I don't have too much experience with Gear Trade but this is potentially a screaming deal on some weight weenie XC wheels. XRC 1200 rims on 240s. No actual pictures of the wheels though...
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I rode a pair on a hardtail and they did just fine. Though they did have the I9 1/1 hubs and not the crankbrothers branded ones. I was using them for their intended XC purpose but for most of that...

Red Ridge got torched in a fire a few years back I think its fairly common to have trees down across it. Looks like it was clear as of September but I'd imagine the winter storms have gotten it...

That did the trick, thanks

Looks like they're back up to $70. Was there anything else you added on to get these down to $70?

Woah, wild. Do you know if this outfit ships?

I hopped on the Transition deal the other week. Ordered a Patrol through my local dealer who honored the sale price. Couldn't be happier to have snagged a ripping deal and link it to a local shop.

Great color on the frame though

Yeah with anything above 40 degrees you're going to end up damp from either sweat or rain. Softshell pants with regularly applied DWR is the best compromise in my opinion.

Showers Pass makes a...

This could easily be cross posted in the ask an idiot thread but the only time I’ve put one in a tire it flatted again in minutes. It had been so long since I had put a tube in I completely spaced on...

I’ve got one code available. PM me.

EDIT: aaaaaaaand it’s gone

Thanks for the rundown! Went to that Alpacka sidewalk sale and ended up with a wolverine set up for self bailing and a spray skirt. Looks like folks have been taping over the self bailing holes when...

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Well this is a well timed thread. I'm going to be in this next of the woods right around the same time.

Adrenalated, to ride Stagecoach from the Rico side would you go up Scotch Creek, down...

Todd Alpaka is having a garage sale on October 14th if you're able to get up to Dolores.

I'd like to pick myself up a boat and wondered if anyone had any input on self-bailing vs. a spray deck....

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Ape Canyon and Plains of Abraham are classics for a reason. Starting to feel a bit like fall up there with some foliage starting to turn...
Rode Smith Creek down which...

Ibis has a factory in Santa Cruz but to my knowledge they're only making their Exie XC frame there. And they still over a made in Vietnam version for that frame.

Bummer that GG threw in the...

As a PeePee 1.0 owner I hadn't ever considered sticking it in a brake caliper. Do you think I need the 1.2 firmware update or should it be good to go?

I want to get a spare AXS battery to throw in the repair kit for big days. Does anyone feel the need to talk me out of an Amazon knockoff?

Yeah I've never taken the plunge on the shake-dry stuff because of durability concerns. Thanks for the info!

I'm not convinced there is a foolproof solution to layering for winter riding in the...

XTR do you have much experience with the Gore Shakedry fabrics? The roadies here in Portland swear by it.

Edit: AK I should mention, if you're anywhere near a city with an Evo location they're...

I swung by an REI this evening while out running errands. They had just shipped out all three of the XT cassettes in stock. The shop tech who was helping me out was baffled until I pointed out the...

XT SPD pedals for $64, also half off. Might have to pick up a pair of spares...

https://www.rei.com/product/161409/shimano-pd-m8120-xt-spd-trail-pedals

Got a SRAM XG1175 10/42 tooth cassette that could use a home. XD driver. Decently well used but life left for sure.

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In the past two weeks I've dropped both a bleed port screw and cable capture bolt into the abyss that is my filthy garage floor. Gone forever.

This is why I don't have children

Sweet score if it is true! I've been nosing around looking at SB100 frames and there definitely seems to be some deals out there for the taking. Guess the venn diagram of people who want Yetis and...

Winter of 2021 I flew down to Baja for a two week bikepacking trip. I'm the last one of our group of 10 to arrive at the Airbnb and arrive about 5pm the night before we start riding. I knock back a...

Second the idea that on the fly routing is lousy on any bar mounted unit. My Wahoo is fantastic for established route navigation and the workflow to loading routes onto it works great. But anytime...

Garbaruk makes replacement cages. They come in red.
https://www.garbaruk.com/rear-derailleur-cage-for-shimano-12-speed-mtb.html?category=15

Thank god. Day dreams about this bike crept into quite a few of my climbs this past spring.

Big fan of the Jabras I bought. The Amazon refurb warehouse section has them for ~$55 which is a smoking deal. They're sweat and water resistant which is good, I think that's what tanked my last...

Pop a mushroom, ride from your door, smooth out all the shitty frost heaves and chip seal on the paved roads, turn onto some dirt, smell some flowers, transform some boring singletrack into something...

The North Cascades weekends are at the discretion of Washington DOT and depend on the plowing progress along the highway. I think this weekend is the last open to bikes weekend. They communicate...

My vote goes for the 90s mountain bike with some wild paint scheme. Put a microshift 1x9 11-50 drive train and some decent v-brakes or cantis. Better yet, find the frame and give him a parts budget....

NPS roads in the closed to cars open to bikes sweet spots is definitely one of the highlights of spring. I've ridden the road to Sunrise at Rainer. Haven't yet made it to Crater Lake or North...

The patagonia chamois liner I have is fine when I'm sitting but anything more than a little hike a bike leads to some serious sandpaper wedgies. Friends have had the same experience.

Got two fantastic rides in out in the Gorge this week. A week of rain followed by 80+ degree days meant the flowers are going absolutely apeshit. I've never experienced breathing in air that was so...

Now that I'm back in the PNW I have a couple of lesser traveled big backcountry days on my mind.
-Pyramids Loop in Central Oregon
-Lower Dungeness and Gold Creek out on the peninsula
-Some...

Bah gawd, that's the Chromag Dharco's music!

If you're down with some make-your-eyes-bleed expensive artisanal bullshit here's a few people making titanium options. Remember, the weeks to months long anticipation building wait is a feature, not...

This image makes it easy to size up relative elevations of the local I-90 areas.

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Yeah I think multiple places openly mused about how the UDH would sure make it easy for a direct mount derailleur when it was launched. Definitely a clever move by SRAM but not quite a full on...

For those of us keeping track at home, would a set of he's spherical washers do the trick or should I see if I can get some she's?

Andrew is right in his NSMB piece, seems like a move to prevent losing OEM sales to Microshift

Hot damn. The finish on that is incredible

I'm in the early stages of day dreaming up a winter frankenbike project. The current pipedream is a factory direct chinese carbon hardtail frame, run rigid and singlespeed. Would be used for mashing...

So he should be back to bikes any day now.

Man that race looks cool as hell. Silk Mountain race, which I think is put on by the same group, is another one that looks like it would really be something

I'd imagine chances are slim, but anyone seen a deal on the new messenger? I'm going to get one this week and would love to save a little coin.