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I recently had a ride than totally messed with my head. 

Started out all cranky about life. My riding felt terrible. I felt slow and didn’t bother trying to clean a bunch of hard climbs that are generally within my tough but doable range. Eventually I slipped into being present and not thinking and voila! A smile on my face and a cheery disposition for strangers and family for the rest of the day!

And when I checked my Strava, a ton of PR’s!  I wasn’t riding slow at all, my mood was just ruining my perception of my ride!  What the hell, brain?!?

Lesson: don’t indulge your shitty attitude and don’t trust what you think.

Possible.

Or it's possible the article talked about the track, covered each race separately (they're separate races after all), then gave some commentary (that mentioned both winners).

Although a few mm may seem like very little, but it might not be “hogwash” if the difference between a really stiff (say early Edge/ENVE) and a really soft (I dunno, doublewides?) is only a matter of mm. It may not be much deflection in absolute terms, but i wouldn’t be too surprised if rims just don’t flex very much in general, making a small amount of flex translate into a perceptible difference.

I think they exist (from Dans Comp perhaps), but I seem to do alright with aluminum nips. Only problems I’ve had were from exposing them to a 4000k drive in the middle of winter and then not rinsing the bike for a few months...pop pop pop every ride till I swapped them all out.

You actually LIKE contrasting spokes???  No accounting for taste I guess...

The oil slick finish nips are rad though.  I may break my gold nips orthodoxy for some next wheel build.

(all in good fun BTW, I really like your bikes aesthetically and otherwise.  I wish I could invest the time and effort into mine like you do)

I got all excited about your polished rim/hub combo, then I noticed the black spokes - what the hell man, I thought you knew what you're doing!

- you're losing weight overall

- if you do it right it's silent

- looks don't matter when you're riding

- I won't speak for anyone else, but I always ride far more actively without a pack so my body suspension is better this way

- if your stuff is down low than you've lowered COG.  Sounds negligible but I've actually been able to perceive this and it's better

In the end, options are a good thing.  This is why it works for me.

Your setup sounds good as long as it has room for a phone and signal booster.  Gotta get those insta posts out when you're making those kind of coffee stops.

This is what I've come up with, I used to run a seat bag but the 150mm dropper = tire rub.  Also, having the weight lower actually makes a noticeable difference.  I used to use a waterproof roll-top bag from an Arkel seat bag, worked quite well but sometimes it didn't find the right shape for this spot.  This Specialized seat bag is pretty rad, as far as seat bags go, and is shaped just right.

My first response to that mounting plate was that it was way too fussy for what it was doing but it allows a solid mounting point virtually anywhere you want it, which is key to a good strap-on setup.  Thumbs up.

I'll take the weight on the bike any day, I ride way more actively without a pack and can't stand them shifting around.

I guess NSMB has decided that these things are mountain bikes after all. 

Oh well.

The organizers of that nonsense sure don’t.

Luckily they clarified and you CAN talk about climate change without it being deemed political speech. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-elections-canada-perrault-1.5253580

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I was floating a test to see if Shogun would trap himself into something like "because it's winter".  As if the global average doesn't include the entire southern hemisphere ...

Sooooooo the southern hemisphere doesnt have 4 seasons?

What season is it in July in the Southern Hemisphere?

What season is it in Jan/Feb?

Also, since the temperatures in all the months are rising, why do you think it matters?

There’s yearly averages as well, if you can’t wrap your head around how seasons work.

Are you KenN? You could be with your bs. What do any of your questions have to do with my rhetoric to Ken?

Can you wrap your head around that the main difference between NBR and me this time is NBR belives the cause is micro (human) while I'm of the opinion that the cause is of the macro (sun).  No ones winning that one so just relax.

I don’t t know anything about KenN. 

I’m trying to lead you to the science in the issue. 

I never brought up causes, but since you did, the human factor in this is by me means “micro”. Just out co2 production alone is enough to cause the climate change that we’re experiencing. 

But that’s all BS I guess, laymen with Google know how climate scientists REALLY works.

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July was the hottest on record.  Not here,  but globally.

Let's see how Dec/Jan average out.

Why are Dec/Jan more relevant than July?

It might snow.

I was floating a test to see if Shogun would trap himself into something like "because it's winter".  As if the global average doesn't include the entire southern hemisphere ...

Sooooooo the southern hemisphere doesnt have 4 seasons?

What season is it in July in the Southern Hemisphere?

What season is it in Jan/Feb?

Also, since the temperatures in all the months are rising, why do you think it matters?

There’s yearly averages as well, if you can’t wrap your head around how seasons work.

In defense of my prof, he spent most of his time in very close quarters, where there would be little time for properly discharging spray. 

I strongly agree on your assessment in where and how it’s useful - and suggest that, same as with a gun used as protection, practice is key.

You’re just not thinking very creatively man.

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He’s trolling us dude. No way anyone who wants to understand how the earth spins in space goes to a mountain bike website.

You guys have zero imagination and way too much ego.

We cant even have a conversation about anything because smarter people told you all how it is years ago.

You make no sense. 

If you think you can upend solidly established science, go for it. I’m not arrogant enough to try that. 

You haven’t even proposed an alternate hypotheses however, so I don’t think you’re going to be successful. That’s probably just my lack of imagination talking though.

My animal behaviour prof worked very closely with bears for years - he was convinced that bear spray wouldn't stop a charging grizzly, but that it's real value was that it would give you enough confidence to not act nervous around them, which often causes them to get antsy.  He stoped carrying it years ago, and his students would carry it long enough to feel comfortable and then often not bother after a while.  The only bear incident he ever had was getting charged when he was with a student who couldn't relax around the bears.

I'd carry it, strapped to my bike, if I were riding in bear country.  I also holler "No Bear" or something similar regularly, when hiking or riding in bear country to avoid sneaking up on them, which is pretty easy to do on a bike or if they're all doped up on berries.

Some might consider Panoraimo might be considered “jank” as well, and it’s definitely steep in bits. The climb to it (and the route from Rollercoaster) are some of the nastiest punch-in-the-dick climbs I’ve ever done. I did both on a ride in the spring for some reason.

Nanaimo has Upper Meat Draw, Victoria doesn’t have much official jank (but I’ll show you some stuff). Can’t think of much else.