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Giraffe here. You're wrong. None of those pants are long. Not one style from a single brand come in 36" inseam. You can always shorten pants that are too long.

This is so much scarier to watch when you're familiar with those sections.

Tools for old stuff should definitely end up In the hands of shops like Dream Cycle on Commercial since so many old bikes are getting a lot of love these days.

Tools for old stuff should definitely end up In the hands of shops like Dream Cycle on Commercial since so many old bikes are getting a lot of love these days.

Tools for old stuff should definitely end up In the hands of shops like Dream Cycle on Commercial since so many old bikes are getting a lot of love these days.

Tools for old stuff should definitely end up In the hands of shops like Dream Cycle on Commercial since so many old bikes are getting a lot of love these days.

Tools for old stuff should definitely end up In the hands of shops like Dream Cycle on Commercial since so many old bikes are getting a lot of love these days.

Wow I just had a flashback to those neon (HS33?) Magura rim brakes. Kind of a hassle but so amazing.

50mm extension, 31.8mm clamp, 12' rise I think. It's awesome. Maybe I could run it inverted now.

I have the same generation of Turbines. I bought them around 2011 when I converted my first gen alloy Enduro 29 to 11spd 1x using a Oneup expander cog and cage. Those cranks have run on every bike I've owned since, including my latest, total of 8 bikes I think. At least that many chainrings have been run on them, one season with an 83mm axle. They're still going strong.

I also have a pair of Derby DH carbon/Hope 29" wheels I built up around the same time and they're still going strong. 7 year old carbon wheels... not really sure what to do with them now.

From the freeride era I have a Carve stem. It's barely not a block of aluminum and it's amazing. 

Posted by: tashi

Nice option, hot price!

Geo is at https://nsbikes.com/eccentric-alu-evo-29,121,pl.html

But it doesn't actually have an eccentric BB.

https://ebike-mtb.com/en/gasgas-news-2021/

Posted by: Kenny

But, for something like Darkside laps or shuttles I am just destroyed by the end of the ride. When my big bike was down in the summer for a few weeks for some suspension stuff and I was riding my hardtail a few times a week including shuttling I was well and truly ready to get my full suspension back.

I tend to ride the hardtail 25% of the time in the summer and a little more often than that in the winter. 

Agreed. I can do anything on my HT as my G1 but it takes its toll. I was happy to get back on FS. Riding at my desires speeds in relative comfort and safety Is pretty awesome. If I lived outside of the S2S corridor I'd get a less aggressive bike - the G1 is awesome here but overkill in just about any other place. I've always wanted a mid-travel bike but we don't really have the riding here for it. If I want to go on really long multi-mountain lockdown rides I'll take my hardtail.

If there are too many variables to control. I was out on my first wet weather ride recently, on the first ride of a new bike, faced with a brand new feature (that was a bit steep, a bit treacherous/off-camber, the sort of roll that might be steep enough to require an air that would be decided after rolling in) on a trail I didn't know that well. The unpredictability of a fresh bike was enough for me to walk around. To try a move like that for the first time I need to be comfortable on the bike, knowing predictably how it will handle a range of situations.

I just put mine on the back burner after a really fun season on it exclusively. Titanium, 29" wheels, the right geometry and Cush Core are nigh unstoppable. For someone over 200lbs I don't see the short travel FS bike as a real option. I'll destroy that smaller shock and replace It with a coil and at that point you're back Into proper FS bike territory without the benefit of the extra travel. For me it's HT or 150mm or both but no short travel FS.

It's worth it as an experiment in developing skills, appreciating how precise you have to be on a hardtail to ride at customary speeds safely.

Worst case scenario it doesn't really take but you have a fun backup bike.

My guess, sadly, is that they won't be coming back.

https://www.bikemag.com/news/goodbye-for-now/

I've been reading BIKE for around 30 years. I first got It when I was just a teen getting into bikes, living in Toronto. I still have my copy of Fear and Loaming (the shore issue). BIKE was the source for incredible photography a stories about the soul of the sport, not just gear shootouts.

I'm thinking along the same lines of going DT EX511/King. I'm just trying to get over my poor experiences with alloy rims before I switched to carbon a few years ago. My major concern being damage that prevents a good tubeless setup but not wreck the wheel, I.e having to ride tubes Indefinitely.

Now I think the EX511 is strong enough to handle that at a reasonable weight. Has anyone ridden these back to back against carbon for trail use?

https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/Single-Crown-vs-Dual-Crown-Which-One-is-the-Best-for-Enduro,2953

Posted by: Admoore

I've started wearing full face mostly for the harder trails here on the Shore. A quick dad lap I will just wear XC type but really depends on trails but as we all know shit happens on the easiest of trails.

Anyone recommend a good brand of riding glasses to wear with full face ?

I currently use an old pair of Smith overdrives that fit well and stay in place but they are getting old.

I have always been glasses over googles and looking for new glasses that fit well with full face as my  ryders don't fit good on the full face, but they fit good on the XC style.

I have 100% S2s and they fit fine the IXS FF fine.

Posted by: shoreboy

Posted by: craw

Syntace does a 30mm for 31.8.  https://www.syntace.com/en_GB/products/stems/mountain-bike/153/megaforce3?c=77

That isnt a DM stem though.....

Oops sorry.