Life, Lust, and Silly Puns

Yeah so while I was ranting I forgot to post pics and I didn't want to edit it so yeah

JG G36c
TSD M14
Walmart M9 beretta

Edit: Oops, image broke. Fixed. (Right click -> View image)

Well I haven't touched on my airsofting, so I guess I'll do a bit of an intro... or how 'bout a timeline?

-Got into airsofting
-Celebrated birthday by airsofting with friends
-Got awesome (airsoft) weapons
-Got busted by cops
-Hate old men on wheelchairs with nothing else to do but worry about their own safety (from teenagers carrying REAL $5000 GUNS JUST LIKE IN 'NAM) but I mean seriously, what, they have like 5 years left, may as well go down in a teenage shootout. But we were all asian, so the chance of us owning real guns in Cupertino is like 1 to 459847593483948 so RAAAAANNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT f'ing old people. And the way he rolled over on his CLASSY STATE OF THE F'ING ART ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIR THAT HITS A TOP SPEED OF 5 MPH was like over the line, with his indignant f'ing face GD it.


Although it was worse back in 'nam. see, in those days, you had to fear for your life every second and general rosfield was just not a nice guy i mean the way he pushed us everyday was just YEAH I DONT WANNA HEAR IT OLD MAN

Yes! I think I'm done. This thing is fast, and I spent under $100 for the entire thing. If I had a lot of money to spend, I would get new shocks, new rims, but those together is more than $300. And then the frame would be odd. And instead of buying a new frame, shocks, and rims, I may as well just buy a freaking bike. But I'm happy with my bike. Anyway, the "before" picture is in the previous post, and here's a current pic. (Right click -> View Image)



So yeah, kind of a frankenbike, but I love it nonetheless. I'll get more pics later. Going out riding now :D

So I've been roadifying my '06 Schwinn Mesa GSD for a couple weeks now, and the final piece arrived today. I've always been wanting drop bars, (on road bikes) but the diameters were different, and complications would arise. However, I stumbled upon Origin 8 road ends a couple days ago. Basically, they're curved bar ends, thus giving an mtb road ends without diameter troubles. I'll post pics of my frankenbike later.

My roadification in chrono order:

Stiffened fork (can't afford/don't want a rigid fork)
Skinny wheels
Sexy saddle (sexy thin)
Road ends
Bar tape (for above road ends)

So yeah, a budget roadification, but it really helps for speed and efficiency.

My original Schwinn (forgot to take a picture of my Schwinn, so I stole this one.)




Origin 8 road ends

So I used to carry around 2 flash drives (2gb and 8gb, both SanDisk Cruzers). The 8gb carried my stuff around (games at school?) but the other didn't really do anything. So then I thought, "Hey I'm gonna install an OS (operating system, like Windows) on it." So a few days later, my 8gb has Linux on it, and my 2gb has an (extremely) slimmed down version of Windows XP. Find more info here.

Windows XP (you won't be able to tell it's XP once you run it, but it is. Also, this project takes a long time and is quite difficult.)

Linux You can install all different kinds of Linux on your USB (it's easy, really!) but pendrivelinux made their own compilation of linux especially for your usb, and since it boots fast and works well, I use it. Their Linux is called Penddrivelinux 2008 and is based of KDE... only linux people would know what that is. (I do.)

I figured since I'm gonna be talking about bikes, you'll need to know what I'm talking about. I found these great pictures on bike anatomy.

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So yeah.

Ok, basically there are 4 types of mountain bike suspension.
(Note: I used Imageshack because their image insertion wizard sucks. Or I probably don't know how to use it. But I think I do.)

Hardtails

A solid frame, with only a front fork as suspension.




Full suspension

A bike with both a rear shock and a front fork. The rear shock uses a pivot to transfer the motion to the shock.




Softtail

Basically a full suspension, but the rear suspension doesn't have a pivot. Generally they have less travel than pivot designs can achieve. Note the air pump looking thing near the rear wheel AND NOT THE SEATPOST MOUNTED SPRING.





What's the fourth one? Well no suspension of course. Though I don't recommend taking that bike to a technical trail. Not common, I guess cuz I couldn't find a good picture of one that looked like an actual MTB.

Not sure if this'll work out, but I guess we'll see. I'll just talk about whatever I'm into at the moment... and yeah. Kinda like a hobby blog.