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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

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

wow 6 weeks off is pretty good !

I'm a  consultant so as opposed to time off I actualy look for work

So that  guy we know was seen driving a really nice new deisel truck,  things must be pretty happening up thar in that camp 

I hear the food up thar is better than most people eat at home

They have a french chef whom I know  from the skiing/biking

Buddy used to do the gourmet restaurant thing in whistla  but he told us  (in a french accent )

" i can make 3 times as much money in camp than cooking at a gourmet restaurant"

I thot you might have moved up here to work the mines ?

I am on a 2 at 5 schedule

2 craft beers at 5 pm

I put guards on my gutters on the front of the house cuz there is a big tree on that side, i haven't had to clean gutters so they work but what happens is where I screwed them to the top ridge of the  gutter  I get ice on the sidewalk where ever the water drips down form the screws

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/ridden-and-rated-six-clip-in-trail-pedals.html

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Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus

I didnt expect too much and he was still the better option back in 2016.

Oh ffs.  What utter bullshit.  I don't know what kind of delusional one needs to be to think that Mr elitist, racist, grab 'em by the pussy is better than Hillary.

Trump's greatest (and I mean by magnitude, not goodness) accomplishment is to entrench and make acceptable racist, sexist and jingoistic attitudes.

but was that ^^not already there and isnt that what made America great ?

Greg Hill wrote something on FB about needing to charge his EV so he plugged in the car in and went for a run during the charging cycle, you can go check your e-mail have a coffee . The coffee shop and Portland loo are right close to the local downtown charging station, there are more stations going in up here  along highway 16 to where you could get to prince rupert but out east of PG looks pretty slim

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Does anyone think that people living in the BC bible belt, or high income neighborhoods, are going to vote for the NDP or Green Party?

the God-heads vote for the Christian Heritage party, the leader lives up here, any question you ask him he will turn around to a pro-life bent, every year they plant flags or crosses and tell you each flag represents 1000 murdered unborn children

I assume high income types vote Liberal, not sure ?

it already is to some people, the fundamentalist Christians up here got no problem fucking  each other over for money  if someone is religious I would actually be more wary of business dealings

I've done > week long trips in my buddies kevlar Seaward Passat which is like the best double one can buy, they are really fast because speed is a product of length but with a double you need that second person who wants to go paddling which could be hard to find, the people i know who have and use their double kayaks are married to their paddling partners so ask yerself who is gona paddle a double with you ?

The doubles I do see for sale trend to be hard to get rid of... might be good if you are looking for a used one

I was under the impression surf skis are narrower which is gona make them faster but more tippy

i don't use a rudder unless I need to cuz it slows the boat down

Even in a decked boat getting wet & staying wet for days at a time tends to happen even if its not raining and when it is raining its nasty, with the gortex dry suit I will pack up camp doing whatever I can without getting rained on get in the suit to finish the pack and stay in that suit till i get the tarp up again