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Ya know Dave, I can completely respect your opinion of bike stuff as I was far more extreme with my opinions than you. There was a time when I thought every innovation was just - stupid. 29ers were dumb, fatbikes were a joke, why only have 11 gears, and what's up with that giant rear cog...

Hey Tyler, I am the author of that pad review linked above and after many years of testing pads for three different huge reviews, I know my way around that segment. There are plenty of two person pads on the market and many of them are quite nice. That said, the Nemo is the one I would buy...

I sold my Lauf with my Beargrease. The Lauf was perfectly color matched so I didn't want to keep it, plus, I was not overwhelmed by the performance. It seemed like a very lateral move with minimal good/bad. I had fun with it, but I'll live without it. For the new Mukluk, it is currently fitted...

We could disappear down the rabbit hole of the pros/cons of fatbikes and never reappear. Everyone will have their own perspective. Even within my own experiences, I have my own set of pros/cons, but the one thing I believe adamantly is that fatbikes are not...not...winter machines. My 300 mile...

With any new platform there is always a rapid ground swell, then a plateau, and an inevitable fall-off. Around here ten years ago it was singlespeeds. There were hundreds of them. Now I only see a few here and there. Plus sizes have eaten into the fatbike turf, which makes sense. I just sold my...

Not at all. For all I knew the dude was moments away from shooting his own foot Apple Dumpling Gang style.

Good question. Wish I gave a rip about the answer. You missed the point entirely. For all I knew he would have looked at his hammer being pulled back and said, "Oh, gee, thanks for telling me." Or, "Thanks, it's safe like that." Either way, I didn't care. Thought I was possibly being helpful...

I think we have establish I know squat about firearms. So when I noticed an older man standing in front of me at the bank with a pistol on his hip, the hammer pulled back, I thought I'd simply say, "excuse me sir, I don't know anything about firearms, but is the hammer supposed to be pulled back...

False. You're attempting to make an argument where one does not exist. At no point would I ever impede someone's right to have a gun or even make them feel uncomfortable with their decision to have one in my presence. But my comment stands. If someone in my proximity has a firearm and I do not...

I know an individual with scads of combat training, always has lots of guns, ammo, and tactical gear with him, but always stowed within normal packs and bags, nothing that smacks of "tactical." He said he'd rather people think his pack is full of stinky socks and granola bars than guns, cameras...

This is pretty basic. Years ago I used to ice climb with a friend, great guy, who is a physician, damn smart guy, but had only been climbing for a few months. Knowing he didn't have much experience, do you think just because he was a smart, level headed dude, I'd put my life in his hands on an...

Two incidents brought me to that conclusion. The first was in Alaska at a popular campground. A bear wondered through camp and one particular camper, unknown to any of us, took it upon himself to take a couple of shots at it with one round going into another camper's pickup through the trees...

The only other thing I would add. When I travel in group settings and I know someone in the mix has a firearm, but I don't know what level of training or proficiency they have, that makes me as nervous as anything. Even if that person has training but I'm not 100% sure about their judgment, that...

Like all of us, I calculate my perceived threats, measure the reality of those threats, then put the things in place to prepare for them accordingly. How likely am I to need a first aid kit? Likely. How comprehensive it needs to be depends on the situation and what I can carry. How likely am I...

This is a popular topic, if not a little prone to swirl the drain in short order. Without infringing on anyone's opinions, trying to sway an argument one way or another, and respecting all inputs, I'll only offer my experience. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe I'm foolish, maybe I'll get treated like...

Because no one pad can ever be pegged as "the best" I did try to quantify my picks as such...my picks...with some reasoning behind them. Of the pads I reviewed, the smallest was the size of a beer can when stowed, the largest the size of a pony keg. Some people only camp in summer, others year...

I have owned a couple of dozen Gore-Tex and other laminated fabric jackets. I've never had the issues many report, which I attribute to users not understanding how to clean and maintain those garments. Even when I lived in a part of Alaska that got 14 feet of moisture a year, mostly rain...

Every time I write one of these reviews, I anticipate a small army of people to knock on my door to tell me I'm wrong. I totally get it. If you just plunked down $200 on a pad I didn't concur is the bee's knees, then I must clearly be wrong. Okay. I'll take that. I don't want to knock heads...

After talking to my friend Eric who has ridden to the South Pole twice as I recall, this has nothing to do with traction, but everything to do with snow conditions. He walked his bike for days with a tether tied to the seat post and his waist to keep the pressure off his arms.

Dave in Denver, I completely understand what you're saying about popping in a tube because your tire/wheel combo makes it easy. That's the one reason I stuck with my tubes for so long. Tubeless is a PITA at times. I'm currently testing a set of prototype wheels from a major wheel player and...