Shit man, you've should have let me know. My old man used to work there and I grew up in Three Rivers. Know that park like the back of my hand. If the road to Mineral King is open you should really go see it.
Does the Borax Kid still live there?
That's a depressing take on it. But accurate.
A big part of me wants to buy a new bike, but a bigger part of me wants to just save more money so I can stop working sooner. I'd like to be done by 55, but I'm not optimistic because child 2 will need to go to college.
or don't buy an all out dentist bike?
Yeah... at this point 55 is looking a bit more unlikely for me. Mainly as the 3rd kid will still be in college.
This business is primarily living expenses/toy money, so it is fulfilling its purpose. Now that I think about it, it is mostly paying for health insurance with a few bikes and gas money thrown in...
Pretty much.
The only big thing that'll materially affect when I'm able to retire is whether we go the mountain condo route or not. I'm favoring renting regularly for a few years and waiting out the next housing crash.Buncha fucking dentists...
I guess I am just saying that if a 6k bike is make or break a few years into retirement, then you gotta go back to work!Buncha fucking dentists...
The depressing part is that it only affects R-day by a few days (hours? minutes?)
The overtime I worked the last two weeks should be equivalent to retiring two weeks earlier.
Where I am at I never see folks on E-Bikes. I am not sure I would be bothered by them. Do they impede your trail progress somehow? I live in a Urban area so my tolerance of others is rather open.
What calculation are you using for this? For income per year there's the 4%/Trinity rule, but how are you getting weeks?
Do you ride bikes for fun?
Starting to hear feedback from Massachusetts that says that battery bombers are starting to become really annoying...
I live in Orange County, CA. So trails can be rather dense user-wise, especially when you mix in most of our stuff is share with both hikers and equestrians. Don't get me wrong, ultimately, I don't really care and pretty firmly in the live and let live camp. We can and do have some clashing of groups, which usually involves everyone hating on bikes, so the only thing that does suck would be getting access restricted for everyone (by everyone, I mean all bikes getting F'd, because we get ganged up on by hikers and horse people). Hikers have sheer numbers and horse people have stupid amounts of money. Mountain biking generally has neither. There are definitely bigger, longer rides, out and away from more people, where even I wouldn't mind trying one out. I rode the trails most local to my house this weekend. Keep in mind, the longest climb there is about 400 ft vertical, maybe over a mile or so. There's a bunch of short hills and it's fun, but seriously an e-bike is most likely overkill.
Are you getting close to retiring? The overtime and accrued sick days I carried over before I retired jacked up my monthly pretty substantially as they were payed out in my final year. My last year I had prevailing wage dispute go my way all of which advanced my monthly. I wish I had stayed active another year as guys who stayed got so much overtime it almost doubled their monthly.
Not gonna lie, it is mildly annoying grinding a climb and getting passed by some overweight dude at like 15mph because he can't wait 30 seconds for the trail to open.
I got 20 years to go. Assuming I maintain my current position I could shave 5 years off that if I save aggressively. Health care is the big unknown but I don't expect to be able to quit before medicare kicks in.
