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Awesome photos! I find too many MTB-related photos lack originality and a cohesive theme/story.

You should try film again, it is worth it, especially in medium format. Don't know if you have ever used these film grain overlays but I find they are often the "cherry on top" when editing digital images.

Were the printed photos taken on pack film? Also, this is a super cool way of blending photos with drawings.

Doctors also need more funding, I read somewhere that BC is the lowest-paying province. Yes, doctors can make six figures/per year (if they work themselves to death). Around 40% of the salary though goes to paying for mandatory insurance (my dad is a family doctor). 

Also, the cost of living is not going down, the minimum wage really should go up. Though I do find it funny that MPs had a substantial pay raise recently.

“cuss you out for suggesting they not block your driveway, and proceed to defecate on your lawn." Sounds like somebody got traumatized.

I imagine they are doing this because of increasing inflation? and they are worried that people will be buying less and less of their bikes?

Also, a benefit of headset cable routing is dumb people will buy bikes that have it and sell them for super cheap when they find out how much of a headache it is. So you could buy the bike, 3D print external cable guides, and glue them onto the frame. Problem solved!

Wouldn't it be pretty easy to design a headset routing it so that you wouldn't need to remove your brake hose? Couldn't they make an oversized straight headtube and then drop in cups that have notches (instead of holes) on the outside perimeter for the hoses, and then you would put the bearings into the cups? Another benefit of cups would be the ability to easily adjust the geo of the bike with offset cups.

Would you guys consider doing a review on these pants? - https://www.wearfoehn.com/collections/mens-mountain-bike/products/mens-tobin-schoeller-mountain-bike-pants

They look like they are super high quality but they are also subdued enough looking that I would happily wear them all the time, unlike most MTB pants.

Mountain biking is not a great way to get "fit" the only real way it impacts your fitness is cardiac health and mental health. There is a reason that pro downhill riders and even XC riders spend so much time in the gym or doing cross-training.

I do find that ergo grips are super comfortable. The only problem is the wide flat section when the grip has only one clamp because it applies more leverage, so when you go off a jump they can twist which is not exactly helpful.

That looks amazing, but I thought they weren't able to do more work on the trail due to some dumb insurance thing.

That's funny that they only decide to mod it now, I suppose the interaction rate was starting to slow down.

Posted by: MaxRockatansky

Yeah, I think they must have cleaned it up. or I didn't read far enough down.

In my opinion reporting that it was girls specifically is digging for controversy but that happens in every single media outlet. What difference does it make? Would people be ok with the result if it were 14 year old dudes? Plus anytime the word assault and female are together in a headline everyone assumes sexual assault as well, adding to the clickbait. 

I can tell you that at 14 I knew loud and clear that if you push some people enough there is a risk of violence....not condoning it but as a male you need to learn that very quickly.

This type of journalism reminds me of the teenager that was assaulted on lower Lonsdale earlier this year. He happened to be a skateboarder and was knocked out by and older man, maybe 60ish from the photo. For 100% of the article the NS News referred to him  as "the skateboarder" instead of something benign like "the victim", or "the teenager" etc. And teh perp was referred to as "the older man" and i think even as the elderly man in one version..

The comments online, from primarily adult female commenters were pretty consistently "I'm sure he deserved it" or sharing instances where a skateboarder has disrupted their day and it was "about time someone stood up to these skateboarders". Completely different incident but exactly the same BS journalism.

What difference does it make what group of people you are associated with or identify with etc.  It's either assault or its not.

Here is the article I am talking about - https://www.pinkbike.com/news/mathieu-van-der-poel-pleads-guilty-to-assault-after-altercation-with-teenage-girls.html don't know if you thought I was talking about a different one.

That is something that I did read about in a book on journalism, journalists have to very careful in what words they use otherwise they can purposly (or un-purposely) effectively change the facts due to connotations around certain words and facts. It is like a journalist doing a story on how a cyclist was hit and killed by a car speeding because the driver was texting, do think people would feel more or less angry about the death of the cyclist if the writer added that the cyclist never had a helmet, rather than leaving it out. A helmet won't save you if a car hits you while going 60-70 km/h so that fact is negligible and does not contribute to the story.

Sorry, I thought that was the article you were talking about, I was mistaken.

I don't know if you looked at a different article because I couldn't see any mods policing the comments (https://www.pinkbike.com/news/mathieu-van-der-poel-pleads-guilty-to-assault-after-altercation-with-teenage-girls.html) just a couple random people. Though I might not see new ones since PB has blocked me from posting any comments on the article after I posted my "rant" above.

As you said NSMB is way better than PB because people don't flame each other on politics and personal beliefs. The only arguing I see on NSMB is why somebody prefers a certain bike or geometry and even then it is always done respectfully.

This is some question I have, am I being overly sensitive? Why would they not moderate comments (for an example see the attached one below)?

Here is a rant I wrote just to try and understand why this happening bugs me:

Hi PB editors and MODs,

I just wanted to say, I love how PB posts articles like this "Mathieu van der Poel Pleads Guilty to Assault After Altercation with Teenage Girls" yet doesn't think, "Hey, maybe we should either not post this, or at least make an effort to moderate the comments."

You guys should have some foresight, how do you think this reflects on PB and the mountain bike community as a whole if somebody who is new to MTBing were to read the comments below this article? If you had a friend who had never mountain biked and they were to see this article's comments what do you think they would think? Makes, the whole PB MTB community seem like a bunch of misogynistic, male, dirtbags. 90% of the comments don't even follow PB's comment etiquette. This breaks my heart because I love PB but when this happens nobody does anything to stop it (except some random, few, brave people in the comments) I wonder if PB is something I should support or recommend.

What is the point of posting articles like this? To me, there are zero benefits or use in doing so, because of what people post in the comments.

I hope this might be some food for thought,

-Seth

PS I also love, how all the below-threshold comments are the ones condemning violence, yet the highest comments are on the opposite spectrum, shows how well community modding works

Posted by: Stuminator

My favorite bread now comes with one of those crappy paper clips to hold the end of the bag closed. I like the plastic clip better. The paper one doesn't work very well. I'm all for being eco-friendly, I just didn't know it would go this far.

I have bought the bags of bread that have 4 separate loaves in separate bags inside and those have cardboard clips. The stupid thing is the main bag has a plastic clip!?!

Since the topic of wars and history was brought up I would recommend Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuściński. It is a super well-written book on the Angolan Civil war and provides an interesting, non-western perspective since he was from the eastern bloc. It also really breaks down and shows the motives, forces, and reasons for the war, which is enlightening since the majority of past, and current coverage of wars in Africa paint them in an arguably racist light as a bunch of savages mindlessly killing each other.

Anyone know of any good mtb trails near Arrow Lake and Nakusp, BC? Going to be going on a vacation to a cabin by Arrow Lake and wondering if it would be worth taking my bike. (Sorry for the random interjection in the discussion)

Carry around a nice big stick to shove in his spokes.