#west biking

[lassmoodoo]

🚴 10 Bike Lights for Night Riding | SOFIRN, ACRUNU, ROCKBROS, Enfitnix, ...

[luv-byers]

“Blue and yellow have nothing to do with byler 🤓”

How does it feel to be so fuck1ng WRONG

RRRRAAAAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAAAAGGGGGG🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[eldritch-bf]

Pretty sure Herbert never learned to ride a bicycle

[nmnomad]

City of Rocks State Park encompasses one square mile in the Chihuahuan desert of southwestern New Mexico. Located at an elevation of 5,200 feet above sea level, the rocks were deposited on the plains 34.9 million years ago when one of the volcanoes in the Black Range erupted. The rock columns, or pinnacles, tower as high as 40 feet, with paths and trails forming the streets through the stone "city." Great location for camping, mountain biking, stargazing, hiking, wildlife viewing & birding.

[boanerges20]

Motolegends. Michael Dunlop. North West 200.

[wallaceandpestle]

NINE HUNDRED CUBIC CENTIMETERS OF RAW, WHINING, POWER

[dreamysummer03]

[vandaliatraveler]

Early March on the Mon River Trail.

Sunday was a gorgeous day for a bike ride, balmy and softly lit by the late Winter sun. The smooth alder (Alnus serrulata) is in bloom along the river - the catkins are incredibly beautiful to me. More whimsical are the pointy-capped flowers of the eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), which emerge from the muddy margins of local swamps in mid-February. At mile marker 17 (last photo from the bottom), I spotted my first bald eagle of the season - a mature, solitary bird who got away before I could get my camera positioned. I'll try again next weekend.

[danstoncul]

[quick-release-velozine]

Sub 24-hour over-nighter. Ballard to Manchester St. Park and back. Spring 2019.

[jilllovesmike]

The Atlantic City Story is now available on Prime in the US!!

[wavychris116]

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[mysteries-x-mistakes]

I’ve been working super hard on writing a ttrpg!

It’s a cowboy game powered by the Kids on Bikes system. I was aiming for a game system about cowboys that wasn’t overly crunchy or gritty. It’s rules-light and narratively focused with collaborative worldbuilding.

I wanted the main goal of the system to be creating a fun and lighthearted cowboy/outlaw romp, with room for telling darker stories with heavier topics if the table desires. It was also vitally important to me to make a system where your horse (or other species of mount) felt like a character in its own right and not just an object, something that grows with you as you bond and gain more experience. Magic does exist in the system, but it’s very dangerous and there are (potentially deadly) consequences to failure. There is also guns and combat, but no Hit Points to keep track of.

I’ve got the basic rules mostly done and I’m currently working on some optional rules for making the game feel a little grittier and for various buckaroo activities (like owning a ranch or going on a cattle drive). Your main stats are Fight, Flight, Brains, Brawn, Charm, and Grit. But instead of rolling a d20 and putting that number into a stat, each stat is assigned its own die based on your character’s Trope. Like, if you have a d12 in Brains, whenever you make a Brains Check you would roll a d12 for it.

The other super important thing to do before I can finish is add a fair amount of historical information and sensitivity information regarding the racism that is baked into the Western genre and how to approach it with your table. It would be wrong of me to leave out how a lot of Western stories use horrific stereotypes about the indigenous people of the Americas, how people of color were vital to creating the cowboy culture, and how sex workers were the jumpstart of the economy in many cases, if not the linchpin.

But I’m just curious if there’s even an audience for this? I’ll probably release it anyway. It’s already at nearly 40k words and it would make me very sad if no one saw it. But I want to know if anyone is even interested to begin with. Let me know? I’ll post updates on this blog!

[haikumaker]

The upper west side in 1970. Biking down Broadway, at 88th Street.

[galsoncars]

girl on chopper*

chopper by Jesse James, West Coast Choppers

[boanerges20]

Sam West Northwest 200 // 2024