Mountain Biking 2020

[Tom K.]

A beer to anybody that can identify this structure!

 

[nay]

Hello my pretty.

 

[cantunamunch]

Negative reach?

A beer to anybody that can identify this structure!

Looks like the back half of some sort of kiln/chimney.

 

[ZionPow]

A beer to anybody that can identify this structure!

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lime kiln

 

[nay]

Negative reach?

40mm replacing 50. Spesh specs 40mm stem on the S2 size and 50mm on the S3. The turquoise was out of stock everywhere in 50mm so 40 it is - what are the best ski boots? The red ones.

0° rise stem with new 35mm carbon bars with 35mm rise replacing 27mm rise bars with 6° rise stem. Problem is you can’t find 27mm rise bars and I want carbon again for dampness.

So...turquoise.

 

[Doug Briggs]

A beer to anybody that can identify this structure!

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It's at the Bakersville exit on I70. Other than perhaps the remains of a building, I don't know what's significant about it.

 

[Tom K.]

Looks like the back half of some sort of kiln/chimney.

Yes, but the budget is one beer, so the award goes to @ZionPow for precision.

lime kiln

Nice call!

Moab, this fall, for the beer, with a bit of luck?

It's at the Bakersville exit on I70. Other than perhaps the remains of a building, I don't know what's significant about it.

Nope -- but a lot of these old lime kilns look pretty similar.

 

[Doug Briggs]

Yes, but the budget is one beer, so the award goes to @ZionPow for precision.



Nice call!

Moab, this fall, for the beer, with a bit of luck?



Nope -- but a lot of these old lime kilns look pretty similar.

I haven't stopped at Bakersville for quite a while. There is a chimney from a house.

I've seen coke ovens so I knew it wasn't one of those. ;-) They look like brick igloos.

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[cantunamunch]

A beer to anybody that can identify this structure!

That's fair.

I've seen coke ovens so I knew it wasn't one of those. ;-) They look like brick igloos.

I think the shape is materials-driven rather than purpose driven.

Put another way, it's cheaper to make more stone blocks and have a vague shape with thick walls than to precisely flatten each one for an accurate build. It's only when we have extremely self-similar cheap materials (bricks) that we get the shape right.

 

[ZionPow]

Yes, but the budget is one beer, so the award goes to @ZionPow for precision.



Nice call!

Moab, this fall, for the beer, with a bit of luck?

Moab this fall may work for me! There is a historic lime kiln that has been restored in Ogden Canyon and I have read the history and visited it.

 

[4ster]

Yesterday’s scenic ride. Hero dirt everywhere...

Relive 'Angora, TM FL QUADRIFECTA'

View my mountainbike ride: Angora, TM FL QUADRIFECTA

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[Wilhelmson]

A beer to anybody that can identify this structure!

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Stone oven but if the black circle in the "baking" area allows the smoke to pass through it would be more of a smoke baker maybe chillies

 

[AmyPJ]

We have hero dirt finally, too. Well, I'll scout it tomorrow.

I put a 32 tooth oval (Absolute Black) on my bike and I sure feel like I can motor up punchy stuff a lot more easily now. I also set a PR on Tuesday on a .7 mile segment I've ridden 137 times and I'm kinda shocked and kinda excited! And now two days later, I'm pooped. Recovery does not come easily after 50! That being said, after feeling like I might have "too much bike" in my new Fuel EX 9.8, after opening that thing up and getting more aggressive (if I push hard climbing, it carries over into the downhill) I'm finding that the bike RIPS both up and down.

 

[4ster]

Recovery does not come easily after 50!

I hear ya.
After a relatively big ride for me yesterday, I was suffering hard to climb half the vertical today. I blame it on the weight of the 4 ounces of sealant I put in my rear tire .

 

[4ster]

after feeling like I might have "too much bike" in my new Fuel EX 9.8, after opening that thing up and getting more aggressive (if I push hard climbing, it carries over into the downhill) I'm finding that the bike RIPS both up and down.

after riding north fork and sardine a few times this spring I was questioning whether my RipMo was overkill. I gotta think it probably weighs 10lbs. more than a lot of other bikes out there. I remembered why I have it when I got out here to the land of Granite besides l’m not racing anyone.

Wait till you get to Moab, then you will really appreciate it.

 

[Doug Briggs]

I was back out on exploratory out and back for the most part. A friend had let me know of some trees to slay , however they had already been cut . I continued farther up the valley to check another trail. A touch of snow was on the tread and then....

A fallen tree! I cut it out and continued a little bit further where snow turned me around. Back down valley and another side trail and another tree! This one was big.

It doesn't show up well but the 2" of dark on the butt of the log was greenish blue. Pine bark beetle kill.

I don't know why I enjoy cutting trees so much but it is fun to cut them up.

 

[4ster]

I don't know why I enjoy cutting trees so much but it is fun to cut them up

I like cutting trees too but with a chainsaw. That’s a lot of tree for a little handsaw

 

[Doug Briggs]

I like cutting trees too but with a chainsaw. That’s a lot of tree for a little handsaw

Not a problem. 10 minutes with this beauty.

Plus I can always use an upper body workout.

 

[Plai]

I carry one of these when backpacking... makes light work of downed trees for firewood.

 

[Doug Briggs]

If a tree falls in the forest...

... Doug hears it.