Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2022 3:11 pm
Colorado works for me. It’s just a long, boring drive across Kansas, but an easy one-day drive. Might possibly get a couple of other KC folks to go, too.
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 3:53 pm
Ok great. I'll start looking for locations. I want to find a place for us that has a few hotels with a range of prices, good driving roads nearby, and doesn't have any other major event scheduled for the same weekend. I'm thinking we may be able to catch a good deal in a ski resort town at the beginning of the offseason. I'll scrape together some ideas and then start polling the group for potential weekends.
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2022 11:55 am
Hope you're all doing well. I rode my first half-century (50 miles) on my bike this morning so I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. Monsoonal rain got our morning temps down to the low 70's and so I thought, wtf if the wind is going to behave and be 4 mph on top of it I might as well pump up the tires and get a ride in. Normally summer is my outdoor "winter" here in the Mojave.
(My GPS plot says 47 miles because dumb-dumb here forgot to to un-pause my Garmin after a potty break because I didn't want my average speed to be lowered and the payoff is my ride is 3 miles short and I was still slow
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(My GPS plot says 47 miles because dumb-dumb here forgot to to un-pause my Garmin after a potty break because I didn't want my average speed to be lowered and the payoff is my ride is 3 miles short and I was still slow
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2022 12:31 pm
Holy Crap! It would take me a week to bike that far and that would be with a battery assist or a small gasoline engine attached. Great Job!Dr_Strangelove (whew!) wrote: ↑Sat Jul 30, 2022 11:55 am Hope you're all doing well. I rode my first half-century (50 miles) on my bike this morning so I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. Monsoonal rain got our morning temps down to the low 70's and so I thought, wtf if the wind is going to behave and be 4 mph on top of it I might as well pump up the tires and get a ride in. Normally summer is my outdoor "winter" here in the Mojave.
(My GPS plot says 47 miles because dumb-dumb here forgot to to un-pause my Garmin after a potty break because I didn't want my average speed to be lowered and the payoff is my ride is 3 miles short and I was still slow
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Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:49 am
Nice! As soon as I get a little less fat, I'll pull my Dew Deluxe down and put some miles on the ol' boy. But I'm not quite done being fat yet.
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 9:07 am
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:51 am
Rash nothing...my shoulder is still jacked from cartwheeling into some stranger's driveway. That moment when I watched the front tire start to bounce and skip toward the curb is more ingrained in my memory than the infamous Johnny Irish driving ensemble thread.
Our dumpy cabin in the mountains is in Big Bear, CA.
Also, I got spotted by someone-who-isn't-Gnat on Reddit today, so...I had to go deeper underground.
Our dumpy cabin in the mountains is in Big Bear, CA.
Also, I got spotted by someone-who-isn't-Gnat on Reddit today, so...I had to go deeper underground.
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 12:01 pm
There's that word again.. Reddit.
Man those e-bikes are no joke. A friend of mine let me ride his mountain bike and the feeling of accelerating while freewheeling on gravel was very unsettling for me, and I've spent a lot of time on bikes
Man those e-bikes are no joke. A friend of mine let me ride his mountain bike and the feeling of accelerating while freewheeling on gravel was very unsettling for me, and I've spent a lot of time on bikes
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:44 pm
Damn! Too bad you didn't have to local homeowners check their ring cameras. That video would have been a classic.5chn3ll wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:51 am Rash nothing...my shoulder is still jacked from cartwheeling into some stranger's driveway. That moment when I watched the front tire start to bounce and skip toward the curb is more ingrained in my memory than the infamous Johnny Irish driving ensemble thread.
Rotator cuff injury?
Thought so. You didn't get mud slid did you?
Re: Good Week @ 996Outpost.com
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2022 3:01 pm
No, but the highway they’re evacuating people from is the one we take up and down. Lots of burn scars from the last couple of years, so there’s nothing to keep the dirt in place.
I think there was some cartilage/torn meniscus in the joint for a while, but it worked itself out…now it just clicks and hurts like the rest of my sad, arthritic corpse. The day it doesn’t hurt to wake up will probably involve Louis Cyphre.
I think there was some cartilage/torn meniscus in the joint for a while, but it worked itself out…now it just clicks and hurts like the rest of my sad, arthritic corpse. The day it doesn’t hurt to wake up will probably involve Louis Cyphre.