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wd40

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  1. get out of your way. w/bacon, guac, cheddar and Nando's.
  2. we're all old. well, except Your Mom. sorta. no biggie. on a semi-serious note, I'll once again pimp Hadley hubs. about $120 cheaper than CK, and absolutely bomb-proof. I service the rear hub about twice a year, and really, that's just a wipe down and re-oil, maybe change the seals (haven't had to yet on the current one, 3 years in). have never touched the front hub, beyond spinning it to verify the bearings are still butter smooth. been on the same front hub for 10 years? rear had to change because boost took over. I service it out of guilt. when freshly-oiled, it's silent (to my deaf ears). made in USA. it's a husband-wife operation, last I checked. he machines, and she does CS. a buddy sent one back for repair, and they just sent him a new one. check them out on Balle Racing. I think that's about the only place to buy them, direct. CK makes good stuff. they're just really, really proud of it.
  3. but it's the cassette tho lol
  4. the cassette rides on the freehub body which is part of the, well, hub. speaking of roadie hilarity: this hit my inbox a few days ago. eta: the buzz of the palls in the freehub just means you're not pedaling. although, it's fun to make that angry bee noise by backpedalling really fast, if scaring pedestrians is your thing.
  5. yup. 160. with the increased progressiveness, it sets me up to consider a coil shock. I really can't speak to what it does to my climbing. it's just not something I worry about. I enjoy technical climbing, but the payoff is going downhill. I know it feels different when I attack punchy little climbs and up-ledges. it's that increased progressiveness at the end of the stroke, I guess. feels stiffer and livelier, at the same time. but I still make all the stuff I did before, so it's not hurting me. I've had to add more air to the shock. it feels a lot better on bigger hits, but I'm using more of the travel on smaller ones. not wallowy, just monitoring the fun-meter very closely these days, and noticed the difference. as far as your new bikitis, good luck. one of my more aggressive riding bros is looking hard at the Ripmo. they have an aluminum version, which puts it within budget and takes it out of that scary world of full-carbon. we're old school.
  6. so much for Chris Rock's "get a white friend" tip. lol @ butthurt tapafags. Finally, Thank YOU for wading through the reddit for these gems. XOXO, wd
  7. don't get me wrong. it's cool as hell to watch. I just don't get the same "I gotta try that" urge that I get from other skate videos. I figure I've gotten away with more than my share of close calls and minor falls. I know much it hurts at low speed. that's just too much.
  8. got a new rocker from Cascade. it adds 7mm of travel, and 13% progressiveness. makes it kinda botttomless (except today). still trying to get the shock dialed to it, although I'm sure I'll have to start over once I work up the nerve to tear it down and service it. pretty happy with it, so far. did a new drop at Brushy for the first time, a couple weeks ago. felt it in my teeth. put the new link on, and it felt like butter. should feel even better if I can manage to not case it, next time. speaking of Brushy, that creek has a soapy spot, too. I guess the parents that let their kids play in the shallows near the railroad bridge never venture that far upstream, or downstream, for that matter. pretty nasty, around where it goes under Parmer.
  9. I'm too old for that shit.
  10. got my money's worth out of all my new suspension bits, today. one trail nemesis at a time.
  11. ha! very similar. same yellow plastic, which I always hated, but with red wheels. here it is. a Pro Class Hot Dogger. at some point in my ute, I got ahold of a whole can of safety orange marking paint. thing has got to be 42, 43 years old. it sometimes saw action as a furniture dolly until I broke down and bought a real one. mostly, it just hangs in a closet in the garage. and yes, RIP Jay.
  12. had one of those little plastic boards when I was a kid. there was a condo complex up the street with a lot of long, squiggly sidewalks to cruise, and some shallow stairs to float down. never owned a longboard. but used to do a little bit of it on my Santa Cruz shortboard. I'd picked it up during my early post-divorce wild days when I was stuck in Leander with no money and nothing to do but fish, mtb, and take naps. anyway, there's a street forming the northern boundary of Walnut Creek Park with a big hill. I used to carve my way down that until I just had too much speed to hold the turns (sliding just didn't seem like a great idea), and would take the last hundred feet or so just straight down. it would bottom out and go back uphill to a dead end to slow back down. just the perfect spot for that sort of thing. my neighborhood had one hill, at the very back. pretty mellow; but on a skateboard, it was plenty fast. about 6 turns I could rail all the way to my house where I'd just bail out onto the grass. went out to Ramp Ranch on 29 some, back then. learned to drop in there and play in the 1/4 pipes. got put on a project out in Sunnyvale, discovered a real skatepark near my hotel, and got better. shortly after that, Austin built its first concrete park down by the IRS. would get there right at sun-up, before all the kids woke up. couple times, there was another old guy there sweeping and skating the pool in the dark with some cheap little LEDs clipped to the bill of his ballcap. fuckin crazy. good skater, tho. now all I do is ticktock up and carve down my longish, curvy driveway. good core workout. lotta fun, esp for the investment.
  13. yep. gettin to be about that time of year, again. cute-but-evil little fuckers. ever since they started a nest in my truck's engine compartment and chewed up my main harness, my backyard is a free fire zone.
  14. on that note, I call this piece "Neo-Cubist Mixed Media Muffuletta Tittyfuck, with Pickle". I'd forgotten I had a jar of that Central Grocery olive mix. but I got a hankerin' when I found it in the fridge, so I just made do.
  15. ding dong
  16. you lack vision, Grasshopper
  17. I was trying to find a witty pic or gif response to this, but I got sidetracked.
  18. Charlie didn't get much USO. he was dug in too deep, or moving too fast...
  19. them geckos like to hang out in my mailbox. I'm sure my neighbors enjoy the show when I scream like a little bitch when they jump/fall out onto my hand when I open it. probably just revenge for when they get squirted in the doorframe of my shed. or from my cat murdering them.
  20. I just assume the Mid-Western version of any food is, at best, sustenance. no surprise they'd fuck up breadnbutter pickles. Best Maid Jalapeño b&b pickle slices are good with onions on a pulled pork sandwich. I especially like the little chili peppers they put in the jar. but that's it.
  21. Smitten Kitchen's fridge pickle recipe is my go-to. I often add some fresh japs to the jar, garlic, red pepper flakes, whatever. hardest part was finding decent all-glass jars. think I finally found a pair in a set at BedBathnBeyond. if I have to pick between cut pickle types, team chips. I'll eat spears, but chips fry better, imo. I miss Rick's on the Bricks. I need to find my pickled onion recipe. awesome carnitas taco topper.
  22. yeah. that sliding glass door was a piece of crap, anyway. and that juniper was getting a little thick.
  23. musta been showing brain
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