it depends... do you shave your legs?

i like the fact that there are other climbers here. arc'teryx, by the way.

You guys are all weak and pathetic, you chastise lycra but then wear actual harnesses. Get youselves a copy of "Mountaineering - the freedom of the hills" and learn how to tie your own harness out of 20 feet of 1 inch webbing. Nothing is more hard core than showing up at a ****** filled gym with a daisy chain of webbing and proceeding to make your own harness, then chimbing something overhanging and NOT falling out of it.
Also a damn good skill to know for that one time you show up at the crags without a harness, been there, done that.

try again:
12ft section of triple braid nylon, one military carabiner, less than 30 seconds, and I have a swiss seat. Part of my former job at the 101st.
Take that same section and double it, square knot it, one military carabiner and I was ready for Aussie.
all I needed was a Blackhawk or a Huey (love them skids...)
done body raps (not recommended, but good to know how to do) too.
Appreciate the recommendation on the book, but I still have my copy.

hardman, huh?
first of all i never slammed lycra. i said i didn't wear it but would consider it.
second, wearing a harness while climbing will save my life, wearing lycra while riding won't.
last, i don't care about being hard core. i just want to have fun.

anyway, so you're saying you don't own a harness? and you always tie your own harness out of webbing? so what is it that you forgot when you showed up at that crag?

Relax, crimeny you guys all of a sudden got a bit jumpy there. It's all in good fun, just being silly. Though I do hate swiss seats 165, that was my first introduction to improv harnesses, that's why I learned how to tie one better. Of course I own a harness, I haven't used it since I moved to Houston though, geography and laziness are to blame. Really, I could sit here and talk all the **** I want (if I wanted to) but the fact is that my ropes, my rack, and my ice tools have been sitting in the attic for over 3 years. That's one of the big reasons I'm on a bike now.

it's all good. hard to detect intonation and inflection on-line.
sorry about your climbing hiatus. at least there's the bike.

OFF TOPIC ALERT * * * * MY COMMENTS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH TRACK/FIX (below)

Hey FamMan
Is Hueco Tanks still open for bouldering? I always wanted to go out there and tear off my calouses and break some knuckles.

I'm thinking your principal/school board may take issue with this plan.


What everybody needs...and wants. Natch.

You should hook up with some of those hard core Texas cavers and take some trips down to Mexico. You'll need your harness their btw I sewed mine together with 3in and 1in webbing, works great and is nice and comfy on long rope climbs. The tied seat is the best for pits way deep in a cave, not much to cary and has multi use. Any back to bikes

Not a clue, it's literally like 10 hours from me and when I moved down here it was almost completely closed to any climbing. When I stopped climbing I stopped paying much attention to climbing news. If you want to hit a place that's absurdly fun, go to Joshua tree, more bouldering than you could possibly do in a year and lots of great 1 pitch stuff too. Beautiful scenery, great weather, one of my favorite places even though I've only been once.
Oh, and don't wear lycra when you climb. There now the thread is on topic agian.

Maybe not in cutoff jeans, but I bet you could do it in cut off sweat pants.
The only reason I like lycra is so my thighs don't rub.




Exactly!

No. My long legs might look kinda girly without a nice coat of fur.

Looking for an update: how did your knees recover from the 600 mile fixie ride?

Quite trying to be a comedian. Be serious!

The knees were no problem. It was the ankles that went first. I started with a 42/16, so I was spinning out WAY too much. The doc said that my ankles were getting pulled out of socket and slammed back in. I eventually went to a 52or53/16 (can't remember which) and it was fine.

AMEN!


I use to wear lycra when I was in the high school running team...my theory on it was, lycra restricts muscle movement a bit....and that little bit in the training might jsut make a difference when your wearing the official team "OMG look at my underwear" high-slit running shorts.

Yes, I got tons of crap over it....mostly since everyone couldnt help but make comments about seeing the shape of rather natural objects that jsut happen to be gorwing in the vicinity of the frontal portion of my shorts..

Oh well....I wore em anyways....if they made a difference, I would never know...but oh well...at least they were somewhat comfy for running in....and at least didn't suck as bad as those high slit shorts...really the slit ended at the elastic band....now if anyhting those deserved to be mocked.

My belief is that Everybody's Free to Wear Lycra.

HA HA! That is hilarious..."Help! I've Fallen and I'm blowing away bad Al Pacino likenesses!"
Funnier still: I think the Police Dept shown here is near where my parents live (Wheeling, IL). I wonder if they need someone to show they how to pop of a good 3 round group from a track stand...

you know... there is something there - might just be the next Olympic sport

Interesting that the cop is wearing clipless. I Houston they wear normal shoes and ride on flats on their police bikes. I figured the reason was so that they could run after perps if they needed to. I know that you can run in mtn shoes since mtn bikers do it all the time, but I always thought the disadvantages of clipless would outweight the advantages for cops.

the new Biathlon - for summer olympics! Swap X-country skis for a track bike. I can see it now...
where do I sign up?

I think a SS MTB would probably do better.

Might make the shooting from a trackstand harder though...

Bikkhu, can you link to the website where you got that pic?