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The idiom is usually written chomping at the bit , and some people consider this spelling wrong. But chomp can also mean to bite or chew noisily (though chomped things are often eaten, while champed things are not), so chomp at the bit means roughly the same as champ at the bit .
In fact, chomp , which began as a variant of champ , is alive in English while the biting-related sense of champ is dead outside this idiom, so it’s no wonder that chomping at the bit is about 20 times as common as champing at the bit on the web. Champing at the bit can sound funny to people who aren’t familiar with the idiom or the obsolete sense of champ , while most English speakers can infer the meaning of chomping at the bit .
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horse people btfo
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No. They paid me for commercial use of the photos. It is not sponsored. It’s tricky since I’m a photographer and a owner of a media source, but companies often pay for me to shoot their lookbooks / product photos / lifestyle stuff. Usually, it’s not really relevant to the site, but bike launches are always relevant. Same with the All-City Spacehorse. I got paid to shoot photos for the companies to use in their press release / image catalog.
If it is “sponsored,” it’ll say it. Like the Subaru Death Valley post, or the SRAM Cerro Gordo project.
Paid in full
Because it is not prolly writing the prose
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Wait until I tell you about the nickname for the University of Oklahoma.
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Correc’t
I live in a city with a huge boulevard filled with Confederate monuments. “Sooner” is gross, but pales in comparison.
The thing with the Land Run gravel race is that it’s a new event- a chance not to repeat the errors of the past.
You’ve never been to Oklahoma, have you?
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Nope! Have you? Is there some kind of place dependent thing I’m not understanding?
I mean, yeah, the whole fucking state.
I also go there annually now that I married someone from there. She did land run for the 100 anniversary in 2nd grade. For reference her hometown is Stonewall. You know, since they had a big stake in the civil war.
Also weird that y’all just heard about the land run race.
So what’s your point? I’m confused
Oklahoma is into repeating errors of the past.
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The whole thing is engrained into their identity as a state that the vast majority don’t even give it a second thought. One university’s nickname is for the people who cheated and settled land before the landrun and the other are cowboys. You could imagine that A People’s History isn’t a popularly prescribed book in high school history classes that meet only 4 days a week because of budget cuts.
Bleak
I was taken aback because I was last thinking about Oklahoma last year during the wave of teachers strikes- I was excited to see progressive politics in motion. I’d not realized that a passionate and uncritical embrace of white supremacy was such an overt part of the states culture.
I also, despite much evidence to the contrary, tend to think of bike culture as leaning gently leftward.
Check out the latest entry on PVD’s blog. Maybe it’s me, but an i25 rim seems narrow for the riding he’s doing. Then again…
PVD knows waaaaay more about bikes than the rest of us combined. Don’t question his choices.
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With a normal tubeless setup, I’ve been using 30 psi front and 40 psi rear.
Is this even normal or recommended? It seems high.
It seems awfully hard.