Funny, that simple mower from the late 1800s is the exact same design we had in the early 2000s. I guess great and simple designs don’t change much. It worked great as a push mower!

Old thread, but a mix of saddle position, saddle height, and saddle type. Sometimes playing with the tilt of your bars, too. And grips can make a huge difference.

My city ebike has a mid stock saddle, but after moving it back and adjusting the tilt so that it’s like a 1 degree decline, it helps make it a lot more comfortable (male).

My mountain bike had a terrible stock saddle that made my groin fall asleep. I switched to a saddle from these guys:

https://www.sq-lab.com/en/us

Which is rock hard, but has good scalloping for my bones and blood flow. So even though it isn’t plush, I can ride it for ages or back to back days without going numb in an hour. Granted, you aren’t on the saddle much for downhill, but it’s great for earning your turns on singletrack with lots of uphill.

You can twist to brake with skis too! (hockey stop) :)

You shouldn’t be exerting too much muscle if you are skiing on relatively unbroken terrain. The only time you really use a lot of leg muscle is in deep, deep, heavy powder, in order to keep your tips up. Or if you are going over huge moguls or bumps at a high rate of speed, using your legs as giant shock absorbers.

If you have tight boots, sharp ski edges, and a slightly forward stance, your leg muscles shouldn’t tire out very quickly.

I went to a Young Life gathering to try and meet people at uni freshman year. The first one was a slightly awkward BBQ at someone’s off campus house. The second was on campus event that dropped off into that Uncanny Valley of mormon-like sing-alongs and activities.

My buddy and I surveyed the room, felt the hair on the back of our necks prickle, and we got out of there.

If you’ve seen Heretic or The Endless, it gave off those religious vibes. Too happy/smiley. Too weirdly perfect. Everyone talking about volunteering at kids camps over the summer and how fulfilling it was.

Like, I’m glad that people found something they liked. But it wasn’t people talking about real stuff, like their awesome mountain biking adventure over the summer, or volunteering overseas to rescue animals, or even getting over alcoholism. It was all hyper religious forced positivity, and this is coming from someone who grew up religious.

Not too much can be done, since a ton of the country sat with their thumbs up their asses instead of voting. Republicans control all three branches of government now.

In two years, after permanent damage has been done to the government, the climate, and the economy, we may have another shot at at least slowing things down via Congress IF people actually vote for sane people.

And in four, potentially a new presidency and Congress. But that could be dicy, since there’s going to be little stopping corrupt officials from screwing with democratic safeguards now that the government is teeming with freaks and degenerates under its skin.

Aside from lawsuits from Democrats, I think the federal government is going to be in complete freefall for the next two years, bare minimum. Thanks fascists and nonvoters. You really fucked the entire world this time. Fucking malicious idiots.

The new commentary is really good, tbh. I had no idea how much research and R&D they did. It looks fucking amazing for a 2004 game. The characters in particular.