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That is pretty damn cool. And it's cool they're doing women's stuff now. BUT, those pants would have to blow my mind for $400 and I happily ride in decently nasty conditions.

With these ones yes. My pads are super comfortable to pedal in and I’m set and forget with most stuff. Also like the tight lower leg fit.

Actually, never thought about it but I doubt any of my pants are wide enough to load pads from the bottom.

Yeah, it’s my favourite photo anyone has taken of me riding a bike. Deniz!!!!

HAHAHAHA. I knew you were coming. 

A lot of these pants make me look like I'm waiting for a flood, they must look like knickers on you.

Hahahahaha. That would be a hell of a look. Pretty sure even Deniz couldn’t find my good side in one of those. 

Never mind my lunch muscle, without a modular jacket I’d boil myself alive in my own juices.

My biggest takeaway is definitely the - surprising - range of temperatures I’m happy running pants in. 

Will definitely check out the spray trousers if I have a chance.

Endura does some interesting mixed-material pants but honestly, I haven’t been on a wet ride yet where I’ve really missed my rain pants. Maybe once temperatures drop some more.

All The Zippers!!!! 

Yes, just a case of not being able to decide what term to use and then missing the double up in editing.

It’s funny, having talked to a lot of riders about Agent shorts and pants - and having a number of friends who own one or both - it really does seem to come down to expectations because when you drill down the folks that love the pants or shorts and the folks that hate them (and everyone in between) seems to have ~ the same experience.

I really like the Agent pants (the shorts are great too) and in the trees they certainly offer more water protection than say these Royal pants. But, they’re by no means comparable to the commute-in-a-deluge weatherproof options that Gore or Endura or even P.I. is putting out. I don’t enjoy riding in (or listening to) any of those options (I’d rather be wet) and on a comparable level calling the Agent stuff weatherproof is a stretch.

Doesn’t mean it’s not great riding gear!

Rigid fork painted to match? Photos?! Sounds delicious.

I’m a well documented fan of Wolf Tooth’s CAMO system. The stainless N/W rings more than pay for themselves in terms of longevity and I’ve run the same rings on e13, RaceFace, SRAM, and FSA (Cannondale) cranks thanks to the swappable spiders.

Not cheap but very nicely made, high quality, and small batch USA manufacturing. And actually, compared to the price of SRAM Eagle rings even the initial purchase price doesn’t seem that crazy.

Anyways, early days but I’ve been liking their new bashguard version. It does look better with my 32t oval ring compared to this 30t. But it spreads the load out when I thump it with either size installed.

How about a 10mm long Mondraker DM stem from On/Off:

https://www.onoffcomponents.com/en/krypton-dh-cnc-integrated-10mm

Posted by: Kenny

After noticing a major difference in arm pump between my FS and HT and not having much luck improving it via setup related changes, I've ordered some revgrips to try. Bit of an expensive experiment, but conceptually I can really see how they'd help in a hardtail especially. 

Shipping from US to Canada is a disaster these days, I guess they all have covid? So who knows when they'll actually turn up, but I'll follow up after some testing.

Any local shop can bring them in. ALBA in Whistler is the distributor. I’ve been riding a pair for a few weeks.

Posted by: RAHrider

I've put in almost 400km on it and I like it 90% of the time but every time I take it on steep tech I wish I wasn't riding it.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried raising the bar 20mm (bar or headset spacers) for the steep tech? 

Or otherwise changing the weight balance - narrower bar, running the shock softer, or fork firmer, or dropping the seat more (mechanically after your dropper is bottomed)?

It just reads like you’re fighting your bike but there’s nothing in your build that stands out as an Achilles’ heel.

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Wow. Badarse.

Gonna read the piece, but first a guess about how many responses came through about the oval of the Thomson being 90° wrong?

It gives you more compliance that way! Hahahahaha.

I was digging through some old NSMB material tonight and came upon Perry's piece on his PDC circa 2013 and I thought we should all take a second to appreciate #HotSanta's OG commitment to steepening STAs. 2013!

Just think of the potential fore-aft adjustment (especially if the main post had M5 hardware). 

The article is here for more photos.

Posted by: RAHrider

Our day to day admissions for non-covid illness are way down. My hospital is under capacity for the first time since it was opened! 

This is awesome news; hopefully a B.C.-wide trend. 

Thank you for being there!

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1992 Giant ATX 660 Bought it new , had a 50mm RST fork.

Did you buy it at High Gear??

It seems to me like there are so many (old) Woodlot / Bear Mtn / Red Mtn / Burke and etc mountain bikers around and yet Floyd / High Gear are all but forgotten, which is sad to me. Basically, all the bike shops from out that way that I frequented as a kid are gone: Cyclepath/BlackDog, High Gear, The Ridge, AKA The Bike Shop, Overtime hell even Cap's Westwood. I ran into the Dan Sedlacek, previously of OnTop, the other day and it's easy to forget how many genuine folks have simply moved on to other things, even here on the Shore.

Anyways, before I start crying into my beer, I didn't know Floyd at High Gear as a person (separate from the High Gear experience), but I wrote a little something about him on my personal blog if you're interested.

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So I'm not being a thread-ruiner.

If you ask me today, my first real mountain bike was a 1995 Iron Horse, fully rigid in metallic blue and sporting a full Shimano STX-RC build. BUT, if you'd asked my at the time my first mountain bike was a neon-green-and-black hi-ten steel Raleigh with SIS friction shifting, and steel rims. Perception right?

Dealt with all those shops. Made many friends through them as well. Floyd was the best. Great guy he is missed. Troy at Maple Ridge Cycle is there still. Hes just behind the old store.

For whatever reason I never really clicked with that shop. Have a great Troy experience though:

I was sitting at the top of Switchback/Eric Dunning (Sp?) at Mike Lake in Golden Ears when it was it very new and he comes pedalling up the fire road on an orange Norco Bomber leading a shop ride.

Looks at me.

T: “Did you already ride upper Incline? Was it greasy?”

A: “Upper Incline?!”

T: ~ “Just keep going up, you can’t miss it. The best trail around here!”

After they passed I sat for a bit and then finally convinced myself to ride up and see if I could find it. Easily the nastiest, greasiest, rooted jank I had ridden to date. Walked half of it. Crashed hard twice. Went back for more the next time I was up.

LOL

Yay the incline was a nut kicker in spots. Had a couple bad crashes on it.

Troy still has that Bomber , and the yellow one.

Oh my 2nd bike was a Kona Kileau? , the burgundy color yr 93?94? I also had a Marin Zig Zag Trail at the same time. Think it was a 94.

I totally remember being a 14 year old and riding my bike from Pitt Meadows to High Gear all the time to be an annoying shop rat. Floyd was one patient man lol! AKA was where I really cut my teeth with biking though, I still talk to Ian almost daily and go on an annual guys trip with him and some buds.

Amazing. So many questions but I’ll keep it to: Ian was involved in Local Ride after AKA? I worked on the sales desk at Orange when they opened. Tell him I said hi!

Bought my first pair of Profile Racing cranks from him and Dave when the shop was in Pitt Meadows.

I have this memory that around the time the shop was broken into when some ne’er-do-wells broke through the wall of the neighbouring business?!

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1992 Giant ATX 660 Bought it new , had a 50mm RST fork.

Did you buy it at High Gear??

It seems to me like there are so many (old) Woodlot / Bear Mtn / Red Mtn / Burke and etc mountain bikers around and yet Floyd / High Gear are all but forgotten, which is sad to me. Basically, all the bike shops from out that way that I frequented as a kid are gone: Cyclepath/BlackDog, High Gear, The Ridge, AKA The Bike Shop, Overtime hell even Cap's Westwood. I ran into the Dan Sedlacek, previously of OnTop, the other day and it's easy to forget how many genuine folks have simply moved on to other things, even here on the Shore. 

Anyways, before I start crying into my beer, I didn't know Floyd at High Gear as a person (separate from the High Gear experience), but I wrote a little something about him on my personal blog if you're interested.

- - - - - -

So I'm not being a thread-ruiner.

If you ask me today, my first real mountain bike was a 1995 Iron Horse, fully rigid in metallic blue and sporting a full Shimano STX-RC build. BUT, if you'd asked my at the time my first mountain bike was a neon-green-and-black hi-ten steel Raleigh with SIS friction shifting, and steel rims. Perception right?

Dealt with all those shops. Made many friends through them as well. Floyd was the best. Great guy he is missed. Troy at Maple Ridge Cycle is there still. Hes just behind the old store.

For whatever reason I never really clicked with that shop. Have a great Troy experience though:

I was sitting at the top of Switchback/Eric Dunning (Sp?) at Mike Lake in Golden Ears when it was it very new and he comes pedalling up the fire road on an orange Norco Bomber leading a shop ride. 

Looks at me. 

T: “Did you already ride upper Incline? Was it greasy?”

A: “Upper Incline?!”

T: ~ “Just keep going up, you can’t miss it. The best trail around here!”

After they passed I sat for a bit and then finally convinced myself to ride up and see if I could find it. Easily the nastiest, greasiest, rooted jank I had ridden to date. Walked half of it. Crashed hard twice. Went back for more the next time I was up.

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My single speed is silent but for the noise of my tires, and my the fork oil breathing... have to do something to let the hikers, cougars, and bears know I'm coming. That's why I always belt out Celine Dion's Top-10 while I'm riding.

The theme from Titanic is my favourite. I like to hang way out over my bars and proclaim I’m the king of the world.

I may have seen you riding Lower Crippler yesterday morning when my daughter and I were hiking up?!

I wasn’t sure at the time but now I think “I’M KING OF THE WORLD” is what buddy yelled as he rolled the Candi Cane (first wooden roll near the top).