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back in the mid 80's mtn bikes came with shitty 1.5 tires, I think it was cuz there was less duty on bikes made in Taiwan with narrow tires so when I bought the bike the store swapped them right away and  gave me credit on a better set of tires ... might be a better way to spec a bike

the  Fox  seat post on my 5.5 was creaky from day 1, I tried lube but it still always creaked, the key was to clean off all the lube and use carbon paste

I did my 5.5 Yeti with a roll of 4" 3M from Lordco, used water in the spray bottle with some soap and 25% alcohol, I popped air bubbles with a pin and squeezed out the air. I  wrapped the top of the toptube the bottom of the down tube in the places that are most likely to get hit, wrapping the stays is where some of the curves down under the swingarm don't look great but you don't really look at that. All in all for 22$ it worked pretty good and looks fine, I think a hairdryer or heat gun  might have helped make the more complex curves ...definatly a thumbs up

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

since the 90's some of you now have real lives with families/ jobs/ white piket fences, you are now looking at run bikes instead of DH bikes and yer putting them all in a mini van, so can you really afford to upgrade every year?

Also what has really changed enough that you really need to buy a new bike every year ?

so maybe you are growing up and have to choose  what is important ?

MEC used to have a rack that would lean against the wall and  hang 2 bikes  so I had them in the dining room, now that rack gets used to hang packs and stuff

I'm pretty sure no body believes anything any more

least of all peer reviewed science

so how many of you are pro-plauge ?

I Don't know about  snow boards but  with ski gear buying a lightly used setup which includes bindings/skins/tax already paid  is pretty fcuking cheap  often 1/3rd of the list price

It was a thing back in the day and you can probably find a YOOtoob showing how to split yer board 

but I don't hear about too many people rolling their own nowadays

my take is that back in the day they were more expensive to buy but now there are more used setups

cuz enough people have tried touring and then realize they walk forever

and never find the bar

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-two-tier-health-care-canada-ireland-1.5383995

s timely piece

Posted by: TheWasp

Seems like jobs that are person to person are the ones with a future. Healthcare, teaching, instruction etc. Also creative fields would seem to be safe from the robots. Sandwich artist made me laugh :D

Yeah this is what I see ^^ besides the usual MD's, Lawyers, accountants, the teachers, nurses, HC proffesionals like OT's, also ever body I know whom is now on the provincial government Teat (so all the pro planners, enviro's, bio's have all signed on) they are all doing really well up here cuz housing is reasonable and you can probably walk to work

All kinds of 20-30 something folks are moving to Smithers for the lifestyle

Personaly I have a few eclectic seasonal gigs but I am pretty much un-hireable

So I havent worked in almost 15 yars ... good thing I'm retired

I did computers for 30 years, even tho it would seem bullet proof I watched automation & technology affect that business as well

Yeah the certification card is a good idea^^

All them safety meetings might be erring on the side of too much but OTOH maybe it saves a life ?

when a man (or woman ) goes to work and doesn't come home its a tragedy and pretty rough for the people he leaves behind

I got a bud who was killed running the stick as a direct result of the giturdun philosophy, pushing the weather, no mtn safety plan, no mountain pro, no aviy gear, no nothing, no body had to account for it and 7 years later oct is still a bad time for his family

well if hypotheticaly  procedures (lets say knees ) arent getting done cuz the pro can't get Operating Room time or for whatever reason, if he can build his own clinic and do a whole shwack of Knee's and bill the gov then it reduces the amount of knees that are waiting to get cut on cuz as it is an MD is just a private business man, as I understand it they get a medical # with which they bill the gov for visits or hospitol procedures or whatever

As it is procedures are not getting done and there are wait times, as I understand it Brian day wants more OR time to get better at what he does and yes make  mo money but I don't think he cares too much who pays for it

a privately run & operated OR which is then billed to the gov at the same might be faster/cheaper/reduce the wait times cuz gov can fuck up a wet dream right ?

So thats not the same as private HC its just more procedures getting done, so yes the pro is gona make more money and get better at whatever procedures he does

but there has always been a lot of dreck surrounding this subject

Posted by: -Alex2-

Posted by: XXX_er

fork boots

That's interesting. I always heard that fork boots ended up trapping the dirt and accelerating wear. Thanks for that XXX_er

yeah the fork boots would trap a bit of water/dirt/oil, I regularly rode in the rain & put on a lot of trail miles in the mud some water probably came thru the vent holes in the bellows, some oil still snuck past the seals but the fork still leaked less oil/ looked cleaner than the euro forks from back in the day which were all terrible

I would undo the hose clamps push up the boots to clean whatever smoo collected there under the boot as a regular service thing

IME running fork boots was a net positive or i wouldn't have kept them on the forks

but there is no way anybody wants to run a fork with protective fork boots cuz it looks uncool