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Whatever happened to 20mm axles?

Will that be the next "revolution", like coil springs? Someone better hurry up and innovate!

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Got me a new bike so I could post in this thread:

Marin Pine Mountain 2.
They smartened up an' put Schwalbe Knobby Nics on current production models. Gonna set it up tubeless, which should save about a pound and a half of bike fat right from the get go

Question for the hardtail aficionados: Looking for a burly STEEL hardtail w/26" wheels. Chromag has some leftover/demo 26" wheeled Stylus frames which look like what I am after. Any other STEEL hardtail long travel frame I should consider?

PS: Just to make it difficult, 31.6 seat post [HTML_REMOVED] threaded BB too!

Cotic still does a 26" wheel'd BFe:
http://www.cotic.co.uk/product/BFe26
I have a ~2010 one and it is great!

Maybe it's just me, but if you are making a doc about keeping a ski resort away from Jumbo why put in the sweet skiing clips?

'cause Patagonia has skiing clothes to sell, and Sweetgrass has skiing films to sell.
It is only natural.(Pun?)

The key measure of a blender is… Does it chooch?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA0kiYqyBmo

I'm a sucker for cool tools.
I checked out their website, although they are not shy to repeatedly state they are German based I could not find any info pertaining to where they are manufactured.

I have a pliers-wrench sitting on my desk right now. It has "MADE IN GERMANY" right on the casting, and on the handles too.
I think it's safe to say that's where they're actually made.:D

They are very nice, and have caused the retirement of channel lock pliers, a couple crescent wrenches, and smaller pipe wrenches.
Certainly no replacement for a full on wrench or socket set, though.
Amazon.ca seems to have the best price, or they did when I got mine.

Not Knipex, but still interesting, is this hex key set I got recently… Wiha Magic Ring ball end hex keys They were on sale when I bought them, but don't seem to be now. Wiha often has sales though. Usually 30-50% off.

Definitely metal fatigue. Nothing to do with casting, since this isn't a cast part.

sauce: took a semester of metallurgy in colledj, design round metal things sometimes.

I have Mallets on various bikes, the old kind with the one-piece cage though. Possibly the newer ones are thinner.
I also use Mavic shoes-the Switchback which I don't think is made anymore. One spacer under each cleat eliminated most interference.

Overall, a pretty good combination.

Mavic shoes seem to run on the narrow side, so you should be fine there.

This is probably the closest thing:
http://www.sonimtech.ca/xp7/

Saskatchewan is not as terrible a place as it once was. Saskatoon is better than Regina-it feels like a city. Regina feels like it has about 10,000 people.
Prince Albert NP has some nice trails. At least the ones I've been forced to go hiking on sure looked like they'd be enjoyable on a bike…
Winter is cruel; get a fatbike, confuse snowmobilists with your tire tracks.

I do not find the bugs here in Saskieland as bad as MB, where I'm from…take that for what it's worth.