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slyfink

slyfink

Turbo Monkey
Sep 16, 2008
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5,625
Ottawa, Canada
Oldest child (almost 12) is home sick from school. He wanted to play Catan at lunch and was really upset with wifey and I that we have to work... :doh::D
 
maxyedor

maxyedor

<b>TOOL PRO</b>
Oct 20, 2005
5,496
3,141
In the bathroom, fighting a battle
Fucked up last night, rode in 100° weather, got dehydrated as shit and had a Gin and Tonic, this morning was rough.


gonefirefightin said:
California plate, Subaru of Hayward plate frame
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I showed up too late to guess the Subi, but this checks out. The number of people out here with a Forrester or Crosstrek with a moderate lift, ATs, a roof rack and some stupid ass sand ladders who think it's capable of real offroading is staggering. They'll talk your ear off about how useless your Jeep/Yota/whatever is and how they don't need that type of brute just to go offroad, then promptly get stuck at the trailhead.
 
gonefirefightin

gonefirefightin

free wieners
Feb 5, 2007
12,394
6,452
Surrounded by Police in a hail of gunfire
maxyedor said:
Fucked up last night, rode in 100° weather, got dehydrated as shit and had a Gin and Tonic, this morning was rough.




I showed up too late to guess the Subi, but this checks out. The number of people out here with a Forrester or Crosstrek with a moderate lift, ATs, a roof rack and some stupid ass sand ladders who think it's capable of real offroading is staggering. They'll talk your ear off about how useless your Jeep/Yota/whatever is and how they don't need that type of brute just to go offroad, then promptly get stuck at the trailhead.
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After a 45 min convo over breakfast, they are buying a jeep now since the Subaru is more than likely totaled. We had a rather lengthy discussion about 4 link suspensions, lockers, and automatic swaybars from the factory.
 
maxyedor

maxyedor

<b>TOOL PRO</b>
Oct 20, 2005
5,496
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In the bathroom, fighting a battle
gonefirefightin said:
After a 45 min convo over breakfast, they are buying a jeep now since the Subaru is more than likely totaled. We had a rather lengthy discussion about 4 link suspensions, lockers, and automatic swaybars from the factory.
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Glad to hear the people too stupid to not take their Subaru offroading, which ultimately resulted in a crushed oil pan and likely a giant oil spill they won't be cleaning up will now have a bigger, more capable vehicle that they'll inevitably get stuck somewhere much harder to extract.
 
sunringlerider

sunringlerider

Wood fluffer
Oct 30, 2006
4,300
7,912
Corn Fields of Indiana
:dead: Just came from the Deere dealer. Needed 3 fair sized bolts for the frame on my grain drill(wheat seed putter in grounderer thingy). $68.00 later. Didn’t even have the common courtesy to give a reach around.
 
I Are Baboon

I Are Baboon

Vagina man
Aug 6, 2001
32,744
10,687
MTB New England
Sandwich said:
Thanks! The run was...humbling. I was loaned a wetsuit at the last minute and it very much came in handy. Water temp was 68 they said. When I dove in, my goggles filled with water and I had to try and do breaststroke in order to empty them....breaststroke made breathing a challenge in the wetsuit. I probably only freestyled for 70% of the swim, yet I still somehow came in the top 25% of all racers. Yikes.

The run though...lots of hills and I was admittedly pretty gassed when I started. At least I finished!
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For a sprint tri, it sounds like you did it right. That should be a full on, balls out, maximum effort race start to finish. If your legs were gassed at the start of the run, then you biked appropriately. The run in a sprint tri should just be to hang on for dear life. For Olympic distance and up though, there needs to be a little more pacing and patience.
 
canadmos

canadmos

Cake Tease
May 29, 2011
21,977
21,506
Canaderp
maxyedor said:
Glad to hear the people too stupid to not take their Subaru offroading, which ultimately resulted in a crushed oil pan and likely a giant oil spill they won't be cleaning up will now have a bigger, more capable vehicle that they'll inevitably get stuck somewhere much harder to extract.
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If they go to Utah and get stuck, at least they might get a sweet tshirt out of the deal, if they call these guys...
 
jonKranked

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
88,806
27,016
media blackout
I Are Baboon said:
For a sprint tri, it sounds like you did it right. That should be a full on, balls out, maximum effort race start to finish. If your legs were gassed at the start of the run, then you biked appropriately. The run in a sprint tri should just be to hang on for dear life. For Olympic distance and up though, there needs to be a little more pacing and patience.
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what if we did a triathlon, but all 3 stages were on a bike.
 
maxyedor

maxyedor

<b>TOOL PRO</b>
Oct 20, 2005
5,496
3,141
In the bathroom, fighting a battle
canadmos said:
If they go to Utah and get stuck, at least they might get a sweet tshirt out of the deal, if they call these guys...
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Armature shit. This dude picked up a Blackhawk in part to recover stuck trucks/equipment
Probably gunna see GFF's breakfast buddies slung under it sooner or later.

Normally I enjoy a good stupid tax situation, but much like people on throttle-having e-bikes ripping through the local trails at 25mph helmetless, when their stupidity may cost me access to public lands, it's a problem. Spent lots of time shoveling up oily dirt after roll-overs, crashes, etc and lost a couple coolers to fluid catching duty just so that I wasn't the asshole who got a 4x4 trail shut down.
 
stevew

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
41,162
10,100
simple simon pizza in thompson falls does one thing most pizza joints fuck up....actually put some fucking sauce on the pie...

always a treat....
 
AngryMetalsmith

AngryMetalsmith

Business is good, thanks for asking
Jun 4, 2006
22,056
12,776
I have no idea where I am
HAB said:
Did a proper epic on Saturday, which was great. Went for a more reasonable ride yesterday and got stung by yellow jackets ~30 times, which was less great. Had to lie down for a while, was pretty woozy and seeing stars for a bit. Doing okay now, but feeling pretty wiped out by the whole ordeal.

Saturday:

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This is when mountain meth heads can be useful. Bum a cigarette off one and place moistened tobacco on the sting with a band aid or duck tape. The nicotine and the other chemicals will neutralize it.
 
stevew

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
41,162
10,100
i thought i had the combination to the gate for cougar peak lookout....i was wrong....

phones long lens

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