Working for the man.
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Working for the man.
According to the Subaru dealer car needs front pads and rotors resurfaced. I should probably check and do them myself, how hard can it be?
Do all 4 corners and just replace the rotors. You can probably do it yourself in an hour and for WAY less than what the dealer told you it would cost just to have them turned.
Aw fuck. This is devastating to me. I worked as a dive master on the Conception for 6 years in the early 80s. At 4am every one would have been in the forward bunks below decks except for the the crew up in the pilot house.
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Whole body is sore today. Eating breakfast and packing at the same time. Once we're done, drive to Sea-Tac begins. Never did get up to A-line because the rest of the group didn't get back up to that level.
Thinking Mt. St. Anne for next year.
Thinking Mt. St. Anne for next year.
Was driving home in the country last night at 1am when some guy jumped out from bushes and tried to flag me down. Fuck that!
Oo... That happened to me once out in the orange groves driving home from my girlfriends house.
Re-beveled and sharpeneda knife yesterday, kept all my fingers. Also rebuilt a front wheel, let's see if I keep all my teeth. Modern rims make wheel building such a pleasure, damn near perfectly true wheel with all spokes within 5% tension on each side.
Right?
I learned to build with Araya rims and the like, it took a LOT more patience and skill to build a true, strong wheel.
Mavic SUP 519's were a revelation.
I learned to build with Araya rims and the like, it took a LOT more patience and skill to build a true, strong wheel.
Mavic SUP 519's were a revelation.
I knew I had a really bad feeling about the Conception sinking. My former boss at the dive shop had this weekend's charter and his website indicted he and his daughter we're on board. This sucks hard.
That sucks. Sounds like the crew on duty got off, would that include them?
Boats and fires are an ugly combo.
No only the captain and 4 permanent crew sleep in the top quarters. Just found out that Bill was not on board but his Daughter Kristy was and is presumed deceased.
No bueno. Sorry.
sorry @eric strt6
home from fam reunion. one of our dogs apparently bit the petsitter on the hand. fuck.
stoked for 3 day work week.
home from fam reunion. one of our dogs apparently bit the petsitter on the hand. fuck.
stoked for 3 day work week.
Yeah, so about that:
- Centennial Cone blows. Hot, exposed (both in terms of shaded areas and of side hill exposure), and just endless climbing. This climbing was tolerable on the e-bike but given the lack of rewarding descents (save for the fun 20 foot section of rocks going down from the top of the Cone proper that most weenies walk) it just isn’t worth it.
- two other e-bike riders showed up, and a motley crew we were indeed. Me in modern tech riding gear on a Pivot, another guy looking dressed to travel across Africa on safari (like with full combat boots, for instance) on a Haibike, and a guy looking as if he might shuffle down the street on a hardtail with a Bosch middrive, a rack, and a soft sided trunk on said rack. We stayed together fairly well on ascents via the magic of electricity, but they clearly don’t live for fun sections on the descents and would rather take things at a very sedate pace.
I’m going to see if Army boots dude wants to take a lap on Mountain Lion sometime (50/50 whether he likes it or hates it) but otherwise this riding group is not for me if this kind of ride is their idea of a fun time. Other rides I’ve seen them post are at Green Mountain and Mt. Falcon so this type of shit is really what they like.
He just wanted to see y0re wang. NBD.
Rode a trail in the Pisgah Ranger District that they just reworked and reopened two days ago. The original trail was steep, technical, and basically surfing down rox 90% of the way. Was fun. Lots of bitching about the rework and sanitizing a USFS unsustainable trail. Anyway, the rework was awesome. Still rocky, proper drainage and gaps and berms like you wouldn’t believe. 10 out of 10 would bang again
This story warms the cockles of my heart.
Only time I rode there I blew a derailleur off a brand new bike and got stung by a bee/wasp thing right below my right eye within a matter of minutes of each other. On top of it being a damn near two hour drive one-way from my house.
3/10, not recommended.
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Avery? photos i saw seemed like it was done proper.
Yeah, I priced up the parts to replace rotors and pads and it's a lot less than the number the dealer quoted for pads and to resurface the rotors.
I'll give it a go, not like brakes are important living in the mountains
Wife and I will cut across the one trail when we're linking it into a big 60+ mile dirt road loop, but it's definitely not a destination. I just wanted to see Toshi's ride report
Only time I rode there a blew a derailleur off a brand new bike and got stung by a bee/wasp thing right below my right eye within a matter of minutes of each other. On top of it being a damn near two hour drive one-way from my house.
3/10, not recommended.
I can't see how to make it a worthwhile trail either when they link it to the new Floyd Hill stuff...
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Yeah. Lots of local debate about ruining the raw feel of backcountry Pisgah, etc. it was really well done and still retains the rough feel. I feel it will only get better with time. Although, I has a strong feeling some people (hopefully not me) are gonna get seriously broke off.
rode yesterday in the heat, breakfast and hiking around with visiting fam this morning, now chilling indoor while a big ol pork shoulder slow cooks for later.
Hey @Nick and @Full Trucker any recommendations for a tire shop around here too?
I’m neither of them, but I’d suggest Discount Tire. There’s one on W Colfax in Lakewood.
i was happy and didn't e-complain when i saw some photos (of avery)...photos of what they did to upper black gave me the sads, and i e-complained (without having ridden it, of course) because the few times i rode it i remembered it as being fast, rough, and ledgy, which are all good things in my book.
Black is still one of my favourite trails. Enough to ride it twice during the same week. Once in the snow.
nice.....but expensive to unfuck that paint job....Oh yeah and saw this parked at the trail head.
5/10
Briskets overdue 
