Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

[HankScorpio]

No one makes an air compressor tool with a head for both shrader and presta valves? Every floor pump has a head like this.


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[rideit]

Park does

https://www.amazon.com/Park-Tool-373.../dp/B00Y63UMXC

[evasive_MT]

Go big:


https://www.efficientvelo.com/tools/3-in-1-inflator

[toast2266]

No one makes an air compressor tool with a head for both shrader and presta valves? Every floor pump has a head like this.


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I agree with this rant.

And I don't want some $100+ piece of crap that's going to last 1/10 as long as the $2 air chuck I got from who knows where (that, admittedly, does schraeder only).

I just cut the hose off a cheap old pump and jammed it onto a blower nozzle. Works great.

[El Chupacabra]

I just cut the hose off a cheap old pump and jammed it onto a blower nozzle. Works great.

That is a great idea. I'm copying it.

[fastfred]

yo mister passive aggressive hiker guy your easy to spot out there on the trail either in your head to toe columbia or rei outfit
the trails are yours I know but the kicker is I run into you alot when riding my bike and even occasionally when I'm hiking you have to assert your dominance over me
like the time you remarked about my flip flops not being safe for hiking or the time you came at me on a steep loose section as I was coming down and you were coming up you remarked that the uphill hiker has the right of way as I was sliding down hill and you brushed my shoulder
but when I'm on my mountain bike you are the worse
no smile, now howdy, only superiority
as I was climbing up a quick steep section on my bike yesterday I thought it was nice that you were standing at the top talking to other hikers so I could clean up the climb
but low and behold you needed to assert your hiker domination and just as I was going to crest the top you started hiking down at me, god forbid you waited another twenty seconds before the heading down
next thing I know you were right in front of me, I was wobbling, out of breath and struggled to stay upright and not get taken out by you
god help us if your nicely pressed rei shirt and columbia tactical pants got a scuff on them or your floppy oversized sun hat got knocked off your head
I"m sure back at your house you sip on rose wine and thinking about how there are just too many neanderthals out there to really enjoy the birding book you brought along

[m2711c]

Whiner: a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining. grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, bellyacher, complainer, crybaby. disagreeable person, unpleasant person - a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. kvetch - (Yiddish) a constant complainer.

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[rideit]

So, since Simano rotors are 203mm, why arent the others 163 and 183?

[plugboots]

Go big:


https://www.efficientvelo.com/tools/3-in-1-inflator

Dang. They have some nice shit. Maybe on my Xmas list.

[muted]

The people who complain about “industrial recreation” never seem to have an issue with commercial guides horsepacking clients into the Wilderness. And their complaints about the impacts of mountain bikes to trails never acknowledge what a pack string does to a wet trail (or how it becomes unwalkable once it dries out).



https://helenair.com/opinion/columni...e9cd076bf.html

Amen. I have never seen anywhere else the immense devastation that a few horses do to a wet trail in Montana. Specifically the Spanish Peaks area, which had signs everywhere about how the local horseman club maintains and takes care of the totally fucked up un-walkable trail. I was once hike-a-biking a flat as shit trail over there with my bike over my shoulder and ankle deep in horse-created muck/mud thinking, these assholes are the fucking stewards of the trail? Why put up a sign that you assholes are maintaining this shit show?

While there are many awesome horseman who have a clue or two: fuck the the immense amount of dumb boomers who support this bullshit. Literally get off your high horse and wade through your dumb shit, your feet don't even get wet.

And your pic is even worse than what I went through.

[eldereldo]

Don’t have a picture handy, but the one thing worse than horses, are cows. A lot of our local trails are in grazing leases. Luckily most of them are up high where the cows don’t go, but there are a few trails than run valley bottom that are only rideable first thing in the spring before the cows come in, or very late once they freeze. Take your picture and mix cow shit and piss into the mud, in what was once a trail running thru a meadow and you’ll have an idea of what a dozen cows can do. Every year I get suckered at least once by doing a ride just a bit to late that ends up on one of those trails. This year I added to the mistake by having the wife and brother along, that didn’t go over to well when we had to slog 8km thru mud and shit.

[rideit]

OTOH, cows created the basis for many, many miles of the trails we enjoy in Teton Valley, Idaho.
I used to have shirts at my bike shop that said
“We LOVE cows! They make trails for us, and then we eat them!”

[L8APX]

L8apx and Peruvian - The shop in Bennington doesn't count? What about the ones up at Mt Snow and the one in Brattleboro? West Hill is pretty great but I guess that's out of the way unless you're on a mission to go there. I've only been in most of them but not really had any experience with them other than some short visits.

True, but there are two shops in town that are meh at best. I’ll drive to mid to frog hollow or Albany for high adventure for a good shop or first stop

[Bunion 2020]

OTOH, cows created the basis for many, many miles of the trails we enjoy in Teton Valley, Idaho.
I used to have shirts at my bike shop that said
“We LOVE cows! They make trails for us, and then we eat them!”

As I recall a lot of the original trails in Vernal UT were built by cows.

[Telemahn]

Bruised ribs f'ing suck

[Boissal]

<snip>slog 8km thru mud and shit.

Last fall I was riding in the Bryce Canyon area and grazed a cut down pine hiding in the grass on the side of the trail. It took a few good chunks off the side of my shin/calf, looked like I had been attacked by a mountain lion. I cleaned it up and covered it as best as I could. The next day I did a big loop around Thunder Mtn and Casto canyon, a favorite haunt for the fat-asses-on-horses crowd. Thunder mtn caked the wound in red dust (that shit gets into everything) then it all got washed away with shit-saturated water on the way up Casto.
While I was in the process of applying a fresh layer of dried shit & moon dust on the Cassidy trail I came across a pack of 40 riders. They were stopped on top of a hill in a shady spot and saw me coming up the climb from a ways away. They immediately started down rather than let me climb up to them so I could sit in the shade and let me ride by. There was really nowhere to go as the trail traverses a steep hillside so I scrambled up some loose stuff and sat there in the sun breathing shit particles and dust for 10 minutes while their train went by. Most of the group was pleasant but the fat fuck fake cowboys leading the pack gave me attitude and complained I was spooking their horses.
The next 5 miles of trails was utter devastation, many horses had gone through while it was soaked and the hoofprints had hardened into some of the worst surface I have ever ridden.
I got home and scrubbed the everlasting shit out my cuts thinking the whole time that I'd get some novel flesh-eating bacterial infection or some disease never seen outside of the tropics.

I fucking hate donkey riders. They're barely above ATVs in my book and possibly even more disrespectful of other trail users and their environment. Big groups of wannabe Western pioneers with their bucket helmets and plastic water bottle in hand sitting on horses with quaking knees that can barely support their gigantic asses make me sick. The same fuckers will go back to their suburban lifestyles acting like they escorted wagons on the fucking California Trail, had a big adventure in the wilderness, and experienced the true spirit of the frontier.

[eldereldo]

OTOH, cows created the basis for many, many miles of the trails we enjoy in Teton Valley, Idaho.
I used to have shirts at my bike shop that said
“We LOVE cows! They make trails for us, and then we eat them!”

Maybe you have dry conditions when the cows are in? The areas they frequent by us are typically wet, so once thru, it isn’t a trail they leave, but a mud pit to rival anything the 4 wheelers can manage to produce in a mud bog contest.

[rideit]

Yeah, pretty bone dry by late June. They get super-dusty by August.

[gravitylover]

True, but there are two shops in town that are meh at best. I’ll drive to mid to frog hollow or Albany for high adventure for a good shop or first stop

In Albany try Savile Road, I think it's the best shop in the area.

[beaterdit]

Last fall I was riding in the Bryce Canyon area and grazed a cut down pine hiding in the grass on the side of the trail. It took a few good chunks off the side of my shin/calf, looked like I had been attacked by a mountain lion. I cleaned it up and covered it as best as I could. The next day I did a big loop around Thunder Mtn and Casto canyon, a favorite haunt for the fat-asses-on-horses crowd. Thunder mtn caked the wound in red dust (that shit gets into everything) then it all got washed away with shit-saturated water on the way up Casto.
While I was in the process of applying a fresh layer of dried shit & moon dust on the Cassidy trail I came across a pack of 40 riders. They were stopped on top of a hill in a shady spot and saw me coming up the climb from a ways away. They immediately started down rather than let me climb up to them so I could sit in the shade and let me ride by. There was really nowhere to go as the trail traverses a steep hillside so I scrambled up some loose stuff and sat there in the sun breathing shit particles and dust for 10 minutes while their train went by. Most of the group was pleasant but the fat fuck fake cowboys leading the pack gave me attitude and complained I was spooking their horses.
The next 5 miles of trails was utter devastation, many horses had gone through while it was soaked and the hoofprints had hardened into some of the worst surface I have ever ridden.
I got home and scrubbed the everlasting shit out my cuts thinking the whole time that I'd get some novel flesh-eating bacterial infection or some disease never seen outside of the tropics.

I fucking hate donkey riders. They're barely above ATVs in my book and possibly even more disrespectful of other trail users and their environment. Big groups of wannabe Western pioneers with their bucket helmets and plastic water bottle in hand sitting on horses with quaking knees that can barely support their gigantic asses make me sick. The same fuckers will go back to their suburban lifestyles acting like they escorted wagons on the fucking California Trail, had a big adventure in the wilderness, and experienced the true spirit of the frontier.

Quality Rant in the spirit of this thread. Also, I agree wholeheartedly.

[Andeh]

I'd take motos on trails over fucking horses / donkeys any day. Fuck those nimby hypocrites. They can keep their 1 ton walking shit factories on their own land.

[grskier]

Pevney saw me and ordered the MRI. I'll see him again and go to Kazemi if I need a second opinion.

Update to my rant on the shoulder...

non displaced fracture on the humeral head, bone contusion, and a tear of the rotator cuff that really just thins it, it doesn't go through (different than a partial tear)...
So, no surgery likely, I need to let the bone heal then get on rotator cuff strengthening portion of the pain programming.

So, good news in the rant thread.. my bad.

[jdadour]

They can keep their 1 ton walking shit factories on their own land.

Quote of the day. This is fucking amazing.

[simple]

Quote of the day. This is fucking amazing.

How about cows? I hate them the most.