u/Invasive-farmer

They came through for me.

A Frame Break Bolt had fallen out and when I emailed them they sent out a pair of them.

One the road again in Central America on my Hot Sauce.

Just watching to make sure I didn't enter the Staff Only area.

While installing fenders on my Hot Sauce I removed the rear wheel and noticed that its been rubbing the chain stay on the non drive side.

The wheels haven't been off since I got it out of the box when I installed the front wheel.

I put it back on and set it in place all the way. Checked the disc brake is lined up well and even, but the wheel is crooked. So crooked I'm surprised I never noticed.

I had a rack on it and I thought the rack was crooked all this time.

Emailed Priority to ask what to do about it.

*Banana for scale

The Hot Sauce has one bolt holding the rear end together and one home that looks like it had the same thing. What's everyone else's look like?

That's interesting too. What gives?

I recently sprained my wrist and the doc didn't see any broken bones. But in discussing this pic amongst friends someone pointed out this line on my thumb.

Did this get missed?

Thanks.

The SKS Bluemels will fit, size wise, but I'm having trouble confirming that the wires fir the front fender will attach correctly to the braze-on on the front fork (since there are none at the axle)

Pis are of a mount on the axle.

Thanks.

I love the Hot Sauce

Central American Hot Sauce with permanently mounted molle panels.

So I was going to a cousin's house and I needed to relocate a newly planted Comfrey to a less sunny location. I had just planted it the previous day and, when my wife told me it wouldn't like full sun, I went back the next day with the plan to move it before it died.

Also, I had to retrieve the pot she'd grown it in because she just paid $6 for that.

The 1945 US Army issue Entrenchment Tool, or E-Tool went along for the ride. And the pot returned on the opposite side, looking like an old swamp cooler on a hotrod.

In the end, I decided to cut up some coconut palm branches with the shovel, (I wasn't as prepared as I thought I was, what with not having a machete) and build a teepee to shade it, because, as it turned out, there wasn't a perfect place for it.

This bike is my truck. I need a license plate that says "Lil' Mule".

Now I kinda dont want to take the shovel off. Lol. You never know when I might get stuck and need to dig myself out (lol), or need a melee weapon to fight off an angry coconut palm.

I am the chosen one! Mountain bike for life!

*Today Had a nice ride early today, to beat the promised rain. Found myself bogged down in an area full of mud and sand.

I didnt want to have to wash it yet. I was waiting to see how long it would take to get the dreaded dusty belt squeak, and see just how dirty it would have to be to do so.

Most of it came off on the way but I still stopped by the river to get some off.

Found a new water park, maybe the only one in the country, being built on a back road.

Also, harvested a 54 pound rack of bananas while I waited for the bike to dry in the sun.

(The cardboard is suppressing weeds where the Wife didn't want them. I didn't place it there of the pic.)

Technically a hand of bananas and a hand of plantains, on a rack.

A rack is full of hands, or bunches.

Well, right on the edge of it really.

Went back a rock road that was put in years ago in some family land, long since sold to and developed by the government.

There's a neighborhood in the back of this area so I never noticed that a few people actually live further back.

So today I went further.

So much further.

Rock road turned to dirt double track, which became a landfill. So much glass in the dirt I decided to hike it through. Beyond that is rock and dirt double track with lots of brush that has clearly been used by cows and no one else for a long time. I was worried about the thorns on some of those plants.

Turns out the "road" that turned into a dotted line on the map meant it was private property.

Doubled back to a rock and boulder double track and eventually ended up in a bulldozed area. Hike and biked to the top of the hill to find the other side was a gravel area being developed for a neighborhood.

Bombed down that white hill as fast I could tolerate but was scared of the sharp embedded rocks.

Last pic is another neighborhood off in the distance. I think I'll ride through there next time. Lol

Overall the Hot Sauce was great. I was totally surprised that I didnt get a flat. I even added a spare heavy duty tube to the seat tube, besides having patches and tools in the bag.

I have the tires at 40 psi right now and it is a little bouncey on the rocks.

Nothing I rode on today would I call gravel. Nothing was consistent in size and most of it was large rocks. Large sharp rocks that get packed down as a base for eventual gravel.

I'll be back, but not until it's gravel. Lol. And I'll skip the hike & bike.

But the bike was great. Tough and comfortable.