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.

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?

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Has anyone tried a Tough Fast Rolling WTB Riddler?

Ran a Riddler couple summers ago. So much weight for what it is. Feel like there's not much engineering in WTB's tires in general, Riddler is just a solid row of tightly packed side knobs that unnecessarily makes the tire a boat anchor.

In the all out beefy 3 1/2lb tire category WTB do great, but their lighter offerings are definitely lacking.

Maxxis has got the faster lighter category dialed. An Aggressor feels about as fast as a Riddler but still brakes, and a Dissector is quick enough and has all the traction. Even a Rekon rear grabs pretty damn well...for a couple weeks. Most importantly Maxxis comes with properly engineered midweight casings.

Love it when builders spend the time to include an ingenuously hidden entrance to their trail. 

Locally on the Shore I appreciate a clutch move as an entrance, or a log, or a rock slab to hide tire marks.

The best entrance I've ever seen was in the middle of a Colorado bike park. Buddy guiding us there came to a halt down a steep straight away and turned onto a slow running creek. 30 yards in was a trailhead to a Ewok village of big ladder drops. Exit was over a rock slab onto a bike path. No tracks on either end. Genius.

And from a different angle! 🐕

Just bizarre. The world's most insignificant job has been found

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Can the trains add a watering car that spray the tracks as they cruise along? 

I've noticed that sometimes you don't think things through before opening your mouth.

Opening my mouth?  You must have one nasty keyboard.  

Anyhoo, I didn't make that up, they used water cars back in the day in Oregon to run ahead of the trains during fire season.  You don't have what it takes to be my nemesis if that is your goal.  Go back to the hole from whence you came.

How on earth do you have your own personal troll on a board this small.

Baller.

Posted by: chupacabra

I miss the days when the Asian fishing fleets used glass balls as floats.  They made nice ornaments.  

I could try Syncro, but plastic is pretty pervasive.  Did you ever manage to pull it off?

Used to go out with a beach cleanup crew in my area, they knew the sources of all the various plastic doodad's piled up like oyster spreaders and what not. Amazing how far this crap travels.

I have a few glass balls from back in the day too :)

4289 is same as Stan's supposedly? Then again, at <$1/ft name brand tape isn't all *that* expensive. I've got a 33ft roll of DTSwiss tape here that was $25 full retail, my other roll of Orange tape was cheaper.

@Kenny Yup tape wide enough to cover edge to edge is how I've been taping for the last few years too, lasts through several tire changes.

Gorilla tape was a complete waste of my time, wish I'd skipped that era.

Posted by: Znarf

How about a video of my 2021 bike?

RAAW MADONNA V2 Long-Term Review with V2.2 Peek MTB.......

I made this little Video Review to practice my English and camera skills. With travel restrictions I don’t have many opportunities to speak English :-/

I wrote Pete and Cam if it’s okay to post a couple of days ago, but haven’t heard back. So I’ll just try :)

There was some interest for my Madonna in this thread a couple of pages back. So why not…

Haha excellent, that put the rest of our "reviews" to shame.  🍻

And nice manual!

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Man have to say.. Did no one give a shit when this was going on? Or was it another crimes against children show starring the catholic church?

It seems like the further back in time you go, the less anyone gave a shit, but the churches (not all of them were run by Catholics) did have the ultimate responsibility of making sure they were cared for and I would assume that the families of the kids were informed as to there well being.  Their attitude was so callous though I wouldn't doubt that they didn't even keep track of who the parents were.

I saw on IG a Catholic priest publicly stating in mass that "we should not forget the good things" that residential schools brought to these children. 

I literally had to watch it a few times to make sure that I did not misunderstand him. 

And I think even today quite a few do not understand, do not want to do so, play the history of the residential schools down or are openly racist towards FN. 

Ultimately it all comes down to perspective, and if a person acts out of a position of (perceived) superiority and privilege, well, there is not much anyone can do except being in educating them again and again for a long time.

215 in Kamloops

751 in Saskatchewan

182 near Cranbrook

There were 130 residential schools run by religious authorities. Current estimates I've read are that 6,000 children died there, in squalid conditions after being told they had "no souls". 

Now that they are checking these sites with ground penetrating radar those tragic numbers are just going to keep rolling. 

Eventually the reminders will be too loud to ignore even for the most willfully ignorant among us.

How dare you doubt the video game developer's opinion on UFO's.

What gets me is the U.S. military has ridiculously well funded image analysis departments, but what we're seeing seems to have been left up to the pilots and the public's opinions. (See poll and YouTuber above).

What are they? Hell if I know, but I'm hoping the experts chime in at some point.