Kansas Crimson

Grandma wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:19 am I believe Burning Man is in August and my guess is it MAY still go on but this made me laugh.

Already cancelled it earlier this week. Cool money-making idea for you, though.

Could have/should have looked to see if it was canceled before I made my uneducated guess that it MAY still go on.
Might throw my own Burning Man at the end of the summer. Not in my apartment but in some undisclosed (to the general public) location in the urban jungle.
Shit, I might rent out my rooftop and do it. More than enough "talent" in my building to keep me entertained. Better than having/hosting my own Lollapalooza - which will inevitably be cancelled.

"talent" = chicken?

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:37 am "talent" = chicken?

It was in a bar in Smithville, Missouri ~ 15 years ago after a mt bike ride the first time I heard the term "talent" used to describe an attractive girl.

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:37 am "talent" = chicken?

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:58 pm

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:37 am "talent" = chicken?

It was in a bar in Smithville, Missouri ~ 15 years ago after a mt bike ride the first time I heard the term "talent" used to describe an attractive girl.

KU mid 80s. "Talent" and "chicken" = "Betty".

Thanks for all the sacrifices you and your wife are making, Newton! You're the true heroes in this fight.

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:58 pm

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:37 am "talent" = chicken?

It was in a bar in Smithville, Missouri ~ 15 years ago after a mt bike ride the first time I heard the term "talent" used to describe an attractive girl.

Love that MTB trail around Smithville Lake. I did the Bone Bender 3-6 hour race there a few years ago. There are some nasty rocks on a chunk of that trail.

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:58 pm

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:37 am "talent" = chicken?

It was in a bar in Smithville, Missouri ~ 15 years ago after a mt bike ride the first time I heard the term "talent" used to describe an attractive girl.

And the lawyer I once slept with still calls me that to this day.

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 1:38 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:58 pm

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:37 am "talent" = chicken?

It was in a bar in Smithville, Missouri ~ 15 years ago after a mt bike ride the first time I heard the term "talent" used to describe an attractive girl.

And the lawyer I once slept with still calls me that to this day.

^^^

twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 1:27 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:58 pm

pdub wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 9:37 am "talent" = chicken?

It was in a bar in Smithville, Missouri ~ 15 years ago after a mt bike ride the first time I heard the term "talent" used to describe an attractive girl.

Love that MTB trail around Smithville Lake. I did the Bone Bender 3-6 hour race there a few years ago. There are some nasty rocks on a chunk of that trail.

I didn't know you were a mountain biker. I take your comment about the Smithville Trails as a compliment, because I was among the small group of people who laid out, designed, built, and maintained the then ~ 11 miles of trails, from the very beginning. It was a huge coup for us to persuade the Corp of Engineers and the county to give us access to their land. Some of us had been to their "school" and been certified before, but we arranged for the National Forest Service to come to Smithville and teach their two day course on how to build sustainable trails, and it was a huge success. Fortunately, it became an "if you build it they will come" affair, and as more and more mt bikers discovered the trails, some were willing to help maintain them. The Kansas City metro/Lawrence/Clinton Lake/Perry Lake region is replete with excellent, often technical, mountain bike trails.

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:09 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 1:27 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 12:58 pm

It was in a bar in Smithville, Missouri ~ 15 years ago after a mt bike ride the first time I heard the term "talent" used to describe an attractive girl.

Love that MTB trail around Smithville Lake. I did the Bone Bender 3-6 hour race there a few years ago. There are some nasty rocks on a chunk of that trail.

I didn't know you were a mountain biker. I take your comment about the Smithville Trails as a compliment, because I was among the small group of people who laid out, designed, built, and maintained the then ~ 11 miles of trails, from the very beginning. It was a huge coup for us to persuade the Corp of Engineers and the county to give us access to their land. Some of us had been to their "school" and been certified before, but we arranged for the National Forest Service to come to Smithville and teach their two day course on how to build sustainable trails, and it was a huge success. Fortunately, it became an "if you build it they will come" affair, and as more and more mt bikers discovered the trails, some were willing to help maintain them. The Kansas City metro/Lawrence/Clinton Lake/Perry Lake region is replete with excellent, often technical, mountain bike trails.

Wow, thanks for your efforts there. I have done some volunteer work for T.H.O.R. here in Omaha, pitching in for some trail days here and there to help maintain the half dozen or so trails in our area. Mountain biking has been my mental health break during this lock down. Unfortunately we just got several inches of snow yesterday so our trails are going to be a muddy disaster for the next few weeks.

Anyways, thanks for your work on that trail. I have ridden it maybe a half dozen times and it is excellent.

As a skinny guy I think all you fat people are nuts (we're talking tires, here). As I get older I am on the fat end of the skinny scale, riding 25 mm while the yung'unz ride 23 mm and smaller!! Who would willingly ride over obstacles and climb these insane grades

The only reason we climb is so that you can tuck down and go down those long wide downhills at 45+ mph! "The most fun you can have with your clothes on" as one my riding buddy puts it!!

zsn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:03 pm As a skinny guy I think all you fat people are nuts (we're talking tires, here). As I get older I am on the fat end of the skinny scale, riding 25 mm while the yung'unz ride 23 mm and smaller!! Who would willingly ride over obstacles and climb these insane grades

The only reason we climb is so that you can tuck down and go down those long wide downhills at 45+ mph! "The most fun you can have with your clothes on" as one my riding buddy puts it!!

Road bikes, aka., "mountain bike training devices".

Although, I do have a cross bike for when the trails are too wet.

zsn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:03 pm As a skinny guy I think all you fat people are nuts (we're talking tires, here). As I get older I am on the fat end of the skinny scale, riding 25 mm while the yung'unz ride 23 mm and smaller!! Who would willingly ride over obstacles and climb these insane grades

The only reason we climb is so that you can tuck down and go down those long wide downhills at 45+ mph! "The most fun you can have with your clothes on" as one my riding buddy puts it!!

Put a motor on it and I'll listen.

twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:51 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:09 pm

twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 1:27 pm
Love that MTB trail around Smithville Lake. I did the Bone Bender 3-6 hour race there a few years ago. There are some nasty rocks on a chunk of that trail.

I didn't know you were a mountain biker. I take your comment about the Smithville Trails as a compliment, because I was among the small group of people who laid out, designed, built, and maintained the then ~ 11 miles of trails, from the very beginning. It was a huge coup for us to persuade the Corp of Engineers and the county to give us access to their land. Some of us had been to their "school" and been certified before, but we arranged for the National Forest Service to come to Smithville and teach their two day course on how to build sustainable trails, and it was a huge success. Fortunately, it became an "if you build it they will come" affair, and as more and more mt bikers discovered the trails, some were willing to help maintain them. The Kansas City metro/Lawrence/Clinton Lake/Perry Lake region is replete with excellent, often technical, mountain bike trails.

Wow, thanks for your efforts there. I have done some volunteer work for T.H.O.R. here in Omaha, pitching in for some trail days here and there to help maintain the half dozen or so trails in our area. Mountain biking has been my mental health break during this lock down. Unfortunately we just got several inches of snow yesterday so our trails are going to be a muddy disaster for the next few weeks.

Anyways, thanks for your work on that trail. I have ridden it maybe a half dozen times and it is excellent.

This kinda stuff rules.
( not biking but finding things out about each other by "happenstance" )

pdub wrote: ↑Sun Apr 19, 2020 9:00 am

twocoach wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:51 pm

Feral wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 2:09 pm

I didn't know you were a mountain biker. I take your comment about the Smithville Trails as a compliment, because I was among the small group of people who laid out, designed, built, and maintained the then ~ 11 miles of trails, from the very beginning. It was a huge coup for us to persuade the Corp of Engineers and the county to give us access to their land. Some of us had been to their "school" and been certified before, but we arranged for the National Forest Service to come to Smithville and teach their two day course on how to build sustainable trails, and it was a huge success. Fortunately, it became an "if you build it they will come" affair, and as more and more mt bikers discovered the trails, some were willing to help maintain them. The Kansas City metro/Lawrence/Clinton Lake/Perry Lake region is replete with excellent, often technical, mountain bike trails.

Wow, thanks for your efforts there. I have done some volunteer work for T.H.O.R. here in Omaha, pitching in for some trail days here and there to help maintain the half dozen or so trails in our area. Mountain biking has been my mental health break during this lock down. Unfortunately we just got several inches of snow yesterday so our trails are going to be a muddy disaster for the next few weeks.

Anyways, thanks for your work on that trail. I have ridden it maybe a half dozen times and it is excellent.

This kinda stuff rules.
( not biking but finding things out about each other by "happenstance" )

Yep. Since I am bored and my trail is too muddy to ride without making ruts, here's a quarantine activity for the day.... name a "happenstance" situation where you found out that one path of your life crossed with someone that you know from another path in y6our life.

Here's mine..... my wife used to compete against my sister in ice skating when we were all kids. I actually remember seeing her at a competition in Tulsa, OK 10 years before we "met" and started dating and saying "hey, there's that girl from Omaha" and she remembers seeing us at that same competition and saying "hey, there's those kids from St. Joe".

zsn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 17, 2020 5:03 pm As a skinny guy I think all you fat people are nuts (we're talking tires, here). As I get older I am on the fat end of the skinny scale, riding 25 mm while the yung'unz ride 23 mm and smaller!! Who would willingly ride over obstacles and climb these insane grades

The only reason we climb is so that you can tuck down and go down those long wide downhills at 45+ mph! "The most fun you can have with your clothes on" as one my riding buddy puts it!!

As a fat guy, I think all you skinny guys are boring (again, we're talking tires, here). To me, riding a road bike is like jogging on a big, paved trail; no challenge to it other than churning out miles. The only part of road biking I would like is the big numbers you can put up on your MPH and your total miles ridden but the lack of terrain challenge would result in me riding along think about my work, my family and everything else. When I ride a mountain bike, all I can think of is steering, gearing and pedaling or I will end up wrapped around a tree. I find that to be very oddly relaxing; I imagine that most road bikers would find it to be stressful.

And while we're on the topic of road biking, can you please explain to me why road bike riders always wear full kits when they ride? They aren't training for the Tour De France; do they really need to be in full matching spandex kits? It's kinda weird.

for the record, I still ride a single speed. All you other guys got too many gears.

and yeah, the full skin tight race suits seems like overkill for your average Sunday cruise - especially when it's the fat guys trying to wear it (not talking about tires here).

But I have a big road bike buddy who says he likes to wear it cuz you wouldn't believe how many chicks check out your junk.

thinking back on the resort job I worked, of all the white people sports we catered to - fly fishing, XC skiing, and the like, by far the most prone to being insistent douchebags were the bikers.

They waddle in in their race suits (that look like they didn't even fit 30+ years and 30+ pounds ago, let alone today), and throw a tantrum about how the rental bikes are just a run-of-the-mill hardtail. Where's yall's full suspensions? And the carbon frame? Whaddyall mean that for $40 bucks a day I don't get a $8000 bike to thrash?

Then the clip in pedals. The clip in pedals! I can't not ride with clip in pedals! So why don't yall have a pair for me to wear, some fancy ones too, just like the ones I have back home that weren't important enough to bring but are important enough to be a dick about now?

Then once you finally get them a rental and a map and get them out the door, the hardcore race suit olympic-athlete-in-waiting is out riding for all of 20 minutes tops before they come back for brunch.