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As a non-bro, I am here for this content.

I might be lulled into complacency by how well the CH handles to not notice the tires, but they have been fine for me. I used to ride a fair amount of FSR and single track on an early 2000s CX bike (with cantilever brakes), and I am absolutely flying on the new machine. It's night and day in terms of off-road descending, with basically zero penalty on the uphill. The bike weighs 20 lbs! I am trying to find the downside (other than the indefensible cost).

Tires are stock WTB Ventures - 50c. No complaints, although they aren't great in the snow, and apparently they suck in the mud. Amazing to go "road" riding on the file treads at 25/30 psi F/R. I used to think the bike looked strange too, but now it's flipped and all other bikes look bizarre. My custom steel road bike with 100 mm stem appears to me now as a clown bike.

As someone who progressed from road -> XC -> PNW gnar over the past 15 years or so, purchasing an Evil Chamois Hagar this year has been eye opening. Fully drinking the kool aid on this machine, with its whizzbang electronic mullet drivetrain and long-drop seatpost. Road bike positioning w/ 30mm stem, same HTA as my old 2017 trail bike - It is so goddamned fun, even if I ditched actually wearing a chamois years ago. Maybe I should try jorts?

I use the Coscto version after every ride, all year, to dry out shoes and (rinsed) helmet. I believe I paid $45 USD. Just another enticing reason to come back to Whatcom County dear friends to the north! Our Costco and Trader Joe's aisles have felt empty without you.

Didn't know MF was raised Kiwi. The accent makes sense now. Can confirm "barefooting" as a verb in NZ, as taught / learned by my kudz attending preschool there. They do have things dialed. Or maybe this North American is just feeling nostalgic in our current state of affairs. Anyway, look at me, rambling. Pod was a great listen!

Simply making the point that these lists of "rules" come up time and again among cyclists and on cycling media (social or otherwise), and while they are often funny and occasionally entertaining, the main takeaway seems to be that everyone "else" is doing things wrong. Personally, I think cycling needs fewer rules, fewer gates, and less shame. The flipside of the idiot entitled bro is the a-hole entitled gatekeeper screaming from the front lawn.

There is but one law of loam (equally applicable to all disciplines and other forms of cycling):

1. You're doing it wrong.