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Thread: Inexplicable bike products
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04-15-2020, 09:13 AM #26
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04-18-2020, 11:54 PM #27
Im gonna have to disagree with you on the OneUp EDC tool. While yes, you do have to either tap your steerer or buy their special stem, it’s pretty clutch to always have a nice multi tool hiding in your steerer but quickly accessible. It’s a surprisingly good multitool, with a lot of functions, a tire lever, chain tool, quick links, and room for plugs and a few other odds and ends. I do think the other hidden bike tools suck, but the OneUp is actually pretty rad.
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04-19-2020, 07:34 AM #28Registered User
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05-12-2020, 05:24 PM #29
Gold plated patch kit, among other items. $360 MSRP!
https://www.backcountry.com/lezyne-1...LL_CAR_OVE_ESC
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05-12-2020, 05:40 PM #30yelgatgab
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OneUp EDC + OneUp pump FTW
Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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05-12-2020, 05:52 PM #31
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05-12-2020, 06:57 PM #34Registered User
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05-12-2020, 07:05 PM #35
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05-12-2020, 07:55 PM #36
Gonna also chime in about the EDC steerer tool. It's the shit. There is a freedom from being able to do a 20 mile MTB ride without a backpack.
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05-12-2020, 08:12 PM #37
EDC thing looks cool, but this:
is on each of our 6 bikes with tools and a tube specific to the bike.
Under seat bags and other bags have only been around for over 100 years, this really doesn’t improve anything.
If it was inside the bottom bracket, that would be cool, because it would put the mass at the lowest part of the bike. Otherwise why would I throw out my perfectly good tools?Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
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05-12-2020, 08:15 PM #38Registered User
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05-12-2020, 08:24 PM #39
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05-12-2020, 08:24 PM #40
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05-12-2020, 09:25 PM #41
I used to joke with customers when external bearing BB’s came out “You can put your weed in there!”
Usually got a light chuckle.Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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05-12-2020, 09:26 PM #42
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05-12-2020, 09:54 PM #43
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05-12-2020, 09:55 PM #44
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05-12-2020, 09:57 PM #45
I have a really compact Lizard Skinz saddlebag that doesn’t come near the tire, works great.
https://www.backcountry.com/lizard-s...SABEgIOnPD_BwEForum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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05-13-2020, 04:35 AM #46
I guess my only thought on the EDC is you still need to find somewhere for the tube? Unless you say f the tube and go plugs or just co2 and hope your issues are limited to just burping flats? Idk, bcr strap has been pretty nice for me.
On another topic-
Tubolito tubes purely as a tube for flatted tubeless - fair or foul? i.e. do they work/are they worth it?Do I detect a lot of anger flowing around this place? Kind of like a pubescent volatility, some angst, a lot of I'm-sixteen-and-angry-at-my-father syndrome?
fuck that noise.
gmen.
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05-13-2020, 06:36 AM #47Registered User
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05-13-2020, 06:46 AM #48
The only multi tool that attaches to the bike that I’ve utilized is the Specialized EMT bottle cage thing. Because it’s right there. It opens and functions like a regular old multi tool. I don’t need to open a thing, then take apart a thing, then set half the thing down in the dirt while i adjust my brake lever, then figure out how the thing goes back together again then get home and realize part of the thing is still sitting on the side of the trail.
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05-13-2020, 08:04 AM #49yelgatgab
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FTW = for the win. It's awesome. No steerer tube shenanigans. Buy a couple more mounts for cheap, and it's an easy swap between bikes. Tube and CO2 get strapped to the frame.
Seat bags are fine for road/gravel, they suck on a mtb. They get muddy AF which eventually penetrates and gets the contents muddy and ultimately fucks with the zipper, and any play in a dropper post is amplified x1000 which can be good because it reminds you that the dropper no longer works properly thanks to the 100 pound mud catcher hanging off of it.
I've never spent the money on a Tubolito, so maybe I'm missing something, but a roadie tube is 1/10 the cost, compact and works fine in an emergency.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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05-13-2020, 08:25 AM #50Registered User
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Similarly, I use a Syncros Matchbox TailorCage which is a nylon bottle cage that incorporates a slim, slide-out drawer containing a folding multi tool and a chain breaker/quick links. I use a BCR strap to secure a tube, Co2, plug kit, and tire levers to my frame. It all works great and is pretty awesome IMO.
I use a saddle bag on my cross bike. Personally, I am a fan of on bike storage. I think the big thing is to have a single multi tool dedicated to each ride so you don't need to worry about forgetting it.
Now, to get back on track - what was up with the WTB Padloc grips/bars? Talk about a ridiculous idea.
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