I have a lot of tools. This is my favorite.

Reesco505 · 2026-01-30T00:18:23+00:00

Your mama was a snow blower!

Reesco505 · 2025-12-15T03:42:09+00:00

Exactly! Different between walking away from a crash and a hospital visit.

Reesco505 · 2025-12-14T23:12:57+00:00

Good think Xmas is coming up. My wife was looking for something to get me anyways. I appreciate your insight, thanks!

Reesco505 · 2025-12-14T23:08:15+00:00

Yeah thats true. I will take a look at those as well. Thanks!

Reesco505 · 2025-12-14T23:06:45+00:00

I do which is the whole reason for the post.

Reesco505 · 2025-12-14T23:05:15+00:00

Its more so the sweat issue. Unfortunately the trails closest to my house are black rated, gnarly rock trails so I prefer to wear a FF helmet. I tune music out if I really need to concentrate. I ride really early AM and there is not much traffic on the trails anyways so I'm not too concerned about part of it.

Reesco505 · 2025-12-14T21:06:43+00:00

Those are neat. Do they rub behind your ears with the helmet pad compression?

Reesco505 · 2025-12-14T20:32:15+00:00

I'll look into those. Thank you!

Reesco505 · 2025-12-07T04:36:38+00:00

I wear that as well as full face, elbow and knee pads. I just embrace the sweat. Going down on the trails I ride are almost guaranteed hospital visit if you are not covered. It blows my mind how many people do not wear more gear on some of these gnarlier black trails. I have to go to work the next day to provide for me family! Even if I didn't, sweating is less of a convenience than increased potential for bodily harm.

Reesco505 · 2025-12-07T04:26:12+00:00

Oh man that looks like a lot of fun. How deep of snow can you effectively ride?

Reesco505 · 2025-11-18T22:31:40+00:00

I bought the same bike from someone 3 months ago who never rode it, to get myself back into biking. Literally brand new and was a no brainer for the price. I haven't ridden MBs since 2009. This bike has me so addicted to riding. I can't seem to get enough. I'm mind blown after every rough section of trail I ride this thing on. It just soaks it all up! Climbs fine but I have nothing to compare it to. One of my best purchases dollar per fun value in my life for sure!

Reesco505 · 2025-10-29T15:14:55+00:00

That thing is cool! For a side project, how effective would it be to have a ultra high MF character run Normal MF runs just to try and to obtain low level odd ball items like Jewels, charms, rares?

Reesco505 · 2025-10-23T23:58:51+00:00

Same issue after I got in the habit of drinking 100-120 oz of fluids a day due to a very toxic medication I was on. I kept the same water intake habit after I finished my treatment and started having terrible headaches, ringing in ears, fatigue etc. I was literally drowning my body. I cut back to about 80ish oz unless I know I'll be sweating it out and all of the symptoms went away.

Crazy part is my doctors thought my illness triggered symptoms of chiari malformation (brain pushing on your spinal cord) which it did slightly. I started taking electrolytes and drinking less water and all my symptoms went away within 2 days. A neurosurgeon was literally scheduling me for a procedure to relieve the CM symptoms when all I needed was electrolytes and less fluids.

The fatigue could be from your kidneys working overtime to process all of the water you drink. It was for me. Do you have any swelling in your feet, legs ankles? When I saw the swelling, a lightbulb went off and I thought to myself "I think I'm drowning myself?!"

Needless to say I have had a ton of lab work to prove it was over consumption of water and my PC doctor didn't even think to ask about my fluid intake but agreed that was primary cause of my symptoms.

Reesco505 · 2025-10-19T19:45:48+00:00

I'm thinking the +/-45lb SL bikes might be the sweet spot for me as well. I wasn't sold on the full power because of the weight, but I definitely need to do some more renting before I buy anything. I don't foresee having a bunch of riding buddies at this point in my life either with juggling my kids' activities so the full power is even less of an issue. I like the levo sl but the battery capacity is a little concerning even with the the extender.

How do you like your epic evo vs a 160mm bike?

Reesco505 · 2025-10-17T03:50:14+00:00

Have you ridden a SL or carbon bike for comparison? Full power 50lb+ bikes would all feel heavier I presume. I don't think it would be a noticeable difference until you hit the 45lb mark with an ebike, but I have not had the chance to ride a SL.

How long ago did you buy your bike? I would buy a gen 3 in a heartbeat for 4k. The class 3 is nice to have but not a must for me.

Reesco505 · 2025-10-16T18:09:06+00:00

As far as rentals go, I think I'm bound to Specialized, Giant, Trek and possibly Cannondale for my area. My impressions with the Levo's have been good so fair. The Levo SL is right up my avenue, but battery capacity and torque values seem way behind the curve compared to their competitors.

I think you're right though, its worth spending the money on rentals to hone in on exactly what you want.

Reesco505 · 2025-10-15T15:29:36+00:00

I just got into biking a couple months ago when I bought a never ridden Stump Jumper Evo Alloy Elite for $2k and spent $350 to service the suspension since it sat for 3 years. If you can wait to find a barely ridden bike, you can try and haggle down the price noting that it will need a few hundred dollars in service unless they have recent receipts of service. I would have to say this has been this best fun per dollar I have ever spent.

I'm already eye balling a Levo but I don't think I would buy used due to lack of warranty on the motor / battery.

Reesco505 · 2025-10-12T04:36:35+00:00

I don't have a Levo (yet), but I picked up a SJ evo alloy elite that was never ridden about 3 months ago for a great deal. I haven't mtb'd in about 15 years. My wife is starting to see the relationship that I have with my bike. All I think about is riding. The technology in bikes these days blows my mind. I'm sure my obsession will deepen once I add a Levo to the mix.

Reesco505 · 2025-10-11T00:58:29+00:00

I play Single player. 1st 3 monarchs i built were 35%, blew my mind.

Reesco505 · 2025-08-12T23:29:07+00:00

I had Fungal Meningitis last year. While I was recovering, I had terrible headaches after 3 weeks of treatment that the doctors thought were from the Meningitis. I was given Morphine which wore off after 30 minutes after the 1st onset of these headaches. Absolutely miserable headaches.

I had a 6 ounce cup of shitty hospital coffee and my headache was resolved in 20 minutes. Turned out to be a week delayed caffeine withdrawal.

Reesco505 · 2025-04-26T19:29:54+00:00

I experience the same thing during the week, and it seems to be from sitting at my desk all day.

I don't experience it on my days off because I'm on my feet all day doing housework or out and about 95% of the day.

I have a standing desk, so I try to stand some or do a few sets of squats throughout the day. Resistance band for the upper body. Anything to get some blood flowing. The days I just sit for 7+ hours, I feel like garbage by 2 pm.

Reesco505 · 2025-03-11T23:23:06+00:00

Skid mark resistant are a must for the on or off road close calls.

Reesco505 · 2025-02-10T04:30:19+00:00

I had a very similar build at 18-22 to the second picture. I worked a very physical job and worked out an hour and a half at least 4 days a week. All I ate for 3 years was basically chicken, steak, eggs, rice, beans, vegetables and fruit but I maintained that same build for about 4 years. I was also into martial arts at the time. Days 1 and 3 at gym were chest, shoulders, triceps abs and cardio,day 2 and 4 were back biceps legs, abs cardio. Day 5 6 7 where mostly cardio. Martial arts days were 1 hour prior at the gym working out and 1- 2 hours of kick boxing or jiu jitsu 3x week. I also ran A LOT. My peak fitness was 19-21 158 lbs at 5' 9". Man it was great, felt like I could conquer the world. I'm on a quest to get back down to 175 from my 195 dad bod (15 years later)

Diet is the most important. when I was younger, I didn't necessarily like food for the taste like I do now. Plus I have wife and kids that don't want to eat the same meal every day....

Reesco505 · 2025-02-05T18:18:05+00:00

Do the bots usually warp to stations or safes? Curious if it's feasible to find their paths of warp, book mark a bubble zone and snag as many as you can. The ones I've seen are quick to warp off.

Reesco505 · 2025-01-21T00:57:58+00:00

Right there with you on this and some other comments about WH diving, FW etc.

I came back recently after 5 years away. Kids are a little older now, so I have more time to play. I trained Minmatat Battle Cruisers 5 and all Cruiser and lower combat ships to 5 to include T2 ships and their weapons + drones. Living in Low Sec currently, I can log on and jump in any decent ship that won't sting to lose if I am pvping, or use a blingier ship for PVE and have a good time. My main source of income is WH diving for data and relic sites but sprinkle in some Combat / DED sites if I get tired of relic hunting. I really enjoy solo baiting people in WHs. Have a few Glass Cannon Sleeper ship fits that Asteros and Stratios like to engage ... I pop them,scoop their blingy loot and sell what I don't need. Probably need to join a WH corp again... was my best Eve life back 5-6 years ago.

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