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when you find out no one ever called a stem "barkeeper" what would you do?

We've talked about that exact same topic with the Bikeyoke-Owner Sacki on the german forum of the mtb-news.de 

He seemed at least interested to change this up.

Made it 8mm to use the least space, but replacing a 10mm spacer seems more like a thing most people would do.

hey fartymarty, as you're in europe, even though Brexit happened... there's a bunch of new and interesting Hubs coming from the mainland.

For Example the Erase Hubs (Belgium) are now in 2.0 Stadium which seems pretty good. 60 POE, stainless steel ratchet and titanium freehub, all else is 7075 aluminium. Rear Hub goes for 240 and weighs about 1Eur/g.. you save about 120g to King and still 70g to Hope.

I can confirm it works with the Magura QM26 it works like a charm. But I think those got discontinued?

Whatever fits a Hope V4 or a mt5/7 caliper should work though.

Respect!

You folks are a true blessing! 

Häh, Andrew, that's for your secular Christmas greeting ;-)

Keep it coming! Your tech and teardown articles are the best. I still go back to the dominion pair of articles whenever I have any issues with mine because the comments are pure gold!

I'm intrigued by the lights AND your way to do nightrides..

I like to have MORE LIGHT from the helmet but I don't like the weight.. But it seems most folks have the more powerful light mounted to the handlebar...

I've a HB500 Lezyne on the handlebars combined with a Magicshine Monteer 6500 on the helmet (which is quite heavy and the battery is external, so cables...)

The Magicshine gives PLENTY of light. I really don't need the highest setting but it is nice to see everyhting. To you folks comparing the Hangover/TrailEvo Combo to Magicshine: What have you used before? I'd love a wireless setup but really don't want to sit in the dark like the poor chap riding with cateye 800 ;-)

guess you're right... did think about this once or twice, than went straight to my proven and comfy shoes :D

lazy me

When you say: I'd appreciate a more contoured insole to support my arch and provide a more positive feel under foot.

I thinh I experienced the same with the Sleuth DLX that I still have (sitting around at the house somewhere) and this would keep me from buying these:
I experienced really bad pain after a couple of weeks only wearing them and actually felt comfy in them from the beginning. I think that came from exactly this. There was just no support for my arch and my whole middle foot began to hurt really bad.

When I switched to different footwear (Adidas Los Angeles for walking around, ION rascal Clips on the Bike) all pain went away, it took a couple weeks though.

Can you compare the Sleuth to the Trailcross GTX regarding arch support and fit? Because apart from this these sound like the solution to nice, warm, comfy winter riding on flats.

I'm just happy I actually have not really put them to a test, yet... in the last two years I've ridden pretty conservative, some might say fearful :D

While in lockdown I took some stuff home from the gym:
aerobic dumbell set with additional weights, a mat and one of those stupid aerobix steps.

With this setup you can do almost everything (except pullups)

Use the step for variations of lunges, squats, benchpress, dips ..

also can do deadlifts, rowing, all the pulling and pushing basically. It was great. Had to return it all and lost interest in going to the studio completely. Now always think about just getting the stuff all by myself and safe on the studio plan.

Need to say: I was pretty much into these Hot Iron courses with a mix of some crossfitty things. Now almost only to Tabatas with all the exercises I can imagine, but the results are low as I only can bring myself to go to the gym like once a week.

Posted by: danimaniac

drop 15 kilos and work on my FTP --- up it to 270-300 Watts (3 Watts per kg bodyweight) (driven by numbers, I am :-D )

Climb my nearest mountain (1000m altitude change) in under 75 minutes (currently 100minutes)

be able to do 10 Pullups, 50 Pushups, run 10km under 50minutes

I'll just quote myself here... None of it.

I dropped 5 kilos and regained 2 , FTP test is due though... I'm excited to see

1000m climb is still 100 minutes... but my bike gained in kilo just in rubber

8 pullups, 60 pushups, still hate running, won't do it :D

I'm definitely stronger though than when I first wrote that overly ambitioned crap up there :P due to HIIT training with barbells and stuff and a morning routine of about 100 pushups and 200 situps/Crunches that I introduced in February and have not skipped yet and an evening routine of eating well and drinking good beer and wine. This all helps... maybe

you could try thicker padding?

Posted by: andy-eunson

I have the Giro switchblade but it fits poorly. I thought it was OK in the shop but on the bike it’s hard on my neck. It’s too low on my head so looking up is hard on the neck muscles. I am considering others though. It’s about to get wet and we all forget how to ride when it gets wet eh.

I don't know about availability across the pond. Anyway. I've good experience with ion rascal shoes. There's two versions, I've the cheaper ones. 

The only thing bugging me is that the strap is starting to disintegrate at the tip after a good year, but nothing a good glue or some stitching can't control.

drop 15 kilos and work on my FTP --- up it to 270-300 Watts (3 Watts per kg bodyweight) (driven by numbers, I am :-D )

Climb my nearest mountain (1000m altitude change) in under 75 minutes (currently 100minutes)

be able to do 10 Pullups, 50 Pushups, run 10km under 50minutes