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lemme get my boards.

cats are for those weird people who don't want to pick up shit all day.

After having a patch job fail on a tire 12 miles out from home on a cold October evening in the dark, I now carry a completely independent tube and sometimes a tire. Yes, a pain, but I never want to deal with that again. Patching tubes in the cold rain is the pits. Start commuting now, while you can commute with daylight. Night commuting in the rain is a whole nother ballgame with some hefty logistics compared to summer commuting. One issue some people have is getting up earlier to start a long commute. Have your stuff laid out and ready to go the night before, and the coffee ready to brew if you need that. Panniers are very nice and allow a lot of heat to spill off you, if you can't take a shower at work this keeps the sweat down a bit. Panniers get stolen immediately if you lock up your bike downtown, so take them with you. Get a really f-ing bright flashing red led tail light and turn it on all the time. Get slicks for your mtn bike if that is your commuter. You will find an enormous improvement. A pair of clear sunglasses keeps road grime and summer bugs out of your eyes. Get a bike bell. This is nicer than yelling out to people ahead of you that you are there. Carry a disposable camera. If you commute long enough you will inevitably encounter the bumper of a car. A biker was killed recently in Portland in a hit and run incident. A chain tool will solve the broken chain issue. Learn how to repair your bike, completely. If you start commuting in the winter, it will get trashed and you need to maintain it. Sewer grates are your enemy, as are streetcar tracks.

jeezus I think there's enough prep for n.ridge of stuart here...remember it's a rock climb, not a shuttle launch. the car-to-car thing works well but make sure you have some water with you, the descent back down cascadian was brutal for me out of water until the creek in the valley

Just a friendly reminder that Bike to Work Week is May 17th through May 21st. The Bike to Work Day is May 21st (Friday). Please try to participate! It has been said that if the average person biked to work or shopping ONCE every 2 weeks we could cut gasoline consumption (and its associated evils) by close to 1 billion gallons annually. Have a nice day!

nice shot of the 1st pitch there! amazing how you can see exactly where people put their feet by the lichen.

'cept you can overcam the rangefinders and still be in the green. whatever, if they insult your intelligence, magic marker them out.

fricken terrifying stuff no doubt

second pitch of gendarme is wild! practice removing recalcitrant #4 camalots.

The contents of the ancient sarcophagus were alarming, to say the least.

My neighbor has a panda bear in his backyard and the damn thing won't shut up. With it's opposable thumb it knows how to unlatch the gate and roam the neighborhood leaving bamboo droppings everywhere. Stupid panda bears!

Metolius is running a recall program on some of its carabiners. http://www.rockandice.com/images/Carabiner%20Safety-Posted%20ver.pdf

I believe they are itty-bitty bits of sand now.

no, ban someone because they sound way too much like sphinx or tomcat

Olympia - isn't that the place of the great hantavirus outbreak last year?

More evidence that we need to get the f- out of there and shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Ah yes, and with that stunning rejoinder, I'm out of here. Touché.

Ah yes, you have me there. I'm not quite sure who "my cronies" are. I barely know anyone here. I don't recall cross-posting political rhetoric from other narcissistic web log sites here myself.

Sorry, this just doesn't make any sense. That blog is in your profile. Is that actually you? I couldn't believe a real person could actually be so inane, so I was assuming I could find out who it was. Apparently I was wrong.

Based solely on your discourse, I have trouble believing you can drive yet. Maybe your dad throws them out the window for you? Hang in there, the teenage years are a time of change!

you can stop posting your bullshit from other websites now. if people wanted to read that piece of shit blog they would go there and read it.

That rim traverse on BT would be impressive though. It puts yocum ridge to shame in midwinter conditions (I can already hear the yocum ridge convention attendees rustling with unease).

leuthold couloir via pogostick

I think it is related to a moonbat