I was really hoping the trail cam picture was real. It is not :(
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/minnesota-wolf-pack-chihuahua/
Rule 2026 of the Internet, if it’s static cam footage and it’s showing something interesting, there’s a 95% chance it’s AI
But 80% of statistics are just made up on the spot, so where does that leave us?
https://thefactbase.com/according-to-research-80-of-statistics-are-made-up/
I heard that wolves will draw pet dogs away from their homes to isolate them and hunt them. If that’s true, then I don’t think that we want this picture to be real.
Maybe they just want Taco Bell?
Accurate.
Yeah, we’ve got a Chihuahua and for his sake I wanted it to be real, but there’s about zero chance wolves would put up with one.
They’ll not only tolerate them, but they and coyotes will also actively seek out small dogs and invite them to dinner back at their place.
Cheap bikes are great, ignore the elitist pricks that think you actually need to spend £2k on a bike.
That is a cheap bike if you’re going mountain biking.
I’ve found mountains to be very challenging to pedal and steer. Rocks in the other hand
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Yeah, I figured this out as a teenager. We had a half-marathon through rough terrain (gravel, sand, tree roots etc.). I had my 200€ bike from Facebook and a sports t-shirt from school. I felt very out of place with all these big men in their tight spandex suits and decked out bikes.
I passed most of them and finished 13th out of 130 (which is not amazing, but definitely not bad).
I spent $50 on a beat up used bike from a thrift store, and slapped a $600 ebike upgrade kit on it. It looks like trash but gets me where I need.
Have a friend who was a minor professional cyclist in Europe for a bit. Never close to leader board but professional nonetheless. He often rides a hard tail 70’s three speed with a basket on back country trails. MTB riders with the latest gear and full kit regularly tell him he can’t ride that bike on the trail. His standard reply is, “Obviously I can, because I am. You however…” He lets the sentence trail off and with a shrug rides away.
Road bikes also get the same comments. I have a hybrid/trekking bike so I can annoy both sides. But realistically I use my bike to get to places along paths in the UK, I don’t need to do jumps but I do need something that can manage shit road surfaces, dirt and gravel. Even light mud is fine with 700x37 tyres. I could use wider tyres for winter if I really wanted to use some of the muddier paths but there isn’t much need to.
Somewhat same, my everyday ride is a Surley Disc Trucker, it’s my weekend ride too, but it’s my everyday ride.
Hey, at least you’re actually there and not sitting on the couch eating chips and posting memes. Oh wait…
I mean…you say that like we can afford chips…or a couch…or memes.
Yeah, mister moneybags over there with a fancy roof over his head is probably too good to use Lemmy from a library computer.
Doritos are underappreciated in terms of post ride nutrition…
Empty calories are still calories
I’ve learned anything involving animals doing unusual things through night vision video or image is AI slop, aimed at a Facebook trend surging in 2024-2025, possibly still going.
Usually it’s something stupid like kangaroos or rabbits on a trampoline, a racoon riding on a dog’s back, or a bear and cat snuggling.
I have put a rabbit on a trampoline and it’s far less interesting than you would imagine.
Ride until you break stuff, then upgrade what broke or what’s limiting you. Logical increments is a great way to live imo.
I don’t recommend this with brakes ironically enough
This doesn’t work for mountain biking, because often the limiting factor is something like frame geometry, which means buying a whole bike to change.
The good news is you can get a decent quality used bike for very decent money, and change cheaper components to suit, things like pedals, seat, handlebars etc are very subjective.
They all zip past me on their fancy road bikes, barely even pedalling.
Me on my $30 mountain bike from the bike co-op. Miss that thing. It was a beast. They’d already fixed her up and it was the perfect bike to learn to really ride D.C. bike trails on. Rock solid.
Slop
No one likes MAMILs (Middle-aged man in lycra).
its cool that you saw a coyote pack and they didn’t attak you
Nope
