How else will my buddies know my FTP is 1.465% higher than theirs?

I think that's ridiculous as well. I know it's contentious for some, but I love my Transition bike's external rear brake hose. I have only had the bike a few months and I've moved things around a...

No. No, man. Shit no, man. I believe somebody'd get their ass kicked for doin' something like that.

Yup, the 3 i have broken were the Zee II. All 3 snapped where the upper arm attaches to the baseplate. Two of them didn't take a direct impact, just the momentum of the bottle broke it from the...

I've broken three Zee cages. Catch anything on it in a spill and it snaps right off. Really nice to hook the SWAT tool onto it though.

The best NX upgrade is to throw the whole group away and buy Shimano Deore. Shimano absolutely has the trickle-down figured out. SRAM just makes NX and SX so people will think of GX as a "premium"...

Shimano Fucking Cassettes. Specifically 12-speed mountain.

FIRST- they don't have a cohesive sprocket spider that holds all the cogs, ok I get it, but could you sell the cogs individually? NOPE...

I think by early next week a lot of Beacon will go, looking at the forecast. Highs in the mid-40s and some rain most of the next few days, then next week hopefully no freeze-thaw. Hero dirt could...

I would get Shanghaied in the ski forum for this rant, but shit, it keeps snowing in town here! March is supposed to be hero dirt in town, fresh dumps in the mountains. Instead, we've got a couple...

Honestly I'd consider this a win. Now if they're leaving those kind of ruts in berms or jumps there's a deserved ass-kicking but staying on the trail and not making it into a 30' wide bare patch in...

But how would you get Strava KOMs going slow

….so you’re saying GF’s mom is single?….

Why do 200/203 one-piece rotors even exist? Any tiny amount of heat on them or even changing weather temps and you get the interminable “ting ting ting” every revolution. Truing them doesn’t help...

Bummer. Been there, I stripped a bleed screw AND pushed the piston in wonky once so I destroyed both the lever and caliper in one go trying to fix the first mistake. Expensive oops suck.

At least...

Do you use flats or clips when you’re riding a man?

It’s a road bike. Slap some AquaSeal on that and let er rip

I could be wrong, but doesn’t that article say they’re building 35 miles of new MTB-only trails? If I were a horse person I’d be happy mtb-ers would have their own trails and probably stay off the...

Bury a penny farthing in the dirt then excavate it and claim historic use.

Follow up on this one!

Got a call from this shop while they were working on it and they said my chain is gone, need a new derailleur, cassette, maybe chainring, and both brake rotors are below...

Bike shop I bought my first FS MTB from advertises “free tuneups for life!”
Of course that marketing is all over their website and social media but it doesn’t say what that includes. So I call and...

I am referring to that. Maybe not qualifying for a full rant but again, the fact it needed a quick bleed after a few rides compared to a shitty post that’s been going strong for five years is...

Fucking thieves.

Had several packages with bike parts initially supposed to show up this week. Well in a miracle they all got shipped early and were delivered last week when I was out of town. I...

My old Giant Contact dropper from 2017 has been chugging along for five years, first as a demo bike and then for me. I flogged that thing in every condition and rarely serviced it. It’s got scratches...

I always thought Clif bars tasted like bowel obstruction

Shimano 12s Quick Links?!? $13?! How is a single link 25% of the price of the entire chain?

Call me a crank but I wasn’t impressed by Post Canyon. Decent, for sure, but not measuring up to the hype at all. I like the Beacon trails in Spo better.

Maybe blame your friends for shitty parenting resulting in shitty kids? Like everybody my age says, we never asked for participation trophies, that was all our parents trying to make up for their...

On the other hand, if it’s worth $370 to you it’s damn well worth $380, so you being a cheap bastard might not be reasonable to him. Maybe if you’d offered $320 he wouldn’t have told you to pound...

Fucking. Zwift. Updates.

Sir this is a Wendy’s

I thought we were putting queso in our tires to seal them?

I’ve taken to going without my chamois on rides under 20 miles or so. Just boxer briefs and shorts.

I don’t know if the Hardy Boys are hanging lower now that I’m getting older or what, but I’ve...

Anti-Rant.

The shop I last took bike to decided to fuck with my dropper without me asking and chopped off some of the housing, so when I turn the bars left, it pulls on the dropper cable and my...

This Is The Way.

Flats FTW

But in lift lines it makes it easier to cover the sound of my crop dusting

Update to the FedEx story. I found my package I was sure they didn’t deliver. The delivery instructions say deliver to the back door. I was sitting at the back door on date of delivery. (It’s a...

FedEx has delayed every shipment I’ve had sent to me in the last three months. They routinely “lose” tracking and then show up days later.

Most recently bought some parts and they show delivered....

Yeah I DGAF about what other riders are riding or look like but if you’re being a jerk, we’re gonna have a problem.

Examples:

XC spandex racers hogging trails or yelling at you to pass before...

I’ll add to the rant about trail damage.

I notice so many endur-Bros fucking walking their bikes uphill. Now, there’s a road next to the DH area they could walk, which is fine. I get not wanting...

This is 80% of my shop time on any project. Home improvement, bike work, car maintenance. Ugh. Never wanted kids but maybe I should have one just for the Tool Monkey and Flashlight Holder utility.

I’m on a bad fucking stretch of mechanical work on my mountain bike.

Couple weeks ago I tried to install a Works offset headset, borked up the bearing with my homemade press, what should have...

Spokane held a bike race this week on our in-town hill. So many little shits pushing their bikes off trail up switchbacks because they're too rad of DH racers to learn how to ride uphill, creating...

Quantity rants boys. I’ll pile on with I fucking hate stock of any kind, with the possible exception of llamas. Used to work at Grand Canyon NP and hiking up/down Kaibab and Bright Angel trails with...

Is that why it’s called a rim job?

RANT

Some asshole has been spreading glass on the local trails. Real dick move, but nobody’s caught the perp and there’s tons of walkers on the trails, so it’s pretty hard to narrow things down.