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Too many words and not enough pictures: what's the TL DR of your story?

@Pete- Have any thoughts on this jacket vs the Patagonia Dirt Roamer?

Great review @Deniz Merdano!  Any thoughts of the Brisker(?) gloves you're wearing

Thanks Pete, that's great clarification for us who love NSMB and the reviews that the team does..esp AJ

I trust AJ (and NSMB) reviews, as they reflect my real world experiences.

Your review of the V1 and V2 Sentinel is exactly my same on bike exp

Thanks again and keep up the great work

Not sure if you mentioned it in the review above- I skimmed

@AJ Barlas: Did you pay for a portion of these products? or were all of them provided as products to review?

At 1/3 the cost of the fork, does it offer 30% better performance?  IE will riders who are under/over forked get the benefits of this? or is this really a racebred product

Is it just me, or does the look of the bike just not jump out at you. Something like Spesh Enduro or Transition Sentinel V2 scream at me..I put this one looks wise in the Ripmo (ugly) Category

Flame suit on

Im in the semi-flat and inboard lever crew.  Helps me in the steeps and forces me to have a strong attack position..only down side is it sucks for neighborhood pedals with the kids

thanks for the reply Andrew...my comment above was more rant about my reverb needing another bleed

Has anyone seen these available for sale? E13 site says sold out since day 1..

Posted by: heathen

Posted by: ehfour

totally unrelated to your question- but where are you thinking about buying these from?

Im looking for EX511 and am seeing with the bump in cdn $, that US retailers are looking better.  Queue the LBS MOB

I bought the EX511 from my LBS.

Hahaha

totally unrelated to your question- but where are you thinking about buying these from?

Im looking for EX511 and am seeing with the bump in cdn $, that US retailers are looking better.  Queue the LBS MOB

Posted by: heathen

I reached out PNW and received a reply back from Nathan. Speaking with Nathan he mentioned that they have Loam levers that are going on 4 years of constant use with no signs of wear on the rubber pad. He also said they totally hear my concerns about the mount and will be incorporating those ideas into a future design. We talk about other stuff not pertaining to the lever but PNW as a company and I am really stoked on what they try to do as a company. All their packaging uses as little plastic as possible and is recyclable cardboard. We didn't talk about the life time warranty but I just read that they launched that. So as a whole they have a great vision. Nathan was awesome and a true professional. 

While I am not a huge fan of the Loam levers current mounting configurations, I am a fan of the Loam lever itself. It has a smooth feel and the pad is nice as I don't wear gloves. I have mounted the lever with the 22.2mm bar mount on the outside of my brake mount. The lever feels great and looks awesome. With all the rain I only have one ride on the lever. I will post again when I have more time with the lever. 

The Loam grips that I got with the lever have been awesome. I have a few more rides with them as I mounted them right away. I have ridden them in dry weather with no gloves, misty foggy weather with no gloves and they have been awesome. All the sipes in the gripmake them work awesome with no gloves. The grips have been awesome so far. I have yet to do any long rough lift days to see how good they dampen high frequency vibration.

did the Loam lever remove any of the stiffness of the O/U dropper lever? or has that remained the same?

As others have said, its super easy to do.  I just did mine for the first time on my new bike and I had a few observations

1) the oil in the air side was much blacker that the damper side on mine- dont think it matters but it was noticeable

2)  I picked up an R/S aircan and Rock Shox SKF Seal Upgrade Kit from Dunbar and the air can rebuild kit came with Dynamic grease seal  and SKF seal kit came with 2 sets of foam rings and 2 sets of crush washers

3) I used WPL oil and so far- 2 rides in, I cant feel the difference

Posted by: DangerousDave

Posted by: nortonwhis

Any Vancouverites frequenting Costco these days? Seen any merino this year yet?

Thanks!

Bought two shirts from the Willingdon Costco yesterday. $22 a piece.

Nice- will head to POCO Costco and look for these

Did you see all the colors there?

I think the adage of "You get what you pay for" is true in the world of custom wheels for bikes. Assuming that you have a competent wheel builder, which would you invest your hard earned $ into.

Are you spending it on Hubs? Does that high dollar hub make you a better rider? or does it make you the envy of others?

EG: DT350 vs Chris King/i9

or

Are you more about the rim? Brand Cache or unbranded cache?

EG: DTxm481/ex511 vs RF Arc

For me Im more about spending $ on the rim, as riding out of round wheels/tires makes me want to throw my bike off a cliff.

is there a reason you just can get a 30T DM chainring and run it on your X0 cranks? 

Missing ISCG mounts?

curious if you got them yet? if so, would be cool to get your review on them once you open them up

Ive had the same experience as you D_C_

Likes to ride high in the travel, lots of mid stroke support and requires less air pressure than the older version

At 188 riding weight, was running 89-90 psi and it felt a bit harsh- down to 80 psi now with 2 tokens and feel like this is perfect for summer dusty conditions

Once the rain starts to come, ill likely remove a token and take the air pressure down a few more PSI

Of a side note, none of the factory Norco boys run more than 1 token

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/bike-check-comparing-norco-factory-racings-sight-enduro-setups.html

Posted by: Brocklanders

PNW

Discount code

GET10C-4EB5918

Nice! super cool of you to share- Didnt use it, no idea if its 1 time use only