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Add me to the list, I guess. I hate Joe Biden. I hate his damn beady eyes. I hate his tired ass kind uncle schtick. I hate that he cannot navigate a set of stairs. I hate that he hasn't solved immigration, Covid and string theory. I hate that he can't do the Vulcan Mind Meld and give empathy, brevity and an understanding that guns don't load and defend themselves to certain posters on DZ.com. On the other hand I love that I never wake up wondering what new democracy killing, soul crushing, mind numbing stupidity he tweeted out at 4 AM whilst I was nightmaring peaceably. That much for me and me alone, in the pure winsorian sense, is enough.

Maybe, then, you should acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, people who can't run out their landings, might not also be able to slide them because it's their judgment of the landing speed that's the problem, not their running ability. And unless you're damn sure that you don't have to much downward speed, I'll still contend that a slide is a riskier move than a PLF. Wendy P.

No Bro, YOU bring a positive vibe! That my friend goes a long way.

Might be they're hoping for an unemployment payout per the Republican playbook. Endemic Covid isn't the new normal we were all hoping would happen. Nope. The new normal is the realization that there was never anything cohesive in our societal construct that overruled our basest natures.

You can say you don't agree with them all you want, but you exhibit the same behaviour.

Nerdgirl (who I really miss) was almost exclusively an SC poster. Skybytch (ahem) isn't Wendy P.

No. While the possibility isn't 'super big', you risk a baglock if something breaks 'weird'. Not worth the risk. General reply: There are two common sizes of rubber stow bands. Small (will fit around the top of a beer bottle) Big (will fit most of the way down the neck of a beer bottle). There are also 'tandem' bands that are the same circumference as 'big' but much wider. Those aren't normally used on a sport rig. Personally, I use the big ones for the locking stows and the small ones for the rest. I single wrap the first two locking and double wrap the second (above & below cascades). I single wrap the small ones the rest of the way. I know that some folks disagree with this, and that's fine. This is the way I've done it for a very long time and it's worked well so far. I replace the bands that are partially torn. I usually pull on them pretty hard to get the bights (not "bites") in, so ones that are damaged often break. I get that it's winter and you don't have much access to 'professional advice', but the stowing of the lines part of packing isn't the part that's tough to learn (not that it isn't important, it's just pretty basic). For practice packing, getting the folded canopy into the bag & the first two locking stows is a good place to stop (and rip it open to start over). Stowing all the lines is a bit of overkill and uses up rubber bands. As always, my $0.02, worth about what you paid for it, not a professional, didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

Too funny. I meant I agree you're not a trump-ette. But the quote I made omitted the preceding sentence Sorry about that. and i liked that motorcycle story you linked a bit ago.

Damn it!! If I'd known... I wanted to go around and up to Tulsa anyway, there's so much Route 66 stuff along that route. We'll be back. :D

ARF.

Actually I found Joe's comment more profound.

I can't speak for the others, but my own aversion against slidings has nothing to do with your arguments. It's due to all the people who are rock-solid convinced that any stand-up landing is a perfect landing, that PLFs are for N00Bs, that slidings are better than PLFs because they are (name the excuse). You on the other hand are saying that the sliding is an advanced landing technique which may be applicable in some circumstances provided that you first learned how to do them in controlled circumstances with feedback of an expert. You are right. But for a large part of people that's not going to be the take home message. To sum up, the standard approach to any landing in dodgy circumstances - or perhaps to any landing, period - should be "PLF, unless..."

Gottcha!!!! Thank you sir!

1. Because the media and specifically Biden was lambasting Trump as racist, xeno... etc. when he was following the guidance of his advisors at that time. 2. Now that it's Biden doing the exact same thing - It's hands off. That is the hypocrisy.

Nice! Hope you enjoyed Arkansas.

Yep. They’re allowing guest posters during the transition, so we don’t get notified before posts appear. As soon as we see them, we do hide, but we’re not on all the time… Wendy P.

I'm sensing a sock theme here... Sounds like a great trip Wendy P.

Next one of you sumbitches gets close to Tulsa on 40 or 44 and don't PM me for a free lunch; we're gonna fight. Looks like you had fun!

It’s hard to believe he was ever that small!!! I’m a blessed momma and I LOVE every minute. He still doesn’t sleep through the night, the chunk needs to keep his strength up I guess. Gets up twice for a bottle and then back to sleep, he loves his food! Plus, he doesn’t seem to need a lot of sleep , I’ve adjusted or I think I’ve adjusted. Lol Still teaching and he’s still in the classroom with me. More boring baby news, I know.