Busy life finally parted just long enough for me to note that the spokes on my bicycle wheels are gray and crusty. This won't do. What is your favorite way of cleaning wheel spokes quickly and effectively of the sort of rust you get from neglecting to clean your machine before storing it away? Any a...

Questions / concerns I didn't find answers for. My old truck being a rolling pile of equipment violations, I wonder if anyone knows just what will be checked should I get pulled over. My plate won't be obscured, my trailer and roof will be packed well, and I won't have felonious substances. But stuf...

[quote="junglesmacks"]Alas.. 'tis but a year.. off. :([/quote] Just saw this. I'm sorry. I just rescued your bikes from the shop formerly known as Inspiratum / Lighthouse and put them in my storage unit. Please let me know what you'd like done with them as I won't have room for them the entire year....

That date makes no sense. Sunday Aug 25 is the day so many natural participants will be on the road to Burning Man or already on playa. I certainly won't be going to Santa Rosa anywhere near that date. Too bad.

Another yay for Nevada City. I came here to learn about SF's event. Despite being at the locus of BMan activity, I often find SF events disappointing. Maybe I haven't been to enough of them, but there's something big city unfriendly about the place. Granted, since I grew up within sight of it, I mig...

Thanks all for the replies. This wasn't for me but for a friend for whom I was considering taking the risk of possession, since in my scenario a search driven by probable cause (cop sees pain -> conversation with cop) would lead to the friend and not to me. But it has been made abundantly clear that...

I understand that marijuana legally prescribed in California is not legal to possess in Black Rock City. The following scenario comes to mind. - Person with a condition that requires medicinal marijuana displays symptoms of pain - A LEO notices and asks what's the trouble, asks if they have medicati...

So, just making sure. A tricycle with pedals that also has an electric motor needs no special admission or handicapped placards or anything, correct?

I fear last-minute bureaucratic tangles, yes, even when dealing with the BMan org, fancy that.

[quote="BBadger"]Anyway, go into your user control panel (link right below the breadcrumb) and enable them.[/quote]

Breadcrumb? Anyway I never found a place under settings to enable quotes. Wotever etc.

[quote="FIGJAM"]This was the cheapest I found. The tires are a little narrow, so I would have a shop put on some 2.125 rims. (The size I have with no problems) As long as you have power to recharge, this should work. [url]http://zest.winbootsugg.com/ewheels-ew88-electric-trike-blue-toys-amp-games_p6...

[quote="Bob"]BTW, how fat is this person?[/quote]

Not. Tall slim dancer type, 135lb or so.

This is a good thread. My friend (first-timer) has developed a badly-timed game leg that precludes much walking or pedaling or standing on a scooter. So an electric-assist tricycle seems to be the answer. The Joyrider looks great but I think we're about out of time for expensive items that need ship...

I just realized that the game leg might not support standing on a scooter, or having to put a foot out when stopping a bicycle. She will need an electric tricycle. May invest in one and then playa it up as time allows. I've never used an electric bi or tricycle and wonder how necessary it is to do a...

Friend of mine, a first-timer this year, has developed some issues such that she may not be able to walk or bicycle much. An electric scooter would solve her problem. Has anyone experience enough to make a recommendation? Thanks.

[quote="lemur"]from what you describe, ..3 wheels with no pedals...it sounds like itd need DMV registration[/quote] Yep, looks that way. So I'll either build something that is mobile art but that doesn't carry anyone (which'd be fun cause then I'd basically be making large-ish R/C toy), or build it ...

The MV page isn't clear enough, and the rules tend to evolve. Somewhere there must be a description of what motorized vehicles do not need registration as an MV. For ex, motorized wheelchairs do (or might) need a license, but electric tricycles do (or might) not. I didn't apply to bring my MV becaus...

Mine was invited last year. This year I'm building an improved version, using lessons learned. It is not built yet so there can be no photographs. Will it be helpful or will it be confusing to the selection team if I include (potentially modified) pictures of my existing MV? This would be to illustr...

[quote="Nikosan"]Go To: http://www.carrollconews.com to view the beautiful obituary of the young lady we lost on the Playa.[/quote]

http://www.carrollconews.com/story/1762310.html

Peeve 1: On 8:30 between A and B was a huge "anonymous" camp of luxury RVs housing people who'd flown in and had everything catered, from food to showers to an on-the-spot costume seamstress. There was even a servants quarters in this faux little paradise, in that the paid workers didn't live with a...

I'm a big fan of leaving Tuesday. No stopping; and Monday night has a great vibe.

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[quote="junglesmacks"]On a side note.. until I just uploaded this picture just now.. I never noticed the person with outstretched arms in the distance. Magical.[/quote]

That's not a person, that's the big statue on its knees praying, that was set up in the plaza at Heebie Jeebie village.

O-o-oh, yeah. Last year blew a trailer tire, too, out there where the roads are narrow and the shoulders soft, and our little convoy put a NASCAR team to shame changing it.

228mi ... 5 hours in a noisy old truck w/o music or a/c ... cinch

When you refer to Pakistan, who do you mean? There are many Pakistans, and we must engage in their dangerous dance of keeping the rival factions at each others' throats rather than at the nuclear buttons. This operation did not reveal "Pakistan"'s collusion with "the enemy" so much as the multi-laye...

Also bring your Texas shit-kicking boots for the guy on your street whom you realize is surviving solely on the kindness of others.

Are you going to Flipside?

http://burningflipside.com/

I would but for that job, distance, time, and money thing.

[quote="Lord Of Ruin"]Listen, I've said it before: Unless you are literally laying on the playa in nothing more than a loincloth with a stone knife, EVERYTHING humans have done since has been about taming their environment to their will. Some of us are just better at it than others. The 4 hour/30 mp...

Seconding Pink on the octahuts! I've visited RVs at BMan but I can't see actually taking one. First two years I slept in the bed of my pickup and was extremely comfortable. BMan in my opinion is more fun if allowed to be a car-camping-like experience and this business of retreating into your own liv...

Good to hear about the snow. We thought we were imagining it.

I have been three years and have never experienced a particularly hot day. What annoys me is since it is typically well over 100F at home when I'm packing, I forget to pack for cold nights. Brrrr.