Great ride with the old bastards Sunday. I had home field advantage this time. The terrain is super technical. Great time.

Is that, old bastards, or Old Bastards?
I mean do you have off bike meetings, officers, colors? ;)

We throw the occasional campfire.
This was a great ride. There are some features on this trail that I've been working on and a newer loop that some English guy made this summer which is exquisite. Sometimes your brain just melds with the intent of the trail builder and you pace things perfectly, the stream crossings, the split log skinnys, the rock slab drops, the log pyramids... that one loop at the end of a couple hours of riding is just perfect.

Like any hobby or sport it has it's own language too.

I'll post in Engrish next time.

No no, it's fascinating and usually kind of describes what happens.

I was watching a skills video last night and found out "casing a jump" comes from moto-cross when your crank case hits the crown of the jump. It hits your chain ring and bottom bracket in the mtb version. Both kinda hurt.

I bet it hurts worse if the shock of impact isn't absorbed by your legs and is instead transmitted through the seat to your crotch.

Dialog over a missing bike...

Peloton CEO: Sales increased after we raised prices to $2,245 per bike

~from the link

An average speed of 183.932 miles per hour over a distance of three-and-a-half miles.

And the gear ratio is such that she had to be towed to get up to speed before she started pedaling, in the slipstream of a dragster.

A whole lot of caveats there, but still, 184 mph is pretty impressive for a bicycle, even if she was drafting a dragster.

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I hope she didn't drop her phone. ;)

Call derailed

I like what you did there.

Best thing ever.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/redbul...unt-2018-.html

PRESS RELEASE: Katie Wakeley Wins Red Bull Foxhunt

The Red Bull Foxhunt took place in the hills of Machynlleth, Wales this weekend with the recently crowned World Champion, Rachel Atherton taking on 200 female mountain bikers.

The event took place over two days, with course practice and timed qualification runs taking place on Saturday 29th September, followed by the main event race on Sunday 30th September. Katie Wakeley was the first down the course, closely followed by Francie Arthur and Stacey Fisher. 200 riders made it down the course with Rachel Atherton managing to catch 39 riders and finished in 40th place.

Fun format!
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/events...achel-atherton

This is pretty much true.

I wonder how much medical grade injectable adrenaline is, compared to the Trek gear?

Adrenalin addicts have reached their favorite time of year.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/video-...page-2018.html

I watched a Nature-type show on Netflix that said the most efficient method of locomotion for land mammals belonged to the kangaroo.

Let's put a kangaroo on a bicycle!!

On a treadmill!!!!

Genius!

Bit o mud Sunday.

The ride was a 3 amigos gray beard affair, punctuated by one taking of the Lords name. We were ripping along a leaf strewn, wet, rocky, muddy, rooty, side hill when I heard the guy behind me offend our Lord. His front tire had wandered out to the lip of the trail which totally gave way. He disengaged his feet and pushed off his handlebar leaving him standing in the trail with his bike tumbling down-slope.

Two riders kept going. :D

Kids being cool.

https://www.pinkbike.com/video/491577

Hahahahahaha!!!![/guys]

Hendee bikes were expensive...

Well, I guess so. Any software that keeps a bike's wheels attached to the bike without the use of spokes has got to be pretty spendy (or is this one of those flux capacitor things?).

102 years ahead of it's time. :p:


Could have had steam power.

What to do with old shep...

. . . thefuck?








God, people are weird.

We get attached...

Ligure!

Compact...

Shiny

You might be able to find details here, but like that of most designers, the webpage is awful.

I was wondering where the handlebars go. There was one second in a video that showed them; usually they just vanish in the pictures of the folded-up bike.

I was wondering where the wheels/tires go.

The old card in the spokes for rich kids...

Yeah, I just put a Mantle rookie card in there.

Looks like the front fork was made from a French Horn or something...

I found it.
http://www.ratrodbikes.com/rat-rod-b...-off-12-winner

Ain't sneaking up on nobody, what w/the chain running through that tube...

Don't get too close to the Sun...

You're not going to forget to lower the landing gear.

Shiny side up...

Winter...

Strange, kickstarter but there demo video shows half a dozen different bikes...

Do you offroaders have a patch too?

We probably need a patch, it's a right of passage. The funny thing is modern bikes are longer with a slacker head tube angle so "kids today" don't get their heads screwed on right with low speed crashes. Their first crashes are at higher speeds so sometimes instead of learning how to fall they break stuff.

Playing hooky.

Hope to hell there's no cross wind. :eyebrow:

As long as it's no more than a zephyr.

If Ima ride the wind...

I'm taking the Sirocco.:cool:

Apparently only three Zephyr bicycles were built. The article is primarily about tricycles, but there's a blurb on the bicycle in the middle.

Did we see this wacko before?

Yikes!

armor of god
helmet of bone
racing to get to heaven before you

Godspeed.

Sounds like death metal lyrics.