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  1. benjy

    The wife's new race bike.

    How often is this the outcome of a race? I seem to recall similar circumstances in St George a few years back
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    Home made gear

    We made some sleeping bags in 2018 for backpacking. Since then we added one more to our fam, and our girls outgrew their bags. So… here we go again! Our first bags the idea was to use shock cord to attach the bag to the pad so you could spin around in your bag. That concept didn’t really work...
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    Dream job?

    Talk to me about traveling for work. I’ve never really had to, but have an offer for a decent gig that I’d have to travel, probably 3 days every other week, driving around southern UT, northern AZ and western CO. The entire job is relationship building with existing clients, which would mean a...
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    What did you work on Today; Home Edition

    As the household partner charged with domestic responsibilities, I’ve struggled in providing my direct reports with the recommended quantity of fruits and vegetables. Access seems to be the issue, until now. All Amazon options proved entirely inadequate, so I turned to the place I find all my...
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    Today I Want This....

    I love this waaaay too much. Buy it, get it sorted and flip it to me when you’re bored of it
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    Ticks. The bug, not your stupid XJ.

    I’ve had two friends kids contract Lyme disease after tick encounters in Utah… must have just been extremely bad luck 🤷‍♂️ pretty messed up, it was life changing for them
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    Your Pic of The Day

    We did Coyote Gulch last weekend. Obviously not ultra-lighters…. stuffed animals dangling off the packs 😂
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    Jeep Jeep Wrangler based truck (JT Gladiator)

    Duck mode fully enabled.
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    Today I Want This....

    Today you want a fancy caulk gun or 8,000 clamps?
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    Any Mtn Bikers on RME?

    I don’t use my tailgate pad much, mostly because I need bed space, but it seems like my tailgate pad has a ton of tire marks on it. I’ve always wondered if those single bike pads could cause paint damage if you care about that kind of thing?
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    Truck soft toppers

    Bingo. I debated softtopper and bed top, owned by the same company so they have a good comparison video, don’t remember what tipped the scales. I did go with the “premium twill” option, mostly because it is less prone to fading.
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    Truck soft toppers

    I installed this last night, so very limited experience. So far it seems like a great solution for what I need. The gladiator is our primary family vehicle with 3 kids so when we need to haul ANYTHING it’s in the bed, and that often means above the bed rails so tonneau cover wasn’t an option...
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    Any Mtn Bikers on RME?

    Pivot doesn’t do aluminum… This is only my second CF bike, first was a Santa Cruz 5010, and now this Pivot Trail 429. I’m not married to CF, and have been planning on a steel Reeb SST for my next ride, even before this failure. I’ve never had a preference (or even noticed) compliance vs...
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    Any Mtn Bikers on RME?

    I have to vent somewhere… Riding Zen today I went down the big g out downhill at the top of the first climb, and my rear pivot on my pivot failed :( I think Pivot is pretty good about warranties, but now I’m 3 weeks without a bike in prime riding season. Is this the price we pay for riding...
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    Dream job?

    If you could start over, what would you do? I’m at a mid-career transition of sorts, and the thought of sitting at a desk 40hrs/wk again buried in spreadsheets makes me nauseous. Maybe the sabbatical was a bad idea :rofl:
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    Your Pic of The Day

    Ran into an older dude stuck in a baby bronco on red canyon road by Kanab. After airing him down and some digging the thing would just barely move one tire. I hadn’t moved our recovery gear over to the gladiator yet, so I sacrificed a couple unused anchor straps from a car seat to pull him out...
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    2024 Bag Night Challenge

    I have had 2 nights in a hotel, so I’m at 58 for the year. This game is easy when you’re homeless. Not a bad view though…
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    Virgin Anticline on a dirt bike?

    Yesterday I hiked the virgin anticline from long valley to Warner valley. On the north end (near the southern parkway) I started seeing some dirt bike tracks. A couple miles in I started seeing painted lines and dots marking a track. I couldn’t find anything online… has anyone on here ridden...
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    Happy Valentines Day!

    How am I 39 years old and this never occurred to me? :D I try to make it a habit to show a picture to my girls of them as embryos on their creation day. My lil lab experiments
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