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Back in the day I met a certain local character at a demo so i asked buddy where he was making his bikes and it was Taiwan so why not Canada?

He told me Taiwan is where its at cuz the best welders are there the best factories are there, he can hop on a bike and ride up the street a few KM to find components or tubing factories or anything he needs ... its all right there  

and the beach was at the other end of the street

the guy who told me this^^ was a bike tourer who had done 8000km in AK & northern BC  he was on a bike with a der and his partner was on a Roloff ... said you tell coasting down hills

looks great but I wonder what compromises in chainstay length/placement there would be in the BB area that were eliminated by going with 1x ?  Also someone mentioned drag going down hill, I've been told a Roloff hub will have noticable drag coasting downhill compared to a traditional der setup?

yeah I looked at the Switch infinity path of movement on line and then the R3ACT thinking i had the answer but while it is a moving pivot I'm thinking so do the other VPP  ... another thing I don't understand along with religion 

yeah I read about the water bottle thing all the time and I think its just one guy making many posts

It looks to me like a single pivot with a main pivot that moves which reminds me of the Yeti Switch Infinity system SO its an obvious comparison ?

are the lakes uniformly wide everywhere ? I need a wide forefoot but a narrow heel & instep which has been up till now specialized shoes

I should say I was holding the bike up by the pedal when i gave it a tap with the hammer and it came easy but a  self extracting kit sounds like a good idea so where do you get them ?

Just like derailleurs and derailleur hangers there is no way to quantify how hard you hit something before it broke ... anecdotal

Yeti put that crank on their cheapest (a relative term) 5.5 sb and I like them, I went to a 28T ring so I had to pull the crank, my old crank puller was broken so I put an 11mm socket in the hole gave it a tap with the hammer and  bob's yer uncle

Google up  some community radio stations they usually have no commercials so they exist on grants & donations, fairly eclectic, the play list depends on who the DJ is, could be almost any style of music ,  CICK 93.9 the station up here plays everything from bluegrass to Dub, is set up in an old train car ... which gets pretty fucking cold in the winter

What you might consider an attack on JWR is actualy  "holy fuck is she really doing that?"

What Apologies for the Liberal party you have somehow surmised I really can not imagine

Again, I just consider it all just the best political intrigue one can hope for

I and all my leaf liking buds vote for the candidate up here NOT the party

so either Nathan Cullen federally or Doug Donaldson provincially which both happen to be NDP

Posted by: ReductiMat

Posted by: XXX_er

Well think about her reputation, she not only records a convo ( and what more did we learn from that anyway?) which is frowned upon by the Canadian bar association and the law society of Ontario but is then not smart enough to keep her mouth shut, so after she is unceremoniously booted from liberal caucus on wednesday any body/any lawyer ( lawyers talk to other Lawyers on the phone A LOT ) who ever calls JWR will be wondering if they are being recorded, so its pretty much doing something really untrustworthy in your proffession and telling everyone you are not to be trusted ... just the last instalment of suckage in the game she signed up for

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-caucus-wilson-raybould-philpott-1.5079404

and BTW the recording is pretty much a clear sign to caucus she is NOT a liberal team player and will get the boot

So what you're saying is that if it came down to a literal, "He-Said/She-Said" scenario, you would throw up your hands and say, "This is a terrible situation and we cannot know the truth, therefore we should take the case on its merit's alone", correct?

(Psssst, ya actually did the opposite of that

Posted by: ReductiMat

Posted by: XXX_er

Well think about her reputation, she not only records a convo ( and what more did we learn from that anyway?) which is frowned upon by the Canadian bar association and the law society of Ontario but is then not smart enough to keep her mouth shut, so after she is unceremoniously booted from liberal caucus on wednesday any body/any lawyer ( lawyers talk to other Lawyers on the phone A LOT ) who ever calls JWR will be wondering if they are being recorded, so its pretty much doing something really untrustworthy in your proffession and telling everyone you are not to be trusted ... just the last instalment of suckage in the game she signed up for

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-caucus-wilson-raybould-philpott-1.5079404

and BTW the recording is pretty much a clear sign to caucus she is NOT a liberal team player and will get the boot

So what you're saying is that if it came down to a literal, "He-Said/She-Said" scenario, you would throw up your hands and say, "This is a terrible situation and we cannot know the truth, therefore we should take the case on its merit's alone", correct?

(Psssst, ya actually did the opposite of that)

No, this is just the situation that IS, so what interests me is really the political drama that has broke out since  SNC Lavalen story broke, I'm saying holy fuck are they really doing that, I'm really not concerned about the right or wrong of it. The twists n turns the political naivete,  the political suicide  of the jody & jane story are what makes the whole cluster fuck interesting for me, and again I am not a large L Liberal

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberals-wilson-raybould-philpott-caucus-1.5080880

voted off the island so she can no longer run as a liberal

she can always run as an independent

it doesnt really say if philpot is also history

I been hearing this will happen from a high up back room type I met more than a week ago

I have a buddy in a bank compliance dept who has been telling me about the laundered money coming in from china for the last 15yrs, sez any bank can run a report to tell you how much came in and when I have heard the figure of 2 billion

Posted by: chupacabra

I was not moved by that phone call in either direction. If that was the intense pressure she endured on her decision, she might need to have a safe space installed at her next job. If anything I was amazed at how bad Wernick was at pressuring her.

Well think about her reputation, she not only records a convo ( and what more did we learn from that anyway?) which is frowned upon by the Canadian bar association and the law society of Ontario but is then not smart enough to keep her mouth shut, so after she is unceremoniously booted from liberal caucus on wednesday any body/any lawyer ( lawyers talk to other Lawyers on the phone A LOT ) who ever calls JWR will be wondering if they are being recorded, so its pretty much doing something really untrustworthy in your proffession and telling everyone you are not to be trusted ... just the last instalment of suckage in the game she signed up for

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-caucus-wilson-raybould-philpott-1.5079404

and BTW the recording is pretty much a clear sign to caucus she is NOT a liberal team player and will get the boot

word in the back rooms is that she/they will be gone from caucus in a week

maybe politics IS political after all ?

the federal gov used to give a certain amount of money to every party based on how many votes they got in the previous election but Harper discontinued that because it was just funding enemies of the harper government

I used to support Nathan Cullen with 100$ , after 15 years he is calling it quits so i wonder who will run in his place cuz its pretty solidly NDP up here in the Narth west

Posted by: RAHrider

were going back and forth between the sb150 and sb130 as the 150 with the 170 fork seemed like a lot considering her penchant for pedaling tech uphills and the 130 seemed to miss the mark on making the downhills sure footed. The Megatower looks like it might be the ticket. Wondering on peoples thoughts and specifically with sizing. The stack on the megatower is significantly more than her old bronson. We could go with a flat bar and no spacers and it would probably work out ok. The reach/ETT on the small would still give her a little more length which makes me think the small might be a better fit. Considering the wheelbase is increasing by 7-10 cm, she would probably appreciate the tighter wheelbase on the small with the lower stack.

Anyone think she should definitely go with the Med? I have limited experience on the super long TT's released in the last couple of years. Anyone think she should definitely go with a Yeti? Which one? Why?I included the Geo for the megatower as well as her old geo in bold. I would definitely appreciate peoples thoughts, especially if you've gone through a similar process yourself in the past year or two.

I really like my Yeti 5.5, I did demo a large but I'm 5'8" , the large cockpit felt too long and the medium SB 5.5 was defintley the right size,

Assuming the sizing is the same I would bet the medium 150 or 130 is the right size for a 5"7"

one of the guys at the shop sold an SB5.5 to get the SB 150, he sez its almost too much

unless your name is Richie Rude probably the 130 is plenty

100$