Off Topic Snarks are friends, not food!

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A year ago today I was just getting home from having 2 small bones taken out of my foot . Second surgery. Foot problems have taken me of one of the Activities that helps me immensely bike riding. In 2017 I could jump on a bike and ride 40-50 miles. I have started back I have been riding a short trail close to home 2 mile round trip. Saturday I pushed out to 4 miles today I pushed it to 5.7 I know it isn't much but it's progress
 
I got out on the old (newish) single-speed this weekend. 5mi was waaaay harder than it should have been, but about as hard as expected. :-P
 
I think my bicycle alone was over $2,000. It has electric assist.
 
I have a custom bike that would be $1500-$1700 to replace. I don't have that much in it. I have 2 others that are around $1k each one I bought new one I got for$300 (like new) because the guy's wife told him he had to sell one before he could buy another. I have a 1975 Raleigh Sports that looks like it just came out of the show room . I see those sell for $500-$600 I have a Bikesdirect 29 plus bike 3 in wide tires was around $500 new. I have an Electra loft 1 I bought just because I thought it looked cool nickel plated from everything else is black single speed and coaster brake it was $410 . Sometimes simple is good. And I have an old mountain bike that I have modified that I have too much money in .
Before my foot issues got me down I rode 500-700 miles a year
 
I try to ride these days when push comes to shove, like when the truck is in the shop. The knees just don't take too kindly to much of that regular pedaling diet. I managed a ride on Saturday though, just a short jaunt of maybe 40 something miles one way. Good thing the new bike has a nice engine in it. 🏍️
 
Ahh, bicycles - my first mechanical love. Used to ride 2k+ miles a year, 100km Tour de Cure ride every year...too many years putting my hands over my head and my shoulders are too tore up to rest weight on handlebars, plus bilateral carpal tunnel surgery 2 years ago got me off the bike initially - haven't ridden more than a couple miles on my steel touring bike in the last 2 years. Right knee is now swollen and been giving me grief for the past coupla months - so: swimming, riding, running, paddling my (soon to be sold) kayak, skiing - and swinging any of the 2 dozen choppers I have - are out. Hopefully some are not permanent. I'm still hopeful, even if I have to adapt shit myself so I can get outside and do some stuff. I'm designing a camera support that'll work in the chest carrier, so I can shoot right handed (the only one I've found that'd work is ~$300), but even walking a lot hurts the knee (and the torn achilles, the arthritis, etc.). Manoman, it's hard to call up the practical stoic in me some days...but birds show up, expecting food in the feeders, and I'm pretty sure my two girls wouldn't want me to give up - and I like living...it just hurts like hell some days.
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
Hey, just trying to give a heads up on how the law might see it if the person pushed at all. But reguardless of legalities, it's a bad look for those of us who do carry to flash our weapon to a stranger.
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afaik, i am not a lawyer (IANAL), simply raising a shirt like that, in readyness, but not drawing, and esp not TOUCHING the weapon, completely holstered at all times, as if it were open carry, is *not* brandishing, and again IANAL, but simply adjusting your hemline, is not illegal, and if doing so, should expose your legally carried item, esp in a state where full open carry is legal (with or without a permit)... is probably stupid :D but legal.
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i have a rather decent hori hori, all by itself, it's probably a better self-defense, survival bugout tool, than anything else is. nothing more practical than burying some poop, or planting some garlic :)
 
Bladite said:
i a rather decent hori hori, all by itself, it's probably a better self-defense, survival bugout tool, than anything else is. nothing more practical than burying some poop, or planting some garlic :)
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Hori Hori is an awesome tool I washed it off and flipped burgers on the grill with it the other day. I also asked my friend who is both a gun nut and a lawyer about it . He told me I was legal but not wise . I walked into a gun store the other day and the first thing I heard was my first saying he can vouch for me being a Sunday school teacher
 
Just an FYI: knife rights 2023 ultimate steel promotion started today.
Some good raffle items in there.
 
plumberroy said:
I've been thinking about getting a vintage bike and rebuilding it. It's been awhile since I did one
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My previous road bike was an abandoned Panasonic Sport 1000 that was rusting away in my neighbor's collapsed shed. He gave it to me, and I stripped everything but the headset and rebuilt it as a single-speed. Put a lot of miles on that thing. I lightly sanded and sprayed the frame with International Harvester White, leaving some polka-dots of the original paint job (stickers on the frame during spray). Then clear-coated. Great bike.

It was always a smidge tall for me, and my dad handed down a perfect cyclocross frameset recently. I moved over the critical parts from the old Panadot and the "new" one is now a near-perfect machine for me.
 
Hey BeckerHeads! It’s been a while since I posted. I lurk from time to time though…Got a request for ya….If anyone has a BK24 laying around not getting used let me know. I gifted a 14 to a friend (from another forum) and he has become a Becker lover. Aside from the 14 he also owns three 62s. His wife stole his 14 and he’s looking to replace it…I suggested the 24 so he wouldn’t have to worry about stripping it (plus he just likes d2)….So let me know if you know anyone that has one…He says his next Becker is definitely gonna be the BK6… (he has good taste lol)
 
Well I picked up a 97 Specialized Hardrock today. Not a fixer upper though. New tires, cables and seat . I adjusted the seat height and angle and rode it 2 miles. By time I bought tires cables etc . I would have as much in one as this bike cost me
 
There's an exclusive bk2 (bk72) over at a well known Dutch online knife retailer. S35vn and micarta scales. Pretty cool. Pretty damn expensive.
 
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