Got out on the SS last night for the first time in a month. I was expecting some serious pain, but it wasn't bad. The spin from the house to the trails was probably the hardest part (with a couple of friends on geared bikes). Once we climbed up Jacks (cleaned it) I could see cows in the area. Man, I hate that this is open range. It goes from so nice and firm with pretty grasses and flowers like it was last week to dusty, barren, and (literally) [censored] in no time. Luckily I've noticed where the cows like to be in the area and we managed to avoid them and most of their wake by sticking to ridge tops and rocky areas. The bike was running very smoothly. Like buttah, silently gliding along and carving quick turns like a slalom ski. My fellow riders were a couple of old friends I went to college with. We used to come out to this area and have these crazy all night acid trip parties back in the early 90's. We reminisced about those days gone and how things are a bit different now (like we all have kids and jobs). "Remember that one time? That was so awesome! I wonder which rock outcropping we were on? I think it was the one that looked just like a fire-breathing dragon. Actually, I haven't seen it since that night.". Rattlesnake was in nice shape. I cleaned it for the first time on the SS, which was nice. I also got a great view of one of the guys, Brad, doing a perfect, slow-mo endo right in front of me. Beautiful! He was OK. It's funny, he quit riding in 1990 and just got a bike again and is on the trails for the first time since then. He's a really strong rider with really bad (or non-existent) skills. So he hammers the open climbs and then crashes or has to stop and get realigned periodically on the downhills and technical climbs. It can be quite amusing. From Rattlesnake we hit Rocky Ridge, Broken Shovel, Skyline, and Josh-O's, which we looped back to Rocky Ridge the opposite way, then a Becks DH and finish it off with the Notch. It was a beautiful evening. We topped it off with burritos and beers at Blue Iguana. Life is good!
You call that acid. Please acid was the 60s and early 70s. Purple Haze,Orange Sunshine, Purple Micro Dot. Real LSD. Keep riding that SS cause one speed is all you need.
Very nice. It was definitely flowing and just felt smooth and fast. That's what I had before but the threads got messed up before the bike was mine and it's been limping along for quite a while. I have one on the front too and it's still going strong. For ~1/5 the price of a King hub it sure seems like a nice alternative.
Matt (maybe I'll do Kings on my next SS if I score a nice bonus or something)
You call that acid. Please acid was the 60s and early 70s. Purple Haze,Orange Sunshine, Purple Micro Dot. Real LSD. Keep riding that SS cause one speed is all you need.
You call that acid. Please acid was the 60s and early 70s. Purple Haze,Orange Sunshine, Purple Micro Dot. Real LSD. Keep riding that SS cause one speed is all you need.
I'm pretty sure it was acid. The real thing (lysergic acid diethylamide). Both blotter (jesters one time and Bart Simpsons another, IIRC) and liquid brought from the Shoreline Dead shows that year. Seemed to do the trick alright and that was before all the newer party drugs like X, GHB, and Special K and all the scary [censored] had hit the scene. The fake stuff at the time was either just speed or totally bunk and this was neither.
Matt (legally insane according to some urban legends)
... before all the newer party drugs like X, GHB, and Special K and all the scary [censored] had hit the scene...
Actually X is not really new. It's MDMA, which was being slipped under the tongue back in the 60s along with other interesting distractions. One of the songs on the _Hair_ soundtrack mentions MDMA.
... before all the newer party drugs like X, GHB, and Special K and all the scary [censored] had hit the scene...
Actually X is not really new. It's MDMA, which was being slipped under the tongue back in the 60s along with other interesting distractions. One of the songs on the _Hair_ soundtrack mentions MDMA.
I should have said newly popular instead of new. The other stuff is newer, but K is horse tranquilizer so that could have been around a while too. Nice, eh?
