DaveM profile

Welcome to the BMW Touring club! I'm in a later 2017 F31 and loving it.

that's freakin badass

> Is Ollie playing GrabAss?

why do you think I'm smiling?

rat

nice shot, you can feel the focus in the rider's eyes

meh

that's just spooky looking

that looks amazing in the pictures and even more incredible in person.

did the wheel survive?

That's one big-ass stunt.

awesome!

Posted by: chupacabra

The whole family got our boosters and flu shots yesterday.  We are paying the price today.  :(

I got my #4 a few weeks ago. I had a typical reaction to the others, just tired for a day but I got no reaction at all from the 4th.

I've been impatiently waiting for the day this piece of human garbage gets some kind of penalty  but here we are 5 years later, still waiting, and I still have my doubts it will ever happen. What does it have to take for that country to stand up for itself?

NSR says road bikes don't fit, but an adapter is being developed. https://northshoreracks.com/products/road-bike-adapter/?v=3e8d115eb4b3

Posted by: heckler

You and me both Flatch. You and me both.

I broke down and got IG after I met a mountain biker while walking in an Italian city and he offered to show me the trails and then asked my @IG to get in touch. I had to give him my wife's account.

Still trying to hold out accepting friend requests on crackbook but I had to join to organize a big event last month.

I still have internal struggles holding a trail-day and not posting about it on NSMB…

You and me both buddy.

Haha, I saw your profile popping up on social media and figured hell must have finally frozen over in Svenville :)

Gravel bikes...a while ago I didn't really understand the point. Now I am one. Picked it up used and fairly cheap to see if it was something I'd stick to The older I get the harder it is to keep my fitness up so I figured some nice long rides would help. I'm only one ride in but I didn't hate it. 

They likely should have just closed the trails. I'm not sure what kind of coordination an event organizer has with the land managers but closing some trails for a single day wouldn't have been the end of the world. My wife was marshalling up on Corkscrew and said biker/runner interactions were all good in her area. There was a 35k (the map that syncro posted) and a 50k route as well that went over to the dark side. 450 racers in this event.

Posted by: syncro

Have most people become desensitized to violence, including gun violence, unless it happens on a horrific scale? Why is society seemingly okay with so much violence? One thing I've learned out of this that was quite surprising is that there have been 27 shootings at US schools so far this year. 

https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2022/01

The desensitizing is terrible and I think it's only happening when it involves the US. Anywhere else in the world and it's a shock. In the US it's "huh, another one."

Posted by: XXX_er

yeah we had rep back in the day, so IME if I posted something that was true and well thot out I got no reps,

but if I purposely posted something really stupid/ obviously untrue I would get rep'ed

so i would do this as long as my stomach could handle it just to see what the level of stupid was

which made me wonder what is the brain capacity/ actual thot process of the average poster on NSMB ?

I think i would rather depend on a moderator

I used to post on an un moderated kayak website back in the day and it was pretty vicious

Haha, the rep days were hilarious. I was part of 2 groups where we repped each other on a revolving basis. It was pointless, baseless and meant nothing other than a game to waste time.

I really thought after Parkland that something was going to happen. The movement for change seemed strong enough to force it. 

But here we are. Another round of thoughts a prayers.

The only thing that will change it is money. Smoking used to be common until tobacco companies got sued. The 2nd Ammendment needs to be ammended. Make some shit illegal and start suing the gun manufacturers, gun shops, NRA, politicians, whoever.

It sickens me to think about it.

Posted by: syncro

Posted by: DaveM

Posted by: syncro

- Not sure where DaveM is getting his info from, but it seems to conflict with info I've seen

I got it from the place where the stats come from.

http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/COVID_sitrep/Week_16_2022_BC_COVID-19_Situation_Report.pdf

Ok. So at the time of the writing of the twitter link I posted it was 3wks after that change in data recording from BC. That link was also for Canadian stats and not just BC. Based on those two factors the change in data recording in BC would not make a noticeable, if any difference in the numbers listed in the link. Maybe in a few months from now it might, but that all depends on how virulent future waves are and what the numbers are lime in the more populous provinces.

The hospitalization stats have been reported that way for a long time, maybe 6 months or more. I'm not sure about the death rates, I haven't seen it described like that before.