. . . . who is to thank for this most appropriate Strip placement. To the rest of you, a Great Basin beer goes to the first to ID the spot. RedBeard, I don’t know if you can participate since the odds are a bit weighted in your favor.
Good to see the strip is smearing its way slowly eastward.
On a separate note inspiring warm fuzzies: Descending from Slickrock trail in Moab on Saturday last and this green truck passes me. Damn if it didn’t have a TBS sticker on it. Tried to hang on the bumper for a bit, to no avail. Fortunately, the truck was pulled over at the bottom of the hill (casing, I believe, the local elementary school for future victims). Lo and behold it was Mr. Sleeves himself. I don’t know his damn strip moniker, but you know who I’m talking about. Singlespeed Surly Bio Sleeves on the tail end of his three-week vision quest. Yes, the Strip doth unite us all in the most unlikely of places. Hopefully he’ll be sharing pics and tales here . . .
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i seem to recall JWOX reporting on an excellent teleforay into the Toiyabes with an R&R visit to the Spencer last spring… and a pic somewhere in the related post.
actually, we were visiting the springs returning from the 24 Hours in the Sage last august and i had relocate a LOTUS sticker from what was rightfully claimed as TBS real estate on that there post. like trail etiquette, sticker etiquette is more a matter of deference and tolerance.
Fargon random. I love it. I think
Yeah, he even posted a pic of that spot with his van, snow covered peaks and several cans of PBR. Then when I went by there in June I was surprised to see it. For some reason I didn’t recognize the pic for what it was…
I have no idea who that cat with the TBS sticker in Moab was… Wait that must be Huck Tater?!?!? That dude’s slipperier than a Mississippi sturgeon!
The RenoFixed crowd caught sight of RedBeard cruising to work with a TBS sticker and apparently a lengthy confab went around about the origin of the term. @ the Satellite a few minutes ago I told them to dig a little deeper. It’s all here.
-M
weeeelllll, it’s roots are far deeper than my laundry. first recollections of hearing bacon strip in the present context go to Guy P and his mountaineering pals up in Missoula. McGuinness, also a veteran of one tour of party at the University in Missoula, was familiar with the term in it’s original context. i’ve long employed a bacon strip defense as an anti-theft strategy from my rig during extended trail head parking. just leave the funkiest piece of loin cloth you can find covering your valuables and they’re sure to be safe when some nerdoweller peeps in the window and considers plundering your gear. but then, i may have just given away the secret… next thing you know, people will be lifting up chonies just to see what may be hidden under the scraps!
Had a beer with LC last night and he told me about the post. I had a feeling that it was JWOX’s handywork he was refrencing. there are other TBS stickers floating around the basin, keep searching!!!
bacon strip was not a common term with crowd i ran with in Missoula, makes me believe that when one is ready the strip will reveal itself.
Those fixtards were all @ Satellite last night in their Bike Brothers sweats cutting the shammy out of their portland cyclewear knickerbackers. It was kind of funny. Not super funny, but a little.
LC Where’s the gratuitous ASS in that pic?
-M
That’s DOCTOR sleeves to you toughguy…or Huck Tater will do fine. Good to run into Renoites descending from Slickrock trail. I did indeed have an awesome trip. No photos as I took only the big digital SLR. So sorry but I will just have to run my mouth about the rides. Included were continental divide trail outside Butte, Montuky…fun and long rides near Fruita…knees wobbling after way too many miles and hours on and around the Colorado trail near Bailey, CO….good stuff with a pal in Salt Lake City…old rides not done in many years in Horsetooth and Lory near Ft. Collins and near Golden.
ta ta
BaconTards.
So beer goes to japhy. That offer’s good whenever you’d like to receive it. I won’t even request you redeem on a tightwad night.
Dr. Huck Tater, huh? A PhD. Does that mean Ph.uck Tater will work for short
? Good to run into you out there. I hope you had a fine, fine spin around Slickrock before taking off. Our run from the La Sals to town was quite nice–even found some surprise single track that helped us avoid almost all of Kokapelli. Have maps, will share info with any Stripper.
Can’t believe those guys were actually cutting OUT the shammy at Satellite. Wow. Maybe they just haven’t discovered the beauty of cow creme. I’ve got a lovely photo that illustrates proper chamois lube technique and am happy to post it here. just say the word.
I’ll second JR’s anti-theft strategy. I use it often. Usually, the shorts–chamois-side out–draped over a handle bar, steering wheel, or other key access point give me more psychological comfort than the latest Viper anti-theft technology. I’m actually pleased and reassured when a few stray short-n-curlies are available for added deterrent value. Just make sure the vandals can see those wiry gems.
the word.
And yes, it was me who fixed that post wrapping problem by smearing bacon grease on the keyboard, opening up the css file and licking the keyboard until it was all better…
-M
ps if you ever use an EMOTICON on TBS again you’ll owe us ALL a beer. We ain’t no preppy, emo, hipster, shammycircumcising, limpwristers HERE!
i thought this place was like tele tips??? ;0
I will indeed have to take credit for the placement of the TBS sticker at Spencer, but I believe it was japhy’s idea to do so. Said sticker was cemented in place last April, the day after a BBQ at Wolfy’s house. And yes, the ski and springs were wonderful, as was the PBR.
I think to progress cycling and your TBS, you should at least keep your thoughts to yourself. Just some Bacon Grease for Wolfy to suck on and think about, especially since his dirt skills are what they are, be careful.
Responses welcome.
please clarify - in fact, retro clarify until you’re comfortable, but check the manifesto. this is an “open forum” to the extent that we can edit or delete stuff if we feel like it. so, feel free to make an ass of yourself. just remember that if you talk the talk, be ready to walk the walk. better yet, come out on some real long bike rides with me/us, you know, see spots, try not to lose your shit, have a lot of fun.
more importantly, we’re all friends here, jive talking is encouraged, but no flaming. constructive criticism is excellent. there’s plenty of passive aggressive out there, which frankly, is a buzz kill. if you want some active aggressive, look somewhere else.
i don’t much think about advancing the state of cycling or see this website as a tool to change the world. it’s a fun way to catch up with friends and share creative energy with users of the world wide web. so, bacon grease, put your cock away and don’t worry yourself with our sex lives.
i’ll see you in the mountains.
Japhy rider
Dear Bacon grease,
Until you can learn to the definition of the word “irony” perhaps you should stick to your lurking. If you’re familiar with my RenoFixed comments you should know to take the things I say with a grain of salt. We all know each other. I’m not sure where you’d get the idea that I’m EVER serious on this blog. (fuck I don’t even know how to put an emoticon in here?)
That said, if you’re a lurker who wants to sit back and make a bunch of judgments then it’s easy enough for us to prevent having to have your comments here. If you want an open forum, use a real email address next time you post.
Or, god forbid, try this: If you’re at the cross race this weekend I’ll be wearing my Vulture Woolie, and Portland Cyclewear hipster knickers say, “hello, I’m bacon grease and thought I’d get to know you before flaming you on your blog.” Or even better! Come have pancakes @ pegs with us before the race.
Otherwise this is not a place for arguments, trolls, flamers, and YOU.
-M
How does one simultaneously progress the TBS (or any blog for that matter) and keep their thoughts to themselves? It defeats the purpose of blogging. If one is yearning for a controlled message and an earful of talking points, they should go elsewhere.
ps- Peg’s bacon is the shit!
i think you’re hitting on something here, bacon is the shit.
Irony. “The water from my well tasted ‘irony’, so I installed a water filter.”
oh, crap. Someone is going to find out that I’m a slow racing hipster. But my new knickers will have the ladies in a tizzy.
I’ll have you know that I got first place in two (count them) TWO endurance races this year. The Great Mount Rose Loop Race and the Ely Enduro. Search for it. It’s all here.
Word to the wise, shave your sack for racing season cause peeling those testosterone patches off is a BEE-YOTCH!!!
-M
Oh shnaaap! I’m missing out on all the pooo talking.
“shit grease” must be pretty dern tough to use words like “faggot” and phrases like “be careful” online. At least virtually tough eh!
Hey all, the ass is calling us faggots and flammers, we all know what happens to the ass when they’re around faggots….! Daaaaaamn son!
Comments are back on. I just deployed an new douche defense mechanism…
-M
Hmm . . . .well, OK. Interesting direction things have taken. I’d simply like to say that I sympathize with Wolfy’s anti-emoticons on TBS sentiments. I think they’re cheesy. But then . . .that forces me to question my own damn self. If they’re cheesy, then they probably go quite well with bacon.
But as to how to get the emoticons to show up: it was an accident, pure and simple. I simply typed a SEM-EYE colon, and then I typed a dash, and then followed that up with your garden-variety closing paren, and voila, that metrosexualcon showed up, much to my chagrin and dismay. It would be way better if it had a little dirty-sanchez stash on it. Way more fitting for this place.
And hey, personal pics of ass-plosions in outlet-sale-purchased Pata-gooch silkweight boxers is over the line, if you ask me. TBS stands for The Bacon Strip, not Tasty Butt Shots.
I didn’t get to see the “faggot” comments, so I’m a bit disappointed.
I think we all have dirty laundry, bias, motivations for being here, for being there, for riding/skiing/skateboarding, etc. If I’ve learned one thing in my lifetime it’s that, in the immortal words of Perry Farrell: “There ain’t no wrong now, ain’t no right! ONly pleasure and pain.”
I think we are all here, or there, for pleasure.
jwox
By the way Wolfy, can you change the TBS banner to a knee-droper instead of a knuckle-dragger? I hate all those flamers! Oh the irony.
No. knee-droppers my ass.
I deleted the faggot comment. I think I’ll go back and give myself a douchebag for the offending emoticon comment that started this all.
-M
gentle readers, Japhy rider typing in here. apparently, we have a fan (send fan mail at bg@hotmail.com & soon to follow, an IP address, name, etc.)… unfortunately, she/he/it doesn’t get it. i’m going to leave its comment up - speaks volumes.
i don’t know how to say this any clearer, “bacon grease” - we are a Team, a family. we all like each other, we laugh at each other, and we all fall down. we pick each other up when we fall. we all have our own style, and most importantly, we watch each others’ backs. we choose to support custom frame builders and proudly fly their colors. we go see said frame builders on their birthdays, trail ride and tour with them, and we do our best to watch their backs.
if i see you in the mountains, i hope i don’t notice you. you are a buzz kill.
Japhy rider
Congrats Wolfy! I didn’t bother to look it up, you don’t interest me that much. Whoa! But I’m assuming sport class enduro racing in Ely! You better have won! You must have been super-duper fast. Way to go pal. How many people? 4? Including 3 girls? Must have sped things up since I lapped you last. Had a good chat with O’mara awhile back during that race, but sure lapped your shit. Speaking of Sean, I sure am a fan of him. Plan on supporting his race again tomorrow. You BUZZARDS going to wear dem-der vulture rags? Ha, and you mock so many others for matching this and that. What a putz!
Well, I was thinking Auburn again but looks like cross on the forcast. Sweet dreams.
What’s the deal with slandering women, as though we can’t rip, have as much fun as, hang with, and not to mention outdo the fellas once in awhile? An enduro class of 4, Wolfy and 3 girls - put your dick away! We ride to have fun and support friends. That includes trashing talking friends in jest. B.G. do you even understand the TBS site, do you know any of the stippers? By that I mean do you know them, are you friends with any of them? ‘Cause you sure don’t act like a friend and I can’t imagine any one here would claim you as one. You can’t even spell Shawn’s name right (1st or last) - his friends can.
It must suck to be such a bitter and angry person.
Somebody lapped me? I guess I was too red-lined trying to keep up to notice. Oh well, I hope your revelations don’t cost me my sponsorships. Still, I’m so badass you’ve not got the stones to say hello. Disappointing.
Hopefully sometime between now and the next time you lap me @ a podunk cross race you grow a pair and learn to put out your hand and say hi. I had two keystone lights and a PBR I was looking to share…
Give me a call, doug has my number. We’d like to get away from this threatening shit. Closing the comments. email me @ teambaconstrip@gmail.com if you have anything else.
-M