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A few years ago, my buddy learned about heavy bikes and mud holes
We used to ride the heavy dual sports through pretty much everything, but this mud hole got him good. He ended up trying to wedge out with a dead tree, but it knocked his chain off, making the situation much worse. Eventually we pulled it out with a z-line and got the chain back on.
If you're in a situation like this, and shit ain't moving no matter what you do, lie the bike over on it's side (yes in the mud) and pull the front and rear until you're on something more solid. Your paint will not thank you, but it's better than leaving it there to get recovery tools.
Winter single track ride
Any warm day in the winter, I'll hit the trails behind my house.
Need some nginx magic
I host a ton of services running behind my nginx reverse proxy (basic auth + lets encrypt). On the whole it works really well with nearly everything I throw at it. Lately, there's been a lot of gradio/websocket/python stuff coming from the AI community like the local llama and stable diffusion stuff. Not sure what's causing it but there's always weird issues when I try to reverse proxy them.
Does anyone have some magic settings that "just work" with these weirdo web apps?
I submitted the community to sub.rehab
It's a great place to find out where alternatives to subs are now (discord, lemmy).
Also we're approaching 400 subscriptions!
I'd like to see more bike pics here so the KLR gang can mock you for your bike being functional, pretty and still having all it's bolts ;)
So in Lemmy world are we the Golds or Reds?
Gotta ask the hard questions.
My former 2019 CRF450L
Loved this thing but wasn't doing much dual sport with it. For technical trail riding it's hard to beat a real dirt bike.
Cleaning products
I have dual sports and dirt bikes mostly, and it's a chore to keep them clean-ish (you never get them fully clean). What kind of stuff are you guys using that works well with a pressure washer that can make life easier? I've been trying MucOff and MrPink, and not real happy with the results.
Just KLR things
Went shopping for new boots, brought home a front tire for one of the dirt bikes. Thankfully, like all KLR riders, I had bungies in the bag.
I kinda miss this bike
YZ250X. It was a perfect bike in a lot of ways. Sadly, I broke my right foot in an unrelated accident and couldn't kick it over anymore. Nothing but old man e-start for me now :(
We need a better community logo and banner
I noticed other communities have nice looking community logos and full banners. I can add one to this one if anyone has a good one to share.
My home server setup
Ryzen 5900X, 64 gig DDR4-3200, 2tb ssd,10tb hdd and an RTX2070. Hosting Stable Diffusion, various llama.cpp instances with python bindings, jellyfin, sonarr, multiple modded minecraft servers, and a network file share.
Baby robins in my wood shed
They look kinda weird at this age. The blue egg under them eventually hatched.
Current ride - KLX300R
I seriously love this thing. It's so good on the single track. Before this I was on a CRF450L and it handled well but the fueling was pretty bad for technical riding.
New bike for this year
I was spending a lot more time doing off-road stuff, so I switched from a CRF450L (which I did love) to a KLX300R. Great trail bike.
Welcome
I'm very new to Lemmy, probably like you are. Feel free to post pics of your knobbied bikes, discuss upgrades or maintenance items. Your bike is probably handling funny after that last wipe out, so feel free to ask why :)
Motorcycle Discussion
I'm new to Lemmy, probably like most of you. I figured if you were part of the major Reddit exodus, you'd be looking for some of your favourite subs. Feel free to post pics of bikes, ride reports, gear you like or complaints about the cagers. We're not fussy here yet.