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I picked up a tube of dumonde at Lynn Valley Bikes. They’ve also got a good selection of other greases too.

Is it me or is it far easier to find DM cinch chainrings compared to SRAM 6mm offset DM chainrings ?

So cinch compatible, well priced shiny cranks in 165mm that fit my pressfit GXP92 BB ? Sold.

(BTW both links point at the same dropper post url)

and South America twice as a destination, but at least they planted SquirrelF#cker for me

What's the routine if one is using cushcore or some other insert ? I'm assuming a much smaller tube should be used anyway ?

Army surplus stores have great folding shovels, always useful - makes it easy to dig for the best sandcastles ever.

I just met Gunter on Fromme this morning and I can tell you, he is STOKED to be riding here

how about the Zerode for a complete departure from bicycle norms?

My 10 yr old is enjoying the Deity compounds - they happened to be in the shop when we were looking for pedals so I went for them without having wah wahs etc to compare but they were a good price for kids pedals. Not sure about rebuildablenessitude though. These look like a great deal for most riders.

Great to see. I always wore Dainese when motorcycling and their products and body armour were/are rock solid and led the pack - having Rossi as a sponsored rider helped as well. I was really hoping that they would be able to apply their years of R&D to bikes instead of just paying lip service. 

(Short of going through a motorcycle store, are there any Dainese suppliers around?)

Has anyone tried the scarabeo kids/youth armor? I'm intrigued by the extendability idea.

If you want to go the whole hog and have to pull and replace bearings, I ordered a custom set of bearing pullers/presses from here : https://www.bearingprotools.com/

Granted, it's a tool for a specific frame, but if you're finding you replace your bearings more often then it amortizes after one replacement cycle compared to LBS prices - I also don't have anything else I need a bearing tool for so a custom one suits me fine.

I pack CO2 for emergency reseating - but for all other duties a small blackburn pump.

That's interesting about the Burtons, but it's using the 'standard' non-channel setup so might not be an issue if I decide to go that way, but like a lot of people have mentioned, get a splitboard as a complete off one of the snow forums.

Now I'm thinking about taking a jigsaw to it and cutting a deep swallowtail into it instead, haha

yeah, adding in all the other parts is a given, but if I can split and finish a board I have sitting around, might be a win...

Posted by: Brocklanders

Are you saying cut the thing on a table saw and rig it to be a split board? I'm not even going to google it, bad idea out of the gate. Don't wanna know.

Hahaha, I have to say, I'm leaning to that as well. I have a fish sitting around and if anyone was "yeah super easy and well worth it" then I'd be on it, but a little voice was in my ear to be echoes by you.

Looking at how little symphony is getting I figure I'll have a good year to build up some kit.

Has anyone here split a board for use? I’m not looking to hit backcountry quite yet, but marching round the edge of Symphony bowl looks like it would be a lot easier if I split my burton fish in half instead of carried it....

Or the other side is I can slowly pick bits up, but it certainly adds up for something that won’t see as much use as my other boards.

I got a fast, considered reply with a good price and a great timeframe for a raw stripdown. I would *love* a Toxik paint job but I generally klutz everything I own after a while so it would be depressing to see it scratch up.

I guess the only other question is possible resale - how many people would pass up because it's a raw frame?

It fell out of my helmet somewhere between parking lot and Ladies entrance..

thanks in advance

looks like Mr Harald would be just the ticket. Thanks for the insights everyone!

The paintwork on my bike is getting tatty so I want to knock it back to a raw aluminium and possibly add a clearcoat over new decals.

Can anyone recommend any outfits on the North Shore (or within 50km) that do media blasting  (and maybe a clearcoating service too) ?

Or I could use a paint stripper/wire wool/200 - 800 grit combo- in that case what would anyone recommend as I'm not familiar with North American chemicals.

I'll probably have to redo the crowns on my pike anyways, so chemical recommendations would be helpful

cheers in advance

shitty paint guy

Nice one!