Well, I'm off work (thanks to vacation and Holidays) for the rest of the year and I'm going to take the opportunity to squeeze in as much riding as I can. Today the weather gods did their part (sunny 70) and I did mine. I took the Hillborne for a 4 hour ramble over mixed terrain with no particular goal in mind, no particular destination and no particular time limit - my favorite type of riding!
One thing I did want to do was take my Primus camp stove and some tea along for a little trail-side tea break. Not sure who mentioned this idea (Rob?) but it stuck in my mind as something fun to do. I like to drink lots of hot green tea, so why not bring some along? I have a canister based stove system and over the past several years have accumulated several canisters that have just a little bit of fuel left in 'em - not enough fuel to risk taking on an overnight trip. So hey, what a great way to use them up! Yes, I know, then what do you do with the canister? You shouldn't put them in the trash and you can't recycle them (I don't think)...what to do? In yesterdays REI mailer (page 6), there was a new product called Jetboil Flash Crunchit Bundle. It is a whole stove system that comes with a "Crunchit" tool that "preps empty isobutane fuel cans for recycling". Thats all well and good but it costs $99!! Seems to me that REI, or any store that sells the fuel canisters, should take them back and use the Crunchit tool on them and recycle them for free...thats the trend, if you sell it - you should recycle it too. Does anyone know if REI will recycle fuel canisters? Has anyone used a Crunchit tool? I'm breaking in a new saddle - a VO model 5 sprung saddle. At this point, the saddle is winning the war. Man, this is a hard saddle. Two weeks and it is still brick hard. I'm missing my B17 (on the Betty Foy now...maybe forever). Learned a poem today too...just my length: This present moment that lives on to become long ago (Gary Snyder) Well thats my ramble for today. Happy riding!! Joel (All my molecules are happy molecules...) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
