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On 10/17/25 12:32 PM, ehsjr wrote:
> On 10/17/2025 12:31 PM, Joerg wrote:
>> On 10/15/25 12:50 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>> Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>wrote:
>>>>> On 9/27/25 9:10 AM, john larkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.timeout.com/travel/coolest-neighbourhoods-in-the-world-2025 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Two things I noticed is how many places have hideous overhead wires,
>>>>> and how much signage is in English.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And they are usually terribly crowded. Why do people want to feel like
>>>> sardines in a can? To me the coolest places are right here where we 
>>>> live:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG
>>>>
>>>> You can only get there by mountain bike, by kayak or on foot. On 
>>>> foot it
>>>> takes a lot of hours. Mountain biking there isn't for the faint of
>>>> heart. Even an experienced rider turfed it on the way out there.
>>>>
>>>> My MTB has panniers and I brought homebrew IPA plus Dixie cups so we
>>>> hung out there for a while when I took that picture. The plop of a
>>>> Grolsch bottle echoing back from the valleys is a heavenly sound :-)
>>>
>>> Are there any bush fires there?
>>>
>>
>> Yes. One time when I rode my mountain bike through there a large area 
>> both sides of the river was black and still smoldering, with some 
>> smoke. It was eerie and probably a bit dangerous. This is one of the 
>> "autobahns" I am using there:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5cjAW_nrl4
>>
> 
> Wow!  My thighs are burning - and I only watched it!
> Ed

:-)

Once I was late on a trail like that, stepped on it, 18mph, 20mph, 22mph 
... woohoo ... got too close to a Manzanita bush, it grabbed the top 
loop of my hydration pack, literally ripped me off the seat and ... 
phssst *KABLAM* ... crashed hard. All rashed up and the next morning I 
had to fly to Europe. Other passengers at the gate thought I had some 
sort of infectious skin disease. Sometimes I still dream of that crash, 
seeing my now riderless MTB disappear upright into the vegetation.

The other side is more technical and dangerous. A few people have died 
there. They crashed to the south side, down the cliff and landed on big 
rocks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y38JzV-ueXI

The grease brush is deceiving because it cracks very easily, can't hold 
back a rider and then it's free fall.

-- 
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-14 22:40 -0700
  Re: ot coolest places Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2025-10-15 07:50 +0000
    Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-17 09:31 -0700
      Re: ot coolest places Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2025-10-17 17:01 +0000
        Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-17 12:04 -0700
      Re: ot coolest places ehsjr <ehsjr@verizon.net> - 2025-10-17 15:32 -0400
        Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-17 13:09 -0700
      Re: ot coolest places Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> - 2025-10-18 04:21 +0200
        Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-21 16:03 -0700
  Re: ot coolest places john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com> - 2025-10-15 07:29 -0700
    Re: ot coolest places Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2025-10-17 09:35 -0700
  Re: ot coolest places ehsjr <ehsjr@verizon.net> - 2025-10-15 14:59 -0400

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