Austin Area TW Chapter (all gens welcome, even T4Rs; heck, just make it a Toyota and we're good)

Nice nike rack too! Can you share the deets?

I love my dropper post but it takes time to remember you have one.

Hell yes! I would love to ride there

 

Trying to find a good dropper now. Thinking of even a PNW, bontragger if I can get a good deal or BrandX.

I'm game for a Spider mountain ride!

 

Brand X is what I have. Been real happy with this one:

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com...ii-105mm-125mm-dropper-seatpost/rp-prod159176

 

what is that darkish colored stuff? Do your trees cause that?

 

Yes and it allows me to work in 100 degrees without melting lol

 

I'll have to check it out! I want an internally routed one because the bike is setup for that

 

I do miss mine, but they would have crushed both vehicles in the storm last week, and the solar would not work. Think I'm just going to get me a pop up!

 

I have one of those, too. They are life savers when it's sunny out and you need to work where there's no cover.

 

A year ago, looked like this:


Slightly different this year;

 

The Trek is a 1995 OCLV Pro Issue. So, older than some of the folks on this board. Here is a restored one.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=124832

The Devinci is a 2014 Troy, aluminum version. I have been thinking about a dropper post for that as well. I'll probably be road only this summer; if I get clearance, the ortho was pretty adamant about motorcycle riding being of the non impact variety when he said that was okay.

 

I assume you mean bike rack? That's just Gladiator Gearwall Panels and hooks.

https://www.gladiatorgarageworks.com/Products-1/Wall-Mounting-Solutions-3/102270014/

 

Pretty house. I love having trees.

I have a Trek from 2010

 

Wow.

 

Well, the truth on those trees was more than just solar. 35+ years old, and a 25 year developer Arizona Ash. Bad growth patterns, borers, carpenter ants. Every little storm dumped small branches, storm like last week would take at least one huge branch every time.




well, you get the idea. I got dozens like it.

 

Mine drops small branches, nothing bigger than a foot long.

 

Yeah, like 10'-20' small here. Larger in big storms. Growth was so Ash stupid I spend like $500 every two years just to "un-dangerous" them. Could not call it pruning because one dwarfed the other, and they could never be made to look nice, just a nicer canopy.

 

Good call getting rid of the hackberry trees. Beware the possibility of future holes where the trunks used to be - my MIL still has an 18” sinkhole 20 years later from taking out one that sized. We finally filled it concrete up to a foot from the top and that finally stopped it up.

Edit - I see they’re ash. Hackberry trees do that too. Grow big fast, rot out, fall on shit.

 

Thats sweet. The Santa Cruz I put it on came out before they offered dropper posts. My sons is internally routed and the bike looks so clean

nice, currently i have a floor rack similar to the old elementary school types. It takes up a lot of floor space so going up the wall is pretty slick

 

Developer trees suck. They are only used in neighborhoods that are scraped, or didn't have trees to begin with. I get it, but it's a poor solution.

 

I have 10' ceilings in the garages, so hooks hanging from them wasn't going to happen. I had one of these:

http://www.racorstoragesolutions.com/p/detail/plb-4r

And it took up almost as much space as 4 bikes on the ground. F that; I sold it and spent about $30 for the Gladiator parts in that picture.