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Post Your RideRe: Post Your RideHEres one with black forks. Grips are Yeti turqoise, but look a bit green in the pic. Love the reduced complexity of 1x9 with a widgit. Went tubeless today, all is good. bychosis (bahy-koh-sis): A mental disorder of delusions indicating impaired contact with a reality of no bicycles.
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nice, black stickers on the white forks for me, will get a new pic up when have finished fitting brakes and wheels. I was thinking of going tubeless, but i tend to change tyres a bit and rarely get flats
Re: Post Your RideHi all, new to the forum
This is my Avanti Vapour 2.6, have changed the stock tyres and pedals, put on a hydraulic seatpost (which has been great!). Only got it in December and have been trying to go offroad at leasat two to three times a month. Also went in the Mont24 (my first ever MTB event) which was a real buzz!
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Realized I have set up tubeless with my 'race' tyres with a long time before racing again, one of the hassles of tubeless I guess. Will prob switch the tyres to the older ones this weekend. Have to get the scales out too, must be around 11kg now. bychosis (bahy-koh-sis): A mental disorder of delusions indicating impaired contact with a reality of no bicycles.
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Hi KOM. Nice looking bike. The photo looks like Faulconbridge Point.
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Spot on Sharkey! I love it as a good training ride for fitness. Holds up relatively well in bad weather when most other places are closed due to heavy rain.
Re: Post Your RideHey guys.
First ever post, be gentle. Got only 2 bikes currently, wife said I had too many, so donated my old alloy Mongoose Tetra SX to my old man once I rebuilt it, and gave my more recent chromo Kona Explosiv to my bike builder for parts. So now I have the MTB. 2011 Kona Tanuki Deluxe free ride/all mountain bike. (goes great as a SC bike as well if you ask me) 5" travel, 180mm discs with Elixr 5 brakes, pretty light for a big bike. Pretty stock apart from white Oury grips and white studded BMX flats. It runs FSA cranks and chainwheels, XT rear mech, Rockshox Sector TK air forks, Kona branded rear shock, Shimano XC wheels, Maxxis ardent tyres blah blah blah. My other bike is a Ribble Ultralite 7005 road bike. I bought the frame and had the rest built up. Its got Aclass R2.0 wheelset (not the best but fairly strong) Shimano tiagra levers, cranks, chainwheels and rear derailuer. Shimano 105 clipless pedals and Shimano Ultegra front derailuer. Up front it uses an ITM headset, the stem and bars are off a 2011 Scott Foil, as is the seat. The seat post in the pic was FSA carbon, but now its got a carbon Easton EC70 post. Since the pic was taken i've upgraded all the bolts to anodised red, replaced the skewers with red Ti ones and she grips the road with red walled Schwable Lugarnos.
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Welcome What's the weight on the road bike, looks good!
Re: Post Your RideHey Kom.
Not sure to tell you the truth, its around half the weight of the Kona. The frame and carbon fork weigh 2074g, so its not really that "Ultralite" LOL If I had to guess I'd say around 7-8kg maybe? I'll weigh it tonight.
Re: Post Your RideThe current lot of Konas are a big improvement aesthetically - nice ride!
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Do your scales go down that low:)
Re: Post Your RideJust swapped frames from a 2010 Blur XCc to a Blur TRc. Chasing a bit more travel, bit slacker front end, and the incremental improvements of a tapered steerer and 15mm thru axle:
Looking forward to the first test ride later today! Santa Cruz Blur TRc XTR
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Re: Post Your RideVery nice. Me like'm Santa Cruz bikes in general, they always seem just right in some way.
Santa Cruz or Liteville? One of the great unresolved questions in my life. Given my bank balance, the question will remain unanswered for a while yet.
Re: Post Your Ridelove the look of the blur.
very much sold on santa cruz too. pricing is just a little touchy in australia...but i think workable...??? High up on the buy list atm main question for me is do i get a tallboy or superlight 29. price differential between TB and SL29 isnt so much in australia as in the U.S unfortunately. Do like the easier servicablity of the SL29 but TB seems pretty darn good on that front too. I mean, what else has grease ports? Second issue is do i go a 120mm or 100mm fox fork....or maybe Talas. I believe i can shorten the 120mm fork to 100mm via spacers if i dont like it. SC seems to have great versatility and servicability.
Re: Post Your RideNICE SC! Hey...where did you get that piece of plastic that protects the frame from the rubbing of the cable?
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This is overkill, but: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3M-CLEAR-POL ... 0791236906 I've had a piece of this stuff, about 15cm x 10cm ... Have been cutting off small pieces as I feel the need for it... So far it has lasted about five years and over about four bikes... still have about a third of it left. EDIT: I got it from a motorbike shop.
Re: Post Your Ridesold my 2008 Epic recently, and upgraded to this bad boy!
2012 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp Carbon 29'er (XL) All stock (besides a set of Enduro grips), fitted with XT pedals, with a set of Easton Haven Carbon riser bars on the way. Conversion to tubeless in the next week or two as well. Love it, such a big step up from the Epic - it rolls so well. its like riding a big tractor around the place haha
Re: Post Your RideSuspension ? I don't need no suspension.
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With respect, your mountain bike appears to have slick tyres indicating that off road is not common and you probably dont need suspension. Parking teh front wheel in some landscaping doesn't make it a mountain bike bychosis (bahy-koh-sis): A mental disorder of delusions indicating impaired contact with a reality of no bicycles.
Re: Post Your RideHaha! You are dead right. Plus it was on the Windsor Rd cycleway.
It's a nice bike to ride though, I'm 115kg so an old steel clunker is a smart choice.
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The bike you ride is a good bike. bychosis (bahy-koh-sis): A mental disorder of delusions indicating impaired contact with a reality of no bicycles.
Re: Post Your RideNow that is stunning. Never seen anything like it before.
Looks way ahead of it's time.
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+1. stunning bike, stunning photo. chop wood
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Phoronix: Libjpeg 9 Does Better Lossless JPEG Compression
Version 9 of the libjpeg library from the Independent JPEG Group has been released. This version of the JPEG library is said to noticeably improve the lossless JPEG compression support even to the point that libjpeg can now output compressed lossless JPEGs of smaller size than PNG images...
Please fix the link, there's a www.phoronix.com before the real url :P
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Very interesting, I wonder if there's been improvements to the lossy compression aswell?
Have to say though, displaying a link which appear to be to the source of the information but which instead links straight back to Phoronix is beyond cheap in my opinion.
So we've got some technically good on paper but worthless in practice improvements that break older JPEG software decoders, which might mean that such images are unable to be displayed by hardware devices such as Blu-Ray players, TVs with USB or flash memory ports, and stand-alone media players, which use custom-made JPEG decoders or unspecified versions of libjpeg in their embedded Linux code. Wonderful. I think I'm going to have to test this new code out to see exactly what's going on and what the ramifications are. Here's the right link.
Nothing improved there. The most you can really do with the lossy compression scheme at this point is to just speed the JPEG encoding and decoding process up, which is what libjpeg-turbo does with it's SSE accelerations. Unfortunately, few programs use libjpeg-turbo from what I've seen. There are incompatibilities between JPEGs created with libjpeg and libjpeg-turbo and image editing/viewing programs that use one or the other, so many editing/viewing programs continue to use libjpeg to maintain compatibility since it's been around longer. Firefox uses libjpeg-turbo for it's hardware accelerated web browsing and the performance difference between the two is very obvious. Based on the development activity, it looks like libjpeg-turbo is about to get an update in the near future to bring it up to par with libjpeg9.
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I'm not so sure about this. Quoting a part of libjpeg-turbo maintainer's message from http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...eg-turbo-users: "As far as adoption, IMHO the only major reason why an x86- or ARM-focused project would prefer the upstream code at this point is that said project wanted to implement SmartScale, and IMHO, without any reproducible metrics demonstrating the usefulness of that format, anyone who's implementing it in their software is doing so only out of a desire to be on the bleeding edge and not for any definable need. My question all along has been: why did the IJG use libjpeg as a platform for this new format? Why didn't they implement it in a completely new library? The only answer I can come up with is that they're trying to put the cart before the horse. libjpeg was originally a reference implementation meant to ease the adoption of an accepted industry standard format. IMHO, the current IJG is, instead, building upon the existing reputation of libjpeg to attempt to drive adoption of a format that has not been accepted as a standard yet. They're further using the existing reputation of libjpeg to distribute propaganda against the very standards committee that has not accepted their new format (and now, since jpeg-8d, they're using their position to distribute propaganda against us as well.) That was never the intent of libjpeg."
A good feature of the old established image formats such as JPEG or PNG is that they are standardized and compatible with a lot of existing browsers, embedded devices, hardware accelerators, etc. Now libjpeg-9 can create the files, which are not standard conforming JPEGs and simply will not work with the other compliant implementations. And if we are to invent some new and incompatible format, it really has to compete against the other newcomers (such as WebP).
Well, I was obviously misinterpreting something else I was looking at regarding the updates though I am going to look into this SmartScale stuff to see what it's bringing to the table, if anything. As an owner of a high-end photography setup, I like to see what's going on with the latest stuff.
Just found the paper with this lossless coding proposal linked from the wikipedia page: http://jpegclub.org/temp/JPEG_9_Lossless_Coding.doc
It has some compression ratio comparison tables, showcasing libjpeg-9 lossless coding and allegedly outperforming the competition. I decided to also give WebP a try (using libwebp-0.2.0.tar.gz):
The very first file from the set compresses to 504672 bytes with WebP, which seems to be significantly better than 574K reported for libjpeg-9 using the same file. I have not run any tests through the rest of the files, this might be a good exercise for somebody elseCode:$ wget http://www.r0k.us/graphics/kodak/kodak/kodim01.png $ cwebp -m 6 -lossless kodim01.png -o kodim01.webp $ ls -l kodim01.webp -rw-r--r-- 1 ssvb ssvb 504672 Jan 14 23:17 kodim01.webp
In any case, the paper says: "In April/May 2012, a new feature was found and implemented in the IJG software which significantly improves the lossless compression of continuous-tone color images, outperforming other currently popular methods and thus making the new feature very attractive for practical application. A development version with the new feature is currently presented by InfAI Leipzig and IJG, and is planned for release as a new major IJG version 9 in January 2013."
But for a new lossless image compression method developed in 2012/2013, totally ignoring WebP and maybe some other modern codecs seems to be a bit unfair, isn't it?
Just let the aging JPEG and PNG formats keep providing best compatibility with the existing and future software. That's their best feature today and they really have nothing else to offer.


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She is the mother of Hinata Hyūga and Hanabi Hyūga and the wife of Hiashi Hyūga.
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Prior to the craziness of the holidays, I was mining the "Reading Adler" on GenealogyBank for obituaries. The "Reading Adler" was a German language newspaper published in Reading Pennsylvania. GenealogyBank has scanned issues of the paper from 1796 to 1876. It's been a small treasure trove for finding deaths and marriages of my Pennsylvania German ancestors and relatives who lived in the area. The big drawback, of course, is that all the articles are in German – a language foreign to me – and in a Fraktur font. Add to this the occasional misspelling and/or archaic spelling, poor image quality due to age and condition of the paper, and, well, there are challenges!
Fortunately, most of the "obituaries" I found were more like death notices – short and sweet and fairly easy to decipher with the help of a German Genealogy word list and a listing of English equivalents of Fraktur letters. But there were some longer, more detailed ones – and that's where the fun began! I needed to decipher the Fraktur writing and enter the text into google translate. After much trial and error, I downloaded a fraktur font to my computer and typed a transcription into notepad. This step allow me to see how well my interpretation of the Fraktur matched the original, before copying and pasting into google translate.
The whole thing was very much an iterative process – typing my best guess at the letters/words and seeing if the result was something google could translate. For example, if you're looking at a scanned image of an old newspaper and you see a word that looks like "thc," you know right away it is really "the." But if you aren't familiar with the language and don't know that "the" is a common English word, it's a much harder problem. (i.e. Did you misinterpret the "c" or was it the "t" or the "h"?)
One such obituary that was of particular interest to me was that of a William Bechtel. His obituary appeared in the June 19, 1855 edition of the paper. Since it is against the terms of use of GenealogyBank to include a scan of his obituary in this blog post, I'll include an image of the transcription that I made in a Fraktur font:
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"Alößlicher death. – A man of intemperate habits, named William Bechtel, from the neighborhood of Pottstown, who had taught at the guest house of Levi Savage here, is on the last Thursday when he dined, choking, probably by an attack of apoplexy. The Coroner held by Rühn investigation: Jury did the pronounciation: "death by suffocation, caused by an attack of apoplexy at the lunch table." The deceased was about 45 years old."
As you can see, google could not come up with a translation for the very first word. And I couldn't come up with any letter substitutions that stayed "true" to the original scanned image and produced a meaningful translation. However, the rest, though a little stilted, looks pretty good.
My interest in this obituary is because I feel that there is a good possibility that William Bechtel was a descendant of my ancestor Johan George Bechtel who immigrated in 1743 and lived in the area that is now Amity Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. I would love to hear from any Bechtel researchers who may know more about William. And if anyone can provide an improved translation – well, that would be wonderful too!


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Starbucks, the world's leading specialty coffee company, developed a strategic alliance with Conservation International, a major international environmental nonprofit organization. The purpose of the alliance was to promote coffee-growing practices of small farms that would protect endangered habitats. The collaboration emerged from the company's corporate social responsibility policies and its coffee procurement strategy. The initial project was in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas and resulted in the incorporation of shade-grown coffee into the Starbucks product line, providing an attractive alternative market for the farmer cooperatives at a time when coffee producers were in economic crisis due to plummeting world prices. Simultaneously, the company had to deal with growing pressures from nonprofit organizations in the Fair Trade movement, demanding higher prices for farmers. Starbucks was reviewing the future of its alliance with Conservation International and its new coffee procurement guidelines aimed at promoting environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable coffee production. The nature of the industry puts the case in the global context from both the supply and demand sides.
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This sounds very good. They are also considering a high precision low-latency controller, which involves making Linux drivers for a non HID-device
I seriously hope they select a low-latency kernel to go along with it, which would also help for a smoother framerate.
I wonder if it's gonna be using X.org, Wayland or something else.
Sanity is to understand why Linux is better, safer and its the future, and that's because its open source. Sanity is when you understand that "right" (as we say human right - free access to knowledge) has its own freedom. That your democratic right (to chose where Linux must go, for example) doesn't exist (read GPL), before a universal truth that ether you accept it or not its there (truths are more than people and one of them embraces all). You cannot enforce things (like a poverty system) even if you are the overwhelming majority. That doesn't mean that you will just stay with philosophy, you will take action. If you want open graphics drivers then buy Intel or use their work for another closed GPU. If you don't like that games run only on windows then produce Wine code, they are at need for their new LLVM-based HLSL compiler. And goes on until we replace every closed thing. If we see closed drivers, they probably fail (if we are really sane).


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lol that site mangatoyou,org/Naruto/ really put this stuff as 595 and I thought this week was a waste. thanks for informing that this was not 595. Just waiting for the release of 595
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Originally Posted by ast_sir any alternative link? It's up on Mangastream for the time being: http://mangastream.com/read/naruto/81922126/1
The only thing that made my eyes wide open was in page 16
It definitely is an alternate reality. In this universe, all of the Akatsuki members evidently acknowledge that Tobi is there one true leader and not Pain.
Is it just me, or doesn't the other site work anymore?
It doesn't.
Originally Posted by Slinder The only thing that made my eyes wide open was in page 16 haha at what hinata says about her boobs floating while sakura is like tbh this is the funniest naruto manga ive probably read, kishi should do more daily life chapters
Originally Posted by Strata Spartan It definitely is an alternate reality. In this universe, all of the Akatsuki members evidently acknowledge that Tobi is there one true leader and not Pain. TRUE.plus sasori is not hidden in his puppet with the tail.
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finally got around to making an account for these forums after months of just reading posts, must say I'm looking forward to this movie, hope we wont have to wait to long for it to be released with English subs
It was a good chapter, I'd hope to see more things like then when the actual story line comes to an end
Originally Posted by ast_sir any alternative link? your sig if hilarious
I can't wait to see the movie since it's in the alternate world. I think only Naruto can remember things since in the trailer, he's surprised to see his mother and father. Sasuke is a lover boy in the movie and Hinata seems to have anger management or she's just expressive. Dead guys are still alive though I didn't see the Third Hokage. Just my thought when I saw the trailer on youtube.
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A lone cyclist rounds the bend newar Chester in the 29th annual Mile High 100 . |
The 29th annual Mile High 100 drew an amazing 450 riders to the Chester Park on Saturday, June 18.
Hosted by the Lake Almanor Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau the Saturday of Father's Day weekend each year, it's hard to judge what demographic participates most in the event.
While it's apparent persons of all ages, ethnicities and bicycle skill levels enjoy taking to our high-mountain roadways, observed groupings seemed to contain more women this year. There also seemed to be fewer children riding.
Co-chairman Don Van Alen offered some interesting statistics from the overall registrations.
Traveling the farthest was a participant from Seattle, Wash. Van Alen said there were also several riders from Oregon, the Bay Area and Santa Cruz.
He also said, "We had only 10 Lake Almanor Basin riders register. The majority of the riders traveled in from Chico, Redding and Reno."
Likely the most interesting fact: 50 percent of the registrants had never ridden the Mile High 100 before.
This event offers riders the choice of three routes:
The century ride is 108 miles long and takes riders from the Chester Park to Warner Valley, back out again, around the East Shore of Lake Almanor, around Indian Valley and around the West Shore back into Chester.
The metric century is 56 miles long and encompasses the entire Basin by going from the park to Warner Valley and then the 35 miles around Lake Almanor.
The half metric century is 35 miles long and travels the circumference of Lake Almanor.
"Another telling fact about the draw of the Mile High 100 is that more people rode the century than any other of the offered options," Van Alen said.
The next most popular ride was the 56-mile long metric century.
"There were some very heavy duty riders this year," added Van Alen.
As part of the annual fundraiser, the chamber sells tickets for a new bicycle.
"This year, Lake Almanor resident David Bruker purchased a single ticket and won the Gary Fischer bicycle provided by Bodfish Bicycles and Quiet Mountain Sports," Van Alen said.
The retail value of the bicycle is $800.
As part of the packet, their registration wristbands entitled riders to snacks at rest stops and an enticing spaghetti dinner prepared by the Lake Almanor Elks Lodge.
Van Alen said the Elks fed about 340 people this year.
He added, "It was a very relaxing afternoon in the park. We heard nothing but compliments about the ride and the local area."
Open to the non-riding public, the event featured an interesting array of vendor booths and live music by the Funky Gators, a Bay Area band that plays Cajun-style rock.
The 2011 Mile High 100 was co-coordinated by Don Van Alen and Mike Willhoit. Joyanne Soderholm and Valorie Chisholm co-chaired the Friday and Saturday night registration sessions.
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- A new permanent Senate panel will monitor spending at every federal agency. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo), a former auditor, said any federal employee or contractor who wastes taxpayer money or acts inappropriately will have to answer to the committee. The Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight will also oversee financial transparency and improper payments. It is one of several in the reorganized Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont). will oversee another panel on efficiency and effectiveness of federal programs and the federal workforce. The entire committee will tackle issues facing the Postal Service, Census and the National Archives. (Office of Sen. McCaskill)
- The IRS received fewer whistleblower tips about tax offenders who owe at least $2 million.The agency said 332 people approached the whistleblower office last year, down from a high of 472 in 2009. It's alarming to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), one of the program's most passionate watchdogs. He said proposed regulations could make a bad situation worse. Already, the delay in awards and the way the IRS treats whistleblowers are turn offs, he said. The whistleblower office responded that it takes years to analyze, investigate, audit and collect proceeds in the cases and the more money owed, the longer it takes. (Office of Sen. Grassley)
- The government has a credibility problem and the White House wants to fix it as data from agency accounting systems never seems to match information at USASpending.gov. Agency finance workers can expect new guidance in the coming weeks from the Office of Management and Budget. It will require them to match internal data with USASpending.gov. OMB Controller Danny Werfel said the goal is to improve the reliability of the public-facing website.(OMB blog)
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Northern elephant seals are generally brown in color, however there are variations to this coloration. Males are usually a darker brown, while females are a light tan color. Hair is reduced on adult males and females and is completely absent for a short time after moulting. Newborns have hair that is black in color until successfully weaned, when they shed their black coat and it is replaced by a lighter one. Countershading is a feature to all adults and newly weaned youngsters, displaying a darker color dorsally and a lighter color ventrally. They possess two, lobed hind flippers. Pinnae are absent, giving the ear the appearance of being flush with the skin. The most conspicuous feature to the male body is the inflated proboscis that adorns his face. This feature is absent in females and is larger than that of their slightly larger close relatives, Mirounga leonina. Young males begin development of the proboscis at 2 years of age, but it is not fully developed until the animal reaches its 8th year of maturity. These mammals are among the largest of the group comprising aquatic carnivores in the Northern Hemisphere. Females typically weigh 600 to 900 kg and males, which outweigh females by 3 to 10 times, can top out at 2300 kg. Females reach a length of 3.1 m on average and males usually extend from 4.0 m to 5.0 m. Newborns typically weigh about 47 kg at birth. They weigh about 147 kg and measure about 1.5 m between 24 and 28 days old, when they are weaned. Teeth are dimorphic in the sexes with males having considerably enlarged canines that are used in fighting. (Bonner, 1990; Ingles, 1965; Le Boeuf et al., 2000; McConnaughey and McConnaughey, 1997; Reeves, Stewart, and Leatherwood, 1992)
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Sexual Dimorphism: Male larger; Sexes shaped differently; Ornamentation
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I see stolen bikes everyday.....
Or am I just unfairly judgemental. Portland Bikers....you decied and judge for yourself. I work Tuesday through Saturday at a business exactly at N.E.17th & Columbia Boulevard. I see at the very least 10 homeless men every month Riding BRAND NEW looking or Near New bikes. Some with racks, some without. Now...I know hundreds of people in Portland are out of work and have lost everything they own. But how many are men living along the Columbia slew, or at (NO) Dignity Village on Columbia Blvd. next to the Prison. Most of the men riding these bikes look like they were blown out of a volcano. I look at the Stolen Bikes on this site, then I look at what these men are riding. If any one of these men can produce a sales reciept for the bike they are on...and show me the shelter they live in.....I will give them $100 worth of food. You People who are losing your bikes.....need to figure out a way to take a ride with Law Enforcement ...or Code Enforcement through (NO) Dignity Village. There has got to be at LEAST 1 STOLEN bike there. When I see a homeless guy on a New Looking bike, with the trailer on the back for a little kid....and the trailer is full of scrap metal.....hmmmm... must have traded the wife and kid for freedom. So am I Unfairly Judgemental....or am I seeing a heck of a lot of Stolen bikes every month. You decied and let me know.
You're unfairly judgemental. Many of those guys get bikes from places like JOIN or other social service agencies who recognize that having a bike is a major economic advantage if you're homeless. They also make and give away trailers.
And I wouldn't be surprised if there is a stolen bike somewhere in Dignity Village, but it's equally likely that there is a stolen bike in any 'better' class neighborhood. If you can get law enforcement to search an equivalent number of homes in the west hills as there are camps at dignity village and you don't find a stolen bike, I'll buy you $100 worth of hot dogs at Roakes. For instance, it's pretty unlikely that the bikes stolen at the southwest Bikes burglary (http://bikeportland.org/2011/08/30/u...op-theft-58329) are doing time hauling scrap steel. |
As a means of giving everybody a better idea of what you're seeing, any possibility you could have a cheap pocket digital camera with a telephoto lens, with you to snap a few pics of the people you suspect of having stolen bikes, when you see them? I don't know anything about JOIN that edki refers to, or the kind of bikes they're making available to people. A bike that looks new doesn't necessarily mean that that it's new, good quality or stolen. Some bikes typical of the quality bikes found at department stores or online for cheap, look shiny and new. They're what people that don't have much money tend to get. If it was me over in your location, I might consider just taking an impromptu coffee/smoke break, walk over to the guys when you see them, say hello, take a casual look at the bikes, maybe ask some questions. That's a fairly low key thing to do, and after all, it's your working neighborhood, so you've got some right to keep tabs on what's going on there. There seems to be plenty of bikes stolen, so it figures there are going to be some people riding stolen bikes. It's possible the guys you're seeing are stealing the bikes you're seeing them with, but that's about all you could conclude unless you or someone else were to do something to be more certain of how they happen to have the bikes. |
totally agree with OP on this one... just saw a dude on a Giant Trance who was not a downhill mountian biking affectionado by any means... i will take my profiling spidey senses to the bank on this one...
Magna or Royce Union, you can let slide though... |
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