This made me realize that I need to order new rotors for my new (to me) wheels. I’m annoyed that I have to do that, and that it may add timeline to me being able to use my new wheels.
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This made me realize that I need to order new rotors for my new (to me) wheels. I’m annoyed that I have to do that, and that it may add timeline to me being able to use my new wheels.
I don’t have a preference either way. CL is easier to switch if you do that a lot but hard to tighten when out on the trail, if that ever happens.
I haven’t bothered to look into it but is CL lighter overall? I think the hubs are lighter and the rotors are heavier.
I think the only reason I'd ever prefer centerlock would be on a travel bike - something that got packed into a case for transport regularly. Be nice to be able to remove the rotors easily and keep them from bending.
Yes, that’s why I prefer 6 bolt for traveling. Removal and installation is quick, and uses a mini tool that I always have with the bike anyway.
Center lock requires a tool I normally wouldn’t bring, and is never stashed on the bike.
Any experienced mechanic encounters frames with rear brake mount a bit too far outboard. Thin shims under rotor fix this easily with 6 bolt. Center lock fails in this scenario. Sometimes you can dremel out the slots in the caliper but this creates liability issues for a shop.
Center lock is just another shitty idea from Shitmano. :shrug:
Early July a couple big rocks (head-size) appeared in the corner of our driveway. I figured some nice neighbor dropped them there to match the hundreds of other rocks I've painstakingly hauled out of the canyons to build rock borders all over the yard. I moved them to the side and forgot about them.
FF a couple weeks, Ms Boissal and I are coming back from a hike on Pioneer Day, the conclusion of the month-long fireworks season in SLC. The rocks are back in the driveway and are being used to hold a fiberglass tube. I take one look and realize it's a launching station for fireworks, now full of debris and still warm to the touch. I look around, trashy fucking neighbor across the house is peering out his screen door at me. That would be the guy who looks like beetlejuice, has the inside of his garage painted in orange leopard print, parks on the grass in his front yard instead of his gigantic driveway, and spends the winter doing donuts on his ATV while pretending to plow the sidewalks (yes, he has a blade on his ATV). He's also airB&Bing a trailer parked in his driveway at the moment, because why the fuck not.
I take a deep breath, throw the rocks into the backyard, toss the tube in our stinky ass trash can, and go to the garden to pull weed and cool off. Ms Boissal finds me out there ranting and rambling and tells me he came knocking on the door asking for his tube back. She told him to dig it out of the trashcan and fuck right off with his fireworks bullshit, to which he replied that he set up his thing in our driveway otherwise the fireworks land on his roof. Better they land on our roof or in our desiccated grass...
So glad I wasn't there for this conversation, I'd have flipped him in the trash can when he dove in. Yesterday I got home from riding and there were firework debris all over the street, driveway, and our lawn. I spent 10 minutes cleaning up and threw a solid half in his driveway.
Yeah that's beyond annoying. Props to the Mrs though, sounds like she doesn't play around!
Too good for that fucker; kangaroo feet in his bed.
Compressed air cannon. Dispose of all your poop (dog, human, whatever) by launching it onto his roof.
https://www.instructables.com/Air-Po...?amp_page=true
Some good suggestions in there. Unfortunately Ms Boissal is opposed to starting a war with the neighbor, something about it being a lost cause cause he's a fucktard and such. She's the brains of the Boissal household so I will oblige.
Another annoyance while I'm at it, also neighbor related. We live in a quiet neighborhood south of SLC, deep in suburbia. Small street with no traffic, nice and peaceful. Ms Boissal fixed up the back patio last year and made it real pleasant. It's an old covered porch with ceiling fans, speakers, firepit, perfect to chill out with a beer and listen to the crickets at night. I was out there yesterday when the neighbor's AC unit turned on. It's about 2' from the fence and maybe 15' from where I was sitting. It took a minute of rattling about to get up to speed then settled into sounding like a dying coal-roller. 85-ish dB of fan spinning on dead bearings or something of the sort. I had to retreat inside, no amount of cranking the volume on the speakers was going to drown out the fucker. I could hear it turn on and off all night with the windows opened even though the bedroom is on the opposite side of the house from the unit. It usually doesn't bother me but I tend to get fixated on sounds and cannot unhear them.
Now that house has been unoccupied since last spring (2021) when the renters moved out. The AC unit had been sounding haggard for some time and we had talked to them about it but the owner wouldn't do shit. We suspect he keeled over and the family is fighting over what to do with the place, there's no way they'd let a 4-bed 3-bath sit empty for that long otherwise. The AC unit is on ALL THE FUCKING TIME, the thermostat must be set at 62 in there cause it starts going in May and during the summer it's off for 10 minutes max before rattling back on. I'm tempted to import a couple of porcupines since they love chewing on rubber hoses. Maybe they'd get through some of wiring and take care of the issue...
Dogshit in the air intake.
If there were a Shitty Driving Olympics, a number of people on my to/from trip to the airport this morning would be strong medal contenders.
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People who drive 30mph through parking lots. I know you’re late picking up little Ricky from karate practice or something but don’t put my car and health at risk for it. Slow the f down, the world doesn’t revolve around you.
Massholes heading north for the weekend. Don't drive up here like you drive down in MA. Or better yet, just go to the Cape.
The same people are driving down the canyon going 30mph in a 45 zone cause they're scared. But give them 100 yards of straight road and a passing lane and they're up to 70 cause they'd die of shame if they got passed. Speed the f up, I'm not on a scenic drive here, got places to be!
That the Shit That Annoys You thread has more than 10x the posts of the Things That Amuse you Thread.
It is 5 years older. And we are, apparently, a bunch of whiny bitches
There are two “what amuses you?” threads, if we’re gonna be anal about counting these things.
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...hat-amuses-you
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https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...hat-Amuse-You?
That’s only somewhat annoying.
That was the Sea to Sky from Vancouver to Whistler to a tee. Pre Olympics it was mostly twisty single lane with a few passing lanes. Without fail you get stuck behind a car doing 20 under the limit on the single lane part, then when they reach a passing lane it was like a quarter mile drag strip where they'd speed up fast as possible to prevent you from passing. Then slow down again once the passing lane ended. Got so fed up one time after a car did this on 3 consecutive passing lanes I passed them on a double yellow with a friend giving them the finger as we went past. They pulled up next to us at a traffic light in Squamish and granny in the back seat gave us the middle finger back.
Fools would be driven off the road, or would pull over in fear of the mad drivers behind them.
I guess growing up in an alpine valley across the pond conditioned me to driving fast in the mountains and not having much patience for people who slow to a crawl anytime the road isn't straight. Now when I go back I shit myself in fear driving these narrow roads, I'm in constant fear of a head on collision. But the damn assholes driving 35 mph down Big Cottonwood Canyon, on the brakes the whole damn time except the few straight bits? Fuck that. The canyon isn't steep like LCC and the road is freshly repaved and super wide. I went through the S-curves yesterday wondering if I needed to downshift into 1st fucking gear cause we were moving so slow...
Half the time it's people who are terrified of driving a "mountain" road, which annoys me but is somewhat justifiable if they're not used to it. The real annoyance is the dipshit gawkers out for a drive looking out the window at the flowers. Jeebus forbid they see a deer or moose, they'll stop in the middle of the road to photograph the wildlife and get all huffy and puffy if you suggest they park their car and go out on a walk. They're taking their sweet ass time, never considering that some people actually commute in these canyons, or are on the clock for something, or are about to run out of beer and finish the drive all dehydrated.
Driving roads with high congestion potential for fun should be illegal. Driving for the sake of driving should be punishable by a kick to the groin. Anyone who is willing to sit in the car for any reason other than getting somewhere specific to accomplish a certain task is a toolbag of the highest order.
Ha. Coming down rabbit ears pass, and on the clock the other day there were about 6 cars stopped, or in a drawn out process of stopping. Cars in the road, sort of on the shoulder, and one or two who were creeping along in-between lanes, uphill lanes were effectively blocked by stopped cars. Speed limit 50mph. All because they wanted to look at a moose. Complete shit show. It even happened to be next to a pull out, but people were just stopping in the road instead.
I cruised through and soon passed a line of traffic, including several semis heading up towards the mess. Imagine a loaded semi having to stop their climb up the pass because people are blocking the road to take pics of a moose.
Kinda seems like people are getting dumber and dumber. The women had their phones up taking pics, hubbies were blocking traffic with their vehicle's like they're the freaking cops. All Completely oblivious to the fact that they're creating a hazard on the road.
Putting dog down. More than annoying but i don’t think there’s a things that break your heart thread
Sorry for your loss SJ. There is a thread for all the pup owners going through it.
https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...ad.php?t=49484