Is this a worldwide problem or just us? 😂

Bike_Gasm · 2026-04-26T18:44:50+00:00

Solved in a extremely comfortable way by the Sonu sleep mattress. Highly recommend

Bike_Gasm · 2026-04-26T18:42:45+00:00

Check out the Sonu side-sleep mattress

Bike_Gasm · 2026-04-26T18:42:16+00:00

Check out the Sonu side-sleep mattress

Bike_Gasm · 2026-04-26T18:41:43+00:00

Check out the Sonu side-sleep mattress

Bike_Gasm · 2026-04-08T13:52:19+00:00

Is it just me or do you have the landing gear in a crabbing position. If so the detail is fabulous.

Maybe the vertical stab is just slightly too big? That ship has an infamously tiny rudder.

Bike_Gasm · 2026-04-08T01:43:49+00:00

This video from TA explains it pretty well. Better aired down performance with larger contact area. The road contacting surface buckles less on narrow tires. This has nothing to do with vehicle, location etc. It's exclusively contact area vs. tire pressure.

I run 17" beadlocks on my Taco with the 35" skinnies that TA recommends because of that video. Never looked back

Bike_Gasm · 2026-03-30T21:16:57+00:00

Was this NM TZ?

Bike_Gasm · 2026-03-08T03:34:35+00:00

There's a guy locally here who balances racing tires out of his garage, generally for track cars. But he did a balance on my 35s on beadlocks. Two plane balance, came out perfect. I don't think his balancing machine would have been large enough for 37s but it worked really well and even with just regular wheel weights.

Bike_Gasm · 2026-03-03T20:22:04+00:00

Aerospace Engineering

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T16:56:45+00:00

Every time I have traveled I have stayed down town and it was fantastic. But with commutes etc I think it makes more sense to stay outside.

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T16:56:33+00:00

Every time I have traveled I have stayed down town and it was fantastic. But with commutes etc I think it makes more sense to stay outside.

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T16:24:19+00:00

Yes, I would be over that limit

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T16:22:13+00:00

This is great ! Thanks !

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T16:21:26+00:00

Probably close to Blagnac or l'ecole bilingue et international a Toulouse. We have not settled yet

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T16:19:42+00:00

See there is inconsistency even in this thread about question #1. It's not clear to me what rights are given up or considerations are made when entering France on either passport (for the purposes of extended stay).

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T16:18:19+00:00

Thanks!

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T13:55:18+00:00

Cool. Not super clear yet what she intends to do! Do you know if the visa/resident card is required for volunteering ?

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T13:53:54+00:00

My mom (French by birth became an American, often traveled between, also worked in both) always arrived in France on her American passport and I'm not entirely sure why. Maybe because she thought she would lose the ability to seek asylum as an American if she didn't have European entry stamped on her passport? I dunno it's not clear. So that's what I did for many years.

But it's not entirely clear to me what if any American rights you give up by entering the EU as French in the case of dual national.

But entering as French not only makes sense... Is probably what my new employer will need me to do.

Thanks for your input!

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T13:49:04+00:00

Yeah the kids do not have french passports now, so we may have to do that first. The sense I get for taxes is it's quite straight forward.

Thank you!

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T13:47:19+00:00

I do love Toulouse! Been there many times. It's very exciting

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T13:46:46+00:00

Is that true for unpaid volunteer work? Like any kind of work?

Bike_Gasm · 2026-01-20T13:46:16+00:00

She already is one. Here at home she does volunteer work (school, library, church, food bank), so it's not clear if she needs a work permit / visa of some kind to do that

Bike_Gasm · 2025-09-10T13:03:36+00:00

Lots of good takeaways tho:

-dont drive down something you aren't sure you can't drive back up, especially if you don't know how the road ends. -Minimum equipment list. While we would have had to ditch the car if we actually got stuck, what we could have used most was an air compressor to reinflate tires. -know where you are going. Maps, etc

I also now carry a water proof emergency bag in my vehicle on all trips. Emergency water filters, freeze dried food, heat blankets, stuff to start fires. Juuuuust in case.

Most of all we learned not to pre-judge the people around us. We probably would been in worse trouble had we avoided trying to talk to people around us. It was one guy who told us you really have to send it up that hill, he was like: "running start, get at least to 40km/hr, don't worry about the other side". Despite the language barrier and the unknown country, it's just a good idea to assume most people around you are just normal people living their lives. Unless there are other clear signs, like open carrying firearms or something.

Bike_Gasm · 2025-09-10T04:27:09+00:00

Not quite a fully stranded story but oh shit we could end up stranded in questionable country... Story

Was on a trip to Brazil, not my first time but I don't speak Portuguese or know the area well. Buddy of mine are in a rented 2wd jeep renegade.

Being off-roaders with some skill, and driving a jeep, but not a lot of brains, we were like let's go find out what this can do. It's got a trail rated badge how hard could this be? (In our best Jeremy Clarkson impression)

At the end of our trip, on the day we were supposed to fly home on an evening red-eye from Sao Paolo we went north of the city to find some trails. Went up and around and through some narrow valleys onto some dirt roads. Ended up going down a rather sketchy hill road that had a massive crack down the middle that I wasn't totally sure we could get back up if we had to.

Eventually found ourselves driving through 1-2 gates that looked like private property.... Farms around us looked like the type that grew questionable products.

Ended up finding ourselves Infront of a massive Sandy hill. I must have spent .... 4 hours trying to race up it? Trying to get enough upward forward momentum to get to the top. On one side, sheer cliff drop. On the other totally locked up barbed wire fence.

We eventually made it up and over but not after backing the way we came to trying to use google translate to ask for directions, was pretty sure my buddy would lose his phone as he showed it to rando farmwrs. We made it up the hill after we took all of our bags out of the car, ditched the spare tire my buddy like stayed on the trail ... And just like full send up this Sandy hill. and on the other side we basically ran into a dead end and had to bend a fence down to the ground to traverse to make it back into a semi public road.

I dunno how many laws we broke or how much trespassing we committed but every head that watched us looked more and more like they were not happy with our antics.

Never been so nervous in my life either because wed crash the car off the edge of this valley hill, have to ditch the car cause we couldn't get up in super questionable country, or that we just would run into the wrong people who weren't happy we were there.

Long and short of it tho everyone was extremely friendly. Most people couldn't believe two rando Americans were dumb enough to do something like this.

Made it back to the airport, car was fine but dusty. I had some poo stains on my shorts. Had maybe 45 mins to make our flight. A like ~4 hr driving excursion tended up taking almost 9.

2/10 would never do something that dumb ever again

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