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  1. @Braff Zacklin give it a rest, Ansel
  2. skip the dropper. I use the shit out of mine now, but I rode the same trails for decades without it. it may not fit your next bike. try just taking a link or two out of your chain if you're dropping it that much. I run a 1x10. supposedly a clutched der. not gonna say I never drop it, but just putting a narrow-wide chainring on and tossing the front der made an immediate difference before I even went up to my current 10spd setup. but I was also surprised to see my chain touch the ground in slo-mo on the landing off the ramp in my backyard (filmed it to try to figure out why I suck at jumping. conclusion: I just suck at jumping). anyway, no idea what kind of freehub you got, but you may need a whole new wheel in order to fit an 11 or 12spd cassette if you're currently only running a 9spd. that is, unless you're a stud wheel builder can just swap out the hub. but that's kinda pointless, imo. definitely go tubeless.
  3. my wife claims she doesn't need the cold ones. ok, then STOP FUCKING TAKING THE COLD ONES and leaving them scattered around the house, each short a single sip. anyway, I came here to vent about seemingly educated adults who say, "these ones".
  4. very racist (but I assume the acceptable kind)
  5. I'm friggin beat. maximum humidity. but did get a nice sprinkle on the grind back to my truck, which was nice. fixin to smoke this, with some garlic-mashed taters. strictly for recovery purposes. Happy Father's Day.
  6. heal up quick and clean, Pescado. heading to NM next month with the family. should get at least one full day up the hill at Red River, tho. first day off, this week (lunch with my dad). except for Brushy on Monday, which is flat, it's been about 5-6 miles and 800-1000ft of climbing per day. mostly lunchtime rides (wednesday wheels down was about 4). probably an all-day baseboard festival tomorrow, then bcgb on sunday.
  7. we need to get RD a macro lens. you boys are inspiring. that A/B-26 is badass. I remember studying it after reading Bay of Pigs, some years back. so I'd probably do the Fake Cuban air force version, or a Farmgate version if I can find a decal set for it. I like the goofy one-offs.
  8. wd40

    Shit my co-worker said

    had a meeting the other day where the sales guy on the call snored through the whole thing. we quickly and unanimously decided Ops couldn't support the RFQ. only thing would've made it better is if he was on video.
  9. and all the immigrants who don't know any better. dago, please be sure to re-sod with St Augustine as soon as you move in. maybe Lobo will have an aneurysm and fucking die. addition by subtraction, as they say.
  10. made carnitas on Monday. used some of the leftovers to make my version of the Cubanito. I guess you could say it was the Cubanito-lite, since I didn't have any ham or bacon. still have some LOs, so I made a more traditional cuban sandwich for lunch, today. also slammed, etc.
  11. punching Dan Dierdorf in the face for declaring such, upon Joe Montana's return from injury on MNF.
  12. so the butcher at my HEB told me last week when I asked him for some, that due to the beef shortage, even when he does get any in, he's not allowed to sell them that way. has to cut them up into those little 3"-long chunks I drunkenly raged about a some time back. the Korean braised thing is good and all, but that's not why I built my smoker.
  13. the other night, I was digging the grill pan out from under a stack of other cast iron gear, so some noise, but not a lot. as I'm doing this, wife comes breezing through the kitchen and tells me to make sure and do some obvious task I can't remember, now. she was out of the room by the time she finished her thought, so I said nothing and continued about my business. she returns and repeats it at elevated volume and intensity. I'm like, 'yup, got it'. her: why didn't you acknowledge me before? because you left the room and I didn't figure you'd hear me. her: tone
  14. agree on the name. the whole bug motif is corny AF, imo. I've ridden them both ("cleaned" isn't the right word..."not-dabbed" would be more accurate), just not on the same lap. at least not that I remember. usually, the guys I ride with are all about the jump lines, so we hit Rotor Smoke once, maybe twice the whole day. this makes the second time I've gone there solo and it was closed. went there once on a Friday and the lift line was non-existent. actually felt I could afford a couple water/snack breaks. I wonder what a Covid Friday would look like. would have to be after a Tuesday rain event. that place sucks in the dry season.
  15. get there early. holy shit it got crowded, starting around 10am. I guess Stinger is the double-black; aka, The Artist Formerly Known As Rotor Smoke. yeah, I was dissapoint. really wanted to hit that one. the upper part is super fun. it's really just that one rock garden, and the spot that drops onto that wooden thing that you have to not panic on. you just come around a bend and are suddenly faced with this big expanse of biggish boulders and ledges you have to pick a line through.
  16. I think it's also sold. this was the chronology, as I remember it. I think 27.5 became a thing with the rise of Enduro as a sport. it was a way to keep the long travel and mythically better "flickability" of 26" but get some of the benefit of bigger wheels. then they came up with 27.5plus, which was trying to make a 27.5er into a 29er by putting balloon tires on it. meanwhile, 29er geo has been making room for longer and longer travel, to the point now where it can compete with the little wheels. ---------- and I would agree with Braf on the components, esp for newer riders. It's hard to look back on those days and remember anything but the times I had problems with it. I've also learned over the years that that the real problem may be somewhere else; such as a bent der hanger, gunked up cable housings, etc. all that being said, I did briefly have a GX rear der. first gen from when they rebranded everything away from the X.x series. the B adjust had this janky-ass rubber grommet holding it in the der frame that would get out of alignment. never realized how important that screw was until then. before ultimately replacing the whole thing with a ebay closeout find on an X.9, I found a bigger screw (a coarse-thread sheetmetal screw, iirc), removed the grommet and force-threaded it in there. I also dremel'd a notch on the B-adjust plate to make sure it didn't slip out again. but that was a long time ago. hopefully, they're done with that shit.
  17. you can see on the youtube thumbnail screen two paper wrist bands on my left arm. the normal day pass is the one with the barcode, currently $50 for unlimited rides all day. they scan it with a handheld at the bottom of the lift to make sure it's good, just like any other ski resort that hasn't switched to RF. you can also buy an annual. I heard those were going up, but last year they were $400. I don't go often enough to justify even that. with Covid, they also supposedly put a limit on users by numbering red bands with a sharpie. I was #20 for the day, and at some point it went up to about 100. they put those bands on when they scan you at the lift, the first time. on one trip, I heard the bottom scan guy say over the radio that they were at the limit for 'retail', which I assume are the day-passers like me. double-black was closed due to mud, but it seemed like mostly rookies out there anyway. fortunately, they seemed to mostly stick to the greens, which limited the crowds on the trails I was interested in. but it made the start area a total clusterfuck, coming off the lift and dodging through the big groups standing around or taking off in train.
  18. Spider reopened, this weekend. got there about 8:30, bailed around 11 when the line got insane. experimenting with volume levels to bring the trail sounds out more.
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