hogfly

For those considering purchasing a mountain bike, I earlier recommended buying a hardtail from a local bike shop. That's good advice, but I will say that the used bike market is absolutely crazy cheap right now. A ton of people got into the sport during COVID and are now unloading their bikes. Suppl...

It's sort of dystopian space opera. Definitely not "hard scifi," but there's no "magic" or fantasy elements of that nature in it. ...

Bogue Chitto recently came up on a trail building podcast I listen to. There are definitely some cool trails there. Ruston, LA just got some new MTB trails as well that are pretty awesome for those of you further north in the state. It's a great sport. For those of you looking to get into it: it'...

I was so sad to see it go that I had to attempt to resurrect it here. Shame she deleted as it was shaping up to be a classic. ...

Yep. We've started listening to them on road trips. The 15 hours caught us up in March, as we spent a lot of time in the car. Luckily my wife has a work Spotify account as well, so we swapped over to hers to finish up the book we were on. ...

I need to cook more "regular" grits. I almost always end up baking mine with cheese, garlic and eggs mixed in so that they're more "cakelike" like a garlic cheese polenta than traditional grits. But that's because I'm usually making them for a potluck, and they serve more easily that way. ...

Anyone have any experiences? We (family of 4) are flying into Nice on 6/3 and heading to Finale Ligure for a few days of mountain biking then looking for other options in that general region (planning on staying mainly in Western Italy. We fly back on 6/14. We aren't really that into large citie...

Thanks for all the advice. We spend a LOT of time in the car together traveling for biking. We ARE about to get to the point that he does trips on his own, but we are fortunate to get to do a lot of long road trips together and as a whole family with mom and sibling along as well. You all are r...

In honor of the embed, going to post my kid and his friends most recent edit from a trip to Santa Fe, NM over spring break. [embed]https://youtu.be/JKAABFU5KsY?si=palGKzYPW-tAPtMU[/embed] Gearing up for the Big Mountain Enduro at Mt. Nebo in a couple of weeks. My son's now off GT and riding f...

He had an. essay he was working on for English for the first half of the trip there, so we talked through a lot of that for several hours. Then he had his headphones in because he was typing. I ended up listening to first season of Old Gods of Appalachia. I'll likely be breaking that out more in the...