racinfarmer

I've been trying to fight the Cushcore and tire off my bike.I'm not sure I'm going to put the Cushcore back in...

Probably, but I got a big boy job where I get to hire and fire people, Dale Gribble style.

I just impersonate an angry trucker on the weekends hauling vegetables instead.

Yeah, I'm a little bitter about how my last job went the last few years I was there...

He is Minnesota's herpes.

No need to embellish it, we all know it is a Kwik Star potato.

What it takes for a US business to do business in China is not understood by many. You hand them everything on a golden platter, all for the allure of a quick buck.You set up the Chinese corporation. You buy the building. You buy the capital, new capital at that. They don't want your used shit, nor will they accept it for import.You bring your IP over. You train them.They own 51% (or more) of the corporation. They "represent" you in their courts when shit goes sideways and you have 19.638 knock-offs of your product floating around every corner of the planet.If you don't like what just happened, you handed them every part of your manufacturing business on a golden platter, including the IP and the capital to do it.

Shocks showed up today.

My shock guy hasn't got to my bike shock and fork yet. I'm tempted to run out and get one of those Ozark Trail Ridges so I have something to ride until my stuff is done.

Walz is out and about everywhere but the state he "runs", leaving it budgetary and political shambles. Any bets on him running for the White House in 2028? Wonder how many more times he can use the "humor" and "knucklehead" excuse for his misgivings when caught driving hatred and divisiveness red-handed...

I bet you even cheaped out on the potato and bought something like a Russet instead of a good one like a Yukon Gold.

The new wild thing about mountain bikes - those Ozark Trail Ridges are damn good bikes for $400 and easily upgradable. That is a bike that almost anyone can afford, is decently capable, and easily upgradeable in the future.

What is even more fucked up is the surplus MN blasted through and we will see CONSTANT headlines of schools running short on money and kids going hungry. Fucking criminal what the DFL has done in this state.

I keep sideways eyeing up a KLR650, just can't pull the trigger. Every time I get close, I see some clueless person in a vehicle and think better of it.

I look at it as an investment in my health and even though I'm now like $2500-2700 deep into my $1600 bike, it isn't like I bought it and it is now worth $0. I can at least sell it for something.

4 boxes showed up today. Looks like everything has shown up so far, still waiting on the high dollar item and some side panels.

How do I donate?

Going to Mexico is always interesting. Just drive the hell on in, stop at the border office and pick up your TN visa and keep on driving. Get to cheat the 4-6 hour line on the way back when you turn in your TN card and get dumped 30 minutes or less from the border.

Kind of crazy to think that my Rocky Mountain has a $4800 retail and there are still 3 model levels above the one I have, and a choice of AL or carbon frame. Full rip top of the line Altitude is $11k

I'm still trying to decipher what my high school classmate is posting on the book. His cheese has slipped off his cracker this weekend and every 10-15 minutes, posting up some whackadoodle thing in our class group. It has been an interesting afternoon.

I think you are seeing it at the swap meets too. They are getting smaller and smaller and the some of those seller you used to see at every one are just gone.

I'd say judging by some of the stuff head to auction the last 2-3 years, we are seeing the start of that.

Bad snow years and Irv the Liquidator did them in in the 80's. Textron is a modern day Irv the Liquidator. Your fallacy of them "focusing on racing" isn't what did them in.

I do not understand why one thinks racing helped to put Cat in the position they are in today.