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I been using Squirt for a couple seasons, it seems to work well and be pretty clean, best not toleave it in the shed to freeze over the winter or it will thicken up but if that happens you can just thin it out with some water

I been using Squirt for a couple seasons, it seems to work well and be pretty clean, best not toleave it in the shed to freeze over the winter or it will thicken up but if that happens you can just thin it out with some water

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 ?

with the exception of Obama how many past presidents have been really old white guys ?

at some point the only thing getting stiff anymore  is yer back

So I'm driving over to the bluff to ride some nice juicy berms and I pass this old fuck pedaling an ebike with his heels on the pedals

if i ever do that someone please just move over 5' to the right and take me out

You think so ? It looks to me like a mini bike or sft , I  know lots of folks with E-bicycles that look like real bicycles other than  that fat down tube where the battery is and they don't get any hassle

I think the big question might be how it looks to johnny law if you want to ride it on city streets, the site shows it doing wheelies and digging trenches I would be all over the super 73 if I  was the fuzz

some of the e-bikes are really just electric motorcycles it doesn't take much goggling to find a vespa-like bike with pedals that are so wide/ so in the wrong place/the bike is so heavy that you would never actualy pedal it and cops have issued tickets if they think you are flaunting the law and its pretty obvious you are.

Because they are " bicycles " they don't have a VIN so you can't license or insure them, there have been articals in the newspaper about guys who have got a bunch of tickets

all the old fucks are buying em, E bikes and Viagra

Cuz Ebikes are like Viagra for your riding

Kenny is still not angry enough cuz oil is still in the shitter, I don't see any changes coming, the bottom line would be better if they charged tax like every other province instead of cuttting expenses by inciting the doctors to leave

barefoot

I got a buddy who wears sandals

all the time, even in the snow

after blowing a knee I didnt wana ride a mtn bike clipless so I switched to cheap flats & resurrected an old pair of 661 axo duallies from long ago, the opposite of minimalist an awesume shoe with lots of protection, I don't really get why anyone would want a minimalist shoe for something that is so hard on feet and shoes

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tension meters from 39$ - 130$ at amazon anybody used the cheaper ones ?

I use the ghetto method hit the spokes with a wrench and listened for the tone ... make them all sound the same