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even if you don't fall there are always trees to bounce off, I still got a set of 661 2x4's  for wrist to above elbow protection, the lycra sleeve & straps keep them in place, 661 axo dualies for when my foot gets caught between a rock & a hard place

"The bro brah look of sneakers with minimal socks,"

now days I just give credit to any kid who grew up & was smart enough to finally  do up the laces

Wow, I'm gona take all the dishes out of the DW and wash them by hand

I been using Squirt for a couple seasons, it seems to work well and be pretty clean, best not toleave it in the shed to freeze over the winter or it will thicken up but if that happens you can just thin it out with some water

I been using Squirt for a couple seasons, it seems to work well and be pretty clean, best not toleave it in the shed to freeze over the winter or it will thicken up but if that happens you can just thin it out with some water

back in the mid 80's mtn bikes came with shitty 1.5 tires, I think it was cuz there was less duty on bikes made in Taiwan with narrow tires so when I bought the bike the store swapped them right away and  gave me credit on a better set of tires ... might be a better way to spec a bike

the  Fox  seat post on my 5.5 was creaky from day 1, I tried lube but it still always creaked, the key was to clean off all the lube and use carbon paste

I did my 5.5 Yeti with a roll of 4" 3M from Lordco, used water in the spray bottle with some soap and 25% alcohol, I popped air bubbles with a pin and squeezed out the air. I  wrapped the top of the toptube the bottom of the down tube in the places that are most likely to get hit, wrapping the stays is where some of the curves down under the swingarm don't look great but you don't really look at that. All in all for 22$ it worked pretty good and looks fine, I think a hairdryer or heat gun  might have helped make the more complex curves ...definatly a thumbs up

Back in the day I met a certain local character at a demo so i asked buddy where he was making his bikes and it was Taiwan so why not Canada?

He told me Taiwan is where its at cuz the best welders are there the best factories are there, he can hop on a bike and ride up the street a few KM to find components or tubing factories or anything he needs ... its all right there  

and the beach was at the other end of the street

the guy who told me this^^ was a bike tourer who had done 8000km in AK & northern BC  he was on a bike with a der and his partner was on a Roloff ... said you tell coasting down hills

looks great but I wonder what compromises in chainstay length/placement there would be in the BB area that were eliminated by going with 1x ?  Also someone mentioned drag going down hill, I've been told a Roloff hub will have noticable drag coasting downhill compared to a traditional der setup?

Posted by: three-sheets

I wanna know where all the service workers went.

In my small town, retailers and food service are struggling to stay open due to lack of staff and its not like there are better jobs to go to.

Im even having a hard time finding qualified candidates for really good paying jobs.

I was asking a 20 something bartender who grew up here and she sez those service workers got better jobs, so where from I asked but she wasnt real sure , maybe older people who quit ?

I got a buddy who told me he lost his draft exception within 2 weeks of being involved in anti war activity in California cuz they were watching and taking names. He didnt say ( they never do) but i think he was a draft dodger, sez he identifys as Canadian, ends up working with the kool aid society in Vancover in the late 60's hippy era, a bit of  a political animal who seemed to know or know of every lefty politician you could name ever since, who did a lot dope, who did a lot of acid and it sounded like they were all a bunch of dopers .

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Posted by: Fast-Orange

Wages and cost of living are out of whack and it's turning everyone into a bunch of cunts, especially me.

If we can't figure out how to fix that everything else is just bandaids on an axe wound.

A non-fixer-upper house in the Vancouver area seems to start at around $2M these days, which is insane. If you don't already have substantial savings, existing "home equity", or financial help from family, no job is going to allow you to afford that. Anyone starting from scratch financially now is totally screwed in that respect. Even a high paying job like a doctor... you're in school/residency until you're like early 30's, then you graduate with 6 figures of student debt. So it's going to take you quite a while to save up that $400k minimum downpayemnt that you need on the $2M house. If someone like a doctor can't afford a normal house in a city you know somethings wrong...

RE prices have actualy gone way up everywhere, in the last couple years prices also went high up narth in Smithers also PG

wages are lower in town so I think a lot of people up here are going to camp to make $$$$$ and local business can't find staff

rents are high and there is a shortage

at this point we are down to the denyiers/ anti vaxer'ers who are essentialy the same on either side of the line, they are clogging up the ICU's, they read the same BS and spout the same rhetoric almost word for word, the only thing i wonder is about the numbers per capita

so don't get sick or hurt cuz there is no hospital capacity

https://nationalpost.com/news/an-anti-vaxxer-edmonton-oiler-got-covid-and-now-his-hockey-career-might-be-over

this is interesting ^^ a covid denying/ anti vaxing  pro hockey player tests positive for Covid anti bodies and is suffering from Myocarditis so he is out of the lineup indefinatley  and it will probably be the end of  his career.

Those terms he is using are all so negative ... pro-plague is a more positive nomenclature

Posted by: Fast-Orange

Showed my vaxx pass for the first time on Friday. Loved knowing I wasn't eating next to any lemmings.

IME they been asking for the passport for a couple weeks but they seemed to up their game last weekend by asking for the passport AND checking to see if my  ID matched, however she did not ask me to take the DL out of the wallet like a  cop would

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Posted by: XXX_er

all we have to do is chose to  stop talking to you

then you have to go to that other site you troll at

Aaaaand what other site is that?

And please, do lead the way for the others to stop talking to me because I'm apparently irrestible to you. Try it.

Five e-bux says you cant.

gauntlet thrown. OK everyone, he asked for it. Don't talk to him anymore.

So buddy is getting arrogant and has thrown down the gauntlet  whom amongst you can resist his abuse, doesnt think NSMB can live without him ?

Posted by: Stuminator,

Maybe get your glasses. I did not knock teh CERB. I said he made it way too easy for people who didn't need it, to collect it. There were also lots of people who should have went back to work once it was possible to do so.

So how do you weed out those millions of people and keep in mind it had to be done really fast in like days or weeks ?

Future Canadians can pay for it,   again that which I did not qualify for SO there were at least some restrictions that worked

just your classic troll, he goes away if you stop talking to him,

if he makes sense maybe you wana give yer head a shake ?