Nothing is worse that encountering a cougar and not knowing what to do.
those things can be dangerous. Use the guide below for proper behavior
around cougars…
-M
Archive for July, 2008
Sizzling hot bacon for July 9th through July 29th:
- 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com :: All About BACON - TBS mascot. Check out his name. -Bustigator
- Czech Tower Jumping | New York Times Video - Be patient for the heinous tower jumping wipe out about 1/4 of your way into the video. Holy Crap!
VNasty - Human Nature : Crap and Trade, Revisited - 20 minutes to yourself in a sealed chamber is perfect for taking care of your next fix or giving a blow job.
- Cargo trikes nudge delivery trucks in Cambridge, Mass. | csmonitor.com - On a recent drizzly gray afternoon, Wenzday Jane straps on gaiters to keep tire spray from soaking her socks. Then she hops onto a ruby-red three-wheeled cycle van with a silver-winged ?NAP? monogram emblazoned on its cargo hold ? and pedals smoothl
Some things you love, some things you hate and some things you just take for granted. You should never take your bacon for granted:
-M
OK, this is completely random…I was out at one of my field sites last week with a fellow from the Colorado air quality agency. He was using some EPA-equivalency equipment to audit one of my ozone analyzers. As we were setting up the gear, I was shocked right out of my shoes to hear that he’d read some of my BaconStrip entries; his name is Greg Harshfield and he is a known associate of JaphyRider. Who’d a thunk it?
Greg is a fine fellow and has helped us a great deal with our equipment and thus with our data quality control.
| August 10, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 am | to | 8:30 am |
It’s that time of the year again folks. Time to shake the sand out of your vaginas and slather on the chammois butter for the Second Annual Great Mount Rose Loop Race.
Second Place Finisher in GMRLR07 VNasty is race coordinator for the year and here’s what she has to say:
OK. Sunday, August 10th @ 6:00 AM @ Brick Park, Reno, NV it is…and don’t even start with that I might not finish sh-t, we won’t get pass my house on Geriatric Pubic Hair Street with that attitude. I’m CCing Turner on this one. He might be into a longer ride like this? I’m trying to enlist a friend of mine from Truckee to join us. She’s a bad ass and is really hot as well-a fine carrot to chase down come hour number 10. If Dansmella wants to come up to the house for lunch that day she’s more than welcome. Smitty has agreed to be available for massages and lemonade delivery (not sure if that applies to you too?) I have only one small route deviation to suggest from last year now that I know the Sawtooth Trail system better. It’ll be a cleaner ride to 06/Northstar.
The route is over 100 miles and a shit ton of climbing. Other route mods might include riding to Martis Peak and down into Kings Beach on fire roads. Includes: Henness Pass, Emigrant Trail, Sawtoothe Trail, Tahoe Rim Trail (watson to brockway), Sky Tavern, Galena Creek, White’s Creek, Thomas Creek, Bartley Ranch…
18
Jul
Pushing the pedals
Photo by forkgirl
Here’s the situation, You have a road bike and a mountain bike and you want to use one of them for your commute to work, daily coffee shop run or to do a drunken pub ride.
Problem is, those bikes have fancy clipless pedals that make it tricky and dangerous to ride with sneakers (which are great for strolling), and your clipless shoes are hard and tight and uncomfortable and crappy for walking. So what do you do? Take a pair of shoes? Deal with the clips? ride carefully with your sneakers on those tine little pedals?
What if there was a sturdy, safe, and robust product that could convert any clipless pedal to platform and solve this problem for less cost than a new set of pedals that won’t send you running for a pedal wrench and trying to remember which one is back threaded…
We may soon find out. My sister is designing just such a pedal for an engineering class @ UNR. Please help her out by taking this survey she and her team needs to gauge the marketability of the product. With our help she’ll be the first bike product development engineer on the team!!
-M
15
Jul
Halo trail
Flagging a new trail w the poedunks. Check www.poedunk.com For updates.
“Handlebars” by the Flobots
-M
10
Jul
Get used to the smoke
RenoslashTahoe is set to remain Flavor Country for the indefinite and immediate future as the American River Fire Complex might not be contained until OCTOBER!!!! That spells bad news for people who like aerobic exercise, the outdoors and lung health. But what are you going to do? You can’t blame California for everything. They’re doing the best they can. It does make our Nevada smoking ban seem a little meaningless. Why can’t we be down wind of Humboldt county?!!?
More links:
News 10
The Union
Sac Bee (potentially lethal smoke, YAY!!)
-M
Sizzling hot bacon for July 3rd through July 8th:
- Cyclists Save Taxpayers over $200 Million per Year - But if you still find yourself searching for reasons to pedal instead of ride, consider this recent Australian study that finally put a number on just how much benefit all those green cyclists were saving their country: 35 million dollars
- Clearing the canyon | NevadaAppeal.com - Jeff Moser, who runs www.BikeCarson.com, said closing the canyon to cars will be good for that area as well as for hikers and bicyclists. The canyon, however, needs to be closed to off-road vehicles, too.
- Bacon- Scented and Bacon-Patterned Tuxedoes: Unique Formal Wear! - Wow, check this guy out. He’s like, “This is my new fuckin’ tuxedo. I’m gonna grind on every bitch in the room!” And kimono girl looke pretty stoked too. I bet it’s the smell. Like Axe Bacon Body spray…
- The Kind Beer Review - Beer Review - Stouts In this episode, Josh… - This is a tech geek I work with. Didn’t know he was a beer geek too. Live and learn…
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