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Ha ha..... Mountain biking fashion is weird though. I remember being a regular in WBP in 2007 and you were a total dork if you didn't have your visor on your TLD carbon lid slammed all the way back, making it totally pointless. And now I hate the sensation of having it blocking vision so still push it up out of the way. I know there is the argument that it helps push twigs and falling squirrels out of the way but really? I'm temped to just buy a DJ / skid lid next and say goodbye to visors for ever :)

Yeah, it's just one of these but electric rather than gas, plus a load of marketing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puch_Maxi

Are we ever going to see a sensible BB / axle size? PF92 doesn't make much sense so much as I am fed up of new standards, why design something new around something crap? At least T47 has some logic behind it. Hell, bring back Isis Overdrive with 48mm cups!

I was referring to the prices on the SC website though. 2 grand more than the competition for a bike that comes out of the same factory and similar spec.

I had a genuine 'LOL' moment when I looked into the pricing. The Nomad with the 'cheap' carbon frame and GX Eagle is over $2000 more than the likes of a Norco Range C3. Granted one or two of the components are branded, but having owned both, I'd take the Tranz X post over a Reverb. You can't even buy the bike with the normal carbon frame for less than 10k. Nice bikes but are Canadians getting shafted or is the pricing this hilarious everywhere?

Now if only Raceface would supply rebuild kits for their posts [cough]Turbine[/cough].

I've got one of those Super 8s under my bed!

A ha! Yeah that's what I was thinking thanks. I've probably worked on thousands of hubs but both a work mate and I were puzzled on how doubling the pawls would double the engagement speed earlier then suddenly all became clear but thought I'd check :D (W from DB Burnaby ;) )

Presumably the second set of pawls are slightly off-set from the first? Doubling the engagement points doesn't increase the engagement speed unless I'm missing something really obvious? So in effect the points of engagement stay the same as only half of the pawls are engaged at any one time? ;)

It's maybe not the clearest animation ever, but if you have any basic understanding of how a shock works, you'll know that oil is passing through shims / ports etc in the damping element at the end of the shaft. Oil isn't being compressed, it's just being moved from one side of the damper to the other!

I sort of agree with Syncro, but when it comes to who is allowed on a trail, Trailforks is pretty irrelevant. firstly no dog walker, soccer mum etc is going to be looking at it and secondly it's not an official resource. The land is CMHC managed and they kicked MTBers off the mountain not long ago (thankfully sorted for now), so good luck in court if you hit a walker while pinning it down John Deere, even if TF labels it 'Downhill Primary'. I see TF also labels it as E-bike not being allowed on it which is also a bit of a farce. A heavily shuttled mountain and a portly German isn't allowed to freewheel down John Deere? ;) And going back to TF's' Downhill Primary', wasn't Severed Dick a hiking trail?  Ah land access...... :)

Posted by: ehfour

Not sure what type of wattage you guys are putting out, but I dont get the Vague feel that lots of people post about..or the slip on initial pedal

Clearly I'm not pedaling hard enough

I'm with JBV that these hubs do rock, the silence and the infinite engagement...the only thing I dont like is the weight, my setup comes in heavier than the E13 wheels they replaced

Noble TR38 (With Gorilla tape and valves)

Regular front: 800 Grams

HD rear: 1200 Grams (WTF)

I'm a wimp, but they certainly have soft engagement, much like Shimano's Alfine hubs. Different tech to get the same result. I'm not saying it's a bad thing but they do have a different feel.

LOL Brocklanders.

Some weird comparisons going on here. I've ridden in the Alps, and I'd probably want an E-bike in my 'quiver' there too. IME there wasn't really such a thing as a 'quick' lap there. I also don't think those mountains are any more guarded than any other. We drove up in vans, rode up, got on a chair lift....no shortage of options so I can't see an E-bike making much difference.

But E-biking up to Half Nelson / Expresso etc becoming the norm? Really? I despair (even more....) for the Human Race if that ends up being true. 

"Remember the only limit on your current ride, these e-bikes or any other piece of sporting gear is YOU!" - so we are going to see an E-bike taking top spot at Crankworx slopestyle next year then? After all, you can do anything on any bike just like Wade Simmons? I might have to watch that Coastal Crew video again for a laugh, where they are trying to get 'sick air' on Specialized mopeds. Fair enough it was pretty impressive in a way, but nothing like what they can do on proper bikes.

Posted by: T-mack

Now if these bikes came with smaller batteries that only lasted an hour or 2 I could see the market for them being way larger. 

I've always thought the same. But as always in life, stuff gets marketed due to 'features', power, turbo(!), etc rather than actually looking at who wants to ride them (generally not Norona type people). If the bike weighed under 40lb and could get an unfit rider up high at a similar speed to a healthy rider then there probably wouldn't be so much resistance to them. Instead we have all this Turbo crap and bikes that weigh as much as a Banshee Scream with a Monster T. Progress eh!

Sometimes the shape of the caliper interferes with the adapter when mixing brands so may as well just bolt it on and find out!

I just want to ride my All Terrain 'Acoustic' Dandy Horse. Acoustic LOL.....

Posted by: tallguyridesabike

I made an NSMB account just because of this thread.

I've posted this similar thing elsewhere as well so those that have Pinkbike or Vital accounts have probably read this before.

I have similar stories to the above.  Ordered my bike, told Date X but didn't get it until Date X + 2 months.  It was winter time so it didn't really bother me at the time.

However, when stuff started needing warranty work was where the big flaw in YT's business model shows up.  My dropper post failed in three rides and my rear shock blew up after a month of regular riding.  Both times, it was difficult to get JM on the phone or get him to respond to an email.  After a lot of waiting, he did get my stuff warranty repaired for me but I had to drive to Squamish to pick things up.  I was living in Vancouver at the time so it wasn't too bad.  But only a small percentage of customers would be able to do that.

When my Sram Guide RSCs failed, and I couldn't get a hold of JM for almost a month, I had had enough.  I eventually got a hold of him and he had me send in my brakes to him, and he'd send them on to Sram.  Seven months (7!) went by before I saw them again.  After about a month I started emailing and texting JM once a week asking questions...never heard back.  I put in a complaint to head office...never heard anything.  My theory is they were shipped to YT canada, and they laid around on a table somewhere for a few months before somebody noticed and sent them off to Sram.

I ended up buying a set of Shimano XT brakes online for cheap and installing them so I wouldn't miss a very important 3 week road trip I had been planning for almost a year.  If I were to have waited for YT...I would have had to either cancel my trip or rent bikes along the way.  My Guides were shipped back to me a few weeks after I got back from my trip.  Except....they were shipped to the wrong address and I had to get a random dude in Vancouver to forward them to me.

I actually really like the XTs and I'm sticking with them, but the whole thing was a pretty big inconvenience.  JM was nice about it, and sent me some swag as an apology, but even that took a long time to get to me.

Fast forward to this year, and things seem to be a bit better.  My dropper post died again (it IS a reverb, after all), and I had it fixed and returned to me in a week.  So that was top notch.  But I pretty much feel that I can't be a repeat customer until they have things sorted out.

Another odd thing is that I had a few bike shops completely refuse to service my faulty brakes or dropper post, even if I fully paid for the parts and labour and didn't worry about the warranty piece.  They basically decided that they're busy enough with their own clientele and don't want to create longer service times by fixing direct-to-consumer brands, I guess?

Funny, I wonder if those were the brakes that sat under our Service Writer desk for a long time..... Got shipped to us in error, left message for YT the day they landed, labelled them clearly and put them aside for them to collect.

I remember cleaning it on my hardtail around 10 years ago and maybe I'm thinking of the 'shelf', but there was some sort of narrow pinner line that one could roll down at the end. These days I'd clean it with my face.

Eat Pussy / Chow Down Kitty \(I prefer the latter version\) in Squamish

Anal Intruder in Whistler if it's still there.

Only you will know what your child's stamina is like in terms of how many stages you'd want to enter him in. I'd say that Sweeter (normally a climb trail) would be fun and pretty easy, Spencers is long and potentially tiring as it has some ups as well as downs but it's not technically hard (for a 45yr old....). I've not ridden all the way down Meet Yer Maker for years but it's a 'proper' trail. I'm welcome to be corrected but maybe 7th Secret type grade? IIRC a bit steeper though in places? Also factor in all the climbing......doing all those trails is a decent ride for an adult. Maybe do the first three stages?