At least keep your old man humour relevant to bikes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_xTe...20bikes.%C2%A0

I think this is your best post ever! Stick to Monty Python you will be OK. Sure there may only be one really relevant bit to bikes and it was that but it is a good one.

Says the old man who has a son in college. :rolleyes:

Can someone with a child in college still live in his parents' basement?

Maybe the weekend at the college didn't turn out how he planned?

Reminds me of driving around a fairly suburban area in Pennsylvania with a guy from New York, and I laughed when he called it a rural area. Dude, you haven't seen rural until you've driven on a gravel road where there's two or more miles between farm houses.

Get in mah belly!

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...80cd1008cb.jpg

Got a lot of hand positions, though, and room to mount lights & other accessories.

Maybe if his parents claim him as a dependent for tax purposes? I know of some families like that, the adult-age children aren't capable of living on their own due to various "developmental" reasons. It would explain a lot in MD's case.

The things that pass for knowledge, I don't understand.

reeling in the years

I thought I lived in the middle of nowhere, till I flew over the US from New York to San Francisco at night - East of the Mississippi, lights everywhere. West of the Mississippi. fewer and fewer, till eventually you realize there are miles and miles between them.

road south of chinook mt on the way to chief Joseph battle field becomes gravel soon

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...e52237d754.jpg

Isn’t that obvious?

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I've only been on one real gravel ride; lots of bearded riders in scuffy clothes who look like they'll spend the evening arguing about IPA's. The Grizl is laser-focused on its core users.

Needs the Aero bar to really shine.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...2a801c75df.jpg

And yet, you know everything about it.

Thank you, but I wouldn't say that exactly. As a former branding and image consultant, I do find humour in gravel marketing and those who take up the banner.

Yes it is!....

I rode by the battlefield historical site on June 20th on the way to Wisdom.

One of the few places east of the Mississippi where it's dark at night is in North Central Pennsylvania. Unfortunately we aren't all that close. But if you go over one mountain to the east of here, there is no cellphone coverage. There are rattlesnakes though. Definitely something to take into consideration if you are riding alone.

There are a lot of people who are ignorant of how good riding on gravel can be. It seems like most of those people have very strong opinions about what kind of bike you should ride on that gravel though. Bike Snob actually lives close enough to some decent gravel that he could find out for himself.

Oh look, this isn't even an argument!

I understand the former part....

I was recently riding through the Big Hole Valley between Wisdom and Big Hole Pass in MT. About 28 miles. Huge ranches and only a smattering of houses except for in the small town of Jackson 18 miles in. Parts of ND are also like that. You only know when you’re coming to a town because you catch sight of some trees and a water tower. During a supported tour we rode an 18 mile stretch without seeing one house.

Last I checked, ND had about 770,000 residents in the entire state. I live in a city with nearly twice the population.

this one is the site of the last battle south of Highway 2 in northern Mt

you have pictures from a previous ride, in black and white of kids in front of the museum in Chinook

I used to work at Cornell in Ithaca NY, and drive down to visit my folks near Gettysburg PA frequently. My usual route involved driving through Sullivan County, which has a population of fewer than 6000 people. I was driving a 1966 MGB (this was around 1980) which was as reliable as you might expect a 14 year old British sports car to be. But that never really bothered me, because I was young and dumb and immortal - about 22 years old.

I had several catastrophic failures in that car - a clutch that gave out in my parent's driveway, a driveshaft U-joint that gave way in Pittsburgh when visiting the Not-Yet-Mrs. GeneJockey, the heater core that got a hole while I was driving around Ithaca, causing all the windows to completely fog up instantly, the throttle cable that broke, also while driving around Ithaca. I'm lucky none of those happened in Sullivan County. I'd probably still be waiting for someone to happen by!!!