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Yes…it does look a little bit mega-rangey.

Yes, Plague Park was pretty good. But did you ever see them live? I remember telling a friend I was going, and they said something along the lines of "Oh no…I can't go and watch her for that long." This confused me. But Alexei Perry has a tremendously annoying stage presence that makes the band hard to watch. I think that did it for me.

I agree. This would be a fantastic upgrade for somebody coming off a $700 bike. And I see your point about the price point, and it becomes an exercise in how much slack should be cut. The way I look at it is that any part that shouldn't have been made in the first place, and needs to be swapped out or upgraded before the bike leaves the store, is counterproductive to keeping the price low and needs to be called out. Cut some slack on the nice-to-haves.

Ya, I've seen this article before. And we all know that more trail will add stability to a bike. The point I was trying to make is that you're not changing just the trail, and your change will have an impact on some other areas of your bike. If you just look at the trail numbers between the base case 140mm Revelation and the 150mm Pike, yes, it will probably be less stable. But your BB height and your wheelbase also changed so what does that mean? And what happens to your seat angle if you drop the rear end to compensate? Is that worth the trade-off? I can't provide the answer to that, but I can show some of the actual numbers that we're talking about.

I don't think my sub-par Autocad skills will allow me to compensate for various spring rates and differences in travel.

Assuming the same amount of travel front and rear, it doesn't change.

Sweet! They did it for me!

The original response I had typed out mumbled through some excuses about bike companies not providing enough information to properly figure this out. That's great the Canfield goes that far.

It's difficult to discuss something that only exists in the imagination of the bike designer.

I've spent a fair amount of time on both…the DVO as above and the Fox on the Yeti that I reviewed a while back. Both are really good forks and I'm not sure you can go all that wrong with either.

In all honesty, I’m baffled by this article. What exactly are you trying to say here, Andrew? Are you calling out companies for not doing enough to make women’s models truly woman specific? Are you suggesting that women’s specific bikes shouldn’t exist?

If the former, this may be a fair point, but is the best way to make that point to call out the companies that are actually making some kind of effort? I don’t know as much about Liv and Beti, but I’ve met some of the women behind Juliana and these are some passionate women that are doing a tonne of work to build the sport for women. Are there women that their bikes won’t appeal to? Could they do more to differentiate their product line? Can they do more, in general? For sure. But is this a deserving target of our mockery? Surely we can make these points in some other way.

If the latter…I don’t even know what to say.

I get it. It’s satire. But if your point is lost, it’s not very effective satire.

Ahem…

http://nsmb.com/uncle-dave-eats-27-5-crow/

So…Quick question for PIA users. I pay my money, download my software, install it…then what? How do I turn it on? What notification does it give me that it's doing it's thing? Any bandwidth or time limits or anything?

Sorry. Total noob.

Got a warning notice today. They encouraged me to write in and promptly take care of this matter. So…just carefully typing out my response. Might include my credit card info, home address and date of birth just to speed things up.

So….

Saw this recommendation.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

Any others?

Do I need to google this to see what the context was or should I take your word for it that this is all he said?

I gave a link a page or so back. I couldn't find the complete interview, but the complete sentence is"

"the commitment needs to be a commitment to grow the economy and the budget will balance itself"

So essentially if we don't fuck shit all up we probably won't have to get too stressed about balancing the budget.

Some of the individual States have some strict gun laws, more so than Canada as a whole (then there's others like Arizona where anything goes). However, it is too little too late. Washington just passed a law that if you sell a handgun to another person, then that person needs a background check as well (like we do up here - must be to a licenced owner). Well, they are freaking that this is against their bloody Ammendment blah blah - but this has always been their biggest issue - legal guns getting sold to bad people. Our laws prevent this from happening up here.

Dude. Did we just agree on something? On the Internet? We gotta wrap this shit up, patent it and make our millions.

You should love learning facts first, you have no clue. We do not have 30 round magazines and full auto guns here. Our gun laws are good up North

Bears, other things in the woods as we spent a lot of time there. Plus we hunt - I like pure organic meat. ;)

Hand guns are fun, so are semi autos. Registration does not help the police - there are several articles written by the Police that support those facts - again - educate yourself. Basically, law-abiding gun owners are not a problem. Criminals with guns are. Beatings and strangulation outnumbers gun deaths in Canada. Car accidents kill 1500 people per day in North America. We should register your assault hands as you drive your assault SUV. Silly adding an assault name - it's what politicians like to do to lead the sheeple into avoiding the fact that obesity kills more people than guns. Cigarettes kill more people than guns. But let's avoid talking about that part of our culture.

At the end of the day, when you need someone to stop a bad guy with a gun, you will call a good guy with a gun.

Okay. I apologize for calling them "assault weapons" and detracting from my argument. The whole "good guy with a gun" thing is a myth.

I really don't have much of a problem with Canadian gun laws. I have a huge problem with people trying to make our gun laws more like the US. Let those patriots kill themselves and leave us out of it.

And I came back because I thought of a way better put down. "What are you protecting yourself from, an old lady with ski poles?" Zing!

I tried using this one with my boss when I had to forecast my budget this year, it didn't work for him. Guess it only works for running a country.

Not that I love Trudeau, but I'll take him over Harper. Not quite the full quote, but even the full sentence gives some context.

"the commitment needs to be a commitment to grow the economy and the budget will balance itself"

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/justin-trudeaus-sunny-ways/

You aren't even close, but it was kinda cute nonetheless. Assault rifles - that's a good one. DO you have an assault car? An Assault bike cuz it looks new"ish"?

Hold your rape whistle tight. I don't call 911, and I do protect and feed my family.

Oh man. I love it! Any discussion about gun laws always descends into "Assault Rifle! Shit. I can barely get off 30 shots before I need to re-load. That ain't no assault rifle."

Anyhow. What exactly are you protecting your family from? Bears? Terrorists? Terrorist bears?

Buy as many shotguns as you can fit in your house. Have 10 hunting rifles for every day of the week. But why would it be a problem if the government knows how many guns you have? Do you need handguns? Semi-automatic weapons? Magazine loaded rifles? From the bottom of my heart, I don't think that you do.

Yes, more restrictions and more prohibited guns. It's the bloody Liberal judges we have now still in power where if someone breaks into your house and you defend yourself with anything - you will get charged.

Mulcair wants to bring back the gun registry ffs. The same guy that said people don't need any type of weapon (bear spray, you name it) for defense, they should carry a rape whistle and call the police - let them do their jobs….then after the attack on the Parliament he requests 24 hour armed RCMP protection. huh. He wants good guys with guns for self defence but the rest of us - we can blow a whistle. Cuz hey, if they ban guns for us law abiding citizens, then obviously the criminals will turn theirs in too.

Because unfettered access to firearms has worked so well in the USA.

And because requiring some minimal regulations and not allowing unnecessary assault rifles equals "taking our guns away".

This whole "I'm protectin' my family" schtick is delusional.

Shirk and JCL - You guys realize that you're basically bicycle service 1 percenters, right? I feel like I'm pointing out to Donald Trump that some people struggle with paying their rent.

Anyhow - JCL - That Rock Shox service manual is pretty great. That surprises me. But still. Even with that in hand. And tracking down the 110 page Rock Shox part list. And scouring the internet to figure out your base tune. And what parts you need. And hoping you guess correctly. I wouldn't define this as "easy" or "simple". But you got me. My statement that there is "no way" to change this was incorrect.