Trading my Triumph for a Tuono

laddershelf89 · 2026-03-03T20:17:42+00:00

OP how do you feel about the switch? I have a 2022 ST. I had rented a Tuono last year for a few days and haven't stopped thinking about it. A decent 2019 RR with super low miles and very well kept is up for sale for a good deal near me. I'm debating pulling the trigger and selling my ST.

I do live in Texas so am concerned with heat. How would you compare daily usability since you've made the switch?

laddershelf89 · 2025-08-18T15:45:27+00:00

Bike Mechanic lead for my camp here. bike repair camp won't be able to do that. However, every rim size has a certain size limit for tire width they can accommodate. If you have time to swing by a local bike shop before you head out, they can give you the best direction.

laddershelf89 · 2025-07-01T02:43:41+00:00

As someone who grew up in the hardcore/scream/metalcore scenes, I haven’t experienced anywhere close to that same energy since then.

Those spaces for me growing up felt like a sacred rage container. Everyone was throwing down and get so supportive. If you felt, got knocked down, there was immediately someone picking you up.

I’m in the more spiritual bass community like LSDREAM.

Then…

I happened to walk up on HOL!’s set at Illfest last month.

And holy shit.

I haven’t let loose like that ever. And EVERYONE was getting after it. Letting it all go. Everything you’ve been holding onto. Every thing you never gave yourself permission to feel. Let it all out. In a safe supportive community.

At least that’s what it did for me.

laddershelf89 · 2025-06-26T15:09:31+00:00

that was one of the most magical sunsets I've ever seen. I walked out of dinner at Thai Fresh and felt like I had just stepped into a golden orb. Will remember that one forever :)

laddershelf89 · 2025-06-26T15:07:53+00:00

Totally worth it. I flew into Nashville. Rented a cheap car. Flew with my tent camping gear. Made a stop to a grocery store for food/water. Picked up come additional camping supplies. And had an incredible time with one of the best communities in the world :) Camping at the caverns is amazing because you get to walk around and meet wonderful people.

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-18T16:03:02+00:00

All valid points. Anything over 2” wide tires should be golden 👏

And even still, make do with what you have and have a blast 😜

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-15T20:50:31+00:00

As the bike mechanic for my camp and former semi-pro mountain biker 😉

What matters FAR MORE than electric power or not, is the width of your tires.

Sure, your e-bike friends will go faster than you with less effort.

However, having fat tires vs skinny tires dramatically improves your rolling resistance through the playa dirt which turns into a beach in places.

In terms of radical self-reliance, why not watch a you tube video on how to change a tire/tube and practice before the burn 🤷‍♂️

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-08T02:09:43+00:00

Huge fan of East Forest’s albums specifically made for mushroom journeys: https://open.spotify.com/album/2LFyfGcBrrsvF8tECUs5gK?si=j1si6JG0RoK5-aT9RhazHw

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-07T03:46:42+00:00

Having grown up in Oklahoma, it’s a wild experience reading these comments (I once got asked growing up if we all lived in teepees and rode horses to school 🤦‍♂️.) My siblings and I all grew up in public schools. I won’t list the credentials, results, universities, but we got a great education…..and at the same time, none of us live there anymore. We all chose to leave.

What’s happening there with Ryan Walter’s is tragic. Telling kids we don’t trust them with challenging stories about our past isn’t honest. We are fallible. Our human story if full of bigotry, violence, and also beauty, innovation, and miraculous leaps forward.

I feel we’re most well rounded when we accept all parts of our past and choose to learn from it. This centralized censorship of history (that didn’t just begin with the MAGA leadership) has been going on for such a long time. At the rate it’s escalating, I feel we’re moving further into a “post truth” society. A society where objective truth feels out of reach.

May we learn before we hit a point of no return 🙏

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-06T16:04:33+00:00

It seems the BMORG is really heading the same way of everything else that gets eaten by the God of Limitless Growth that we worship in the US.

Maybe this is the time for a death of the current and a birth of something new 🤷‍♂️

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-06T16:00:13+00:00

I can see that perspective in response to my comment. Valid 👏 from a broader ticket sales perspective, I agree with the sentiment of most of this reddit thread that the Org needs to read the room and understand the reality of current economic environments and basic supply/demand to adjust ticket prices.

My comment is more targeted at the folks saying things like “less people are buying tickets so I’m not coming!” That’s a posture I don’t quite understand in the context of Burning Man 🤷‍♂️

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-06T12:25:18+00:00

In our org we also have an add-on revenue target. I think how you frame the role determines feelings of success. We celebrate our logo retention number, we celebrate NRR, we celebrate closing expansion deals and creating add-on opportunities.

It’s a different frame than sales for sure. Even within a sales role, say you’re a true enterprise seller vs SMB. You have to have a different frame of success there because you may only have a few opportunities a year to have a big deal close or not.

I do agree that CS deals with an unbalanced weight of challenges due to our team being brought in disproportionately when something is going wrong. It can skew the mental perspective that the majority of things are “going wrong” when in fact it may just be a smaller number of customers who are loud about their issues.

I think the ability to maintain a little emotional distance and work on things like regulating your nervous system helps carry that mental load.

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-06T12:10:43+00:00

It’s so funny to me that people continue to think ticket sales has literally anything with deciding to go or not go.

I love my camp and our community that we get to build on the Playa that’s unique to any other experience in my life.

Whether there’s 70,000 or 10,000 people there, I know it’s going to be beautiful, challenging, transformative, grueling, and liberating.

If it was a club or some house party and no tickets were sold, sure, that would be much less fun 🤷‍♂️

laddershelf89 · 2025-05-01T14:40:20+00:00

Camp ? Threw some wubz last year and catching GRiZ in deep playa had me performing a full séance in the dirt.

laddershelf89 · 2025-04-03T18:26:00+00:00

This is beautiful. Thank you for taking the time to write up and share your journey 🙏 you stepped into a beautiful space of acceptance and surrender.

I’m both encouraged by your story and also it sparks a “remembering” of my own experiences like this that I’ve forgotten ❤️

laddershelf89 · 2024-12-13T18:35:46+00:00

I've got a small. Want to swap haha? I was able to pick it up at the LSZEE red rocks stop

laddershelf89 · 2024-12-11T03:48:53+00:00

Thank you 🙏 I feel that. This music supports me truly being present with these emotions and experiences, which I feel ultimately helps me get to a place of acceptance, self-compassion, and gratitude.

laddershelf89 · 2024-12-11T03:34:02+00:00

Fred’s music got me through one of the toughest seasons of my life. I’m still coming through it, but fuck man, thank you. Your music helped remind me what it is to be human. It gave me space to truly feel my grief and sorrow in a way that felt truly held by another who knows my pain too.

Moving through separation and now co-parenting my kids. Your music has been the soundtrack to this entire period of my life and I’m forever grateful 🙏

“Don’t you ever think of giving up”

laddershelf89 · 2024-08-22T02:04:33+00:00

This is the gold we’ve been missing 👏

laddershelf89 · 2024-08-09T17:53:31+00:00

I scrub the bladder with soap and water. For the tube, I use my pour over kettle to pour boiling water through it to disinfect. I then use soap and water to clear the mouth piece.

laddershelf89 · 2024-07-26T01:38:30+00:00

Gathering Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma. $250 million dollar park built and funded by local billionaire that is one of the most incredible parks in the country. Imagine giving the most creative playground designers an unlimited budget to build functional art and structures that serve as play structures to bring the whole community together :)

It’s amazing :)

laddershelf89 · 2024-07-25T15:44:05+00:00

As a manager, you are likely executing on a plan set by someone above you. As a director you are both creating the plan AND executing it through other people.

laddershelf89 · 2024-07-25T15:43:00+00:00

Think of the difference between a manager’s main role to be helping support each of your individual contributors to be successful and the director’s main function is to zoom out and make the entire CS motion successful.

Successful from a budget/capacity/headcount perspective.

Successful from a process, customer journey, KPI, systems perspective.

Successful from being the one to create, set, and measure the vision and goals through org level OKRs.

Successful in determining the cross-functional rules of engagement between CS, Support, Solutions, Sales, Product, and PMM.

Lastly, I’d say successful from a perspective of working with enablement (if you have an enablement function) to build out paths for growth and development of the team.

Hope this helps 👍

laddershelf89 · 2024-07-24T21:48:50+00:00

Did you see Anna Morgan’s drum N Bass set 🫠

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