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- Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:13 am
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Cleaning years-old post-playa gunk?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 772
Cleaning years-old post-playa gunk?
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...
- Sun Aug 10, 2014 11:40 am
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Running the gauntlet
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1417
Running the gauntlet
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...
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:06 pm
- Forum: Open Discussion
- Topic: Down on fascination street,,
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1372
Re: Down on fascination street,,
[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....
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:33 pm
- Forum: Off-Playa Meetups
- Topic: Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6849
Re: Handcar Regatta in Santa Rosa?
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.
- Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:28 pm
- Forum: Regional Network
- Topic: Burnal Equinox 2013
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7444
Re: Burnal Equinox 2013
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...
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:02 pm
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Medicinal marijuana risk
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4974
Re: Medicinal marijuana risk
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...
- Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:25 am
- Forum: Q & A Tips and Tricks
- Topic: Medicinal marijuana risk
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4974
Medicinal marijuana risk
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...
- Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:14 pm
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Electric-assist trike question
- Replies: 3
- Views: 722
Electric-assist trike question
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.
I fear last-minute bureaucratic tangles, yes, even when dealing with the BMan org, fancy that.
- Thu Jul 19, 2012 3:00 pm
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Electric scooter recommendations?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3641
Re: Electric scooter recommendations?
[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.
Breadcrumb? Anyway I never found a place under settings to enable quotes. Wotever etc.
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:39 pm
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Electric scooter recommendations?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3641
Re: Electric scooter recommendations?
[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...
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:35 pm
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Electric scooter recommendations?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3641
Re: Electric scooter recommendations?
[quote="Bob"]BTW, how fat is this person?[/quote]
Not. Tall slim dancer type, 135lb or so.
Not. Tall slim dancer type, 135lb or so.
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:12 am
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Bicycle question, three-wheelers??
- Replies: 182
- Views: 36689
Re: Bicycle question, three-wheelers??
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...
- Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:56 am
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Electric scooter recommendations?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3641
Re: Electric scooter recommendations?
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...
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:58 pm
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: Electric scooter recommendations?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3641
Electric scooter recommendations?
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.
- Wed May 23, 2012 9:15 pm
- Forum: 2012 Mutant Vehicles
- Topic: Acceptable non-invited motorized vehicle question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5375
Re: Acceptable non-invited motorized vehicle question
[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 ...
- Tue May 22, 2012 4:59 pm
- Forum: 2012 Mutant Vehicles
- Topic: Acceptable non-invited motorized vehicle question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5375
Acceptable non-invited motorized vehicle question
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...
- Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:05 am
- Forum: 2012 Mutant Vehicles
- Topic: Question about MV registration
- Replies: 2
- Views: 911
Question about MV registration
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...
- Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:23 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: 2011 deaths, injuries, arrests and tickets
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10485
Re: 2011 deaths, injuries, arrests and tickets
[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
http://www.carrollconews.com/story/1762310.html
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:39 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: post what you didn't like about 2011 here
- Replies: 199
- Views: 22767
Re: post what you didn't like about 2011 here
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...
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:06 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: Exodus 2011
- Replies: 66
- Views: 8087
Re: Exodus 2011
I'm a big fan of leaving Tuesday. No stopping; and Monday night has a great vibe.
- Wed Sep 07, 2011 9:25 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: Temple Burn -- one hour of silence and reverence possible?
- Replies: 148
- Views: 19634
- Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:24 pm
- Forum: Bikes & Transportation
- Topic: From a great source: Gates will definately open at 6 p.m.
- Replies: 89
- Views: 10672
Re: From a great source: Gates will definately open at 6 p.
[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.
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.
- Thu May 12, 2011 6:26 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: [Poll] How local are you to BRC?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 14078
- Thu May 12, 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: [Poll] How local are you to BRC?
- Replies: 95
- Views: 14078
- Thu May 05, 2011 12:27 pm
- Forum: Open Discussion
- Topic: Pakistan
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1836
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...
- Thu May 05, 2011 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: HOWDY yall! im from texas!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2033
- Thu May 05, 2011 7:03 am
- Forum: The Greeter's Station
- Topic: HOWDY yall! im from texas!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2033
Are you going to Flipside?
http://burningflipside.com/
I would but for that job, distance, time, and money thing.
http://burningflipside.com/
I would but for that job, distance, time, and money thing.
- Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:50 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Avoid Cruise America RV Rental!
- Replies: 57
- Views: 18476
[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...
- Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:20 pm
- Forum: Building Camps & Villages
- Topic: Avoid Cruise America RV Rental!
- Replies: 57
- Views: 18476
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...
- Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:11 pm
- Forum: Stories
- Topic: Burning Man Weather 2010.....
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2452