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I have come to possess a mountain bike with perhaps the worst hydraulically actuated brakes known to mankind, Hayes So1e. What should I replace them with? Rotors are 180 mm/160 mm front/rear and condition is fine. Upsizing the rear rotor might be problematic with frame clearance. Post mount in front. IS in back.
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Horizontal Tree posted:Shimano MT200 Too late. I already ordered MT520 front/MT500 rear, MT501 levers on both. 
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Jul 5, 2023 11:09
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Dog Case posted:For the first time ever I think we need new terms for types of bikes, because "gravel bike" currently encompasses Path Less Pedaled style "riding my platform pedaled fat tire bike on gravel roads while wearing Crocs" and also misplaced roadies racing carbon bikes on gravel roads. Famous bicycle mechanics Wilbur & Orville Wright built gravel bikes. 
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Jul 8, 2023 07:10
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Who has the most phallic grips? Here is my nomination. 
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Jul 13, 2023 11:59
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I’m the four rounds of ammunition. Potassium permanganate is an O.K. disinfectant but does not counteract snake venom. Paludrin works but would not be taken as a sole antimalarial today. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Jul 23, 2023 14:04
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distortion park posted:Her bike is 16.7kg unloaded 
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Jul 23, 2023 14:47
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I heard about a guy who had bear spray mounted under the downtube. His front tire kicked up a rock that pierced the can. Good times were had.
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Aug 6, 2023 22:17
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Dog Case posted:It's neat that tubeless has been around for over 20 years and it still has that diy packing tape garage conversion that doesn't always work right feeling to it
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Aug 13, 2023 08:18
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ENVE posted:So herein lies the number one problem in road/gravel tubeless innovation today. Rim manufacturers have outpaced the rate at which some tire manufacturers have innovated, creating a complicated environment for consumers when it comes to pairing tires with their new state-of-the-art hookless road or gravel rims. quote:According to Continental product manager, Jan-Niklas Jünger: “[hookless] does not work in our favour and we would certainly prefer to stay on hooked rims as it allows more safety to the end user, however we understand the wheelbuilding industry will push towards hookless-only as it decreases weight, carbon-scrap rate, production costs etc. 
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Aug 13, 2023 09:31
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Blackhawk posted:Hah yeah, from reading the Giant hookless compatibility table it seems like Continental has already made a GP 5000 tire variant that they're willing to let Giant say is compatible with their hookless rims, so I think once the big brands start swinging their dicks around the tire manufacturers will give in, but you can see they're reluctant because it's basically wheel manufacturers cost-cutting their process by shifting that cost onto tire manufacturers. That ENVE quote is so far up its own rear end with their “we’re moving fast and breaking things and they’re not  ” attitude, but yeah I figured that if bikes are coming with hookless rims in any real quantity, tire makers are going to want a slice of that pie.Conversely, if tires remain cheaper to make for hooked rims, they’ll have a niche for a long time. It’s a shame that carbon fibre can’t be extruded into arbitrary profiles like metal. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Aug 14, 2023 |
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Aug 13, 2023 10:25
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tarlibone posted:I would murder so many people to have a 73° F dew point on 100° days. Frankly it’s too muggy any time the dew point climbs into the fifties.
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Aug 14, 2023 05:07
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If you bought new tires, but also want “newer wheels and tires”, what’s your sunk cost here? The saddle? That’s something that you can probably carry over if you want to. I’m a believer that old stuff works fine, if it’s working just keep maintaining it, but if you have to replace everything but the frame, that pretty quickly adds up to a down payment on a new bike. At least price them all out before you start buying and replacing parts one‐by‐one.
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Aug 15, 2023 01:33
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Spherical washers are fine. They don’t shift on me when I tighten the bolt. I can’t say that of disc brakes.
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Aug 20, 2023 22:56
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lol if you think you won’t be Flinstoning on a dandy horse
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Aug 23, 2023 05:54
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When you got a group ride at five but need to hack a radio network at six.
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Aug 27, 2023 08:39
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Cogs with ten teeth have always been an unalloyed good when you’re working with a single chainring. You’ll notice that the 2× groupsets only go to eleven.
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Sep 1, 2023 12:02
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I carry repair supplies, and they seem to function as talismans against any event where they would be used.
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Sep 15, 2023 01:47
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The Shimano Allfine hub has a good range as far as those things go, but the sprockets and the reduction in the hub basically cancel out, and you’re left with 1:1 as your lowest gearing. This is probably not as low as you want for bikepacking. If a chain were involved, I’d say “whatever, chains and gears are cheap enough and easy to change, and how fast* do you really want to go in the highest gear?”, but you probably don’t want to swap out everything on a new bike. There’s also the difficulty of fixing it if something goes wrong on a bikepacking trip, yeah. *Out of the box, it can do like sixty‐five kilometres per hour in top gear at a cadence of hundred and twenty.
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Sep 16, 2023 01:54
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Cable-actuated disc brakes are a trick to get the bean counters to allow designers to spec frames, forks, and wheels for disc brake mounts and rotors. When you get fed up with them, it’s easy enough to throw on some Shimano oildraulics.
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Sep 16, 2023 23:30
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w4ddl3d33 posted:(german for bike shed is 'radhaus' in case you ever need it) You can’t fool me. That’s too short for a proper German word. Must be Swamp German.
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Sep 16, 2023 23:56
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I bought and installed a white saddle. This was probably a mistake.
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Sep 17, 2023 11:33
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w4ddl3d33 posted:i cannot for the life of me figure out what this means. I immediately got black smudges on it because I had just handled the dusty and possibly slightly greasy seat post and the clamp. They wiped off with alcohol, but I sense It’s going to be a recurring issue. At least the chain is waxed and the bike has disc brakes, so there’s no aluminum oxide from brake tracks. Road dust is unavoidable though. w4ddl3d33 posted:has my brain just totally rotted? It’s a safe assumption on this website.
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Sep 17, 2023 13:12
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It’s a great feeling when I’m like “this hill is kicking my rear end today… oh I’m climbing it in a higher gear”. And then a rider on a single‐gear bike blows past like it’s nothing. 
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Sep 18, 2023 03:34
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Some of the Chester “knockoffs” are better than the Chester itself because they don’t have a pronounced hump for the spindle.
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Sep 19, 2023 00:56
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Hydraulics loving own. Give me hydraulic rim brakes. Give me hydraulic shifting. Give me a hydraulic dropper post. Give me hydraulic transmission of power from the crank to the wheel. e: Also hydraulic fork/rear shock lockout, hydraulic bell, hydraulic horn, hydraulic power meter, hydraulic lights—maybe carbide or gas mantle for those. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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Sep 19, 2023 04:24
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Yeah I know. I expect that it’s not great for reasons that have little to do with it being hydraulic and a lot to do with it being a first‐generation product. If Rotor sends me a bike equipped with the system, I will give it my honest review on the Something Awful comedy forum. If they let me keep the bike, I will give a dishonest review.
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Sep 19, 2023 11:56
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There was also hydraulic dropper seat post actuation, in the old Rockshox Reverbs.
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Sep 19, 2023 12:06
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lol if you don’t have both a waxed chain and a guard ring protecting you from such mishaps
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Sep 20, 2023 09:18
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Wearing a mountain biking helmet on the road to trigger the dentists.
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Shadowhand00 posted:
Tucking/taping confirmed æro.
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Sep 21, 2023 07:26
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numberoneposter posted:https://www.bicycleretailer.com/rec...rticle-comments quote:Some replacement crank lengths and chainring combinations will be unavailable. For example, some Ultegra cranksets with 53-39 chainrings will be replaced with 52-36 chainrings. Dura-Ace 180mm cranks will be replaced with 177.5mm cranks. lol
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Crumps Brother posted:Did I miss something that mentioned power meters? Cuz I have a left and right PM on one of my two cranks that are on the list. https://www.bicycleretailer.com/recalls/2023/09/21/shimano-recalls-760-000-hollowtech-road-cranks-after-receiving-4-500-incident posted:If the consumer has purchased an affected crank with a third-party power meter installed, such as a Stages, Pioneer or 4iiii power meter, Shimano will accept the crank back and return a new crank without a power meter and compensate the consumer. The compensation rates start at $300 for a single non-drive side power meter to $500 for a dual-sided meter.
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The range of commonly available crank sizes is weirdly narrow. If we assume that hundred and seventy five millimetre cranks are appropriate for a person five foot eleven inches in height (one point eight metres), cranks of one hundred and sixty‐five millimetres would be appropriate for someone who is five foot seven inches (one point seven metres). I’m not saying that even shorter cranks are the answer to all fit troubles, but I am saying that they shouldn’t be so niche. One in four American men is shorter than five foot seven inches and nine in ten American women are. Or maybe short people are actually using perfect cranks, and it is tall people who could make good use of longer ones. In either event, if it’s likely that a random sample of thirty people will have the extremes differing by more than twenty percent in height, why is it that the longest cranks in the shop are only six percent longer than the shortest?
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:This is the stupidest bike poo poo I've read since Bicycling's thing about the f150 being the ultimate cycling accessory yeah that would be the element
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Dynamos are for dinosaurs.
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“Dynamo” hubs are stupid. Contactless induction is the future.
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Awkward Davies posted:Are there any cheap-ish glasses people can recommend that don't look like they unofficially sponsored the Jan 6 riots? Best I can do is expensive ones that look like they sponsored the January Sixth rioters but in fact hate their guts.
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Mederlock posted:Yeah it's a blast to take drop bars through single track. Makes a person want to install a suspension fork…
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Two of the four fatal mountain lion attacks in the United States in the past twenty years were on mountain bikers. You’re still way more likely to be killed by a snake or a tree.
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Slavvy posted:*pedalling at full power as the mountain lion closes in on me* THIS IS STATISTICALLY UNLIKELY!!! That’s how you get KOM/QOM.
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