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Originally Posted by Mumonkan
(Post 19397849)
i flew 32 individual flights last year, and to be honest its really just the same thing as getting on a train. it helps to fly the same airline if possible, so you know their routine and policies and it makes everything a lot easier.
precheck really only saves you time if you frequently fly, frequent airports with notoriously slow security (im looking at you Denver), and you consistently run late. i didnt have precheck last year and it only hurt me once (again, looking at you Denver). if youre a weirdo that has a problem with taking your shoes off in public, or if youre one of those people that struggle with common sense and wear kneehigh lace up boots when going through airport security, then i suppose precheck would also help you. bs only occurs when people (fellow travelers) dont know how to be humans. this applies to all forms of travel, not just planes. In other news we got out to the tarmac to board in PDX and were immediately sent back to the terminal because the plane "needs servicing". No other flights to Austin until tonight and no ETA for when the plane will be repaired. If they sent us off the plane they're probably not planning on having it done within the 3 hrs max that they can require people to wait on the plane. |
Originally Posted by Mumonkan
(Post 19397849)
(im looking at you Denver)
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I love the Denver airport because of all the wacky conspiracy theories. Traveling by train is super chill and I would do it all the time, but it just takes forever to go long distances.
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Today I decided my old Ti mtn bike will be converted to a semi-weight weenie, rigid, SS. (Was previously considering going 1x9 and some racks.)
Decided on a carbon rigid fork for the front end. The biggest outstanding question is: what chain tensioner is best since I'm dealing with vertical dropouts. |
Originally Posted by seau grateau
(Post 19398179)
I love the Denver airport because of all the wacky conspiracy theories. Traveling by train is super chill and I would do it all the time, but it just takes forever to go long distances.
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Originally Posted by seau grateau
(Post 19398179)
but it just takes forever to go long distances.
plane travel has all these intermediary periods like security, switching terminals on a layover, waiting for baggage. trains provide a lot of you time, walking around, eating food, you can even bring booze on a train! |
Plus scenery! I took a train from LA to Portland OR in the winter a few years ago. We went through Shasta National Forest and everything was completely blanketed in snow. Growing up in LA, I had never seen anything like it before.
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Originally Posted by Mumonkan
(Post 19398519)
best thing about train travel is you can multitask, getting work done while you would otherwise just be sitting there like a sack of **** is dope
plane travel has all these intermediary periods like security, switching terminals on a layover, waiting for baggage. trains provide a lot of you time, walking around, eating food, you can even bring booze on a train! There was a guy on the roadie forum who posted a video of his son riding rollers on an Amtrak train while the train was moving. |
Originally Posted by TimothyH
(Post 19398715)
There was a guy on the roadie forum who posted a video of his son riding rollers on an Amtrak train while the train was moving.
Cant do that **** on a plane. |
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Originally Posted by hairnet
(Post 19398671)
Plus scenery! I took a train from LA to Portland OR in the winter a few years ago. We went through Shasta National Forest and everything was completely blanketed in snow. Growing up in LA, I had never seen anything like it before.
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Today I sold a saddle on eBay. This **** is way better than Craigslist.
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Today I chopped a tree down
http://i.imgur.com/d0lXnhj.jpg Demolished a couple brick walls http://i.imgur.com/EBCsrWd.jpg And poured concrete into the remaining pit http://i.imgur.com/lhIGlCR.jpg It was a hard work day with my father :) |
Originally Posted by SquidPuppet
(Post 19399717)
Your folks never took you to Big Bear or Baldy for a snow play day when you were a kid?
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That's the only time its good.
Even here in NYC I can only recall a handful of times in my life where we had quality snow like that. Usually it just makes everything suck. |
Went on the first real trip on the new 'brid my New Albunion hyrbrid I built up. It is freakin' sweet. 1x7 vintage XT RD, Surly chainring on a Tiagra crank and 11-32 cassette with an old Deore LX shifter and a mismatched promax brake lever that will be replaced (it is loose mismatching is fine). It is a steel frame with a carbon fork and most of the parts were from parts bins or picked up rather cheaply.
The tires need to be widened as all I had were 28s laying about but it is a pretty zippy ride and surprising lighter than a full carbon Sirrus Hybrid. Granted mine doesn't have some of the features of the Sirrus and with a rack it will be a touch heavier but still it was pretty interesting. 23.4lbs total pre-rack. It wasn't built up to be light weight at all it just happened with parts I was able to find it came out fairly light. |
I decided I'm going to build a steel, canti, 120mm spaced SSCX bike as my first N+1 because that's just how I roll. F it. It's gonna be tight.
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Today I took the Sqrl out for a little mountain biking, nothing crazy but this trail was more rough than what she has ridden on before. This was my first ride with the new squish fork and what difference it makes riding fast over the rough stuff compared to my rigid steel fork. My shock pump and disc brake adapter arrived in the mail so I can now switch to a 180mm rotor in front and tune the fork for my weight. Now I gotta figure out why rear brake squeals like a dying hyena.
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Originally Posted by 50voltphantom
(Post 19403117)
I decided I'm going to build a steel, canti, 120mm spaced SSCX bike as my first N+1 because that's just how I roll. F it. It's gonna be tight.
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Today I spent an hour deciding whether or not I wanted to go for a ride, then rode 30 miles. Indecisive for life.
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Originally Posted by hairnet
(Post 19403269)
Today I took the Sqrl out for a little mountain biking, nothing crazy but this trail was more rough than what she has ridden on before. This was my first ride with the new squish fork and what difference it makes riding fast over the rough stuff compared to my rigid steel fork. My shock pump and disc brake adapter arrived in the mail so I can now switch to a 180mm rotor in front and tune the fork for my weight. Now I gotta figure out why rear brake squeals like a dying hyena.
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Originally Posted by TenSpeedV2
(Post 19403520)
Avid? That is how they roll.
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My Avid's honk like a horny donkey when they get wet.
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This past week I've been trying to re-buy the same make and model of car that I had sold 5 years ago.
It is proving surprisingly difficult to find a 2004 - 2007 impreza sti that will pass CA emissions legally without requiring any sort of significant wrenching on my end. Further hindering my efforts are sellers pretending to themselves that I dont know what a catalytic converter is and their car's lack there of them upon visual inspection.
Originally Posted by seau grateau
(Post 19403354)
Today I spent an hour deciding whether or not I wanted to go for a ride.
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Originally Posted by TenSpeedV2
(Post 19403905)
My Avid's honk like a horny donkey when they get wet.
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