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[allmountainsnowskating]

A bunch of volunteers are fundraising to build a playground for special needs children, and this random Facebook Karen is on the weirdest, most irrational brigade to spread lies and try to kill the project.

How annoying and entitled do you have to be to paint yourself as a victim of an inclusive playground? [emoji849]

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[rudy]

A bunch of volunteers are fundraising to build a playground for special needs children, and this random Facebook Karen is on the weirdest, most irrational brigade to spread lies and try to kill the project.

How annoying and entitled do you have to be to paint yourself as a victim of an inclusive playground? [emoji849]

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These are typically bike related rants but glad you had a place to vent

[Roxtar]

A bunch of volunteers are fundraising to build a playground for special needs children, and this random Facebook Karen is on the weirdest, most irrational brigade to spread lies and try to kill the project.

How annoying and entitled do you have to be to paint yourself as a victim of an inclusive playground? [emoji849]

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These are typically bike related rants but glad you had a place to vent

Well, I'll add the bike related twist:

Welcome to Los Alamos, NM.
I've been battleing NIMBY a$$holes like that for ten years now.

The Los Alamos County Council voted unanimously to approve my proposal, providing $500K to further develop their trails system, only to have groups of these idiots convince the Parks/Open Space Dept that their lives would be far easier if they did nothing. That was eight years ago. The money is still sitting there with no place to go. No hope in sight.

Some towns get it, some don't. Most in NM don't.

Salida has averaged 1-2 new trails/year for the last ten years. I joke with Shawn Gillis, the owner of Absolute Bikes and a good friend, that their trail maps go obsolete every 6 months.
Salida has NIMBY groups like this too. They just understand to treat them like background noise-annoying but ignorable. They understand that mtb tourism is a huge asset and a huge supporter their local economy.
They get it.

The problem is that many towns, like here, give these tiny but loud groups credibility that they simply shouldn't be given.

[VTskibum]

NIMBY's gonna NIMBY.

I probably posted this a year or so ago, but the worst example I've seen locally is a pump track has been in a local towns master plan since about 2015 and was finally making some progress. Enter several new home-owners who built next to the proposed site in ~2019 and pitched a fit about this. They've since toned down their website considerably from the complete train-wreck false claims and exxon-valdez type environmental disaster pictures it once was. They keep cropping out the pictures of their new construction homes built after this was all approved in the very small parcel of woods behind their house. Pretty ridiculous, but par for the course. Fortunately a few other options in near-by towns are popping up and a pretty large bike park project is about to open nearby as well.

The special needs example is pretty egregious though.

[skaredshtles]

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The problem is that many towns, like here, give these tiny but loud groups credibility that they simply shouldn't be given.

"We appreciate your input, now please sit down and let the adults talk about things."

[allmountainsnowskating]

NIMBY's gonna NIMBY.

I probably posted this a year or so ago, but the worst example I've seen locally is a pump track has been in a local towns master plan since about 2015 and was finally making some progress. Enter several new home-owners who built next to the proposed site in ~2019 and pitched a fit about this. They've since toned down their website considerably from the complete train-wreck false claims and exxon-valdez type environmental disaster pictures it once was. They keep cropping out the pictures of their new construction homes built after this was all approved in the very small parcel of woods behind their house. Pretty ridiculous, but par for the course. Fortunately a few other options in near-by towns are popping up and a pretty large bike park project is about to open nearby as well.

The special needs example is pretty egregious though.

New resident NIMBYs are the worst!

They move in because they like the community feel and schools, public spaces and bike trails... but then they have no sense of duty to the greater good and vote against bond measures, start opposition groups to parks, never volunteer or donate, don't support local businesses or events...

People hate SDC charges on new development, cuz houses are already so damn expensive, but if you don't make people buy into the community up front, new residents will just hem and haw and find any selfish excuse to sandbag the existing neighborhood till it sucks as bad as wherever they moved from.

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[Roxtar]

New resident NIMBYs are the worst!

They move in because they like the community feel and schools, public spaces and bike trails... but then they have no sense of duty to the greater good and vote against bond measures, start opposition groups to parks, never volunteer or donate, don't support local businesses or events...

People hate SDC charges on new development, cuz houses are already so damn expensive, but if you don't make people buy into the community up front, new residents will just hem and haw and find any selfish excuse to sandbag the existing neighborhood till it sucks as bad as wherever they moved from.

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Exactly.
"Hey Asshole, you moved out of Cali for a reason. Stop trying to recreate it here!!!"

[Andeh]

Exactly.
"Hey Asshole, you moved out of Cali for a reason. Stop trying to recreate it here!!!"

Hahaha... as a California resident, I cannot begin to agree with how accurate that is.

[thedude2340]

Is the Fruita lean and staying on trail riding around the FL just officially dead?

[jm2e]

I've really had it with broken spokes. Wish I knew why it was happening so much/what I'm doing wrong. Carbon rim, cush core, reasonable tire pressure, only weigh 180 lbs, acceptable line choice, consistently trued/tensioned by a shop after each repair, but still just blowing those things out constantly. I don't think I should have to get a wheel rebuilt this soon

I just bought new alloy rims to swap onto a carbon Reynolds that’s given me more trouble (and hand pain) than any wheel set ever. To me, spending $70 on spokes didn’t make sense because I’m blaming the rims for my problems. So I spent $270! Maybe some local weight weenie will want my fancy carbon rim jobs.


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[J. Barron DeJong]

I just bought new alloy rims to swap onto a carbon Reynolds that’s given me more trouble (and hand pain) than any wheel set ever. To me, spending $70 on spokes didn’t make sense because I’m blaming the rims for my problems. So I spent $270! Maybe some local weight weenie will want my fancy carbon rim jobs.


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How do carbon rim jobs work exactly? Is there a carbon fiber dental dam I’m not aware of?

[smmokan]

I just bought new alloy rims to swap onto a carbon Reynolds that’s given me more trouble (and hand pain) than any wheel set ever. To me, spending $70 on spokes didn’t make sense because I’m blaming the rims for my problems. So I spent $270! Maybe some local weight weenie will want my fancy carbon rim jobs.


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God I hope you’re not re-lacing them to Reynolds hubs… they’re the worst pieces of shit I’ve ever had the experience of riding. I’m assuming you’re smarter than that though.

[jackstraw]

So my annoying af creak that i couldn't find ended up being the derailleur/hanger. I would have never found that! Shop said it was the 2nd one they've seen on a Santa Cruz bike. Took a while to discover the first one, but now they know.

Riding in peace and quiet now [emoji106]

[Andeh]

Good to know, I never would have checked that too. I've also seen a few people on (ugh) MTBR SC threads say their SC-machined UDH didn't have a squared off spot for the B-tension bolt to press against, so that it never worked properly and the chain stayed floppy. Going to a boring SRAM UDH fixed it for them.

[jm2e]

God I hope you’re not re-lacing them to Reynolds hubs… they’re the worst pieces of shit I’ve ever had the experience of riding. I’m assuming you’re smarter than that though.

Kinda wish it was a DT, but definitely a hub set worth re-using.



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[jackstraw]

Check out this douchebag.

...1:30 mark

https://youtu.be/QTa2Qbtplcg

[Canada1]

So my annoying af creak that i couldn't find ended up being the derailleur/hanger. I would have never found that! Shop said it was the 2nd one they've seen on a Santa Cruz bike. Took a while to discover the first one, but now they know.

Riding in peace and quiet now [emoji106]

I can't even connect the dots on how that would make a sound? Every pivot point has a spring?

[XXX-er]

So my annoying af creak that i couldn't find ended up being the derailleur/hanger. I would have never found that! Shop said it was the 2nd one they've seen on a Santa Cruz bike. Took a while to discover the first one, but now they know.

Riding in peace and quiet now [emoji106]

A click can be ANYTHING, when i was doing a little shop work a guy brought in a intermittently creaking HT that another store had already worked on, we checked everything replaced something stuff and I believe it came back twice after i worked on it and the problem was found to be a 1/2 loose QR which let the axle move & click intermittently somehow no body had checked or even taken off the back wheel in 4 shop visits

[jackstraw]

I can't even connect the dots on how that would make a sound? Every pivot point has a spring?

I have no idea either, but I guess just minimal movement on anything can make a creaking noise or a click. I rode it yesterday and no noise was heard. So nice.

[Wes Mantooth]

Not really a rant just more of a holy shit I can’t believe that just happened: shop accidentally cut my steerer way too short on a brand new factory 36. Need to order and replace the entire csu

Fortunately I ensured they were the ones to measure and mark the cut and they’re good people so there was no attempt to make it seem like it was my fault. Reeeeeally sucks for them though, I didn’t even know what to say in the moment

[J. Barron DeJong]

Check out this douchebag.

...1:30 mark

https://youtu.be/QTa2Qbtplcg

WTF. If I had taken that video, no way I’m posting it. If nothing else, just seems like opening yourself up to liability.

And letting the kid apologize and not correcting him, and letting him know that it was not his fault AT ALL?

Fuck that guy.

[toast2266]

Not really a rant just more of a holy shit I can’t believe that just happened: shop accidentally cut my steerer way too short on a brand new factory 36. Need to order and replace the entire csu

Fortunately I ensured they were the ones to measure and mark the cut and they’re good people so there was no attempt to make it seem like it was my fault. Reeeeeally sucks for them though, I didn’t even know what to say in the moment

The bike equivalent of fucking up a binding mount and buying the customer new skis.

[californiagrown]

WTF. If I had taken that video, no way I’m posting it. If nothing else, just seems like opening yourself up to liability.

And letting the kid apologize and not correcting him, and letting him know that it was not his fault AT ALL?

Fuck that guy.

Eh, i quickly watched once with no sound. the gopro effect slows things down, gives a wider view, and generally makes things seem slower/smaller/less gnarly.

When you are riding big jump lines it's dangerous to hit your brakes at the wrong time which can buck you off the lip. It looks like a decent sized jump line meaning they were going pretty darn fast and the jumps appeared to be stacked pretty closely. Tough spot, especially if he saw the kid on the side first and the kid infront of him late. Yeah, the rider in front has the ROW, but in that situation on that trail it would have been tough to avoid a big "moment" regardless.


However, what im wondering about is i have to think that the reason those Youtubers were stopped and waiting at the 1:30 mark was to let those kids clear. Meaning that having slower kids ahead should have not come as a surprise and makes it 100% avoidable and their fault.

[mcski]

WTF. If I had taken that video, no way I’m posting it. If nothing else, just seems like opening yourself up to liability.

And letting the kid apologize and not correcting him, and letting him know that it was not his fault AT ALL?

Fuck that guy.

Why is it that dude’s fault? Is there some way he should have know there were riders moving so slow before he dropped?

It almost feels staged w so much of the video being of him in first aid mode. Obviously not but still seemed weird.

[toast2266]

Eh, i quickly watched once with no sound. the gopro effect slows things down, gives a wider view, and generally makes things seem slower/smaller/less gnarly.

When you are riding big jump lines it's dangerous to hit your brakes at the wrong time which can buck you off the lip. It looks like a decent sized jump line meaning they were going pretty darn fast and the jumps appeared to be stacked pretty closely. Tough spot, especially if he saw the kid on the side first and the kid infront of him late. Yeah, the rider in front has the ROW, but in that situation on that trail it would have been tough to avoid a big "moment" regardless.


However, what im wondering about is i have to think that the reason those Youtubers were stopped and waiting at the 1:30 mark was to let those kids clear. Meaning that having slower kids ahead should have not come as a surprise and makes it 100% avoidable and their fault.

Everyone was at fault. Dipshit kids picked a bad spot in the trail to stop and merged in without making sure trail was clear. Dipshit Youtuber clearly had room to stop, but sent it anyways. Dude was yelling at the kids to look out on the jump prior. They didn't look out, so he should've stopped.

This sort of shit happens all the time on busy jump trails.