Sadly too foggy atop English Hill, so this is the best I could manage from home.

Obligatory. From the backyard, western Sonoma County, CA. Going out with my proper camera in a few.

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I thought that was a Lancia at first glance.

Looks like someone did that with a Trek Y bike.

Incidentally I was chatting with the Sweet Spot suspension designer just last weekend at a local MTB Oktoberfest. John Castellano (on the left).

Yep, late-90s "S" series. The front triangle was made by Topkey in Taiwan. They were no lighter than the aluminum Homegrown suspension models, but they had an era-appropriate appearance.

I loved Shimano's (heavy) LX Silent Clutch hubs of the late-90s. Sure, loud pawls sound techy, but they mostly annoy me.

I was lucky that my mom hated these costumes so much that she sewed costumes from patterns for my brother and I.

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In which Christopher Borrelli, the most underrated newspaper feature writer in America, explores a deep Gen X memory/trauma: the cheap 70s era Halloween costumes. www.chicagotribune.com/2024/10/03/t...

The sweaty masks, the weird graphics: For generations of kids, Ben Cooper costumes meant Halloween

I was a Stormtrooper from “Star Wars” when I was eight. I had a Ben Cooper mask of a Stormtrooper. But the front of the jumpsuit was not Stormtrooper armor, it was a picture of a Stormtrooper.

I don't even like the Sasquatch package on the regular Broncos.