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07-30-2019, 07:20 PM #1526
+1 on spears.
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07-31-2019, 05:43 AM #1527
I hit one like a jousting pole years ago. Literally just stopped me cold while the bike kept rolling forward and I crumpled to the ground. Fortunately close to the car and came away unscathed but for some sore ribs.
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07-31-2019, 06:49 AM #1528
Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?
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07-31-2019, 09:01 AM #1529
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07-31-2019, 11:44 AM #1530
This x 1000.
Had an encounter with one earlier this season, fortunately it didn't skewer me. I was hauling ass around a slightly bermed switchback, probably a bit too fast so I couldn't really do much damage control when I noticed it. Big old branch coming off the brush right at the exit on the inside of the turn. It clipped my fork and spun the handlebars, completely stopping the bike. I front flipped off the trail and landed on my face in the brush, ripping off the visor of my helmet and smashing my sunglasses on the bridge of my nose, scraping the shit out of it. I climbed back on the trail and pulled the branch out with 0 effort. There were at least 10 people ahead of me on the trail...
I ended up with a really sore neck and some nice lacerations and punctures on both arms and legs from the mature scrub oak (that shit is heinous). When I got to the car I found that a 4" long 1/2" diameter sharp branch had gone through the outer pocket of my pack and was still dangling there. One of the reasons I never ride without a pack...
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07-31-2019, 12:41 PM #1531
Related to spears the bears are feeding on Serviceberry where I ride now. They pull the thin willowy trees down to eat the berries, and the tree stays hung down across the trail. They're actually pretty hard to see until you're right on them. Not a rant really, cuz seeing bears is cool, but...
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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07-31-2019, 01:17 PM #1532
A few weeks ago I was riding and then was suddenly on my head- end of a tree stump just slightly protruding into the outside of a corner, obscured by brush. Thankfully a cracked helmet was the worst of it but I'm thinking that one could stand to be trimmed back a bit.
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07-31-2019, 01:29 PM #1533
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07-31-2019, 01:37 PM #1534
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07-31-2019, 01:43 PM #1535
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07-31-2019, 02:06 PM #1536Registered User
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I'm working on a leaking/leaked shower in my rental suite and can't go biking or paddling,
the good news is the plumber aced it quick & cheapLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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07-31-2019, 02:15 PM #1537
The closest I have had to a lethal accident was a pedal clip. I was deeeeeep in the middle of nowhere exploring a game trail (no one knew where I was), I clipped a pedal, and went down on my head/helmet. It was dusk when I went down, it was fully dark when I came to. Very scary.
The other time was skidding off of Porcupine to the right of the trail above a 500 foot drop...but that was a different issue, it was a handlebar> tree clip...Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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07-31-2019, 02:28 PM #1538
Kneepads guys! I learned long ago not to get on the mountain bike without them, no matter the trail. I'll find a way to bash my stem or frame even while climbing, or crash for no good reason. After five knee surgeries and a lifetime of abuse, my knees are real sensitive to even mild knocks, let alone splitting them open on rocks. Shit happens, and they've saved my ass many times.
I'd prefer cow shit to dog shit in my teeth 100%, Baby Bear's story notwithstanding. Down tube water bottles are a no though.There's nothing better than sliding down snow, and flying through the air
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07-31-2019, 02:41 PM #1539
Pedal clips are bad, handlebar clips can be worse.
I was moving pretty quick down the LCC trail and a spindly, branchless little tree on the inside of a corner grabbed my bars and sent me superman head first into a big tree off the trail. Thought I broke my neck had a concussion with some short term memory issues. Went to the ER and the neck imaging looked OK. Was real sore but went and raced the Hoedown the next week. Back hurt for months. Found out later I had compressed a thoracic vertebra, fuck. The little tree was only about three feet tall and an inch across, no branches. Didn't even register in my vision until I was headed for the big tree face first.
I guess I can rant on building corners around trees so close you can't get your lean on. Also when the trail crews trim but don't get the insides of the corners enough. But I could get out there and trim more myself so...There's nothing better than sliding down snow, and flying through the air
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07-31-2019, 03:06 PM #1540Registered User
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07-31-2019, 03:23 PM #1541
I hadn't. I'm not sure I'd be laughing...
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07-31-2019, 03:24 PM #1542
Holy crap, I hadn’t seen that.
Mine was not that close, for sure.Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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07-31-2019, 03:28 PM #1543
That rider is a complete dumbass... Specialized bike, of course.
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07-31-2019, 03:43 PM #1544
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07-31-2019, 03:43 PM #1545
Very interesting clip. Ridden past that almost 100 times and never even knew it was possible to be that close. Consciously, that is. Pretty sure my brain won't let me look 3 degrees from forward when crossing that crack.
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08-01-2019, 05:33 PM #1546Registered User
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08-01-2019, 08:19 PM #1547Registered User
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08-02-2019, 09:09 AM #1548
My JoeBlow Booster pump is proving to be absolutely useless for my new wheels. Worked great on my old wheels, but the god damn thing hasn't successfully inflated a single tire since I got my new bike. *This* close to chucking it in my recycling bin. Pretty sure there's a Harbor Freight air compressor in my future.
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08-02-2019, 09:53 AM #1549Registered User
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I've had a hell of a time with mine on certain wheels and tires, others I don't even need to use the chamber. What I have found works on the stubborn ones is taking out the valve core (to allow greater volume of air burst), and to over-pressurize the thing to the 6:00 position. Disclaimer: do this at your own risk.
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08-02-2019, 10:03 AM #1550
Tried both of those tricks already with no success in over a dozen attempts total. Looking at this little guy: https://www.harborfreight.com/air-to...sor-61615.html
Seems like it should be up to the task at hand.
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