trumpstinyhands profile

If communication is falling on deaf ears, maybe people should just be proactive and removed them and hide them for a while!

The author of this article talks about vertical compliance but when I sat through a presentation on these rims from Sram I can't remember it being mentioned at all! it was all about twisting motion and not deformation at the actual spoke interface. It's that twisting motion (like an ankle as mentioned somewhere above) that allegedly provides the compliance, not up / down movement.

"Goldilocks growler" - that creates a whole different image for a British person :)

The intro to the article resonates with me for sure. Maybe that's why my twisted mind is telling me that the Starling actually looks more modern than the Zerode?

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].

For a while Sram were being easy going regarding receipts and the like, but now it's back to normal warranty terms.

Also, Fluid Function are a Rockshox suspension service center and while I'm sure Shawn and the crew can tear down a Sram brake like the best of them, that's not really what they are there for.

As a Brit, I miss 'sessioning' and ironically my riding is far worse now that it was when I moved over here 12 years ago (being married probably didn't help though!). I've moved away from the Shore area but Floppy Bunny would be the perfect location for a 'learner freeride' trail that you could easily lap. Same for 38DD (is it 38 or 36? Maybe the size has changed over the years LOL.....). Natural High could have been good for that too pre car park but no easy climb back up IIRC. I'm rebuilding a trail away from the Shore at the moment with the intend of having people sessioning / practicing and multiple line choices, cruisy drops, jumps tech features etc. It's super fun not giving a damn how fast I go down a trail and actually piecing together the trail and getting all features dialed.

From a wheel building perspective I've been impressed with Chromag rims. While I'm sure they are not made in a special factory, when applying equal spoke tension during the tensioning phase they are actually round which is a sad rarity. I also agree on Bontrager Line 30 wheels with the POE upgrade being good cheap options. J bend spokes, brass nipples, pretty sturdy rims.

"Are you drunk, or did you fail english class?"

English.....

If one's life is based around promoting one's self and trying to obtain cheap product / telling everyone else to buy it, one should be able to take a bit of a ribbing though ;) 

"really it's pretty simple, a climbing trail is for climbing and a downhill trail is for going downhill. "

Tell that to your E-bike Overlord. And to be fair, it'd be really tempting to see what an E-bike could do up hill, ride up slabs etc. But it's not very clever unless sight lines are really good. 

If E-bikes continue to get more popular (and I don't really care if they do or don't), singletrack climbs are going to get tedious fast. Having to pull over every two minutes to let by is going to be a ball-ache. You are going to get E-bikers trying to get KOMs (LOL). It wouldn't be a terrible idea where possible to route the E-bikers up access roads and leave the singletrack climbs to the acoustic (LOL) bikes. Would work pretty easily above the Uni in Squamish or Seymour. 

Anyway, I'm off to build trail while Norona is banging out another 40Km ride which his huge rucksack looking like a freerider from 2001 ;)

Posted by: BigFoot

Posted by: FLATCH

Why would we assume that no  e bikers would do any maintenance. I’m sure there would be a number who would or already do. I’m certain all acoustic riders do their share of maintenance , right?

And why is it assumed that most e bikers will be nubes. Again, poor argument.

Again? He didn't say they didn't do any maintenance, he was implying that there do their fair share but should do 6x what they would normally do.

Yep. Maybe forgo one of the Mischief hotlaps and pick up a spade.

The able-bodied E-bikers that do 6000km a year should just do 6 times the trail work. That would solve the perceived issues.

Posted by: BigFoot

Nice pic, but you couldn't make it up that trail without a battery?

If I'm putting 2 and 2 together correctly from that photo, he also shuttled up some of it :D A buddy was moaning about a couple of E-bikers shuttling up to where I think that photo was taken because they didn't stop and give him a lift LOL..... As for carrying a spare battery? WTF! We were only just ditching packs a year or so ago and now we are carrying spare batteries? Ha ha ha haha haah ahaaha haaha hahahah a ha etc.......

Before looking at spokes I'd be looking to see how easy it is to source spare parts! If you crack a pawl (not exactly unusual) can you at least get a replacement freehub body (or ideally just the pawls but don't start me on that......'SRAM' / Formula.....). Having to rebuild a wheel with a new hub due to not being able to get parts would be a massive PITA. I built a DT SP rear wheel today and all the spokes were one length but who knows with that thing above.

There's loads of lift access in the UK. Many places hold uplift days of some sort or another. Whether it be scheduled days at non-commercial venues that are sometimes used for races (Bringewood for example but maybe that's stopped....it's been a while....), or more commercial operations like:

https://www.cwmdown.co.uk/

https://www.bikeparkwales.com/uplift

https://www.fodmtb.com/uplift