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I haven't done it, but from what I've read online:

1. Nice guy routine

Don't even stealth camp. Just look presentable and talk to people at a church or police office. Explain you are on a multi-day bike ride and are looking for a safe place to set up your small tent. Cops might direct you to a nearby park, and even tell a night patrol car to keep an eye out on you for safety. A church will probably tell you you can sleep on their lawn and maybe use their bathroom.

2. Typical stealth camping

Just hop off the bike somewhere that isn't near homes, walk 15 feet into the woods, and set up camp. Nobody is looking for you, and the chances of someone walking by are slim.

But, if you do it in a public park or nature preserve, there's a chance you'll be woken up by a pissed park ranger. Worst case is a small fine that is less than a hotel. Nobody is going to haul you away in a cop car, so who gives a shit? Just act apologetic and leave.

3. My primary concern about stealth camping

Ticks and lyme disease. Unlike a dedicated camp site, you might walk into a spot swarming with ticks (after dark), and wake up totally f**ked. Lyme disease has exploded in the last two decades, it's worse than people realize. If you are touring in tick country, be very afraid.

If I was going to stealth camp, I would spray the tent, my shoes, socks, pants with permethrin. And, yes, I wouldn't walk into the woods without shirt tucked into pants tucked into socks in shoes all sprayed with the nasty shit. Then I'd get into an enclosed bivvy, also sprayed with the shit, and sweat myself to death overnight. lol

Seriously watch out for lyme. It's not even the disease that's so bad, but the cure - powerful antibiotics that will permanently fuck you up

>>971608

hmm I hadn't thought about ticks. I'm in Southern Ontario, I don't hear about it much but I know there are ticks out here.

I think the church idea is a good one.

>>971608
>>971611
Ticks like wet areas with lots of Deciduous trees. The ticks live under the fallen leaves and lay eggs under them. Ticks do not like evergreen forests, forests where the ground is covered in pine needles, because they can't hide and survive under pine needles as well as leaves.

So to avoid ticks, camp in a spot that is on a hill in a pine forested area with lots of pine needles, rocks or dirt as ground.

I'd also advise you to buy some concentrated permethrin online, and create a spray mix (follow instructions for proper mixing ratio), And spray that on your clothing, tent, and camp site, to keep ticks away. If you walking around in the woods, get a pair of light colored tropical pants, and stuff the pantlegs into your socks. Look at your pants occasionally to check for ticks. If you spray your clothes with insecticide, there probably won't be any, though. Bring along DEET as well.

>>971521

You are weak and or fat. Keep pedaling fatso

It's pretty common when you're unfit

>>971521
Could be dehydration, so make sure to drink some water. Don't gulp huge amounts in one go, it's more effective to take small sips regularly.

Without pics your story is of dubious coolness, bro.

>>971116

Pretty sweet man but is that lugged carbon frame or what? I would flip it or part it out on ebay b/c I don't want to die

Good score for 100 bucks

Hows it ride?

People go bonkers for Colnago C40s which are carbon lug

best solution is to upgrade form a shitty suntour to a fox fork.

Wd-40 stops disc brake squeal

bikes with saddles above handlebars aren't usable bikes

>>970565
that 29ers are harder to manual than 26 and 27.5 due to the longer chainstay and generally longer stock stems making it more difficult to position your weight correctly over the back wheel.

There really is a reason for having a dual suspension xc mtb.
You can always case your rim and pinch straight through your tire(even tubeless). Getting stranded with one shredded tire doesn't seem like it could happen with a heady tubeless tire but it can. It always can

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My first mountain bike is still kicking (kinda) 18 yrs later so I guess I didn't do too bad.

>>>/o/

Uber pay is shit once you substract for mileage.

I make 1500 a week with it.
Prius.

>>966709
/thread

I feel weak when riding while high. I'm also too paranoid.

Riding drunk though.. now that's fun.

>>966705

if your not high do you just fall off or something?

>>961864

>fatbike with suspension fork

into the garbage it goes.


Fatbikes were interesting when they were an alternative to XC skis for backcountry winter touring.

These days people seem to regard them as a "lifestyle choice". Some kind of bizarre fashion statement. "Look at me, I'm so RANDOM and DIFFERENT XD"

Okay m9. If that's what girds your giggles.
But it's fucking stupid.

>>961870
It's not a fatbike you nog, it's a thickbike

>>961870
I find that people that tend to buy fatbikes are just dudes browsing through a random sporting goods store and like the big wheels then slap a padded seat on it

>>971226
I'm not clicking your virus, but /n/ hats Ti because we believe useful and good are mutually exclusive. If you buy something better than gaspipe BSO it needs to be loud crackle crabbon, why would anyone with money be on a bike at all? The only reason is cosplay as team movistar and they use crackenpop crabbon. As you can hear from my loud ass frame I definitely am not trying to use my bike for transport

>>971264
Go meme somewhere else, kid.

Anyone?

That's the ugliest frame I've ever seen. Also that looks like 10 speed ultegra, going by the five arm crank. But then again for canadian monies I dont know if it's a lot or a little.

>>970944
FD/RD are 11sp Ultegra, crank is 10sp 105. You're right, ugly as fuark though.

>>970944
No it's a 11 speed and I don't care about the frame, as long as it is aluminum.

That's around 760 USD

HTFU

mountain biking is much safer than road biking. give mountain biking a shot again.

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>secretpothole

>>970377


>>917095

>>970377
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/trackbikes.htm

>>970377

>NO "FIXIES"

Are you retarded? a decent fixed gear bike is track ready just use high gear ratio.

I have no idea who the fuck that is.
Just go out and ride your bike.

He is the owner of the radavist.com, a total hipster shit cycling blog where people who can't really ride take pictures of their overly expensive gear.

>>969615
And why do we care?

>people who can't really ride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

>>967791
>on my way up I take a lot of shit for wearing a helmet and looking like a racefag with my backpack
>ham it up, talk about how my bike weighs less than my underpants
>make some grills laugh
>match with them on tinder later, but I digress
>i make it to the front of the parade
>this is where shit gets ridiculous
>three characters are in play here
>a rather portly autistic-sounding man on a seven thousand dollar cannondale, who we will call "Turbo Timmy"
>a similarly portly middle aged man with a mustache, dragon-emblazoned purple coloured race kit, complete with cycling computer and rearview mirror attached to his helmet, whom we will call "Star Wolf"
>and a weird little man riding a bike with a mobility-scooter-esque windshield who impatiently rings his bell in congestion whom we will call "Scooter Libby"
>Turbo Timmy engages anyone unfortunate enough to ride near him in spirited autismal conversation about how great it is to ride standing up on the pedals and about his bike and how he is basically a NEET whose stipends pay for his exorbitant bicycle expenses
>he lives with his mother and looks old enough to hold public office of some kind
>I know this because I was sucked into Turbo Timmy's black hole of autism
>Scooter Libby elbows his way to the front, ringing constantly
>this pisses off Star Wolf, who I believe is an accountant or parking officer or clerk at the passport office based on his disgust for other human beings and general rancor
>Scooter and Star Wolf have a passive aggressive bitch session where they each act tough
>the only reason I'm in the vicinity is a huge ass on the saddle in front of me
>also some drunk idiot wrecked on a post-and-chain fence that was difficult to see in the dark at nearly full tilt, I thought he died
>ride for 3 1/2 hours
>fun afterparty with scantily clad hipster bitches

brety gud

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>>967792
did u git ur dik wet bby

>>967803
not yet cause i was sweaty as fuck but we're hanging out this week

>8=================D~~~~~~~~O:

>>>/o/

>burning the hydrocarbon jew

Fuck off.

>>967638
Meh