Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

[Powder Ho]

They do - that’s like half of the content on social media these days.

TGR is the only social media I do.

[Dantheman]

Aaand some kid in the neighborhood just got a Surron.

[toast2266]

The best part of AXS shit is that I can sell it for gobs of money to suckers on the internet and buy a higher end mechanical drivetrain for a net gain.

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[joetron]

I have had wireless for a couple years, basically since it came out. I've never once gone to a ride without a battery in the bike, never once ran my batteries completely empty on a ride. For anyone remotely organized, it's not hard to do. It's not like an iPhone or Apple Watch which require charging every day - it's more like once every 3-4 weeks on the derailleur and once every few months for the dropper.

Yep. I mean, I’ve hit my head a bunch and smoked a fair amount of weed in my lifetime - and am basically on the other side of the spectrum in how I approach bikes from Andeh, and have never run out of charge or forgotten a battery.
I keep a spare battery in my hip pack and high country pack, but haven’t used it.
AXS batteries are not a burden.


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[evdog]

I sent a link to the surron guy's youtube channel to the city ranger I work with. He responded saying he reached out to SDPD and they are interested in doing a night operation to bust the surron riders if we can pin down a time/location for a future ride. Now to do a bit of investigating....

[Vt-Freeheel]

This picture I swiped from the apriliaforum amused me, but I guess someone did some ranting

[Bunion 2020]

Now San Clemente is looking at holding parents responsible.

For the kiddos e-bike but not if they get the parents hand gun and shoot someone.

[Andeh]

Yep. I mean, I’ve hit my head a bunch and smoked a fair amount of weed in my lifetime - and am basically on the other side of the spectrum in how I approach bikes from Andeh, and have never run out of charge or forgotten a battery.
I keep a spare battery in my hip pack and high country pack, but haven’t used it.
AXS batteries are not a burden.


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I saw someone the other day riding with a t-shirt that said, "hold on while I overthink this." I felt seen.

[toast2266]

I drove shuttle for my buddy and his kids in his janky ass old truck. I get to the bottom and get ready to go for a pedal ride myself, but the window on his shitty cobbled together topper exploded, so instead of riding I got to spend 45 minutes picking up glass from the trailhead parking lot.

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[goldenboy]

Surrons.
Fuck. These. Things.
Are they toys?
Are they transportation?
They’re not e-bikes. They’re not bikes.
Should they have plates? Kids are riding them on streets.
They’re also getting ridden through parks, on trails and multi-use paths.
They fucking suck and parents who buy them for their kids to rally around town fucking suck.



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Sadly, there was a double fatality (rider and dog walker) in Crested Butte 2 years ago. https://crestedbuttenews.com/2022/08...-life-support/

[jackstraw]

Yep. I mean, I’ve hit my head a bunch and smoked a fair amount of weed in my lifetime - and am basically on the other side of the spectrum in how I approach bikes from Andeh, and have never run out of charge or forgotten a battery.
I keep a spare battery in my hip pack and high country pack, but haven’t used it.
AXS batteries are not a burden.


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Yeah, I need to buy a spare axs battery.

In my defense, I have three mtn bikes and one with axs, so if I'm not riding the axs bike for a bit I do forget to charge the battery. That's where it went south for me the one time my battery was dead.
Now my eeb comuter tells me my % and kicks down assist as I get low, so impossible to forget to charge.

[chicken feathers]

Surrons.
Fuck. These. Things.
Are they toys?
Are they transportation?
They’re not e-bikes. They’re not bikes.
Should they have plates? Kids are riding them on streets.
They’re also getting ridden through parks, on trails and multi-use paths.
They fucking suck and parents who buy them for their kids to rally around town fucking suck.



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I came across surrons the last 3 rides I did in town. Sucks to see them fucking up trails they shouldn’t be on. One kid was straight up stopped in the middle of hidden valley and on his phone. While I was able to squeeze by, I wanted to goose the throttle and send that thing down the hill w/ or without him.

[SchralphMacchio]

I drove shuttle for my buddy and his kids in his janky ass old truck. I get to the bottom and get ready to go for a pedal ride myself, but the window on his shitty cobbled together topper exploded, so instead of riding I got to spend 45 minutes picking up glass from the trailhead parking lot.

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That fucking sucks! Especially because most (all?) factory toppers use polymer windows that crack but don’t shatter! WTF!

[joetron]

I came across surrons the last 3 rides I did in town. Sucks to see them fucking up trails they shouldn’t be on. One kid was straight up stopped in the middle of hidden valley and on his phone. While I was able to squeeze by, I wanted to goose the throttle and send that thing down the hill w/ or without him.

Dude. That’s real bad. Take pictures, call it in. I think the city needs to drop the hammer on these things and nip it in the bud.
A classic old, grumpy, NY accent lesbian lady who is a good customer and has become a buddy… I saw her throw a bag of dog shit at a kid after he rallied over the high school bridge and tracks up onto the river trail. Fucking hilarious.

I’ve heard they’re on Lions Den regularly and I live by Chapman and see them in the Riverview hood all the time.

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[chicken feathers]

They do need to drop the hammer. I posted pics here of the worst one, which was with a group of out of state, rich van life 30 year olds riding boutique e-bikes and a surron around horse gulch and the new mesa trails. That one was weird cause they had tens of thousands of dollars tied up in their bikes and van with an inside rack system. To be that into biking and that much of an ass, that disrespectful to a trail system was weird to me.

[toast2266]

I saw elsewhere on the interwebs that a bunch of surron kids destroyed sheep hills. For those unfamiliar, sheep hills is a fairly legendary bmx dirt jump spot in Huntington Beach that's been there for decades. I guess the surron kids tried to ride there and the bmxers told them to fuck off. So they came back in the middle of the night with surrons and shovels and very purposefully destroyed the whole place.

Fortunately, a few people knew who they were and some of the elder statesmen of the bmx community went to surron kids' parents. They organized a day for the surron kids to come out and help the bmxers rebuild the jumps, so in the end it maybe came out sort of ok. But clearly surron kids are still a huge problem.

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[XXX-er]

Unless otherwise noted, ALL products sold from Surron™ and authorized dealers are sold with the sole intention for off-road or race track use only. This product or products may not comply with some State, Federal, Provincial, and/or Local laws, ordinances, or regulations. The buyer takes full responsibility for the use of these products on their vehicle which may or may not conform to all applicable laws and regulations for on-road or highway use.


these are electric dirt bikes ^^disclaimer on the Surron site, they are actulay cheaper than a class 1 E-bike but the only thing common is an electric motor

[jackstraw]

It's not the "Surron", it's the people. I think a surron would be fun as hell to rip around on, but I would take it to moto tracks/areas, not mtb or BMX.

So once again, people suck.

[t.odd]

https://www.squamishchief.com/highli...-video-9407929 jesus fuck

[toast2266]

Stem and headset companies need to get their shit together. The headset top cap and all stem bolts should either be 4mm or 5mm, I don't care which. But a mix of bolt sizes is annoying and pointless. I shouldn't need 2 wrenches to tighten a headset. And if some eurotrash company decides to throw a t25 into the mix, I'm gonna reconsider my alliances whenever WW3 rolls around.

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[panchosdad]

It's not the "Surron", it's the people. I think a surron would be fun as hell to rip around on, but I would take it to moto tracks/areas, not mtb or BMX.

So once again, people suck.

Exactly. It's starting to sound like a bunch of Sierra Clubbers ranting about mountain bikes.

[rideit]

I want to rant about how annoying it is when just one of your fancycassette’s gears is finally roached. It was the second lowest gear. If it had been just the 51, I would have ignored it for the rest of the season…but second one down skips when going down, and back up.
Into the metal recycling it goes…

[westoxified]

^that's one of the reasons why i moved to the 10-45 and a 30 tooth ring. much more even wear across the lowest three gears.

Andrew Major doing the ranting for most of us:
https://www.bikemag.com/gear/closing-the-e-gate

[skaredshtles]

^that's one of the reasons why i moved to the 10-45 and a 30 tooth ring. much more even wear across the lowest three gears.

Andrew Major doing the ranting for most of us:
https://www.bikemag.com/gear/closing-the-e-gate

Hard to argue with most of that...

[grskier]

I have a few thousand miles on my gravel bike (got it in 2021). Finally need to adjust the front derailleur as it's having some issues getting into the bigger ring. Look up how to adjust without faffing with the cable and low and behold, the plate the adjustment screw is supposed to rest against was never installed. Now wasting an inordinate amount of time searching for one of these things.