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even if you don't fall there are always trees to bounce off, I still got a set of 661 2x4's  for wrist to above elbow protection, the lycra sleeve & straps keep them in place, 661 axo dualies for when my foot gets caught between a rock & a hard place

"The bro brah look of sneakers with minimal socks,"

now days I just give credit to any kid who grew up & was smart enough to finally  do up the laces

Wow, I'm gona take all the dishes out of the DW and wash them by hand

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?

you gotta remove every speck of accumulated grease & dirt, brush & simple green degreaser seemed pretty good on the pulleys and sprockets

I thot the white gas was quite amazing on the chain, submerge/soak overnite and the chain was completely grease free in the AM

IME plastic scrathes but glass does not, i always wear glasses

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The squirt lube sounds interesting. I will try it out next time I clean my drivetrain

cuz of the amount of anal required to clean you kind of got to commit to wax, Squirt is basicly wax in water that you drip on as you would any petro chainlube, when the water evaps the wax is left on/in the chain.

If you drip Squirt on a surface it comes out like milk and when the water leaves its like a clear drip of candle wax.

Drip on aqueous waxing is  way easier than the trad way of waxing a chain which is taking the chain off and soaking in a pot of wax on a hot plate.

The only thing you want to watch is do not leave Squirt in the shed at -20 cuz it will freeze which alters/thickens the consistancey so it does not want to penetrate the same way, I emailed Squirt and they said to add some water/shake which worked to thin it out.

They don't grow pineapples in Italy

The RE prices are being driven by multiple things, CGL/Bruce Jack/ CNR/ I bought 11 yars ago in a downturn and I became an LL in a tight rental market so it didn't get me. Most people who move here dig the cheaper living, the outdoor things and they learn to cook

I went to Squirt ( MEC) a few years ago (liquid wax) on all my bikes, I like how clean it runs, seems to last, using it on a road bike in a trainer it would fling off a few small bits of wax so i put a piece of cardboard under the bike

If you want to go wax you gotta take off all the old lube or whatever they put on a new chain and the best way i have found is coil up the chain soak in a couple inchs of white gas in a pickle jar over night, it will come out super cean

70's n 80's it wasnt too hard to lose money on the RE but things have gone  up in vangroovy year after year  thanx to the money laundering schemes as engineered by Rich and Christie,

if you were in the game good for you, otherwise you are fucked if you want to own a home so maybe move narth

but now housing going crazy up here in narthern BC, people buying houses on the internet site unseen, my assessment  went way up

I will tell you whats next a whole bunch of demonstrations on the 20th and some people will die

25 won't work becuz while he is inept pond scum Trump is not incapacitated

SO Dems will try to impeach again but i doubt much will come of that

I do wonder what the Dems could still do after he is no longer pres

he could have major legal issues in a couple weeks ?

I just read Deutshe bank and newyork signature banks have pulled the plug on trump probably a wise business move which will really hurt trump

I'm pretty sure they still  make hash pipes in HS

Most of the guys i remeber in shop were slow & pretty fuckign useless and i don't imagine that has changed

An old ski bud from nelson told me kids in highschool early 70's had those chargers cuz they watched the dukes of hazard & took pride in being the Dukes ( Douhobors )  of nelson, there were multiple  orange/ blackvinal top chargers so the cops were never sure whom they were chasing around up in the hills