Yup, I'm also a different size frame between 27.5 and 29. Your other findings about a bit of 29er awkwardness on tight downhill turns and getting the weight back exactly parallel what I've experienced too. 🍻

I've been on a 29 for a year, but I did go shorter travel as this seemed to mitigate those shortcomings for some reason.

Amazing tire, but Race is 120tpi= wet tissue strength. 60tpi only for this husky boy. Ikon is available in 60tpi.

Shuttlers gonna shuttle is what I've seen. That fucking hard to pedal up the local hill solo or with one other socially distanced partner?

People, they're the worst.

2 minute expert, love it! More pls

Steep seat angles are a bit of trade-off though, as it shortens your seated reach considerably.

Whoever decided to change the logo to SHRED needs to be fired from a big cannon.

Go the other way? Pick yourself up a less capable bike, and ride that on rides with your girl. 

I've done this quite a bit, worked out really well.

This is the greatest idea in the history of mtb.

9, taping rocks. ★★★★★

Wow, stoked to see the "One Dolla" guy from Hawaii in Matt's Murrica video! I wonder how they connected?

For as many years as I've been riding I've irrationally lusted after what ever model of bike Wade Simmons is on…and here we go again. The smoothness just goes right into my brain!

Well, Obama spent more on the military in his first term than Trump spent so I suppose we should expecting lots of bombs from Biden too. 

Sure was a decent speech he gave today. Fox's Chris Wallace called it the best inauguration speech he's ever heard. 

https://youtu.be/j3a6n_1owPY

No leaks anywhere? I can usually reattach a lever without needing a bleed so I'm suspicious.

Somebody here will have better tips, but my usual general bleed method hope there's something here that you can use:

(Lazy top bleed first with lots of lever flicking and moving of bars, which you've tried).

Bottom to top bleed: Take off the rear caliper, drop it as low as possible, get every bend in the hose top to bottom pointing uphill.

Move a large volume of fluid slowly back and forth from master cylinder to caliper repeatedly.

Do a top vacuum bleed for any remaining stubborn bubbles if needed, being very careful to pull gently so as not to pop a seal.

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Take a tape measure & extend it out to 82 inches, which is the average lifespan of a Canadian male. Put your finger on your current age. Look at all the time that has passed & what time you have left. 

A good motivator to get going on the f/sus to Wideangle parts swap I'm doing so I can go freaking ride!

66, but, retired so I now got an extra 40~hrs a wk to get after it.

Congrats on retirement! I rode the bus back and forth across the entire North Shore daily for years in my youth, which would have been middle age for you, we may have spent hours together lol. I remember we always had transfer folding contests with the drivers.

Coronation day at last. 

15 executive actions planned for day one. Including halting wall construction, which in the end amounted to 15 miles of new wall. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-46824649

Wonder how many hours it will take Biden to outstrip his predecessors efforts?

So looking forward to having a working administration in the White House.

Interesting premise. I borrowed a friend's older geo bike last weekend as my bike is being repaired. He's been feeling the pressure to sell it and get something new school for a while.

Honestly the only real glaring difference in ride was the wheelbase. Sure I could feel the steeper head angle, but it was adaptable. The slacker seat angle kept the seated reach long and climbing was comfy and wander-free. Out of the saddle everything shortened up though making it feel a bit squirrelly in comparison to the long-low-slack I've grown accustomed to.

I told him to keep it and shore it up. I think properly performing brakes and suspension would have made far more difference in the ride than a slightly longer wheelbase.

Requires a subtle hand to figure out eh.

Fall line used-to-be-loam trails that now are just a drag-your-brakes-through-an-erosion-apocalypse can fuck right off. At the same time, solidly green gravel path flow trails in the middle of what used to be old school black runs like Lower Digger are a blight.

Just keep the pencil pushers from the district out of the decision making process.

Good plan.

Tires, check. Brake pads, check.

Grips! I think I go through them as fast as brake pads.

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Dangnabbit, only mint green available.

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Raaw sent out an email this morning announcing their upcoming short travel rig, the Jibb.

Boy I'd like to get my hands on one of those. Wonder if we'll have to wait till June like the V2...

Btw, Raaw just posted up a small batch of XL V2's on their site if anyone gigantic here has been waiting.

of which year ?

😅

V2 restocking was pushed back from Spring to June. Jibb is "early this year". For now.

Raaw email: "We will expand the RAAW line-up in early 2021 with a brand-new bike. We don't want to give away too much at this point, but you can look forward to a model with less travel and a playful character. It's still full of Madonna DNA, so you can continue to look for lines instead of excuses in the bike park.

There will be no reservations or waiting list for the new Jibb (oops, did we say Jibb?), but we will of course let you know as soon as the bike goes online."

Asia/Germany. The lever shape of the 5's is fine btw. 

I think if I were buying Maguras today I'd purchase them piece meal: MT-5 calipers, hoses and olives, Shimano master cylinders and hose pin.

Boeshield T9 is clean. Used it previously on my power tools to keep them clean, also leaves a waxy coating to prevent rust. Seems to work the same way on my bikes.

I had a waxed chain on my rarely used wall hanger road bike, no idea what kind of wax or if this is at all a typical result, but in my house it built up a lot of dust.