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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Snowboards, however! You should’ve seen the hostility on the ski runs in the early 90s. Skiiers hated them.

    I was actually going to compare that to this situation. I remember a bit of that, even though I came to both a bit late.

    When it comes to mountain biking, there is a bit of resentment between some hikers and bikers at times…depending on those involved. Much like everything else…way back when, I remember a certain famous troll that would constantly post on the forum for mountain biking. I get the impression he was an activist against opening up new trails, too.





  • I remember all the consternation over mountain bikes when lots of people objected (many still do) to mountain bikes on trails, so when I see more e-bikes out on trails, I’m not surprised to see people objecting to that development…I imagine it might be a while before some kind of balance is struck.

    But it is rather ironic to see someone that is a fan of mountain biking writing an article on e-bikes…I’m assuming they know that mountain bikes themselves are even still viewed with some amount of hostility?

    One other thing, she said that e-bikes are expected to outsell analog bikes at some point? It’s not clear if that’s in the mountain bike category or overall? I could easily see a bifurcation in the type of people on trails riding bikes - those looking to venture out and see things and have fun, with very little or no effort, vs. those doing the same, but also trying to maintain their health and push themselves…




  • LOL, “America first”.

    Just more evidence that Taco is all about so many other countries coming first. Israel first when it comes to whatever they want related to foreign policy. And putting China first as far as having them take the lead on everything - technology, science, medicine - because assholes like Taco and Brainworms have such ridiculous and stupid ideas about nearly everything.

    With these idiots attacking things like…checks notes…solar and medical research and even vaccines…does anyone think that America can recover from that even if Taco and his terrorists only have 4 years in office?












  • Sounds like he was one of the sharpest bulbs, so to speak.

    I am still reeling at talking to someone that not only said we can now say “Merry Xmas” again, thanks to Taco (WTAF?!!!), and said it with not even a whiff of irony. While I was still laughing, he said he hopes that Taco will be able to fix the terrible Biden economy.

    This guy is not suffering in the slightest. His wife pays for most everything, and he has steady work. Fixed mortgage. Maybe there was a slight uptick here in inflation, even if it was lower than so many other countries. This guy didn’t feel it. But he was standing there and telling me right while Taco was wiping about 20% out of my savings due to cratering the market and thus everyone’s 401K, that Taco was going to “fix” this so-called terrible economy of Biden’s.

    Straight the fuck outta 1984. And I know people say “the financial markets are not the economy”, but they are HIGHLY correlated, so that dog won’t hunt. If the market crashes, people don’t care about the S&P are still going to be affected.