The guys who built my previous house built a detached, fairly simple garage and then periodically parked their RV in it while they built the main house over the course of a couple years. Seems like...

An on topic question: last summer, a few friends and I were in France, where weed is illegal (I'm told). On a layover between trains, one friend went to a CBD shop next to the station and bought a...

It's funny - I just had a fresh demo bike show up today with shimano brakes. Wandering bite point right out of the box.

Plenty of brakes can develop air in the system even after a "perfect" bleed that purges all air. Air can work its way in past seals. It's why shimanos develop their notorious wandering bite point...

The partial bleeds are nice sometimes because, more often than not, if a little air works it's way into the system, it's at the lever end. So you can just open up the port on the lever and get the...

I'm sure that syndicate method works fine for getting bubbles out, but it's messy as fuck.

A Sram bleed takes half as long, I don't have to unbolt the caliper, and I don't have to pull the pads. ...

I've got Max for general TV/ movie watching, but it's still giving me sports (including bikes) for free. Not sure how long that'll last for. Once the free period ends, I'll probably end up paying...

Neither, really. I didn't want to die / get grievously injured before kids, and I still don't.

To the extent I've dialed back on risks, it's because I'm older and I'm aware that I'm not as...

Just finished season 4 of true detective. So yeah... agreed with comments above. It was pretty bad. Fairly underwhelmed with Jodie Foster. Agent Starling has gotten kinda shitty in her older...

We need a new thread discussing how much internet banter is too much when the guy on the other end pretty clearly has some sort of spectrum disorder.

Couple of tires and a jug of sealant
Tube(s)
Probably an extra rear shock
Extra chain + links
An extra rotor or two
Extra brake pads
Extra rear derailleur
An extra derailleur hanger if I have...

I dunno. Anything with a fast run in (particularly a run in that's all downhill) has a go / no go point that's actually pretty far from the take off. All it takes is some sticky snow after after...

But if the miscalculation on the road gap was a result of the snow being sticky, leading to an unexpectedly slow in-run, is there really any difference? Either way, it's an outside force that's...

Sure - different people get their kicks doing different things. That seems fairly self evident.

But this thread is about people that get their kicks from risk. And while nordic skiing /...

In this case, I think it's fair to say he's both wrong and an asshole.

Plenty of people, myself certainly included, are chasing that dopamine hit. It's a large part of the reason why I don't nordic ski or spend time on a gravel bike - there's no payoff; no endorphin...

A concentric BB places a suspension pivot around the bottom bracket.

An eccentric BB places the bottom bracket in an offset carrier which can be rotated, which can be used to tension the chain...

Yeah, my current bike has a concentric BB pivot. As did my bike before this one. And a couple others that I had before that. So apparently I'm not annoyed enough to stop buying them. But still,...

Concentric BB pivot means you have a couple of big bearings in a high load area (suspension forces + drivetrain forces) that's very prone to contamination, and it's a semi-unusual bearing size that...

Dunno about better than Gary Numan, but I like this version by Wand:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66GBpqaNgAY

In the interest of not being too itchy, the TGR merkins should be just like the forums: lacking tags.

The image uploader was broken by 2pole trying to upload 87 copies of the same picture of a 200' tall hill outside of Spokane.

It's basically a Santa Cruz with the added annoyance of a concentric bb pivot.

It does look sexy though.

No, of course not.

But this place is dying because traffic is dwindling and new users are scarce. And one of the reasons for that is that reddit is massive, and is sucking traffic away from...

Reddit's active user numbers have doubled in the past 5 years. You can complain about the quality of the content on there all you want, but the fact remains that 1) it is a forum, and 2) it is most...

Not dying, just consolidating into reddit.

I have to think that it's tech talk and ski/snowboard that's keeping this place afloat.

Every other subforum in this place is the same ~100 people talking back and forth, which doesn't seem...

I'm annoyed at anyone that's not with him.

My understanding was that backing out DIN was more to save the plastic in the binding. The spring itself will be fine. But I dunno. I never back out my DIN and have never had a problem.

I do...

I think your sarcasm meter is broken.

No issue with grip 2.

^^^ interesting. I've always been curious about those, but I've never tried one.

Spray paint it gold and sell it on ebay with a $1k reserve price.

If the tires are still more or less holding air after the winter, I'll usually give a quick <1 ounce squirt in there through the valve just to top it off, and then call it good.

The local car wash now offers monthly memberships. It's like $40 for unlimited washes. Judging by the ~30 minute lineup at that place most days, a lot of people use it. I think I actually wash my...

1x11 was way better than 1x12. Shifted better and was more durable. And the range was fine with 26" wheels, but it's painful with 29" wheels.

Oh, I've had some of those too. A couple that like to unthread, a couple that like to seize (especially forks, for some reason). Most work fine without any extra fussing.

Easier to pedal and amazing suspension is definitely in part due to 1x drivetrains. Suspension kinematics depend a lot on the drivetrain and where the chain is relative to the pivots. It's easier...

In fairness to the sprinter hordes, it was always the dudes in lifted trucks with a bunch of side by sides tear-assing all over the camping zones that really seemed like they were created an...

I liked Versailles. Cruise through the palace and then wander the gardens. They're awesome and less crowded.

Keep a close eye on your shit on the train to/ from the airport. Pickpockets are...

I'm assuming your last bike was at least a decade old, since no one really has made a 2x mountain bike in the last decade. And if you're not noticing a massive difference between a bike from pre...

All that stuff was in production in the 80's. But regardless, bikes were always fun!

But they're significantly more fun when I'm not stopping to put a chain back on all the time. And I can't...

I mean, I was running 1x before sram came out with the dedicated 1x group. Lots of people were. But the wide range cassette from sram made it a whole lot more pleasant.

Shimano fought the 1x...

Some bikes seem to just like to unthread their axles. My current norco does it (and has a pinch bolt retention to prevent it). I've had some other bikes in the past that'd occasionally do it too.
...

Yup. Noticeably more grip on roots and rocks. Doesn't make a huge difference in sand / gravel / loose surfaces. Rolls noticeably slower, and wears faster.

Personally, I like a maxxgrip on...

I guess I don't really consider things that happened in the 80's to count. Mountain bikes were still being invented back then, so I don't think of stuff like the existence of suspension and disc...

Chain suck is pretty low on the list of problems with FD's. If your chain and rings are in good shape, chain suck doesn't happen that much.

Bigger problems with front derailleurs:
Chain...

I look at it this way: if sram didn't exist, we'd all still be running shimano 2x10 drivetrains. They'd shift nice and hold up reasonably well, and they'd drop a chain ever other ride. Suspension...

Closing weekend in whitefish. Camped up at the hill with 6 other friends / families, and got a decent amount of hot pow to cap things off.

Camper party:...

Yeah, I mean none of those ideas were original to sram. All of them (maybe not wireless drivetrains?) existed in some iteration or another. But sram was responsible for bringing those ideas to...

The death of front derailleurs

Freehubs that can go smaller than 11t

Narrow wide chainrings (and cassettes, and pulley wheels)

Wireless shifting

Direct mount derailleurs