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Jul 26, 2020 00:59
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spwrozek posted:This weekend is a whole lot of rain. What a bummer. We are supposed to just be dry with forest fires. Got new pedals on the bike though. But but but  
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Jul 26, 2020 01:02
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Sadi posted:Just depends on what your goals are. Brevard is really good for a cute small town with excellent access to pisgah and dupont. If you want cheaper but similar access look more towards Etowah and Hendersonville (further away but probably cheaper). If you want more shopping and city stuff, look at Asheville. Asheville will be significantly more expensive I think, and its about a 40min drive from pisgah. I dont know Rosma very well and hardly ever go that far south on 64 but it is close to Lake Jocassee which is a gem (can boat camp, and kayak or boat up to water falls that dump into the lake. super clear water). Rosman is also closer to Panther Town. That said I imagine it has less shops, restaurants, and breweries than Brevard if that matters to you. I swear I'm gonna drag oconee and pickens counties into putting a large MTB system near Jocassee and Walhalla
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Aug 6, 2020 16:12
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Just to re-say what that dude said, upstate SC is a loving gold mine of undeveloped lands compared to the similar side in NC. I live just south of there and I did an internship for SC PRT in 2000? SC highway 11 is an amazing drive and it passes 3? 4? state parks with intermixed SC DNR and duke power owned land (jocassee). I'd normally recommend raven cliff falls for tourists on the NC/SC border on 276 since you said brevard, but I haven't been home since March and I don't have any idea how busy the trail is and it may be slammed. Even normally it'd be fairly busy, but the rest of Mountain Bridge Wilderness is usually sparsely hiked (even if you go around to the suspension bridge that trail isn't used much at all)
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Aug 6, 2020 16:20
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Tacier posted:I really thought this bike shortage and demand spike would be over by mid-year, but I appear to have been stupendously wrong. I was eyeing the new Orbea Occam and the expected ship time on their website is June of next year. Just speaking as a guy who needs to order materials a lot, it's like 20% demand spike and 80% materials and logistics problems. Even shops that are healthy and 100% in business have to deal with suppliers that aren't, and even if their suppliers are, the supplier's suppliers aren't. I wanted to bid on a job doing a quarter mile of boardwalk, and I had to back out solely because I can't get a quote that'll be good for more than 5 days, and those I did get were astronomical with no guarantee that was the worst of the pricing. I know a few guys that do timber work, and while crews are cutting nonstop, mills are barely paying anything and a good number are only cutting on demand. And the lumber industry is 4 basic elements, timber buyers/crews, mills, wholesalers, and buyers. People might not realize it yet because they're so focused on small poo poo, but the US economy is straight up loving hosed.
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Aug 8, 2020 01:58
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Bud Manstrong posted:Maverick. Ethan does great work. A week from now we're gonna be starting on the blue descent trail from the bottom up, gonna take a month or so but it's gonna be the goods, 1000 feet, 2.4 miles. I've talked to parker a few times about it but I'm gonna do a flowy downhill towards the west down a drain I like kinda off the meadow, but that'll be probably november and who knows, maybe next year. I don't give a gently caress how long we stay out here, we're staying until it's impossible to work because south carolina is a loving shitshow and I don't want the rona 
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Aug 8, 2020 03:16
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vikingstrike posted:If you ever need riders to burn in trail my services are available. Not sure if this is to me but you're welcome to come out anytime, send me a PM or email me at hccjosh@gmail.com and ill give you all the info about whats finished whats not etc. Its in black hawk, co
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Aug 8, 2020 23:39
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who's building the trails for dragon tail? It doesn't list a contractor just a chapter and two county parks public works orgs. I'm a little surprised they're going so slow on a 47 mile project, at the rate they're projected they'll get finished in like 8 years and people don't like to wait 10% of their lifespans for poo poo like this. There's an 88 mile project in Ohio, different terrain and mostly green trails where they're going to be finished in 2 or 3 years of construction. I mean they had a list of 10 contractors I think, but I'd have expected something similar.
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Aug 23, 2020 21:06
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Car Hater posted:I'm not sure of the name, but the person who twigged me to it said it's the same folks that did DTE, so I expect some similar good machine-built flow sections that can go either direction. it's spectrum, I've never met them or seen anything they do I think they're just regional. Still, two largescale projects they're gonna be skilled. Spime Wrangler is right anyway, I just saw that ohio job come off pretty much without a hitch because the PM was himself one of the highest skilled builders I'd met before and all he did was run the contractors specific to quality. As for style, I just don't want to see large scale projects run in the same style throughout especially if it involves more miles than a person will ride in a day but that's just personal pref.
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Aug 24, 2020 02:44
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h3r0n posted:This is the Bailey's stuff in Athens right? Its baileys yeah I think? I'm not involved with it but I know who the PM is and I know a lot of the contractors associated with it. Its been 2 years now since they started? Is that it? think he started with ten and winnowed it down to 4 contractors maybe? But the PM is well known and spime wrangler is right, guys willing to be assholes about personal pref stuff are hard to find. I know a lot of guys who only do janky tech, low flow stuff that I hate and setting them on an eastern trail system would be bad unless the PM is willing to stay on top of it
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Aug 24, 2020 18:30
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for you boulder goons, is there an area I should focus on looking for cheaper housing? I'm gonna be there for approximately 6 months from April 2021 to Sept/October with a crew of 7-8 guys. I'm pricing in 8k a month in housing stipend but I don't know where I should be looking. I'm not too familiar with the area and I'd at least like to have the option of paying for their housing but I'm seeing like 1700-2k a month for for a 2br anything that isn't an absolute dumpster fire, and I'd much rather rent something big that can house everybody. Renting a ranch or acreage is an option, most of us are used to backpacking.
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Aug 25, 2020 05:00
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On a scale of 1 to 10 how amazing does an option line need to be for it to drop 200 elevation feet on a climbing trail that you'd need to climb again to get to the main event where you'd do it, its a steep wagon bed from the 1800s, probably our best features on it will be armoring and/or a rock wall ride
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Aug 25, 2020 20:14
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Bottom Liner posted:Just packed my bike for TNGA. Leaving Wed and start riding Thursday. We're bidding on something in a few days on the pinhoti for pisgah for winter work, I do like working in NC even of theres a million builders right around there
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Aug 31, 2020 23:51
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So I'm looking at a job in DFW area, 4 miles or so for North Richland Hills and one of the line items is hobo control. Dystopia merica-style
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Sep 2, 2020 17:21
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spwrozek posted:You don't want to go to DFW. Yes but what if I want  to get into some and/or nefarious activity
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Sep 2, 2020 17:27
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VacaGrande posted:Man, if people are living there, you really don't want any part of this. And what kind of terrible city/county/park/whatever puts the burden of evicting homeless people on their trails contractor? First time I've felt legit queasy over a contract
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Sep 2, 2020 19:13
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Spime Wrangler posted:yeah but think about how you'd feel bulldozing the belongings of people who got evicted from their homes then evicted again from the woods and weren't even allowed to take their stuff I'm also fairly certain the people are there or at least around
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Sep 4, 2020 00:59
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loving 10 inches on the 8th of September come the gently caress on
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Sep 7, 2020 17:33
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n8r posted:Machine built trails are too wide and too smooth. Flow us fun for about two corners then I want a different kind of corner after that. I can machine build tread as narrow as any hand built, people just don't want 6 inch tread and a machine is infinitely faster for any built features which unfortunately is all you've got for big sections of a lot of builds. Not to mention any jumps demand a wider takeoff and landing thatguy fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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Sep 18, 2020 04:59
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Levitate posted:As someone who lives where there’s very little legal single track I’d kill for some flow trails or machine built trails to ride on sometimes I built this just 4 u levitate  This one picture shows more elevation than in the entire state of Michigan so plz b careful thatguy fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Sep 20, 2020 |
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Sep 20, 2020 22:44
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i flunked out posted:What are your thoughts on maintaining illegal jumps? I stumbled across the big local jump line, but its a mess rn and clearly has not had maintenance in a while, and so a couple of old dj buddies of mine want to come down, fix it up, and have a jam. Generally speaking, when dealing with the feds its always 100% without question better to ask forgiveness than to ask permission. And that's federal land agencies actually know about. Especially with poo poo like weird chunks of land in a no man's land of maintenance and nothing on it now, I'd without question just start doing poo poo. The exec branch bureaucracies are so cash strapped and personnel strapped they simply don't have the time or interest to bother, even if they wanted to.
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Sep 22, 2020 21:36
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DeesGrandpa posted:Buffalo creek is legit my favorite in CO. I know its not the hardest but its so much fun and I think im at just the right skill level for it. I swear I think it sucks but everybody working for me thinks it's spectacular, I hate you all
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Sep 27, 2020 19:16
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Sounds like you just need a new bike tbh
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Oct 7, 2020 21:46
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My dog bit spwrozek immediately after he brought us some liquor, I dont know what scale of atrocity it is, but somewhere between the holocaust and Stalin purges, especially since he didn't skimp
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Oct 21, 2020 19:32
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He did say  which is pretty nice
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Oct 21, 2020 21:02
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me your dad posted:It's a single speed so I stand more than I sit We have a welder working for us in Damascus, if you want to drive 6 hours. He's an ultra-perfectionist. He normally live in Buena Vista.
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Oct 22, 2020 23:09
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French Canadian posted:My wife and I are planning a grand RV adventure thru the summer/fall months. You're going to want to mark down going to the White Clouds north of Ketchum, near Stanley ID. If you need more detail, there's some good bike places in Hailey or you can stop at Backwoods in Ketchum and they'll set you right, they've always got a couple good riders working downstairs for them.
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Feb 25, 2021 17:57
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Levitate posted:I think there's some pretty good bike parks near Boise (Eagle, Bogus Basin) but I've mostly just ridden some of the foothill trails near there and they're pretty decent but nothing wild https://www.mtbproject.com/trail/7029103/little-casino-big-casino-loop https://www.mtbproject.com/trail/7006311/boundary-loop That's a couple of them, but around there there's a handful of amazing rides. I'm kinda disappointed they killed some access with the fourth of july wilderness stuff, but it's also heavily used and we haven't worked there since 2014. All the USFS people we worked for then are retired now, so I know things have changed some. I'd either check with SNRA HQ or even better at the bike stores.
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Feb 25, 2021 20:03
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Anybody ridden Malheur NF and around Magone Lake? What's the winter weather there like? Eastern Oregon thatguy fucked around with this message at 05:27 on May 4, 2021 |
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May 4, 2021 05:25
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Anybody in Denver area, Maryland mountain has a black downhill open now. I need feedback on my flow downhill too, especially if you can come this weekend or maybe friday/Monday. Send me a PM or if you know spwrozek's contact info he can give you my contact info. Its in Black Hawk
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May 17, 2021 21:22
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deong posted:This sounds good, but I thought ya'll had been getting rain and snow all week? until yesterday it was basically sunny morning with hail or rain for 10 minutes in the evening. And other than the flow I'm working on now, soils are well-drained mineral sandy/rocky and they're going to ride better wet or in the kind of stuff we have now. Last night dumped a bunch but it drains very quick, you see dry crust by noon and stuff will start to break apart again by the afternoon. no snow
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May 18, 2021 17:02
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-s9bHEfLjE nate hills came out tuesday, did a vid reel for comba for the two downhills we built for the city we got open right now. I'm working on the third one, gonna be mostly flow with not much rock except at the top. That one may be ready by Memorial Day.
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May 22, 2021 06:30
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VelociBacon posted:We'd actually sedate you and compress your swollen finger with a variety of tools while using lube to try to get it off. We've called the fire department a few times to bring an angle grinder in which would probably work with a diamond grinding wheel against tungsten carbide, I think? yeah but it'll superheat the tungsten carbide as he's getting it ground off. He might just wanna deglove and get it over with
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Jun 16, 2021 19:09
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jamal posted:Rode some new trail that I've worked on tonight which was cool. I generally have just been showing up, volunteering at work days and kids mtb programs and whatnot but this year our MTB group actually hired me to run some of the trailwork days. I have to supervise and show people what to do and make sure no one hits themselves with a pulaski, tow the trailer around, etc instead of actually just going up there and digging but it's still fun and nice to get something for my work. jamal you're around missoula somewhere right? I know a couple guys been doing a bike park and some other stuff around there
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Jun 27, 2021 02:20
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