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08-29-2018, 03:20 PM #776
Fox Live Suspension....... curiously absent from the World Cup XC or DH scene.
Cunningham review suggests that its biggest advantage is for people who forget to un-lock-out their climb-switch. $3K WIN!!!!!!However many are in a shit ton.
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08-29-2018, 03:37 PM #777
This is a good thread. The title always makes me think of the Mr. Rogers theme song...
You'll have things you'd like to rant about
I will too.If we're gonna wear uniforms, we should all wear somethin' different!
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08-29-2018, 03:50 PM #778
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08-29-2018, 04:29 PM #779
FWIW, I've been using Finish Line Max Suspension spray for a while but I get the best results in terms of suppleness by leaving it on rather than wiping it off, contrary to the instructions. I do the following before every ride that involves a short drive to a trailhead:
1) Quickly clean the stanchions and rear shock with an isopropyl alcohol solution from a small spray bottle. Spray and wipe.
2) Spray a small amount of Suspension spray around the bottom half of the stanchions close to the wiper seals, then compress the fork, and wipe the gunk that is lifted from under the seals.
3) Lightly spray the stanchion again and leave it on without wiping. Skip step 3 if riding immediately.
It doesn't take much so a 12oz can will last a long time if sprayed lightly using short bursts. I don't know if fork seals have improved but ever since I started doing this the old Fox Gold oil still looks mostly clean during the annual service.
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08-29-2018, 07:22 PM #780
I got up early the other morning to go for a ride and it was pretty cool, around the mid 40’s. So I broke out my new full fingered gloves.
They have a coating on the finger tips that one can only assume is there for grip. Well they obviously never tested them in the cold because they were fucking slick and my fingers kept slipping when I went to shift, brake or adjust my seat.
Last night I was like I’m gonna get all Doddy from GMBN on this shit and I covered all my levers with a little grip tape. Well today was warmer and I rode with my 1/2 gloves. After an hour or so I got to a new zone so I got out my phone to check the map and I could not get my phone to work.
Finally I realized what was up. The grip tape had completely removed my finger prints. I had to use my ring finger and pinky. Ha.
I used a little rock and sanded it down.
More funny than annoying except for the gloves.
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09-18-2018, 02:17 PM #781
What's with the trend of going off trail to "explore new zones" and bombing own scree slopes in videos? Stay on the trail shit heads!
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09-18-2018, 02:41 PM #782
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09-18-2018, 11:32 PM #783
FWIW, I never do anything remotely close to this.
Sometimes if I load the bike I see some dried mud from the previous ride on the uppers. And I rub it off with my hand. Not so much like I’m jerkin it, more like I’m gettin the pee dribbles out.
I’m the winter, I’ll try to find a window when I’m away from the bike for a couple weeks, and I send the forks or shocks in for service.
Shit feels awesome.
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09-19-2018, 08:25 AM #784Registered User
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Independent local bike shop I’ve been going to for 30 years wants to charge me $10 for a bike box they’re just going to be throwing away. I went over to the big chain and they were happy to let me pick from about 20 boxes for free.
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09-19-2018, 09:28 PM #785
^^^^ That’s a first.
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09-19-2018, 09:36 PM #786
They sometimes do that here...FREE in the spring and summer, charge for them in the winter.
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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09-20-2018, 02:27 AM #787Registered User
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At my old store in NYC if you showed up and a bike was just pulled out of a box to be built you were encouraged to take it right then and there because we had to break them down right away and get them out of the way. If you asked us to hold it we were going to ask for $10. Space comes at a premium especially when you can't put it outside the back door for a while because there isn't one. If you were willing to take a box that had already been folded flat great it was free. We used to go through 100+ a week and they'd get folded down and stuffed into other boxes, some people would come by at night when they were out on the sidewalk for recycling pickup in the morning and pull the broken down boxes out of the good one and leave them laying there, the pickup guys wouldn't take them that way and there would frequently be a $125 littering ticket on the door waiting for me when I opened.
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09-20-2018, 09:13 AM #788
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09-23-2018, 07:07 PM #789yelgatgab
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The rain. The never ending fucking rain. It’s amazing how much more wear and tear there is when everything is constantly wet and gritty.
Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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09-23-2018, 07:33 PM #790Registered User
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What is this “rain” you speak of. I’m not familiar with the concept (or at least haven’t seen it in months).
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09-23-2018, 08:03 PM #791
That's that shiny stuff I see on the TV I think.
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09-24-2018, 06:07 AM #792Registered User
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My hound rolled in bear shit.
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09-24-2018, 04:02 PM #793
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09-24-2018, 05:16 PM #794Registered User
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We had a Siberian husky growing up who loved all things stinky. Camping in Leavenworth - she rolled in dead fish guts. Neighbor had cows - she literally stood under a stream of cow piss and rolled in cow pies. I don't recall her ever finding a skunk to get sprayed by though.
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09-25-2018, 11:21 AM #795Registered User
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09-25-2018, 10:12 PM #796
People who build trails with turns that are SOOOOO HARD everyone has to take an alternate line
Not much I can do here but dig a huge fucking hole and hope the retards fall in it and get buried
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09-26-2018, 07:01 AM #797Registered User
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^^Sometimes when an alternate line forms you've got to wonder if maybe that's where the line should have been in the first place.
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09-26-2018, 07:18 AM #798
^^ is it primarily a climb or a descent? If it's a descent, it seems like just making the outside edge on camber would likely fix the issue.
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09-26-2018, 08:24 AM #799Registered User
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Looks to me people are avoiding that huge drop on the outside and going inside on the way down instead. That is ridiculous. Or they are going up and don't want to pop a wheel up that massive cliff?
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09-26-2018, 08:33 AM #800
This is a climbing trail. People are scared of rocks around here. This little step up is way too HUGE. Should have labelled the trail Black diamond to keep the punters off of it
Last edited by evdog; 09-26-2018 at 10:52 AM. Reason: stupid android autocorrect
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