AZ BS Thread 4²0

A punch to the taint sounds better than this thing feels.

 

You'd think with 7" travel front and 6" travel rear.... this thing would ride like a cloud.... well, it does. But a cloud with a fuggin tee ball bat coming out the top

 

I lol'd.

I used to ride a bike around Atlanta, since it was easier to get around after a few whiskies without any trouble. I spent most of my time basically standing on the pedals, not putting much weight in a seat, vs just leaning against it almost. More girth just meant more friction - no thank you.

Found an old photo of the '83 univega. Don't mind the quality, I took it with a 2010 banana.

 

Scored these seats from a coworker who turned into our realtor for one of the games the Cleveland INDIANS came to town and smoked the d-backs. My heart still hasn't healed from '95, '97, and '16. No one chokes as hard as Cleveland sports teams.

 

You gotta ride regularly, 2-3 times a week for your taint to get used to any saddle. If you so much as take a week off, youre gonna feel it the next time you hop on. That being said, if you arent already you have to ride with padded shorts. That doesnt have to mean spandex, it can be baggies with a built in chamois. Makes a huge difference. If you are dead set on a different saddle, WTB makes a bunch of nice ones. Ive been running the Silverado on a few of my bikes and really like it. If you stick with chromo rails they arent too expensive. https://www.wtb.com/collections/mountain-bike-saddles/products/silverado

 

At a pretty good point with the scale crawler "rock garden" Figured some peeps in here might like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBl5Bm80QyI

 

my favorite part of year is then the AC and heater are turned off. Whenever that may be.

 

The WTB Silverado has been my long time fave, but the Ergon SM Enduro on my Orbea Laufey is fast displacing it...

 

Smaller and firmer seats can be better than big wide cushy. Sounds odd but it is true.

Get a "dropper post" that install in the "seat tube" (vertical frame part) and has a lever on the handlebars to allow it to raise or lower your seat like a hydraulic office chair. Low if you want a lower center of gravity, higher if you want bent over fast pedaling. About $250 online. Bike stores can install but expect price to be $350 then. Depending on the frame the cables that control the dropper-post will be "internal" (if the seat post has the guides) or "external" on the outside of the seat post (most bikes need this if you did not pay $5000).

 

Lizard in South Mountain Park. I think it was cool to run into it.

 

Looks like fun! My back yard course is just a pile of river rock.

 

I'm good right up to 110°.
I'll "take" up to 115°
After that it's hot. Damn hot. Real hot.

Anything north of 120° that we get every few years makes you want to go slap your mama just for having you.

 

dude this is awesome! when is the pre-sale for tickets? lol

 

2nd This! Id rather be hot, even with the daylight in the late evenings. I seem to get more shit done and always saying why the hell didn't I do this in February!

 

I need this!

 

Does anyone have the "sign lettering" templates they can lend or do some very light work?

I want to to put 2 2.5-ish in letters into my cutting board, C and S. But the cheapy letter templates ($12/set) are blocky letters that bother me as being too much a compromise given the rest of the effort. Rockler sells a set of templates in a more curvy pattern (like the standard font of a computer) called "State Park" but it costs $70. I am not cheap or broke, but I do not not make many signs and would rather put money into router bits and bloodwoiod than ununsed sign-letter templates.

 

ah dang - we usually wrap around 4 or 5. Depends on how many hoonigans wanna run.

 

Figured it out in a mad-scientist way ...

Went to HomeDepot, bought a sign that I think describes my twisted mind. Routed out the E as a test, then C and S. After testing a couple of times I took the plunge. I think my brother (C) and sister-in-law (S) might be impressed by the letters filled in with epoxy resin. I do not care how rough it looks ... I like the "less than perfect".

 

Have the cool go fast kids stay the night in the cinders. Have some night time shenanigans.

 

Finally went out this weekend and zeroed my Sig Cross with its new (to it) can and optic, managed to get sub MOA, which honestly isn't that bad considering the barrel is kind of a mid-weight profile. It was definitely stringing on me vertically once I had that barrel and can cooking though. I was kind of rocking and rolling abusing the steel at 300 yards.


Then also took the KAC 14.5" AR out with the little chode MCQ-PRT can as well. That thing is weird, but cool. Definitely not for everyone especially considering the cost, but it's funky in that it does not feel like shooting a suppressed AR at all, in both a good way and a bad way.
It does not add hardly any length or weight- with the 14.5" I'm barely any longer than a standard 16" upper. Gassing is not an issue, it runs like a sewing machine dropping brass at 3-4 o'clock, maybe a hair forward with 5.56. No gas face whatsoever, basically none of the traditional "can" problems.
On the flip side it doesn't really sound suppressed, but at the same time it doesn't have the same snappy boom your average AR has. Hard to describe, like taking an AR and just turning down the volume a few clicks, without adding the distinctive "sssst" of a normal can and the fart cloud around the port.

Also genuinely impressed with the group it randomly printed during zeroing with just basic bitch bulk 55 grain at 100 yards:

(Don't worry, it got way worse than this too.)