What I would like to know is, is there anybody here playing PoGo?

Which part was whacky? Vegan donuts or Pokemon Go?

I saw a pic of a Steamroller with purple Cook Bros cranks on it over at MTBR and holy crap I need a pair.

I played PoGo for a total of about 15 minutes. I think it's a pretty cool idea and I think it's neat how it's getting people out of the house - seeing people wandering around every park I pass on my way home from work, during summer in Phoenix, is pretty great.

The people that are too obsessed with it and forget about the world around them can be a bit annoying, but people have been incoherent of their surroundings since smart phones existed, so I can't blame all of that on the game.

What about the oblivious people standing in the middle of a dedicated bike path at night with their noses so deep in their phones that they forget that an outside world exists?

Like I said, those people get rather annoying. But there have always been hordes of people too obsessed with their phone to look up.

For the most part, I'd probably scream POKEMON NO!!! at those people.

this is the problem. phones were bad enough before, but now its an addictive game to be absorbed in. couple this with standing in a bikepath or singletrack, a street, while riding a bike, skateboard, running, or DRIVING A CAR (i have seen it.) and you got the makings of a colossal ****storm

and when one of us collides with these idiots on our bikes, we will be the ones to get sued and made into terrorists on wheels. "i was just playing a game and the mean man hit me and now i have a broken finger, so i cant work at my deskjob, waaahhh"

Stuff like this happens.

I play the PoGo on the way to/from work. Bar mount for the phone and everything!

Of course I've been playing Ingress for almost two years now too (with a couple of breaks)...

I had that happen to me a couple days ago on a bike path at the lake. A huge guy carrying an ice chest in one hand and playing with his phone in the other walked into the bike path and STOPPED, dead center, frozen like a deer. Absolutely clueless to his surroundings and that he did that when I was ~10 feet away going about 18 mph. Fortunately I had plenty of room to avoid him, but even when I went past him (closely) he never knew I was there.

That game is natural selection at it's best...
Nearly hit a kid who just ran into the street out of nowhere a week ago.

Every dumb thing people do with Pokemon Go, they've already been doing for years with texting.

So Im not the only one who doesn't play Pokemon Go!?

There is a time when I would have thought the same thing but people are abandoning their children to play, playing it at places like the Holocaust Museum and other more somber places and generally not paying attention to anything and choosing to go into dangerous situations for a dang pikachu pokemon.

I have taken a new perspective on death having gone through a lot of deaths in my family and amongst friends recently as well as seeing what we as humans do to each other and animals and my positions have changed quite a bit because of that.

I am not saying people should go out and kill someone because of this pokemon thing nor for any reason as stupid as that. I am just wishing nature would do it's thing. Maybe then can we live in peace and harmony, kumbaya and all that jazz.

The pokemons thing was whacky. The donuts were freakin' delicious...White Chocolate Pretzel donuts, are you kidding me, so good! A properly fluffy donut well frosted with a little crunch and a hint of salt...yum-o!

Got some extras and had one before riding this morning probably not great fuel but it was good motivation to burn that thing off.

the gene pool could do with some parsing down.

dont have to wish death on anybody, its guaranteed on admission!

white chocolate pretzel vegan doughnuts? sounds kinda wacky to me, I'd try one though just to tell my grand kids I was adventurous in my day

Today I realized that I really don't enjoy SS bikes -- I gotta be either on a geared bike or FG

Second session at the track, tons of fun again. I'm slow, but I'll be working on that. Also, coming in off the rail in the corners almost made me **** myself the first couple times.

I mainly enjoy SS in mild-to-moderate offroad situations. Never road, and never super serious MTBing.

^^^ Single speed is only tolerable when navigating downhill situations, otherwise you should be on a fixed gear or geared bike.

Today was the last day of short track, so I'm sad until September when cross picks up.

Today I was notified by USPS tracking that a package was delivered to a business in zip code 92104 at 1:41 pm pst. Much anticipation. :D

Frame and fork!!!

Can't wait to see it all built up!

I knew that post was coming having seen all the lucky people posting pics of theirs on the internetz.

links ?

Curse you Heavypedal and your presale for the new Zephyr :crash: