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The shift feel from interrupted shift housing is unbelievably good compared to a fully housed shift cable. Great on a road bike where the cables don't get dirty fast. Anyway, that is all long gone on modern MTB and road bikes.

This car looks awesome with the style 270s! I tried to buy this car last summer (or was that 2020?), but I was in Victoria for the weekend and that fated young fellow got to it first. I saw it pop up again but I guess you beat me too it that time haha. It is such a shame BMW didn't sell the RWD E91s in Canada.

Have you ever owned a bike with a Pinion gearbox?

A lot of MTB is about projecting. If the top DH world cup guys were all used winged grips then we wouldn't be caught dead without them. All of us regular ol' slow guys want to look like the top dogs and to be part of the "in" group. We are social apes afterall.

Wow $1800. It does look nice though. A friend recently bought a 1up rack and I wasn't super impressed with the loading action, but it is well built and people claim it lasts. I have been through a few racks now (most of the Yakima catalogue) and I still haven't found one that really satisfies what I want. Add to that the fact that a 29er with a 1300mm+ wheelbase is so long with both wheels on that it barely fits down a lane and I'm tempted to just built my own dang rear rack. 

Did you just recently buy this car Cam? Looks familiar to me.

I wonder what route this is. I wouldn't mind recreating this! There are quite a few different FSRs around Mahony. I've never been out there though, so I wonder what a good camp spot would be?

Google maps gives very strange travel times for forest service roads. Generally, actual travel time by truck is much shorter.

As far as I can tell a center lock rotor would work just fine with no lock ring at all. There is no way for for it to come off as long as the axle remains in place and the caliper is still on the bike. Obviously with no lock ring it would be making all kinds of noise rattling around, but the chances of it not stopping you are pretty much nil.

I'd just like to sound off here (not that anyone cares): The tired trope of "common sense not being so common anymore" is one of the most inane thoughtless and pointless statements one could make. It serves no worthy purpose other than to say "I am smarter than all those other idiots." People are not more or less stupid than they have been in the past. That guy who was rolling a wooden cart down a dirt road in 1451 isn't any more or less likely to have an IQ equal to someone born in 2001. 

Also, consider the fact that the person writing the warning on the Wolf Tooth product manual probably didn't spend hours deliberating about what warnings to put in the manual. They likely just typed the first things that came to mind and continued along with making the rest of the manual and then had a second coffee. There is almost certainly no big conspiracy against common sense. The person that wrote that manual is probably a bike nerd just like any of us. Writing product manuals isn't some elevated science. I've written lots of product manuals and it isn't the most exciting task.

Yes, a 52mm chainline and 2.6" tires is everywhere because that is the max of what is possible with that combo. You wondered why not a 49mm chainline though- That is getting too tight for the chain stay yoke. 49mm CL with 2.4" tire clearance would be achievable though. Tire size drives chainline and you can see examples all over: Fat bikes, road bikes, gravel bikes, etc. One of the tightest points on a frame is the driveside chainstay yoke. This has been the case for decades (centuries?) with old steel frames being indented to squeeze the chainstay in between the tire and the chainstay.

As for super long chainstays. Sure you could build an FS bike around a 455+ rear center that could probably accommodate a 49mm chainline, but is there really a (large) market for that?