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Reverse it, bar straddling two hooks. Use small strap to cinch it into the hooks so it can't bounce out. Three road bikes on my 6-bike NS, on the regular. Solid as can be.

I think everyone involved was having a bit of fun.

@carym: lifetime gun owner and hunter here. Was an NRA member at one time, until Heston started spiuting the "more guns make us safer" BS. These people watch too many Joh Wayne flicks. The reality is that the bad guy wins half the time. There are, in fact, two points in my life where either I or some other dipshit with a gun would have died had I been armed. I wasn't so the situation diffused itself. I got off an a tangent there, but I thing one of the primary drivers of our mass shooting problem is that somewhere along the line people started looking to guns as a solution to their fear and anger, and the industry smelled this and captitalized on it in a big way. When I was a kid in the 80's, we looked at guns entirely differently than they are looked at today. They are glorified in a very disturbing way now, and I think that that, the culture not the guns, is the problem. And any real change will have to come from the people who are economically benefiting from the status quo. Not promising.

@vhdh666: Day to day riding, mountain is more fun. Racing, honestly a classics-style road race is as much or more fun. Strategy, attacks, counters, time to bullshit and joke in the group when the above isn't going on. It's way more fun than the current gerbil-circuit XCO thing Maybe, actually surely, not as much fun as something like the Downieville XC.

Not really designed to be ridden flat over the cobbles.

God, I feel for these people trying to maintain the razor edge of pro fitness, mental and physical, while a bunch of sport class internet warriors tell 'em how to be better. FWIW, I have immense respect for Kate and how she handles herself, the image she projects for young female athletes like my daughter (who follows her pretty closely). She's a badass. Rode with her briefly when she was at Stanford - so "together" for her age. I wish her all the best.

@sledshed: because they got it right with the Spur. Or actually the Smuggler before that, since the spur is simply a Smuggler on a diet. I do love my Smuggler....I was always afraid they were going to make a 25lb version to activate my bike lust again. Then comes the Spur. And don't forget reduced offset forks. Transition/Kona be some forward thinking folks.

@JohanG: They're redneck conservatives. They do what Fox tells them and they don't question it. See how easy that is? Fox news is the real mainstream media. There is genius in the way they've convinced their followers that they are somehow edgy rebels.

@scottziesman: Levy vs. Ferrentino. Also. Beer foam shootout circa 2021.

@pelopidas: What we're dealing with is the result of 100 years of suppression and failed management. Logging is not a cure-all. Case in point: some of the hottest fires in Northern CA burn in areas that have been previously logged. Why? Because years ago, USFS held a shitload of timber sales, and we logged holy hell out of NW CA. Subsequent administrations have systematically cut the USFS budget, and environmental groups have systematically sued, oftentimes correctly as USFS tried to sneak "extra value" (i.e. old growth) trees into thinning projects. These and other factors have made it nearly impossible to perform large-scale management on a scale that befits the large-scale destructive logging that occurred in the late 20th century. The result is that the forest is dense, brushy, and dry. The perfect combination for a crown fire that will move fast and destroy everything in its path. So yeah, some logging is part of the solution. So is burning. Pre-contact, some 4 million acres burned in CA every year. The tribal elders talk of times when you could see through the forest because the brush and small trees burned every few years, leaving an open canopy without enough ladder fuel to get to the crown. Maybe those times are coming back? My prediction? This is what we have for say, the next 5 years. The intensity of fires gradually decreases as the accumulated fuel load burns off, firefighting moves to structure preservation, and we learn to live with a more natural fire cycle. Read this. Written by a friend who knows what she's talking about, unlike us. https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/07/19/california-fires-fire-advisor-wildfires/ideas/essay/