Recent content by jembourbe

Your partner looks bored in the picture, and her paws are going to need a different kind of handlebar grips. Did she alert her fork crown preference with a bark or a pointer-stance? j/k. Looks like you're going to be having some fun adventuring on some sweet classics

Aww booo. Bad reading comprehension by me. ****ing Kommie miles.

What is? A: Not Franklin!

Next time you get it running, take the brake booster vacuum hose off the intake manifold, and tightly cap off the port on the intake manifold. See how it runs. It's easy and just takes a second. Your symptoms of rough/wandering idle, rich stinky exhaust (esp at idle), and popping/pulsing at idle...

28mph? Were you on a Ducati Scrambler? 😂 That speed would translate to a 53:30 40k TT, which was the standard distance when I was doing things intentionally that made me puke on a bike. That would have been a pretty solid time (top 5-10) for a pro/1/2 race. Current distance is 32.3k (20.1...

Nice. I want to do that with a pickup bed trailer. Make it my adventure set up.

In another thread I was talking about my waistpack being loose at the end of a ride, like an inch and a half too big. That sounds like an exaggeration, but I haven't ridden in temps below 90 since the end of March, and usually it's pushing 100. Beno & Jenna did the right thing. Bag it and pick...

I used to wax the chain: 100% best chain lube, imo. Some said it added like 2 seconds to a 40K TT (😔) but for me no complaints other than 1) it was a pain in the ass to do, and 2) the chain seemed to get noisier sooner than with a liquid lube.

20 miles of singletrack plus 6-7 miles connector pavement. And the first day of my experimental use of vegetable oil as chain lube.

No. "prevents your car from looping out when you wheelie it" It was a so-much-junk-hanging-behind-the-trunk joke

??? your bikes will be crushed before the rubber stopper on the back prevents your car from looping out when you wheelie it. Not very well thought out. Not at all.

No. Bibs

Also you shrink when you ride because of the water weight you sweat out. So ... double the reasons for the sag. My fanny pack ends up about 1.5" inches too big for my waist by the end of a hot ride while being exactly the same size it was when the ride started.

20 technical rocky root-y miles last night, followed by parking lot shenanigans. Including this guy "This is my mountain bike. There are many like it but this one is mine. My mountain bike is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I master my life. Without me my mountain bike is...

After 13 stressful days off, I rode a little under 20 miles of trails this evening. 2 wrecks (both otb), 2 near wrecks, lots of slow to go with all the no skills, and all I wanted to do the whole ride was get off and lay down in the grass with the ticks to take a nap. And then my "last mile" was...