DAMN Riders - No rules, Just ride!

Laoch wrote: ↑

Fri May 18, 2018 12:13 pm

2smokes wrote: ↑

Fri May 18, 2018 9:06 am

...especially if it’s the last one

Rumor has it that another entity may be in line to carry on this event.....

Finally stepped up to the plate, eh? Good on ya!

drtjumper wrote: ↑

Thu May 17, 2018 10:50 am

Annnnnnnnnndddddd, I just ordered another MXR for my wife yesterday. Won’t be here until August but she is excited as am I. Maybe now I can do an Enduro by just switching bikes at a gas stop.

she better keep an eye on her battery! it might be used as a spare someday

When I was 10, me and my next door neighbor tied a big piece of rope between two trees, one in his yard and one in mine that went over our fence. We then climbed the tree in my yard (on the up hill side of the zip line) and used a pair of bicycle handlebars, the old ape hanger kind off a schwinn "o...

I've ridden a couple well-designed home zip lines, but I couldn't tell you who to get in contact with to design one. The last one I remember was one you held on to only, but you were never more than about 4' off of the ground and it went down the slope of an open field so it wasn't very likely you'...

yup. they make hand brakes and bungy brakes. And some of them have sag in them so they start going back uphill at the end to slow you down. Those ones usually end on a flat piece of earth so you're on the ground wherever you wind up stopping. ya, there companies that sell kits are pretty good about...

Laoch wrote: ↑

Wed May 16, 2018 5:37 pm

Hire a professional

do you know any?

yup. they make hand brakes and bungy brakes.

I have this mental image of Nobody in a shifter cart ... airborne

I promised the grandson last year I'd build him a zipline at the new place. I get asked about it almost every month and since the new house is almost done, I guess I better figure out how to do it. Has anyone ever built a zipline? I see plenty of kits with lots of YouTube videos but nothing compares...

Bucho wrote: ↑

Tue May 15, 2018 7:59 pm

Pretty BS that it was a fight to properly use the money for what it was always supposed to be used for...

no kidding. It was an insult and I often thought of it as theft.