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Akron must have dumped at least 3 metric tons of salt onto the roads near my house, most of which is still there.

Unfortunately that means my bikes will be staying parked .

Spray your bike off when you're done...won't hurt it a bit.

I've been riding in the salty winter for 45,000 miles, no rust on my bike yet.

Good article, eaten there many times. The Farmstead in Berlin is a great restaurant that often gets missed, but the locals love it and it's cheap. Their homemade pies are the best in Ohio, IMHO...real lard crusts. Better than Peggy Sues, which everyone raves about.

I sneak in the county roads to get to Berlin, and back out the same way. The best riding in Amish country is the county highways.

I loved this thing.

Sure did.

If only he had gone on a few lavish vacations instead of ramming shitty healthcare bills down our throats.

I've been to that house, believe it or not. When I lived out there they had a tour of some of the mountain homes (Johnny Carson and John Wayne had homes near Bisbee). It's neat as hell, no doubt about it.

Glad I got the good one of the three. Was it just normal use or what?

Yeah, none were abused at all just around the house stuff. Never dropped or anything. I think they both failed within a month after buying.

They did replace 'em, so kudos on that and I like the lights a lot, but it's worth mentioning.

I've had better luck with the Trustfire lights from Deal Extreme. I've given them some hell at work and they're still working like champs...they've been dropped, smacked, pounded stuff with 'em, you name it.

Warning: I've had two Nebo's go bad...started going dim/bright, then wouldn't turn on anymore at all. They replaced both, but I wouldn't trust my life to one...hang it on a gun, etc.

Really! Ive never heard anything bad about the Petzl. The new ones are ridiculously bright and reliable as hell.

Well, you're hearing it now. They're not that bright for the cost. 50-60 lumens isn't great. Some of their high-end ones like the Ultra are very bright, but insanely expensive.

The only one close in performance to the one I linked to cost twice as much...nearly $85 and the life at 150lumens on that model is short because it's running in a "boost" mode on less battery power. Normal operation it's back down in the 60 range. Mine is bulkier, but that's the only thing I'll say in Petzl's favor is they're small and built well.

Different strokes, expectations, and all that but I think they cost too much for the performance.

I've had a couple Petzl's but found them lacking. Awful expensive for no brighter than they are.

I have this Remington (Rayovac) one now:

http://www.batteryjunction.com/remington-rmhl4aa-b.html

It's $40, but is WAAAY fucking brighter than most in its price range (a true 150 lumens). That's a good thing if you have to work on something at night. It has a diffuser which is handy if you don't need the throw of a flashlight.

Takes 4AA's on a pack that sits on the back of the strap. Not the smallest headlamp out there, but not bad to wear or pack. Lifetime warranty, too...for the breakers of things.

Looks like a cat-turd of a movie. Shitty CGI, revisionist history galore, sappy sentimentality, and inaccuracy you can only get from a Walmart-Movie-Bin-DVD.

Can't wait.

There's $$ to be made off of the sheeple...there's no interest in having what our neighbors do without hassle.

The fleecing shall continue.

The OHSP Spiffy New Stetson fund is not going to pay for itself.

Can we ban bald guys with goatees on cruisers that weigh over 700lbs? Why stop with trucks when other hazards are cluttering up a good road?

The Fly is a rebadged AFX 39, and yes it has almost zero distortion. I have one and the earlier 37, and the 37 had some distortion (only really on the lowest portion of the shield). The AFX is almost always cheaper than the Fly, for some reason. No real reason to buy one unless you like the name "Fly" better than AFX.

Track bug didn't bite me. It was fun, but too expensive and too infrequent to even remotely scratch my itch.

Dual sporting is a better fix for me, because it not only lets me ride the same streets that everyone else does, but urges me to get the fuck away from all the traffic and BS and ride in areas where the normal problems of the street don't exist.

I never understood the darkside guys...you would think that running a car tire on the back would make your bike handle like shit. I can understand guys looking for longer lasting tires, as long as it is a legit question about tire compounds etc.

A snow tire on the back does surprisingly well, believe it or not. If there's a handling difference I couldn't feel it. I ran one on a long trip where burning up a perfectly good tire just didn't make much sense. Wasn't a lot of twisties to speak of, so why not? It's not unsafe.

I found cornering performance suprisingly good, there's some interesting videos out there shot of a car/rear during a track session and they flex to keep a lot of the flat tread on the pavement, they don't "square off" like people tend to fear they will.

I wouldn't run one as a matter of course, and certainly not on a sport bike but for a commuter or long-haul bike? Hell ya.

I think it says "Sex=Flu to the nth power"

That's what I got out of it anyway. Gotta stop drinking this cough syrup recreationally.

Fuck hippies.

I have a hammock tent and a regular ultralight, and there are advantages to both but if I were traveling to destinations unknown I wouldn't even consider the hammock. Especially if going out west, or across plains, etc. Finding strong hanging points can be really difficult sometimes.

I'm on both sites, but I don't think of myself as a poseur.

I'm a poser.

He's everything Snooky's been looking for in a guido.

It makes perfect sense, my Sennheisers go rotten if I leave them just laying on the counter.

I've had great luck with Scorpion batteries. For an AGM batt, they're reasonably priced and I don't maintain them very well and they last and give me no problems.

Cool, enjoying those.