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Ah. So even when running identical levers they'll be different brakes?

Is it though? I wonder what the physical differences are. (Besides lever/pads/where they're made).

I had MT-5's and buddies had MT-7, I couldn't tell the difference besides the yellow.

Dear lord. Coming from the tropics we were similarly blind sided, but didn't almost die. 

Gas station attendant at the top outlined by strobe lightning wearing full snowboard gear in August was completely non-plussed by our epic tale.

August on the north rim of the Grand Canyon is a mother! Our trip there we got pummeled at the top by a hail storm so ridiculous it blanketed the ground like snow.

Great write up. Thanks for telling both sides. 

Had a few bikes stolen, and recovered:

Get a burglary report.

Finding the bike is on you. It's real work and takes motivation and patience. 

Set up a meeting, call the cops on the way. Meet the thief somewhere safe, I used the entrance of grocery stores with friends waiting nearby. 

Be polite and apologetic, tell the thief the truth, and tell them "you are in possession of stolen property". Stall till the cops come, tell them the thief is aware they are in possession of stolen property, show them the burglary report. 

At that point it's up to you whether to press charges or not.

I went through this process 4 times, each time the thief was just a really dumb person, nothing at all like the nefarious villains our imaginations build up.

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.

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FWIW I think some moderation is good and necessary, such as temp suspensions or bans,  but censorship is something that needs to be meted out very carefully. Unless comments are particularly egregious or denigrate people based on their identity, censorship should be avoided.

You should spend some time at 4chan and experience the nuanced and considered dialogue that zero moderation breeds.

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Chup, really appreciate reading your words of rationality. All the time here, but especially now. My stomach is knotted up thinking about those murdered children. And the children who wintessed the murders, and the parents. I have children around this age. My God, I don't know how those parents are going to go on.

The people that enabled and continue to enable this are perpetuating evil, nothing else. 

I swear I'm going to slap the next person I hear spout off with the right wing more guns rhetoric.

Alright, we'll call it a draw.

I've had two sets of DUB cranks they were both conspicuously problem free. I hadn't heard that they were prone to problems?

Currently on the first non-dub crank I've had in four years, and the bearings already need to be replaced 5 months in...

It's amazing the evil that American conservatives perpetuate.

Goodluck with the shoulder rehab. There's a happy day on the horizon when you wake up and it no longer hurts.

PM sent about Austria. Don't want the masses to know about that secret place Leogang.

Man bikes were all over the place, but that one was barely welded together. Broke 3. Everyone broke 3+. I suspect the SoCal guys couldn't properly fathom what their bikes were being asked to do. Dangerous Dan pulled me aside at purchase to forwarn me that it would crumple lol. 

Not all the bikes fault though, we were all *itching* to huck. Proper transitions rare as unicorns.

Yesterday on the trail ran into a trail builder looking for a guinea pig for a 6' cliff drop with another 4' down to tranny. I said why the fuck would I do that haha.

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Finally weather that feels like Spring.

Seeing my parents for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Took them for coffee and double baked almond croissants at Thomas Haas and a stroll on the new trestle bridge walk at Cypress.

First paddle date of the year in Deep Cove. My partner has been struggling with her health for a while, we weren't sure she was ready. Just 50 minutes on the water but she made it.

Nice, what a day. I can feel the cold and smell that ocean from here. Can't wait to be home next month, Vancouver is the stuff that makes me happy 🌝

@Mic, doing the same this summer with my kids, Austria. Hope all the BMX riding helps them deal with Saalbach.

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This used to be about dorps to falt.

Jeez don't think I could afford that hobby these days with being a responsible grown up.

Remember taking a new Joker out, dorping to falt, and shearing the down tube clean through hahaha. Oh those poor bikes of that era.

Funny when I shared a house with a professional triathlete, he said every workout is a HIIT workout lol. He threw in at least one hard effort on *everything*. His training partner at the time was Macca, who had just won his second Ironman Worlds.