Recent content by benjy

Pivot doesn’t do aluminum… This is only my second CF bike, first was a Santa Cruz 5010, and now this Pivot Trail 429. I’m not married to CF, and have been planning on a steel Reeb SST for my next ride, even before this failure. I’ve never had a preference (or even noticed) compliance vs...

I have to vent somewhere… Riding Zen today I went down the big g out downhill at the top of the first climb, and my rear pivot on my pivot failed :( I think Pivot is pretty good about warranties, but now I’m 3 weeks without a bike in prime riding season. Is this the price we pay for riding...

If you could start over, what would you do? I’m at a mid-career transition of sorts, and the thought of sitting at a desk 40hrs/wk again buried in spreadsheets makes me nauseous. Maybe the sabbatical was a bad idea :rofl:

Ran into an older dude stuck in a baby bronco on red canyon road by Kanab. After airing him down and some digging the thing would just barely move one tire. I hadn’t moved our recovery gear over to the gladiator yet, so I sacrificed a couple unused anchor straps from a car seat to pull him out...

I have had 2 nights in a hotel, so I’m at 58 for the year. This game is easy when you’re homeless. Not a bad view though…

Yesterday I hiked the virgin anticline from long valley to Warner valley. On the north end (near the southern parkway) I started seeing some dirt bike tracks. A couple miles in I started seeing painted lines and dots marking a track. I couldn’t find anything online… has anyone on here ridden...

How am I 39 years old and this never occurred to me? :D I try to make it a habit to show a picture to my girls of them as embryos on their creation day. My lil lab experiments

Dood, the salesman showed me a trick where you loop the tailgate cable through a hook and you can then haul a 4x8 sheet of plywood in the bed 🤡

Count me in! It ticked most of the boxes for the right price.

Yes, and I’d do it again, too. We parked against the spectator fence which gave us an area to fence off the kids in one spot. Hard to beat watching the end of the race 20’ from the course, streaming on the outdoor TV while the toddler takes his afternoon nap. It would get busier on days of the...

I took my family (3 kids) and spent 2 weeks on the lakebed this year. We had an absolute blast, very likely we go again next year. There were plenty of other families out there and we never felt out of place. We spectated at the designated locations with the kids during sanctioned race...

That’s too bad that it’s not a great manual, kinda sounded like a fun throwback. Even bad leather is probably preferred over cloth… or make the kids sit on a plastic sheet, which really isn’t a bad idea.

We are in the market! If anyone sees a Mojave, soft top, diesel, leather, manual in the gray blue earl color let me know 😂 I’d settle for a Mojave in earl but even that seems like a unicorn.

Oh man, what a race. JP started dead last?