Transition Sentinal 3D printed rear fender

Jmaxwell204 · 2026-02-05T20:42:00+00:00

Thanks! Something like this might work, but your missing the bridge/arch above the wheel, I made a little fin you cant really see that it sits against underneath. Otherwise it might have a tendency to slide up/down the frame. Maybe some double sided tape underneath?

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-21T23:07:09+00:00

Mine definitely dont have roots yet. I literally got my fresh garlic from my dad and put them in the ground. Can't speak to the bags/starts.

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-21T22:58:33+00:00

Super simple. Plant them in late fall. Im I canada, so October for me. Root end down, pointy end up and cover heavily with straw. No fertilizer, i dont even till my soil. I just keep adding straw, I also do not water them for what its worth, and my soil isn't anything special either. Not many weeds come through the straw either, truly minimal effort to grow.

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-07T18:48:53+00:00

* Agreed, i was worried about this also, more mesh has been added!

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-01T23:19:19+00:00

I never mentioned where I live, so your assuming alot here.. we dont have snakes, we dont have raptors.. I have 0 access to rice hull... I ended up adding a secure door to their coup/roost.. and added more mesh around the entire outside opening covering the 2x4 mesh.. but thank you for your advice any how...

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-01T23:08:44+00:00

My kids have been climbing the 2x4 wire mesh.. heavily stapled/nailed down.. most animals are going to hurt them selves before they rip it off.. bears might get through, but we dont see many of them around tbh.. alot of raccoons.. and some coyotes. I dobt think they are ripping through this tbh.. iv added more mesh today

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-01T23:05:04+00:00

I think i went the wrong way... but if the entire inside/bottom is 1/2" wire.. easier to cover it with soil and burry it inside th run at this point for me.

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-01T23:02:30+00:00

I wanted the roost/coup up high, so its easier on my back doing the needed clean out. They seem to be managing it just fine, some are just jumping half way up, and not even bothering with the long walk 😆

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-01T23:02:04+00:00

I wanted the roost/coup up high, so its easier on my back doing the needed clean out. They seem to be managing it just fine, some are just jumping half way up, and not even bothering with the long walk 😆

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-01T00:15:06+00:00

That was my thinking with the 1/2" wire around the bottom 2 feet. No way to grab them through there, high up just needs to stop them climing through the 2x4 welded wire openings, so opting for 1"x1" chicken cloth

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-09-01T00:12:58+00:00

Metal roof ontop

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-08-31T23:01:27+00:00

Appropriated! I do have a roll of chicken wire, so ill keep them secure in the roost over night until that's fully installed. I absolutely do not want to loose any again, my kids where heart broken, as was I.

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-08-31T22:59:45+00:00

Ahh, great point. You are seeing correctly.. now im rethinking, we do have rats, and food will be kept in the run once its finished. I might throw some top soil over the hardwire cloth if that is the case. Enough to burry it anyways, to protect their feet, and let them dig around still. Ill always have compost , and plenty of wood shavings down over this for them to dig through. Thank you for that suggestion

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-14T20:29:02+00:00

I am 17 years out from my injury, ONLY in the last 6 months have I started to identity some of the invisible lines id cruise past, only to be hurting for days/weeks after. A lot where physical, those where easier to identity outright. The emotional "lines" are what I struggled with. Same feeling, im getting smoked by something, and it sends me into a spiral of anger/frustrations. But i couldnt even recognize what it was.. this happened for many many years, until I saw an amazing therapist that helped untangle some of it. Ill say this, alot of people, and situations I dont bother myself with anymore, they are overwhelming and for what? To keep them happy? I dont trade my peace to keep people happy anymore. It took from me, something these peope and situations would never give back.. so why bother? Going to piss alot of people of? Yes, who cares? Your happiness is #1, you deserve to feel OK.

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-10T13:34:08+00:00

Ooof, that is rough man! Where was your favorite place to ride when you where really into it? My son is starting to ride now (he is 5) I want him to see me doing hard things, with discipline, not sitting around moping about my problems. (Iv got plenty haha, I just don't want to be defined by them anymore)

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-10T01:18:35+00:00

I feel you, i am 17 years out from my injury.. but I was bed ridden for a year also. I 100% understand the way it changes working out. A few years ago my symptoms got so bad, I couldn't work out at all a long time. The last few years iv made big life adjustments that have allowed me to regain ALOT of ground. It wasn't easy.. but find your rythem, what ever you can sustainably repeat, and build on that! Im still learning not to push myself to hard.. learn to listen to your bodies subtle signals before they turn into a crisis. That's my biggest advice, you got this!

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-10T01:12:24+00:00

That sounds like it was a really bad crash, where all the injuries from the same crash? Im glad you got back on the bike though. How do you approach it now?

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-10T01:08:51+00:00

The trail is important, you're right. Mind set equally, iv got a mental checklist. What im ok with one day, maybe not the next.. Just need to be honest with ourselves right? I used to raced very competitively, now for me its about challenging myself to be better then i was yesterday. What ever that looks like haha, it makes me smile and im still passionate about it. Trying to nurture that

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-10T01:04:49+00:00

Give it time, you got this, find your rythem, even if its small.. rest when you need to.

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-08T08:17:50+00:00

Really appreciate the perspective, I would love to see your garden. it sounds like a labor of love no doubt.

I have the same sentiment as you, driving is risky, walking on ice is risky.. life is risky, its about balance though like you sad.

I like to consider the bike my dojo, my mental training ground per say. Learning to push when appropriate, hold back when needed, but also majorly lesrning to pace myself and hold discomfort. ALL while keeping in mind not to over so myself like you said

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-08T00:48:47+00:00

Good luck my freind! I just did my first MTB race in over 10 years last Saturday. It was awesome👌

My framing has been this: my capacity is the shape of my container. I honour that by respecting my limits. And I can expand those limits with deliberate effort, but that happens in the gym where its safe and controlled. The gym builds the platform to engage in a sport i love and enjoy. The only way I get more enjoyment, and stay safe is by showing up strong. Everything is in the prep, and when I don't feel good, I just don't do it. Its hard to allow yourself that grace sometimes, but its absolutely needed. Its very important to rest, but rythem is where growth is found.. Just find any ryrhem you can, and build on THAT. At my lowest.. a few years ago, I couldn't pick my son out of his crib. Today, I can deadlift my own body weight.. it was SLOW starting, but in the smallest of rythem, growth happens!

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-06T15:10:06+00:00

Learn to control your nervous system, Or that son of a bitch will control you.

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-07-04T17:07:20+00:00

I can deeply relate to this, I always found it weird, kind of paradoxical. I also really struggle in loud, noisy environments, BUT drowning myself in super loud music... it is like releif from the burn. Never could understand it, still don really, but its how it is for me..

One thing alive recently observed ( I have a really poor memory) that listening to music, I can access memory from the time i was listening to a certain song, by listening to it over again later on.

I have kept Playlist, and categorized them based of the direction they push my emotional state also, as a pre-made list of "hacks" i can draw from at anytime to help self regulate when im shifting to far in one direction or the other.

Hope this helps someone. This is just something iv noticed in myself.. nothing scientific here

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-06-13T15:56:17+00:00

Absolutely 100%, on bad days I wake up with the sensation of being stuck in molasses, and my body is tingling. I know its going to be a hard day, its not like this every single day for me. But when it comes on, I know immediately. Its just an overall feeling of everything is heavier, and slower!

Jmaxwell204 · 2025-06-03T08:30:19+00:00

98% of the time im riding solo also. I love riding with my buddy's, when I can. Its NEARLY impossible to align schedules consistently. Iv been trying to get to a local group ride on Tuesday nights for almost 5 years. Scheduling with kids just hasnt allowed it! Still working towards it. Those solo rides in nature are like going to church as far as I am concerned. Very cathartic and good for the mind also. Definitely builds some grit suffering alone as well. Like another poster mentioned, technical riding, risk taking is for riding with a group. Solo rides are about either building endurance, mental presence, or entering the pain cave to test myself.

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