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    too much wiggle room. I fully trust the city to fuck this up.
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    hmmmyeahno. how about the city stipulate that if ol' Elon wants to move here, he gets to house and feed...2k homeless on his factory campus. any overage picked up around town he can put on busses to SF or Seattle where they think the homeless are wonderful. Apple, too, and any other corporate giants who want to come here and further destroy everything that made Austin a great place to live, a while back. fuck Corporate Welfare. real hard. also, Prop B fine print reads to me like it's still ok to camp, pan-handle, harass, process stolen bikes, etc. under 183 at Oak Knoll, Braker, Lamar, and down around Ben White. It doesn't say 'within the city limit'. it specifically says Downtown and UT. looks like it only protects the same expensively-greasy-haired, bespectacled, bad-at-math motherfuckers that created this city-wide mess in the first place.
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    you know who lives in the guest house, right?
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    pretty sure, yeah. as we always understood it, Deception was everything on that side of the paved path between the barn you used to ride through, not far from Mulligan, and the jeep road which had a drop-in on the far side of it to get to the Rim Loop/Dave's Ditch area. there is one minor reroute that I don't understand; but if anything, it made the way between the two points it connects a lot easier. the stretch between where the trail map is posted and that flattish intersection with the end of PicnicX where it comes out from under the footbridge has always been the toughest. I think erosion has made some of the step-ups bigger, for sure. I don't ride it often, but I do always remember several of the rock gardens when they begin their punishment. on the brakes: I was a little slow to move. Jenson is my go-to, but they've been dry every time I checked, as was Amazon. think I'm gonna hit RPR, this weekend.
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    deglaze...is that like when she washes her face, afterwards?
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    it's a fucking show dog, with fucking papers.
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    nice work, KuRdt. a buddy and I were out there today and wondered the same thing w/r to Deception. I guess that's what it's about: being deceptive. not sure why they split it at what I think once was Swag Rock and where the map is posted now into 1/4 Notch and Double Down. did you hit all those new lines on Snail with the ladder drops and whatnot? or in the far opposite direction to Candyland and Gnargasm? I rarely go over that way unless I'm just dying for mileage. the feature itself is far scarier looking than it actually is. btw, I ended up ordering some spare pads from a bike shop in Canada. Dunbar. should be here next week. iirc, the had 8 on the shelf when I ordered. no one else I could find had 2 wheels worth. prettymuch the same price as anywhere else.
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    good thing I keep one of these in my glovebox
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    buncha article-not-readin' mother fuckers in here. Instacart guy never saw him before raising the alarm. to Dahobbs point, Instacart guy was probably also smart in leaving the AR since he is black, himself. I suppose you could call it a victory for equality that the guy made it to the bathroom with all that gear, in the first place.
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    must be a shitload of drive-bys going on, if hit rate is the only criteria that moves the needle, here. meanwhile, there's an interesting ongoing debate (elsewhere) about what constitutes a mass shooting/murder event. but whatever. you're right (again), of course. let's limit the discussion to the radicalized or Just Plain Nuts, since what we also like to do is get on our high horse about legislating cures for shit like insanity. but, eh. nobody cares, because nobody died. for all we know, he was just tooling up to head out back and blow up some milk jugs and cans, and where else was he going to get those but at a grocery store? a perfectly reasonable explanation.
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    *not counting drive-bys.
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    my wife's extra laptop power supply she leaves at home has a bright white lit ring around the jack. stays lit even after unplugging it from the wall. have to tuck the jack end in a drawer on her desk when I crash on the futon in the office.
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    you married Big Brother?
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    we need the same pads, then. my brakes are SLX, which is the same as the XT but without the mysterious Free Stroke adjustment screw. I only rode RHR one time, years ago, before the fires out there. always kinda had the 24hr race there on my bucket list, but have never gotten around to it. my understanding is the fr512 area is accessible from outside RHR.
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    you tried these guys, yet? https://wheelsmfg.com/derailleur-hangers/manufacturers/orbea.html what kinda pads you looking for? if you're down to the pins, I have some Shimano 2-piston style with the fins that have some life left. Thanks for the reminder to stock up on pads for my current brakes, though. I'm gonna be out of town, all next week. but I think I need to check out Fr512 in Smithville and learn me some jumping skills. more reps to be had there a whole lot cheaper than Spider.
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    I know, it sucks! similar thing happened to me (video on previous page). found a level on eBay in Taiwan. put it on last sunday for a South ride. squirted a fist-sized rock on a steep descent and got sent into a cedar sapling on the left, which promptly squeezed that brake lever for me and sent me OTB. it was right above the lip of about a 2ft drop, so I had a long time to think about how much it was gonna hurt while I swung through that high arc. bruised shoulder, bruised ribs. fortunately, after I got my wind back, the pain didn't get serious until I got to the truck. we cut it short, but we still got almost 900ft of climbing in 5.5miles. but sleeping's for shit. hurts to do anything but blink. double-fuck sneezing or coughing (never realized how bad I am at swallowing my spit).
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    the speed limit on turning the VHF knob on the tv. not specifically defined, but we got yelled at by my dad if you went too fast for his comfort at the moment. prettymuch just had to keep the clicks from channel to channel distinct from each other to prevent "wearing out the contacts". since we were the de facto remote control for my parents, this was a sacred duty.
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    Lame joke thread

    wd40 replied to honolulu horn's topic in Lulz

    ok, but how about them warlocks?
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    so close, but no worky. oh well.
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    the seats in my 2000 taco are shot (driver-side springs, anyway). 60/40 bench. need to figure out if the rails are the same.
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    and NowThis...
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    And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right Where I belong I'm right Where I belonnnnnnnng

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