You could probably just, like, do final tensioning and truing and check dish with a tire installed?

very roughly, I would start by taking the ratio of rear suspension travel to shock travel, weight of rider and bike, and an approx f/r weight distribution.

For simplicity so I don't have to like...

there are ep deals on dt wheels through most distributors, you just have to call/email about it and sometimes watch some videos. In pandemic times I wanted a wheelset for my hei hei and wound up...

I'd assume LB, farsports, hunt etc make something along those lines? Trek does 37mm deep if that's not too tall. the aeolus pros retail for 1500/set and have dt350 hubs. 21mm internal. Reserve has...

Bikeindex integrates with a pretty popular point of sale system, so some shops can automatically register new bike purchases on there. I've been meaning to figure out how to set that up actually....

the trek kovee wheels are really light. the pro level is like 1350g for $1500 retail (rsl are 1200g but a lot more). trek does a nica discount if she's in that but I'm not sure if/how it work for...

Heh, My float on my hei hei blew up last summer. It is a common issue on those shocks, where the damper shaft just snaps off.

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Kind of waiting for it to happen again. Bill at fox was...

My 34SC has always had a little squish in closed mode, it's better after bleeding the damper but that thing sucks in air pretty much immediately. Every time I think I'm going to do just a quick lower...

Well sure when fully overhauling the caliper you want some on the pistons and seals so it's not going together dry.

When it's already together and the pistons are in there they tell you...

I really don't agree with the "rub dot fluid on the pistons" thing. It's outside the sealed system, on the wrong side of the seals. About all I can see it doing is stripping the paint off the inside...

Lighter riders, lighter bikes, tires with less traction, and not going quite as fast or hitting stuff as hard.

Basically, with an xc tire you need as much compliance and contact patch as you can...

I've gotten two punctures with an insert on my gravel bike. Both times I was able to stick a glueless patch on the inside of the tire and re-seat and inflate it and continue riding. Normally I would...

Also most pawl freehubs don't work well with grease if it's thicker. I think easton/rf calls for oil in most of their hubs or at least really thin/light grease like slick honey etc.

Best option is probably go to a giant dealer, have them look up the wheel, and see if there's an XDR freehub and endcap available for it and then have them order one. Which, yeah there probably is.
...

My hei hei had so much housing it needed a tandem cable and I was never that happy with how it shifted, even when everything was new. I think my first impression was "huh the 11s gx stuff shifted...

Yeah kinda takes me most of a day to wax a chain

fire up crock pot

wander off for awhile

wipe off, remove, clean off chain

hang to dry

That info is kinda not useful without shock stroke and total number of clicks from open to closed.

Personally I am liking the re-tune to a digressive valving on my bike, seems i can run more...

That bike also has the brain shock deal which i hear can be unreliable. And pretty steep HTA.

Trying to stay in that ~2500 range? For like 3000-3500 you can get a pretty decent new full suspension...

I'd like to try oakley's prizm trail lens. Right now I have pocs with the cat 2 "trail" lens and also some photochromatic oakleys (and some darker glasses I pretty much only use road riding on bright...

I tend to ride lighter and faster tires in the spring and then when things get dry and dusty and loose in late summer/fall I go to something a little chunkier and more durable. I do have the stock...

At one point I tried a dhf/aggressor on my hei hei (120/120mm), and it didn't really work for me just because of how heavy and slow those tires are to pedal around. The vittoria syerras I had on last...

I've considered trying other tapes but mainly just use stans because we have it in bulk in like every width. Have never really had a problem with it going on and sticking and working. You do have to...

That doesn't seem right. I think a 200lb dude on 23s or even 25s probably needs to be north of 100, especially with tubes. On tubeless 25s at 160-165s I still will sometimes be approaching 90 in the...

Do you tighten the axle on the ground with weight on it? Even with thru axles there's a little bit of play when things aren't tightened down and things can shift a bit.

Plus hubs and axles and...

Yeah grx is hydralic brakes only, but other shimano shifters will shift a grx derailleur, you'll just have a useless set of shift paddles on the left side if it's 1x.

Sram makes everything in...

I put grease on the bearings, cups, crown race, wedge, then make sure the steer tube where the stem clamps on is clean and dry. Regardless of fork steerer, frame material or bearing cups or bearings...

The metal pads are way more consistent across a wider temp range.

unleaded tastes a little tangy
supreme is kinda sour
and diesel tastes pretty good

Not sure how busy all of those separate threads would get but I've definitely thought a suspension/bike setup thread could be useful.

Try turning the clutch off and see if it shifts better? I see them stick pretty often.

I've seen it with both a kmc and then a sram 12s quick link recently, both new on their first use. Possibly shifting under a high load while the link is going around the cassette can pull them apart?

Raise your saddle 2.5mm?

I never really noticed going from my road bike with 175s to my old cx bike with 172.5 cranks. But the fit was also a bit different between those two bikes.

I've put 2500mi on my dt wheels with 240 exp hubs on the mtb. Mostly actual trail riding and racing and stuff. so far so good. Also have all last season of cx racing plus all this year of gravel...

Yeah old bike had guides, new bike had guides. why do these new ones suddenly suck so much? Oh, R vs RSC. The rsc has a different linkage that gives more leverage. Picked up some new levers, brakes...

I would lean towards a cable/housing issue.

My aliexpress sunglasses came with the right packaging and case and logos and everything too!

then broke in half after about a week.

Yeah I really liked my silca piloti tape but wasn't able to salvage it when I swapped bars and then we didn't have anymore so I went with shimano race comfort, which seems fine but is a bit thicker...

Yeah I got an impala after I broke my giro montaro last year and the lack of being able to stick sunglasses in there bugs me. Otherwise I generally like how it fits and feels.

The Jackal I think...

some front shifters actually work with both 2x and 3x and have a little switch to block off one of the clicks. So, yeah, as far as i know about any mtb front shifter will work. And you can probably...

The new single side floating ratchet exp hubs are arguably worse and early production had issues where it would stick and not engage properly. But I have two sets that were made after the update and...

Anyone have a 190x45 shock sitting around? My float dps, uh, kind of exploded the other day. I have a loaner I can borrow for a bit but assume sending it to fox and getting it back will take awhile....

The aluminum or carbon topstone 4? the aluminum one is, uh... pretty low end across the board. ergo of the advent x shifter seems not great, brake calipers kind of bad, non tubeless wheels. But it's...

I just buy chains based on color. Road bike gets gold ones, mtb gets rainbow.

Yeah cassette spacing for 11s is a little funny. Sram 11-32 and 11-36 are a no on a 10s/mtb freehub. 11-42 does fit. Shimano 11-32 is no, 11-34 yes.

I wonder if you have a "142+" wheel? A friend...

The 11s sram cassettes that fit on an HG driver, like that 1130, are 11s "road" spacing. being a "mtb" specific freehub to me implies the narrower 10s spacing. So the 11s cassettes that work on that...

Another distributor (bti) also carries exposure lights, so yeah most shops can order them assuming they're in stock anywhere. I was looking at them last fall but even at cost it seemed like a little...

I've been shopping for an xc hardtail, and while nothing we can order is going to be available for awhile, yeah I figured out that the listed numbers on, say, that new cannondale aren't quite what...

Narrower is lighter and more aerodynamic, but if anything the wider version of a tire might have slightly better rolling resistance. It's pretty slight when you are comparing equivalent pressure....

that's not what the pages I'm looking at say

https://www.maxxis.com/us/tire/rekon/
https://www.maxxis.com/us/tire/dissector/

27.5 x 2.4 3c/exo/tr rekon - 834g
27.5 x 2.4 3c/exo/tr dissector -...

Knobs are way lower profile on the rekon vs dissector. And in 29" the same tire is 60-90g lighter for the rekon.