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[SnakeCharmer]

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You do know that I was joking, right? Now, if you're implying that the world is screwed up and getting more screwed up every day, I assure you that there isn't a sane person alive who doesn't already know it and live it every day. Don't waste too much effort or too many brain cells pondering this. The facts are plain to see and there is no conspiracy tied to it.

 

[herzalot]

If you read his posts closely you will see him gleefully prophesying something akin to what was attempted in DC in January 2021, but on a way bigger scale, and possibly far more violent.

I’m guessing 2024, but maybe sooner.

 

[Derkderkall]

I think some cleaning happened here, cause I’m confused..,

 

[Derkderkall]

@SnakeCharmer have you considered trying down in hahamonga by the bridge to jpl?

always lots of space and frequent users coming to and fro.

 

[SnakeCharmer]

@SnakeCharmer have you considered trying down in hahamonga by the bridge to jpl?

always lots of space and frequent users coming to and fro.

There's plenty of off menu spots to park close by there and I always have the option to ride from home, which I do when I have the time.

 

[SnakeCharmer]

I think some cleaning happened here, cause I’m confused..,

Yes, something was removed, thankfully.

 

[Faust29]

We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment—until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his life hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

-Mark Twain (What is Man?, 1906)

I think he would be a mountain biker if he were alive today.

 

[Grassblade23]

...Mark Twain ...

I think he would be a mountain biker if he were alive today.

He obviously would ride a mullet.

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live." -Mark Twain

 

[Faust29]

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He obviously would ride a mullet.

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live." -Mark Twain

I confess... I had never read "Taming the Bicycle". I should have known Twain would cover everything! Climbing, padding up, riding on rocks and even going OTB. He even managed to compare it to learning German.



Edit:

Link to the essay: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Twain_Taming_Bicycle.pdf

 

[Runs with Scissors]

I confess... I had never read "Taming the Bicycle". I should have known Twain would cover everything! Climbing, padding up, riding on rocks and even going OTB. He even managed to compare it to learning German.



Edit:

Link to the essay: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Twain_Taming_Bicycle.pdf

His translation of the sexless fishwife was just classic.

What language needs 9 ways to say "the?"

 

[Faust29]

His translation of the sexless fishwife was just classic.

What language needs 9 ways to say "the?"

And confuse it even more by using the same "the" word for the masculine nominative case as for the feminine dative case.

 

[Sidewalk]

Nice reminder that English is a Germanic language, and it is a cluster too.

 

[tick]

Facebook group hike ends up a misdemeanor…can we get these rangers to come to California?
https://www.backpacker.com/news-and...-for-organizing-139-person-grand-canyon-hike/

 

[evdog]

Facebook group hike ends up a misdemeanor…can we get these rangers to come to California?
https://www.backpacker.com/news-and...-for-organizing-139-person-grand-canyon-hike/

Sounds like the same guy who organizes "advanced beginner" MTB meetup groups around here

 

[mtbMike]

For those of you that enjoy Downieville, this is a shocker....unless it's a one day early April Fools joke.

https://yubaexpeditions.com/yuba/news-next-chapter.php?mc_cid=bbff9424b4&mc_eid=79d55bf529

 

[SnakeCharmer]

New tires!

 

[herzalot]

Stay more connected to your bike...

 

[herzalot]

What bums me out about this April Fools joke is that Yohann Barelli rides his Gnarvana with "Modular Hard Tail" better than any of us will ever ride a bike as designed.

 

[Faust29]

What bums me out about this April Fools joke is that Yohann Barelli rides his Gnarvana with "Modular Hard Tail" better than any of us will ever ride a bike as designed.

I think that one has been done before...

Question, though... Is riding it like that going to hurt the frame? Seems like it's going to experience stresses that it's not designed for.

 

[herzalot]

Question, though... Is riding it like that going to hurt the frame? Seems like it's going to experience stresses that it's not designed for.

I thought the same thing...

 

[evdog]

I think that one has been done before...

Question, though... Is riding it like that going to hurt the frame? Seems like it's going to experience stresses that it's not designed for.

Someone made something like that as a real product early 2000s. Seemed like an odd product back but the idea was you could still pedal the bike around town at least while your shock was getting serviced.

 

[Danimal]

What bums me out about this April Fools joke is that Yohann Barelli rides his Gnarvana with "Modular Hard Tail" better than any of us will ever ride a bike as designed.

Now if someone could invent a shock with a switch on it to stiffen it up for climbing, that would be something worth trying.

 

[herzalot]

Now if someone could invent a shock with a switch on it to stiffen it up for climbing, that would be something worth trying.

Dare to dream!

 

[Mikie]

There was an explosion at the UPS facility in Lancaster California today. Smoke billowing and trucks are on fire.
@UPSed do you know anything about this. I'm guessing folks were hurt today...

Update: Looks like no one was injured. Whew!

 

[mtnbikej]

There was an explosion at the UPS facility in Lancaster California today. Smoke billowing and trucks are on fire.
@UPSed do you know anything about this. I'm guessing folks were hurt today...

Update: Looks like no one was injured. Whew!

I guess they should have done a better job boxing up my plutonium and lithium batteries i ordered......oooops

 

[Mikie]

New tires!

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That's silly...

 

[UPSed]

There was an explosion at the UPS facility in Lancaster California today. Smoke billowing and trucks are on fire.
@UPSed do you know anything about this. I'm guessing folks were hurt today...

Update: Looks like no one was injured. Whew!

All I know is that it started in their auto shop and this is all that's left....

 

[SnakeCharmer]

I sure do hope that nobody here had expected packages in that facility or in those trucks when it all went up in a blaze.

 

[Derkderkall]

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/au...-in-search-for-missing-hiker-in-altadena/amp/

Missing hiker last seen near Chaney trail this morning. lots of helicopter activity all afternoon in the foothills

 

[Faust29]

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/au...-in-search-for-missing-hiker-in-altadena/amp/

Missing hiker last seen near Chaney trail this morning. lots of helicopter activity all afternoon in the foothills

Saw that...

He was checking out Tom Sloane ridge this morning... Which is quite a ways above Chaney. Circled the canyon quite a few times, and did a flyover of me.