Ouch.Looking at photos of all those cool car I thought I'd post a photo of a car I owned a dozen years ago. The second photo was taken just after I got it home after purchasing it.
Very hard to believe it's the same car....but it is.
Was that an Intermeccanica? CNThe car is a fiberglass replica of a 1956 Porsche 356.
I owned it for a number of years then sold it. I bought it back from the person I sold it to after the car suffered a serious engine fire that totalled the car.
I partially rebuilt it and then had the shop that originally built the car fully restore it.
I was the most unreliable vehicle I've ever owned.
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Is he the guy who did the staircases that go nowhere ?We Had M C Escher Clouds Over S W Texas Today:
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Don't see these formations often around here. Some of you old hippies probably know of and remember M C Escher. That very trippy artist from the 19 century who drew fantastic images like this:
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Well, we thought they were fantastic anyway ... after a few tokes.
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Take a gander. The guy was pretty amazing.
Steve, where was that image of the valley below shot? I read that the wild fire count in BC is up to 300 now. My sister and her husband survived the Okanagan fires back in 2003. They were one of the few fortunate evacuees whose home (Okaview/Kelowna) was left standing. We toured their neighborhood shortly after and it was devastating to see.
That pic is from above the Coquitlam Crunch on Westwood plateau. Eagle Mtn on the left.
Looks like a street bike trail to me. I could ride my no suspension bike there.
That’s like the GAP trail here.
Whether it's course gravel or fine, it depends on how well it's packed. It's the loose stuff that'll get you. I don't mind a bit of rough surface but I hate the occasional soft patch.
Yes exactly. The gravel bikes I have seen have no suspension. 35 years ago I had a Cannondale touring bike. I fitted the widest tires I could on it so I could trail ride. The bike was still horribly uncomfortable on trails and so much harder to pedal with the added resistance of the tires that I soon switched back and kept that bike to the roads.
People have different expectations and preferences about this. I've ridden gravel bikes with and without suspension and vastly prefer riding gravel without suspension. A long-time cyclist, I only use front suspension or full-suspension for the most technical single track, and even then I prefer to ride technical single-track on a rigid bike unless I'm trying to keep up with other full-suspension riders. But it's only on the most rocky terrain where suspension allows faster traveling in my experience. The smooth gravel trail in the photo would be an happy ride on a rigid bike with the right 42mm-52mm wide supple tires I use. The example given of hitting a patch of deep soft gravel is where much wider 4" tires help, not suspension.
