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Its OK guys, the Grim Donut long con made my day, sorry to say....

Seriously?  NSMBs first April 1 article?

You would think you live near Seattle...

Wait two weeks. The 10’s per day in the first half of March became the 50’s in the second half. The Easter bunny will bring the hundreds per day.

https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/

STAY THE FUCK HOME.

Down here in New Zealand, we were given 48 hours notice in Rotorua to close all non-essential business and travel.  Three Air-bnb’s declined us accommodations, the car rental place closed with one day notice and our 400 km bikepacking ride back to the airport was in grave jeopardy due to convenience stores and restaurants closed within a day. 

We made to an airport hotel and are now hunkered down with 5 days of groceries and beer and tonnes of time in our room to pack up our bikes     The flight home is Sunday, I think the last one to Vancouver.  We havent left the room in three days, although theres a bike path out front next to an empty freeway.

NZ in the whole country has 283 cases, whereas BC alone has 659 and growing exponentially  

Please, listen to Clarkes message, but step it up.  Isolate yourselves, stop riding, stop the spread.

Even better, imagine a reengineered modern flex stem!  Carbon body, Titanium hardware, no side to side motion....   endless opportunity!

The best thing to do would be use a torque wrench to install your pedals to prevent over tightening them.

Apple?  Or devices in general?  Why do you need a 'next' device?  

(still using Ipad 3 and wife just upgraded her Iphone 4S to a broken screen Huwai chinese spyphone that she fixed herself)

* a two by four hammer gently tapping works just as well

mine was the same!  here's a catalog to nostalgia - it already had "Ideal Sizing, where contact points are fit to the riders anatomy"!

https://www.bikes.com/sites/default/files/1991%20Mountain%20%26%20Pavement%20Catalogue%20-%20English.pdf

Posted by: Stuminator

They already have a vaccine. When they decide to administer it to the hordes, it will contain a tracking chip. It's all part of the Illuminati's plan.

And by then, DT will have been reelected, completing the circle.

Posted by: FLATCH

Posted by: tungsten

Posted by: heckler

NSMB forum is getting more traffic than just Tungsten and Shogun talking to themselves. 👏👏

Just 'cause you got nothin' to say....pfffffffft

Or maybe he’s just got better things to do.

Not anymore. 

Canada announced 75% emergency wage subsidy for all businesses. 

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2020/04/the-canada-emergency-wage-subsidy.html

Posted by: Brocklanders

Posted by: DangerousDave

Posted by: heckler

As big as you can to suit the terrain. Tubeless.

BIG is key IMO. I'll ride bridle path, sticks and stones, high school league, greenland, bottletop on my cross bike (basically treat it as a late 90s xc bike) so more aggressive rubber

The only thing that gets sore are my wrists when it gets janky. Next thing will be putting a seat dropper on it.

And a 100 mm fork.  And flat bars. And wait a minutesss......

I tried Bridle and High School on the Revolt Advanced.  Wrong tool for the job. Made it plenty challenging and techy, and the gaping looks you get are fun but I was worried the whole time about the bike folding on me.   That what Mtb are for.

Best to register it here:

https://project529.com/garage

Posted by: PaulB
Thread resurrection... What size tires are you using on road/CX/gravel bikes on trails like Fisherman's, Spur 4, or grinding up Mtn. Highway?   

As big as you can to suit the terrain. Tubeless.

In order of decreasing speed and fun on smooth trail/medium gravel in the LSCR:

My 100 mm Ti hardtail has 29x2.5 tubeless

My Revolt has 700x38 tubeless

My Anyroad had 700x30 tubes

Of course, on the road the opposite order applies. For mostly road and smooth, light gravel, the tubeless 700x38 is superb. Tubeless is the key here.

We’ve also ridden rough logging road gravel on our 700x30 (bone-jarring) and our Reigns (2.5” with suspension is the way to go here!). Have yet to test out the Revolt, but I’m leaning toward a suspended MTB on heavy rough logging road type gravel. (FYI, I consider Fishermans & Mtn hwy a smooth, medium to light gravel).

NSMB forum is getting more traffic than just Tungsten and Shogun talking to themselves. 👏👏

We just finished 500 km bikepacking trip with our Giant Reigns.  No pannier, but a lot of weight on handlebar, seat and back. 

The heavy handlebar really affects steering and responsiveness.  The fully loaded seat bag took a while getting used to swinging a leg over, and was also a “pack it only once per day” due to the need to pack it tight to make it hold its shape.   I wished we had frame bags, but, Reign.

Depends on what you want to put in the bag.

I agree with Thaad though- frame bag for stability, weigh distribution and not having to swing your leg high over a seatbag.

Down here as an mtb tourist in New Zealand, we were given 48 hours notice in Rotorua to close all non-essential business and travel. Three Air-bnb’s declined us accommodations, the car rental place closed with one day notice and our 400 km bikepacking ride back to the airport was in grave jeopardy due to convenience stores and restaurants closed within a day. 

We made to an airport hotel and are now hunkered down with 5 days of groceries and beer and tonnes of time in our room to pack up our bikes The flight home is Sunday, I think the last one to Vancouver. We havent left the room in three days, although theres a bike path out front next to an empty freeway.

NZ in the whole country has 283 cases, whereas BC alone has 659 and growing exponentially  

Please, listen to the message, but step it up. Isolate yourselves, stop riding, stop the spread.

You want comedy, google maps a car route from Richmond to Mount Seymour. 

Then go sit at the Lillooet Road gate just north of the NV cemetery during the Perseids meteor shower.   Offer the poor Metro Van guy a beer while he turns away car after car, telling them the mountain is not accessible from there.  The line stretched back to Capilano U lots.  

I couldn’t make this shit up.  The meteors were visible from the gravestones, but not from the road with a cell phone in every passengers hand.