot of time pond skipping on his skis, and knows how to connect a bunch of them. After 5 seasons of fatbiking, it's awesome to still be discovering new routes.
while I wait for the wheel, I guess I'll have to go torture myself some more on the skate skis. Just gave them a fresh wax, so hopefully that helps a bit. I might need an xc-ski shape though, scraping the wax off such flexy skis is a bit of a pain in the butt. I've seen simple solutions made of 2x4s glued together and cut to shape... New Years resolution #1!
New Years resolution #2 is to buy a canoe. Will go explore the local waterways with the boys this summer, and maybe even do a bunch of weekend camping trips with the boys. My wife is on board with this, and it's something I've always wanted to do. No time like 2021...
I closed off 2020 by toasting the rear hub in my fatty. Blew the pawls apart. Lucky for me, my LBS entered the world of rebadged taiwanese carbon rims a few years back, and were the first to sell fatbikes in my town, so they have a large stock of spare fatbike wheel parts. I should have my wheel built up to a new hub by mid next week. I don't think I'll go carbon rim just yet, the weight savings for the cash outlay don't appeal to me. And I'm still scared of breaking carbon rims.
It was a good ride though. One of my buddies has spent a lot of time pond skipping on his skis, and knows how to connect a bunch of them. After 5 seasons of fatbiking, it's awesome to still be discovering new routes.
while I wait for the wheel, I guess I'll have to go torture myself some more on the skate skis. Just gave them a fresh wax, so hopefully that helps a bit. I might need an xc-ski shape though, scraping the wax off such flexy skis is a bit of a pain in the butt. I've seen simple solutions made of 2x4s glued together and cut to shape... New Years resolution #1!
New Years resolution #2 is to buy a canoe. Will go explore the local waterways with the boys this summer, and maybe even do a bunch of weekend camping trips with the boys. My wife is on board with this, and it's something I've always wanted to do. No time like 2021...
I could be wrong... but I believe, in Colorado, eating children is verboten - even if they are your own.
Only on weekdays.
Lame wingdings. 
Low key celebrations last night, didn't even open the bottle of wine. Rode this morning on frozen dirt, was good. Lunch time sparkling wine seems to be the first great innovation of 2021 - Gruet from from NM FTW.
Low key celebrations last night, didn't even open the bottle of wine. Rode this morning on frozen dirt, was good. Lunch time sparkling wine seems to be the first great innovation of 2021 - Gruet from from NM FTW.
Do it. I have a nearly ten year old set of chinesium carbon rims and they have held up under my fat ass. And fat bikes are one of the lower risk applications.
Fat bike rims are just single wall, rather than the reinforced triangle that you have with a normal rim.
Midnight ride accomplished, real ride this afternoon, espresso nao.
A whole $600? What will you do with your newfound riches?
I'm with 6th on this one. My two buddies who have/had carbon rims have both broken multiple rims. On the plus side, they can be repaired (there's a guy about an hour down the road that makes custom paddles for Olympic athletes who also repairs carbon stuff). But it's still a high-cost, high-risk, low-reward proposition in my mind...
Between post dinner electrical work in the new house, kennel training the puppy, and the practice armageddon my neighbors unleashed at midnight - 5 hours of sleep. Happy New Year. Moar electrical work scheduled for today.
I have my original Derby rims, still in great shape. Where I would beat alum rims into odd shapes, the crabon rims just keep going.
Nextie got some single wall and double wall crabon rims. If you only ride on snow I wouldn't hesitate to go crabon. Glad you can get your wheel fixed rapidly. My remplacement hub is BO until end of January, so is the new fartbike.
I ride the Moonlander on everything, and wouldn't touch carbon with a stick, so what else is new?
The carbon content of wood is 45-50%; you may want to reconsider your approach.
Look into the kevlar or Carbon fiber canoes, they are a bit more expensive but a 17 footer weighs less than 35 pounds and just glides through the water. my buddy has one it's really nice