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Bottom Liner posted:So we had gravel specific suspension forks earlier this year, now we get a "gravel dropper post" 27.2mm: good 50mm travel: why loving bother e: 0mm offset: dumb as hell on a road bike internally routed: wont work with 99% of gravel/cross bikes out there currently Clark Nova fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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yeah, clearing out last year's models at a steep discount is pretty normal (in a normal year)
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camelbak makes a lumbar pack for mountain biking, and there's also http://www.wingnutgear.com/ who make a range of low-slung backpacks. I've never been interested enough to spend $100+ to try the idea out, though
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bamhand posted:Orange seal
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I have an osprey e: getting up to go look at the thing instead of just glancing at their website, mine is actually a "talon 11" which is no longer made. Great naming convention, guys Clark Nova fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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jesus WEP posted:*Rainier Wolfcastle voice* my mech, the dork disc does nothing lmao imagine a 300mm dork disc that could actually save a modern 1x derailleur
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Boogalo posted:My 2020 roscoe 8 had a cage bearing headset and got super crunchy contaminated with mud within 2 months and they wouldn't warranty it I'm mad on your behalf that they put a caged bearing headset on a real bike in tyool 2020. wtf?
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FYI you can get a DT Swiss or Hope hub into those "boost 141" frames if you put quick release end caps on a boost-spaced hub. I still wouldn't want one, though
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PoorPeteBest posted:I do tubeless without a compressor. Most times I can get it done with a floor pump but I ended up getting one of these a few years ago and it always works: I have the specialized version of this ("air tool blast") and it's great. It's cheaper and feels less wasteful than buying a cruddy little air compressor I have no other use for.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Great, thanks. I'll go in to the local shop and see how much it would cost to get a dropper installed. I could probably do it myself but I have so much other stuff to work on that I might want to pay someone to do it for me and I'd like to support that shop if I can. I'm not sure internally-routed dropper posts even existed in 2013. You may have to get an external dropper, which either has a lever at the seatpost clamp or a cable leading from there to the handlebars. It limits your options a bit but is much less of a pain in the rear end to install
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taqueso posted:I thought this book was really good and it could help you with cornering. I got it after I had been mountain biking for years and felt like I knew what I was doing and still learned a lot of stuff about body position and weight distribution; and navigating corners, bumps, etc. be sure to get the latest edition of this book because they revised and modernized it quite a lot.
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vikingstrike posted:You can rebuild SRAM calipers. the easy rebuild process is to have your bike shop RMA them 
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Bud Manstrong posted:I’ve had luck looking at the exploded diagram and ordering individual parts to repair stuff like lever blades and RD bits, but I bet that’ll get you close to or over the price of a new RD in this case. almost every time I've looked up parts by number like that the only seller for the part was that japanese ebay shop that wants like $30 to ship items to the US 
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Conventional wisdom is to size up for mountain bikes and size down for road bikes. MTB design adding ~50mm reach in the space of half a decade seems nuts on paper but it works for me 
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Yup, you’ll probably have to top up your sealant every few months. IME orange seal endurance really does last longer e: by far the east and best way to add sealant is to take out the presta valve core and squirt it in with a purpose-made syringe or injector bottle with a little hose Clark Nova fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Apr 30, 2023 |
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prom candy posted:Any old grease will do? yeah, standard automotive grease is fine, a tub will last you decades. I use waterproof marine grease
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lol I hope that snaps off really easily
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MuadDib Atreides posted:Ok. Are they all the same? The shop had specailized brand for $60 yeah, I don't remember where I read it but most name-brand shock pumps literally come from the same factory
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Ropes4u posted:Probably the last question I’m about the same and got a large because when I climbed on top of the fucker for a test ride it seemed like it was made for me e: assuming your dropper doesn’t immediately disintegrate like at the top of the page, you can make it feel a lot better by getting a nicer dropper lever. Wolf tooth or whatever. Clark Nova fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Sep 6, 2023 |
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Sep 6, 2023 15:59
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spwrozek posted:Can someone explain to me what a "nice dropper lever is"? I have only had the dropper lever from bontrager that came in my trek. I push and the seat goes up and down... What am I missing? Ergonomics mostly. A good lever should be easy to press without taking your hand off the brakes and should feel crisp and reliable instead of mushy and inconsistent. If it isn't annoying you, you don't need a new one
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post hole digger posted:Been thinking about picking up a mountain bike lately, a lot. I mostly have a road/"gravel"/underbiking trails background and ive spent a lot of time on a surly crosscheck, but after getting creamed by a car a few years ago, i haven't had the appetite to ride road again for some reason. i don't really know poo poo about mountain bikes though. I've been doing some basic research on buyers guides, but a lot of that stuff only goes so far -- I've been looking at Surly again, and think the Ghost Grappler and the (front suspension) Karate Monkey are both pretty interesting albeit obviously quite different. I want to be able to hit the local singletrack in the morning and occasionally take on some longer fire road/gravel/single track hauls on the weekends. I did a fair amount of bikepacking on my Crosscheck before I met my wife but idk how much of it I'd do these days. My head tells me the Karate Monkey would make more sense for quick shred sessions (bay area, hilly and dry), although I can't get over how much I dig the GG. The Kona Unit X is steel, rigid, bikepacking-oriented and probably more widely available and a better value than Surly. Chromag specializes in shreddy steel hardtails but they're not particularly cheap
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I'd say a major factor would be whether ebikes are even allowed on your local/favorite trail system but it turns out nobody loving cares
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Platystemon posted:wtf the “Barcentric” 2×‐friendly dropper lever that I ordered on Aliexpress from an 80% positive feedback seller arrived, and it’s exactly what it’s supposed to be. heh, I thought all of wolf tooth's stuff was manufactured domestically, but I checked and that particular dropper lever conspicuously does *not* say made in the USA on the product page
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I imagine the only difference between a name brand mudguard and an amazon allcaps mudguard is that the latter will say "CJNGIADF" instead of "Mucky Nutz" so it is an all around improvement
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lol I bet that kickstand is like two pounds by itself
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