AverageAdventurer profile

I've had many a near miss; and have been aware of the risks of the sports I take part in for some time. I lost my best friend to our shared love of riding four stroke two wheeled rigs this past year. It's been challenging to get after it again but if I didn't would I really be living? Fiery wreck is a stark image when you see it happen.. but I'd rather not go quietly

Is there anyone here that has hc3 levers? I'm really curious if I could get the ergos adjusted to the point where I could middle finger brake without crushing my index. There's a few of us weirdos out there that would prefer it.

Besides wera wrenches and knipex pliers the tools I find are in my hand the other 30% of the time are knipex side cutters or flush cutters. The amount of zip ties in the bike world is crazy. Sidecutters are a valuable tool for a tire install at this point. That $142 maxxis tire isn't going on if you can't get it out of packaging. 

Flush cuts for those externally routed moments grabbing a frame near a rough cut zip tie is up there with stabbing a frayed cable into your thumb. 

Not everyday tools but ones I'm thankful for; the vice, that "clearance" Stanley socket set, and a hacksaw. Between the vice and sockets you can bodge a lot of stuff together/apart. Hacksaw I mean.. cuts stuff you need cut.

I've been using crank bros speedier lever in almost this fashion to great success. I've been wishing this exact product would come out for ages. Modern hookless rims are getting far too big for the tiny channel in crankbrothers levers. And the moto ones aren't exactly super suited to this.

This is a helmet that they took direct advice from people who saw the manifest and improved it. The spherical mips aspect of this helmet includes the entirety of the outer shell where the manifest omits the sides and bottom rear of the helmet. If a portion of your impact zone has no mips coverage at all is it even worth it? 

In the same vein I have been wondering if in full face helmets mips has as significant of an effect. If the mips liner stops prior to your cheek pads which play a critical role in fit; in what scenarios is a mips full face better? I've been hard pressed to find any studies that address that directly. 

Despite all that all of my helmets including full faces have mips but the new poc full face without it has me wondering.

I have been an advocate for the shortish sleeve jacket for a while! Being tired of tent patching forearms after unintended offs most of my jackets at this point are just above the elbow. It looks kind of wacky even compared to a vest and justifying it to others has always been odd but before making the jump to full on vest, try the Shacket!

I seem to remember some tales of old about the new guy getting the "privelege" of making them. It's arguably one of my favorite pieces of kit. If you can make a full nerdy article about them i'd read it. 

Bummer about selling yours, i can't stand to part with 90% of my parts bin for fear I may need it later. 

I guess i wouldn't mean a new rotor standard, but through a desire to run the matching hayes rotors for the dominions an adapter seems to be the only way, i also don't love the subtle rock front to back on CL. I can't imagine it gets any better on a budget rig.

I love my fun bolt 135 king on my dj, it's over a decade old at this point and won't die. It's outlasted a pro4 on my hardtail and I can't get enough of the noise. I recently picked up the aforementioned black and gold hubs much to my disappointment about CL. The hubs for life appeals to me I just hope standards don't change too much in the coming years.

Hey NSMB someone tell me how enduros new MaxHit headset/bb is! I can't seem to source them anywhere and they make some pretty bold claims in performance and warranty. While I can get down (and have) with xd-15, if I can cram in a maxhit for a fraction of the cost and get similar results I'm all there.

I got a 110 CC hellbender bb just this past year and there new units run these xd15 bearings as well! So far so good...