alt.mountain-bike roundup

[MattB]

Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
> Ride-A-Lot wrote:
>
>>For your benefit and at the request of Penny, the AMB FAQ has been
>>updated. READ IT!
>>
>>http://www.schnauzers.ws/ambfaq.html
>
>
> How do I get into the FAQ? Do I have to go nuts and say weird things?
>

Yeah, I'm not sure if I should be concerned or relieved there's not
MattB section either.

Matt

 

[Ride-A-Lot]

MattB wrote:
> Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:
>> Ride-A-Lot wrote:
>>
>>> For your benefit and at the request of Penny, the AMB FAQ has been
>>> updated. READ IT!
>>>
>>> http://www.schnauzers.ws/ambfaq.html
>>
>>
>> How do I get into the FAQ? Do I have to go nuts and say weird things?
>>
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure if I should be concerned or relieved there's not
> MattB section either.
>
> Matt

That depends on who's writing it.

Phil's might read: The man who makes it a point to know the tensile
strength of the titanium bolt holding your linkage together (bicycle and
otherwise).

Yours may read: Scares people off of rides by talking about the 25 mile
an hour 15% incline climbs he's done with NORBA racers.

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

 

[Jimbo(san)]

x1134x spurted

There are a few A-holes who cal me a redneck, that I live in a trailer
etc, and I just lump them in with the stupidest A-hole who cross posts
here: Vandemann.

Thanx to everyone else who has taken the time to help me learn about
mountain biking that I've left out.

x1134x>

Travis is that you????

 

[MattB]

Jimbo(san) wrote:
> x1134x spurted
>
> There are a few A-holes who cal me a redneck, that I live in a trailer
> etc, and I just lump them in with the stupidest A-hole who cross posts
> here: Vandemann.
>
> Thanx to everyone else who has taken the time to help me learn about
> mountain biking that I've left out.
>
> x1134x>
>
> Travis is that you????
>
>
It's like DejaVu all over again.

Matt

 

[JohnH]

> Travis is that you????

I damn near posted that EXACT question yesterday!

 

[Corvus Corvax]

JohnH wrote:
> > Travis is that you????
>
> I damn near posted that EXACT question yesterday!

If he threatens to kill himself, let's send him a new bike. It's the
a.m-b way!

CC

 

[Paladin]

x1134x wrote:
> Paladin: Thanx alot for the trails directions and advice for biking in
> Boise, I really appreciate it. You've been nothing but kind to me
> since I started posting to this forum. You are a great guy and an
> example to your peers.
> Thanx to everyone else who has taken the time to help me learn about
> mountain biking that I've left out.
>
> x1134x

Thanks. You've pulled some pretty outrageous stunts on the usenet, but
hey, its just the internet, and I figgerd you were just battin the
hornet nest for a little fun and a few laughs.

Beats reading about retro-fitting some spoke nipple, for the love of
pete.

I haven't gotten back to you on riding only because this is my busiest
time of the year since I started as a full-time pooper scooper. Going
around the neighborhoods with a wheel barrow, and all, makes for long
days and late nights, ya know?

When my red Walgoose gets back from the shop, I'll give you an email to
try and hook up with a Tablerock ride. And I'll bring you a
helmet--For my sake... I've patched guys up on the trail before, and
it's never fun.

And btw, JD does *go after* skidiots and especially trail cutters, but
I'll let him speak for himself if he's so inclined.

Enjoy the sunshine before it snows..

CDB

 

[x1134x]

I *DID* read it early on when I came here, but it's so long I forgot
parts. Its one of those things where you read it, "crazy6 is just
crazy so accept it (and he uses web tv)" and you think to yourself
"HUH?" Then you forget about it then you see a crazy6 post that
befuddles the **** out of you, then you read the FAQ again and go "AHHH
I see said the blind man. . . ."


x1134x

 

[x1134x]

>Thanks. You've pulled some pretty outrageous stunts on the usenet, but
>hey, its just the internet, and I figgerd you were just battin the
>hornet nest for a little fun and a few laughs.

Sometimes its easiest to get a fire going if you use a little gas {
But I think I must have a humor disconnect because I can't recognize
most people's here, and most people here can't recognize mine.

>When my red Walgoose gets back from the shop, I'll give you an email to
>try and hook up with a Tablerock ride. And I'll bring you a
>helmet--For my sake... I've patched guys up on the trail before, and
>it's never fun.

That titus is by no means a walgoose. {*-)

>And btw, JD does *go after* skidiots and especially trail cutters, but
>I'll let him speak for himself if he's so inclined.

This reminds me, when I was a kid we went on "expedition yellowstone"
where we lived in cabins at lamar buffalo ranch in yellowstone for a
week and a half. We got taken by rangers to really cool back-country
sites like specimen ridge (a standing petrified forest) and to some
unmarked mud pits. *Wherever* we went the ranger guiding us would tell
us to "STAY OFF THE TRAILS" and would sometimes go out of his way to go
tell other hikers who were on established trails not to use them. We
were also told to walk in the footprint of the person ahead of us.
Must be because of the lower number of users per year at these remote
places it was just better not to have a trail at all. Obviously where
there are more people using trails daily, trails are a good thing, but
out in the back-country I think it's better not to.

Where I grew up (Northern Wyoming) we had thousands of acres of BLM 100
yards from our house, and it had no trails anywhere we used to ride the
**** out of the hills by our house. Many, many cactus flats. 10 years
later you cannot tell we were ever out there.

I think my inital gas fire got me put on JD's ignore list because he
doesn't seem to respond to any of my posts anymore {

x1134x

 

[Jimbo(san)]

<Paladin spoke:
Beats reading about retro-fitting some spoke nipple, for the love of
pete.>


Errr ummm are you referring to my nipples by chance????


Jimbo...has both kinds... brass and aluminum...(san)

 

[x1134x]

>Aren't you the guy who was slamming MTB'ers on your very first thread a
>little over a month ago? Bragging about your house and truck? Stating that
>you have much more fun on your motorcycle than we do on our bikes? Slamming
>people here for recommending real bikes at bike shops, and stating that
>wal-mart bikes are just as good?

You've provided a microcosm of what I'm talking about. I say one thing,
and then get told I said another. 50 posts then ensue back and forth
about "I said this", "you said that", "you post anonymously so STFU",
"I was joking", "It wasn't funny", "Yes it was", "you're stupid",
*You're* stupid, "No, *YOU'RE* stupid", "I know you are but what am
I?", "You're stupid" "Nut-uh", Uh-HUH","Nut-uh", Uh-HUH" etc.

>Bragging about your house and truck?

saying you own stuff is not bragging about it. Saying your stuff is
better that other people's stuff is bragging (just watch the ford f-150
commercial with toby keith in it talking about the frames of trucks,
*THAT's* bragging. (and Overkill on a frame. have fun mounting a 5th
wheel hitch in a fully boxed frame. NTM the gas mileage carrying all
that extra iron)

>Stating that you have much more fun on your motorcycle than we do on our bikes?

No, Stating that I have much more fun on my motorcycle than *I* do on
*MY* bike?

>Slamming people here for recommending real bikes at bike shops and stating that
>wal-mart bikes are just as good?


Slamming people for automated respose: "Walmart is bad everbody must go
to LBS." Instead of "what are you actually going to *USE* the bike
for?" "What are your views on bicycles? Is it a TOY to you or critical
to your survival?" "Do you know what a 15mm end wrench is or are you a
mechanical invalid?"

I never said wal-mart bikes just as good as high-end bikes for TRAIL
riding. Just for greenbelt (paved trails only) riding. Which most
lay-people want a bike for.

Ok, here we go: Nut-uh", Uh-HUH","Nut-uh", Uh-HUH", Nut-uh",
Uh-HUH","Nut-uh", Uh-HUH", Nut-uh", Uh-HUH","Nut-uh", Uh-HUH", Nut-uh",
Uh-HUH","Nut-uh", Uh-HUH", Nut-uh", Uh-HUH","Nut-uh", Uh-HUH", Nut-uh",
Uh-HUH","Nut-uh", Uh-HUH"

{

x1134x

 

[MattB]

x1134x wrote:
<snip>
>
> I never said wal-mart bikes just as good as high-end bikes for TRAIL
> riding. Just for greenbelt (paved trails only) riding. Which most
> lay-people want a bike for.
>

It was a silly assumption on my part. I figured we were primarily
talking about mountain biking here at alt.mountain-bike.

Matt (uh-HUH)

 

[[email protected]]

Corvus Corvax wrote:
> JohnH wrote:
> > > Travis is that you????
> >
> > I damn near posted that EXACT question yesterday!
>
> If he threatens to kill himself, let's send him a new bike. It's the
> a.m-b way!
>
> CC

Really? Did we do that? I though we sent him a ginsu set and "Seppuku
For Dummies".

/s

"Kill yourself!
Kill yourself!
End it all and kill yourself!
Don't rely on no one else!
End it all and kill your self NOW!
No good loser,
There's nothing left for you!
One less loser
At everything you do!"
- "Kill Yourself", Stormtroopers of Death

 

[TM]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Really? Did we do that?

<snip>

That's mighty bad karma.

 

[Paladin]

Remind me to slap you silly, boy, the next time you're sittin there,
grinnin like a baboon, drinkin my beer, tellin me how my new Walgoose
bike sucks. Dangitall if that aint my wife's job anywayz .

Now go get yusseff anudder tattoo...

CDB

 

[Carla A-G]

"Paladin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Remind me to slap you silly, boy, the next time you're sittin there,
> grinnin like a baboon, drinkin my beer, tellin me how my new Walgoose
> bike sucks. Dangitall if that aint my wife's job anywayz .
>
> Now go get yusseff anudder tattoo...
>
> CDB

You're not making sense, Chris?

- CA-G

Can-Am Girls Kick Ass!

 

[Paladin]

I'm just having some fun with your hubby. No offense intended. I was
laughing pretty good at his reply, too. If I'm making less sense than
usual, I think I've got the shakes, what with finally getting a
double-boinger, to have it hanging up in Steve's shop waiting for
parts.... A big hug to Jimbo from me, OK?

CDB

 

[Phil, Squid-in-Training]

> Slamming people for automated respose: "Walmart is bad everbody must
> go to LBS." Instead of "what are you actually going to *USE* the bike
> for?" "What are your views on bicycles? Is it a TOY to you or critical
> to your survival?" "Do you know what a 15mm end wrench is or are you a
> mechanical invalid?"
>
> I never said wal-mart bikes just as good as high-end bikes for TRAIL
> riding. Just for greenbelt (paved trails only) riding. Which most
> lay-people want a bike for.

Now you're talking some sense. For lots of people, Walmart works.

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

 

[x1134x]

Keyword: *primarily*

x1134x (Nut-UH)

 

[Westie]

Phil, Squid-in-Training wrote:

>>I never said wal-mart bikes just as good as high-end bikes for TRAIL
>>riding. Just for greenbelt (paved trails only) riding. Which most
>>lay-people want a bike for.
>
>
> Now you're talking some sense. For lots of people, Walmart works.

Yeah, they work. But I still don't think that I could recommend a
Wal-mart bike even to a lay-person with no interest in spending any
money on a bike.

We don't have "Wal-Mart" in this part of the world, we have "The
Warehouse". But if the Wal-mart bikes are anything like what Warehouse
sells then they are death-traps waiting to happen. Improperly
assembled, cheap heavy frames, made up of all the pieces that no-one
wants to use on a real bike any more, and just cheap badly held together
units. One of my BIL's kids had one of these bikes and I still remember
the day I saw it. The canti brakes hardly worked and rubbed against the
tyres at funky angles. Describing it doesn't nearly convey just how
shonky the whole bike was. Death trap.
--
Westie