Dave [none/use name]
Yeah camping is great! Been getting into it again in the last year after maybe 10 years off. Going beach camping soon for the first time if anyone’s got any tips for that.
Been mostly car camping since it’s easier to introduce people to that than freeze-dried food and hauling everything up a mountain. It’s mostly been a success other than finding a tick on the gooch one time.
They had a bit in a recent live show with her about it being her last appearance on the show, but I’m not sure how serious it was, can’t imagine she won’t come back for something union-related in the future.
Chris is the producer who chimes in now, Brandon might be from that podcast E1?
Look at their new Director of Policy, it’s not about misinformation. Don’t know this website but there’s other sources too.
Not exactly the same, but I did once buy rainbow-reflective vinyl adhesive sheets and put them on the bottom of a board. The effect is great, but doing boardslides will shred it immediately, since it’s just vinyl. Holding up well almost two year later, although the owner isn’t even doing nose stalls with it as far as I know, just cruising around and doing some ollies.
You could probably put a clear varnish coat over it to protect it a little, but I haven’t tried that myself.
If you can get it printed on adhesive vinyl, you can definitely do it. Just buy a blank deck for like $30, or a Mini-Logo one since they’re about the same price.
I don’t know longboards well, but usually just build standard ~31" boards with longboard wheels and risers, they’re basically the same thing but easier to maneuver on tighter streets. Cheaper too, and lighter, especially since lightweight longboard trucks are more expensive than Mag Lights, which are about as light as you can go for skateboard trucks.
I would recommend finding heavyweight cotton shirts, they’re often sold as workwear but they’re just plain shirts with thicker material. I found the Dickies and Gildan ones pretty solid but a ton of places make em.
Discovered them incidentally in a quest to avoid constantly putting holes in them at work, but they do help hide a couple pounds much better than regular shirts (and also prevent showing nips through if that’s a problem for you).
It’s kind of weird, only the odd-numbered ones are actually good, but they all get worse by equivalent amounts as the series goes on.
Obviously 1, 3, and 5 are amazing in descending order, and 7 is pretty solid.
2 is the best of the even-numbered duds since they jump a car onto a boat at the end and Ludacris is in it, and but there’s still an equivalent quality backslide from that point through 4, 6, and 8 despite all of them being worse than all the ones in between.
I need to watch all of them again in order to confirm this, but since I always watch them now while playing a drinking game that involves drinking continuously for the entire duration of any drift, I’ll probably be too fucked up after Tokyo Drift to make an objective judgement.
For chain locks (the kind with a metal chain with a nylon sheath and a separate lock), just keep the lock away from moisture at all costs to avoid freezing. The delivery-guy method of wrapping the lock in a plastic bag is surprisingly effective. If it does freeze, percussive maintenance usually does the trick to get it unstuck.
You probably need to toe-in your brakes to stop the squeaking, there’s a ton of videos online that show how to do it. All it takes is an Allen key and like 5 minutes usually, definitely worth it.
Thermal long underwear under your pants, waterproof shoes and rain paints (and/or fenders) if it’s snowy, one less layer than you’d normally wear for the temp on top while you’re riding, bandana over the face so you can still breathe easily but stay warm, warm gloves. Once you get below 20°F you might want ski goggles too. Be careful if it’s snowing, especially when braking, and watch out for ice. Winter biking really isn’t as bad as you think, the real challenge is managing your layers and remembering to bring extra just in case.