The solution here is to buy a much, much cheaper bike and then pay someone to deal with the fuckery for you.

I had a coworker who still had access to his former jobs QBP login and would build up a new bike every year, and then sell it at cost or a small profit once he had a new bike built up.

I miss...

Some guy on the local trail network's FB page put up a post gloating about he spent 10 mins telling off some guy he found doing unauthorized trailwork on the network this past weekend. What was the...

you posted this, then a bunch of mags aged 45-60 posted proving your hypothesis haha.

hahaha. I still remember the day i was bitching about how my cage didnt snugly fit my waterbottle and having it rattle around. My buddy silently just walked over to my bike, bent the cage in a...

IME, its not so much shitty work that is the problem, its the lack of work. Lots of folks think that the if the new trail is intended to be 18" wide that they only need to benchcut 18", or they put...

Personally i just bump Ludacris on my handlebar speaker. Im just saying what people should do, not what i do. Rules for thee, not for me, etc.


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1: Cough or clear your throat loudly, backpedal to buzz your hub, grab a squeaky brake. Whatever natural sound you can make from a ways off to let an attentive trail user that another user is coming...

Yep, if you are consistently running into assholes out on the trails, you might be an asshole.

You ever run across hikers who tell you that bikes arent allowed on the trail you built?

I have lol.

Hows about, if its a hiker built trail then hikers have the ROW. If its a MTB built trail, MTB has the right of way. If you dont know who built the trail, give way to the other user. Seems simple...

Ill say it again, riding large doubles at speed with short transitions between jumps can result in really bad things if you grab brakes at the wrong time. Combined with the GoPro effect of slowing...

Eh, i quickly watched once with no sound. the gopro effect slows things down, gives a wider view, and generally makes things seem slower/smaller/less gnarly.

When you are riding big jump lines...

$50 labor to install a dropper is fair, IMO. Not cheap by any means, but within the realm of what id expect. I wont complain about that.


Its the lack of customer-sense that bothers me. If i...

$350 for the dropper, $60-$70 lever, tax and the rest labor. On a bike that is beat to hell with multiple parts (including wheels) bent/dented/scratched and really probably should be replaced but...

I have a 2017 slayer with a RF Turbine dropper post on it which just recently stopped working. Mind you my bike is beat the hell and has multiple components noticeably limping along. I took the...

I had this happen about 9 years ago. Had to replace the brakes and rotors. It was like the rear brake achieved harmonic resonance with the bike frame... it did teach me to lay off the brakes quite...

Maybe im no seeing the situation correctly, but it looks like the bridge comes up like 100ft short of where the stream channel is during a 1" rain event. So this isnt really an issue of how high the...

If its a new trail, let the trail builder add it. If the builder didnt add it to trailforks, there is a reason. If you arent the builder, then dont add it to trailforks. Pretty simple IMO. There...

yep i do. Though, I try and avoid the popular descents if i do, or take logging roads if they are an alternative. If i am stuck on a two-way singletrack i usually am super careful and try to stay...

Pretty much. At some point, if that much conflict is happening to you, you really need to take a hard look at what you might be doing to attract that conflict.

Its pretty easy to recognize the...

I find that not riding in the main descending line around blind corners works really well to avoid conflict.

IDK if this is you or not, but there are folks who live and die by "ascending rider...

You prefer hardpack groomers over fresh powder too, huh? Weirdo.

It truly is a wonderful thing to ride a loamer in peak condition where you sink and then catch into every turn, and you can feel...

Brakes. both front and rear brakes stopped working last week. I tried swapping brake pads thinking i had somehow fouled them. Now im thinking its the rotors. They have less than 50% power right...

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Make them different color poop bags so it looks liked collected shit bags, and please add water to the bag so if someone does ride over one, it oozes/sprays mud.

No poop needed. Just grab a bunch of dog poop bags, fill them with dirt, and you got yourself what everyone will think is dog poop.

Dont they? Pretty sure a 20oz gatorade or powerade bottle would fit fine in my basic cheap metal bottle cage. Especially because it bends to tighten or loosen. Never tried, but im like 90% it would.

No, no dropper lever. Just need a small handfull of gears to winch me to the top, a quick release seatpost clamp to slam the seatpost once i reach to top, and a single bigger gear for the steep...

First off you are fucking high. there is nothing short about a 30mile RT ride, IDC how you cut it. Lets get that out of the way haha.

Second, that sounds infuriating, and like a "never again"...

What if you dont have an extra tube? what if the extra tube is old, or somehow got cut or degraded whilst on your bike/in your pack, and wont hold air? What if you bring 1 tube but get 2 flats? I...

But, you can also probably baby a wheel riding out on a flat tire with inserts, vs having to stuff the tire full of pine needles and leaves without an insert. Other good part of an insert would be...

Everyone with this complaint is missing the point. People who want this drivetrain are rarely actually shifting on trail. We shift into the granny gear at the start of the climb and then shift into...

Id argue its more akin to driving without AC or heat and the bumper ripped off. And for something that i crash a hanful of times per year, im not sweating the stuff that doesnt prevent me from...

What i consider "rideable" vs what you consider "rideable" is probably very different haha.

What if it told you my RF dropper was way over pressurized when i first installed it and i used it to prank friends who would hit the trigger and then get punched in the taint/balls by dangerously...

Interestingly, i would also be very much in favor of a 5spd drivetrain with MASSIVE jumps between gears. I really only use my granny gear, the next gear down, a middleish gear, and then my biggest...

In all honesty, if the dropper isnt super duper reliable you arent losing anything by just having a quick release seatpost clamp. heck, it would just save a bunch of weight. +90% of the rides...

reverb dropper posts.

Yep, same. Fairly lame, rolling trails in a state park but its a 35-40 minute out and back single-track lap depending on how i piece trails together. I will bring out the SS fully rigid bike with...

Hikers and headphones on singletrack oblivious to all other trail users. Some old ladys powerwalking their dogs asked to pass a couple times to no avail until they just bustled on by her and called...

Yes logging company land and DNR land is where trails in WA get built... but also the downhill directional trails tend to be the kind that you cannot physically ride up. I.E. legit steep, with...

Ummmm, to not empower the kind of assholes who ride faster than their sightlines allow?

That is really the reason for "downhill yields"- so that dangerous riding faster than sight lines allow...

On a 2-way popular trail, might it be a good idea to not be riding so fast that it takes you 100+ft of skidding and fuckery to barely avoid a collision if your sight lines are <120'? Id think that...

Yep, amazon has them arriving today. I bought the front pads and mineral oil at the local LBS and overpaid by about 100% (fucking $45 for XT pads, gofuckyourself), so this new set for the rear was...

Probably. I would think/hope that cleaning with rubbing alcohol and sanding off the contaminated layer would have fixed the issue. will probably have to bite the bullet and get new pad as part of...

My good buddy is moving a few states away in a couple days. He was very involved in the MTB scene in my area, and through him i got way more into MTB and met and rode with lots of industry folks and...

Rotor rub is really fucking annoying. zero performance issue, but annoying nonetheless.

Coming up on someone hike-a-biking up a tech climb who makes no effort to get out of the way or acknowledge...

So, you got pissy over someone not following the law... on a pirate trail? And you wouldnt let someone pass you on a climb, because they struck you as entitled?

Really, it should be that whoever its easy for should pull over. If its easy for both riders, then you can wave each other on how you like. People who follow the letter of the law even when it...