[AngryMetalsmith]

@AngryMetalsmith (or any monkey who might actually know) Could the powdercoating process cause an aluminum wheel to weaken or fail? 400-450 degrees for no more than 20 minute enough to change the heat treating of an aluminum wheel?

Not sure, but aluminum melts at 1220˚ F and anneals at a fairly low temperature. I imagine that aluminum mountain bike frames are heat treated to release uneven tension from welding and for strength prior to powder coating. So maybe the same is true for aluminum wheels.

Besides, it doesn't really matter what you do to your wheels, it's the driver who's going to flip the Vette, not the paint.

 

[jonKranked]

if Dora the Explorer had a cousin in Nepal, would they be named Derpa the Sherpa?

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

if Dora the Explorer had a cousin in Nepal, would they be named Derpa the Sherpa?

Not sure, but didn't Mick Hannah marry a badass bmx chick named Hannah ? Wonder if she's called Hannah Two Times.

 

[jdcamb]

I often think if I wasn't a dedicated cyclist most of my life. I wouldn't have survived a spinal injury and a TBI. I did however. So there..... I think my lack of skill and ability to persevere in spite of how often I crash has made me more durable. I have had my ass beat because I did stupid shit and it made me better somehow. Blah blah blah.....

Stoney Stoneington....

Elixir brakes still suck...

 

[ICEBALL585]

I see a lot of people each day that pull up their pants on a regular basis. Are belts not cool anymore?

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I see a lot of people each day that pull up their pants on a regular basis. Are belts not cool anymore?

Starch and a butt plug is the trend.

 

[ICEBALL585]

Starch and a butt plug is the trend.

hmmm... I think I'll stick with a belt. I'm old skoolz like that.

 

[jstuhlman]

Starch and a butt plug is the trend.

Please see my signature.

 

[jdcamb]

I like when the snow from our Lake travels all the way to your State and fucks you up too. Haha....

 

[cecil]

How come E bikes are not called mopeds

 

[jdcamb]

How come E bikes are not called mopeds

Just tooled around Pinnacle on a E-Bike. It was fun. Mings on the way home....

 

[eric strt6]

Compared to the long term systematic Russian Atheltic Doping scandal it would appear that Lance Armstrong was a rank Amateur

 

[cecil]

Just tooled around Pinnacle on a E-Bike. It was fun. Mings on the way home....

Did you do the drops with it

 

[jdcamb]

Did you do the drops with it

No. Just climbed to the top and then right back down again. Thing weighs like 60lbs and I only had 50 minutes left on the battery once I got to the top. Went pretty fast on the road however.

 

[Repack Rider]

Is this a rhetorical question or what?

 

[ICEBALL585]

Shopping for a new ski jacket sucks ass now a days. I've been looking for almost 2 months now and still haven't found anything I'd be happy with. Since layering is the new fad it seems that outdoor clothing companies are charging the same (if not more) for a "shell" instead of making jackets with some freakin insulation in them. Whatever happened to making ski jackets with insulation and vents in case it got a little warmer outside. Ugh.

#firstworldproblems

 

[StiHacka]

This has been posted on a local FB page as an example of a "trail ruined by irresponsible riders". WTF, life in Murica is so hard.

 

[dan-o]

This has been posted on a local FB page as an example of a "trail ruined by irresponsible riders". WTF, life in Murica is so hard.

That is a great example of a trail ruined by irresponsible riders.
Not the single rut, mind you, but the fact that it's been raked out 18 unnecessary inches to the left of the rut.
Where was this taken?

 

[StiHacka]

That is a great example of a trail ruined by irresponsible riders.
Not the single rut, mind you, but the fact that it's been raked out 18 unnecessary inches to the left of the rut.
Where was this taken?

Somewhere in Blue Hills. I can't wait for the local NEMBA chapters to start paving the dirt.

 

[jstuhlman]

the real problem is that the trail appears to completely avoid all of those lovely ROX(tm)

 

[StiHacka]

the real problem is that the trail appears to completely avoid all of those lovely ROX(tm)

It's a bunch of fcuking dirt and fat roadies here.

 

[dan-o]

the real problem is that the trail appears to completely avoid all of those lovely ROX(tm)

All the rocks have been moved to the right side of the trail up above.
Can't have those getting in the way.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

James Mickens:

“In the normal universe, when are you ever going to be chased by someone into a lake, and then onto a bike, and then onto a road where you can’t drive a car, but you can run in a wetsuit? Will that ever happen? If so, instead of training for such an event, perhaps a better activity is to discover why a madman is forcing people to swim, then bike, and then run.” My friend will generally reply, “Triathlons are good exercise,” and I’ll say, “That’s true, assuming that you’ve made a series of bad life decisions that result in you being hunted by an amphibious Ronald McDonald.” My friend will say, “How do you know that it’s Ronald McDonald who’s chasing me?”, and I’ll say “OPEN YOUR EYES WHO ELSE COULD IT BE?”, and then my friend will stop talking to me about triathlons, and I will be okay with this outcome.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

I tear up a bit when I ride by a pile of rocks moved off the trail.

 

[jdcamb]

I tear up a bit when I ride by a pile of rocks moved off the trail.

Be grateful when you cover some Rocky terrain. Not everyone gets to know your joy. Many of us live in places that have virtually no rocks in their environs. If I want Rocks I have to places hundreds of miles from here.

 

[jstuhlman]

mmmmm...rocks

 

[jdcamb]

mmmmm...rocks

We should have a Random Rock thread.

 

[jonKranked]

the last time i shaved my beard was the beginning of november. since then i have done minimal trimming (grooming stragglers, keeping my neck clean, and keeping my moustache out of my mouth).

 

[slyfink]

The very sound of obscenities—forget their sense—seems to ring a bell in us, as is clear from the fact that many of them sound alike. In English, at least, one third of the so-called four-letter words are indeed made up of four letters, forming one syllable, and in nine out of ten cases, Bergen writes, the syllable is “closed”—that is, it ends in a consonant or two consonants. Why? Probably because consonants sound sharper, more absolute, than vowels. (Compare piss with pee, cunt with pussy.)

source

 

[jdcamb]

The one good thing about being Morbidly Obese is that you have extra surface area for tattoos. The unfortunate part is that no matter how many tattoos you get and how magnificently arty they are it doesn't obscure the fact that you are Morbidly Obese... The realization that all the extra income you had to pay for those tattoos didn't go for food or your child's upbringing is obvious to us. But not you. Therein lies the problem... Confused I am....

 

[jstuhlman]

The one good thing about being Morbidly Obese is that you have extra surface area for tattoos. The unfortunate part is that no matter how many tattoos you get and how magnificently arty they are it doesn't obscure the fact that you are Morbidly Obese... The realization that all the extra income you had to pay for those tattoos didn't go for food or your child's upbringing is obvious to us. But not you. Therein lies the problem... Confused I am....

protip: be neither morbidly obese, nor excessively tattooed.

 

[jdcamb]

protip: be neither morbidly obese, nor excessively tattooed.

I gotta admit a full Mercator Projection map on your ass is a pretty magnificent tattoo.

 

[jstuhlman]

i guess the continental divide doesn't fall in the right place...'cause that would be awesome.

 

[Adventurous]

I am three decades from retiring and can't fathom the boredom I have been subjected to throughout the course of my working life.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I am three decades from retiring and can't fathom the boredom I have been subjected to throughout the course of my working life.

Find something you're not bored with. Don't waste three decades.

 

[jstuhlman]

Find something you're not bored with. Don't waste three decades.

100% agree. gmt thread always make me thankful that i like what i do.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I'm glad that you have a video camera. In general, I am uninterested in watching what you captured with it.

get.off.my.lawn

 

[StiHacka]

i guess the continental divide doesn't fall in the right place...'cause that would be awesome.

But the Mariana trench just might.


Back to the topic. If you're planning a quick suicide, consider any pedestrian crossing in Woburn.

 

[Jm_]

Saw Russia. Got foreign policy experience.

 

[Jm_]

No picture evidence of Russia, but evidence i was in the area:

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