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These seem like a good compromise option where CushCore is so hard to install and so heavy. CC works great but really does seem like overkill for a lot of people where the XC version doesn't offer enough of the promised benefits.

Let this article be a point of reference for all shop guys who 'put the tall guy on the XL'.

Mounting self contained lights using gopro mounts is genius. Who sells that helmet in Vancouver?

*Geometron

Welllll that's not entirely true. Before DW could really nail his design his fledgling company got folded by COVID. We'll never really know how that would have gone with enough runway. The initial forks definitely polarized people but I bet he could have found the sweet spot within a few generations. Imagine judging the long term worthiness of telescoping forks by a 1993 Judy.

I was told once upon a time that you shouldn't brake through the apex of the turn, that braking into the turn is poor form, forces you to ride slow and causes braking bumps. That you should enter the the turn as fast as you dare the carry that speed all the way through. Once you get up the nerve to try that at your limit and survive you realize how much faster you could be going. 

So now I bring that approach to everything. See how far I can make It through certain sections brakeless, or as fast as possible. I try to surprise myself a few times a ride .

Oh no you're different. You're one of the "good" Bretts.

As someone who was once asked if I was a Yeti, and who even owns a Lib Tech Skunk Ape snowboard, I'd like to know about the appropriation of the Yeti name in the first place. My culture is not your aesthetic. It's extra weird because this is a brand of let's face it, expensive regular people bikes. No Yeti would even be able to ride one. Just some Brett calling himself savage or whatever.

Remember the Kooka Cube stem?

Might I suggest a Cane Creek Helm. Proper big-guy approved. All metal internals.

Posted by: RAHrider

Posted by: fattirerider

Not ready for a E mountain bike but have been commuting on an E bike for years and thousands of miles. 

Would love integrated heated grips, horn and turn signals/better lighting someday. Can add all that on but would prefer one battery to keep track of.

What? You don't want a heated seat? 

Seriously though, heated grips on a commuter would be rad. Or even on a winter MTB.

These exist, just a clunky execution

https://www.amegrips.com/heat-bikes.html 

I'll just leave this here. 

https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/Claudio-Caluori-s-Own-Way-of-Everesting-Keneveresting-and-Making-It-Count-for-pumpforpeace,3871

Am I the only one that wants them less powerful? Every ebike I've ridden the sound is super annoying, as if to remind you that the machine is doing all the work, when the assist just kicks in and then you're a passenger. It turns a level 2 fun activity into level 1, which is the kind of person the industry is intent on recruiting. 

Propose me an ebike that has half as much power, twice the burn time and a much smaller battery and I'd throw In. Ebikes that seemed happy to be bicycles rather than leaning towards being e-motos would really help with our trail user conflicts.

Burke is one of my favourites. Park on the road near the gun club then pedal up the road to Triple Crown > Six > Big Boy Time > Dawg (or Green Bastard, recently completed) > Hustler.

Just watch out that the upper trails are a bit soft and shouldn't be ridden when they're really wet.

But not others?

Posted by: DanL

Process looking great. Such an undervalued bike sometimes.

But sometimes overvalued too.

Go get some coaching. A couple of hours could save you a lot of painful trial and error and help break the skills into workable chunks. Then go find some good spots to practice and work your way up to bigger stuff. The easier trails in the bike park are really good for this.

It's £9000 which is closer to $15k CAD. Which sure is a lot for a product that comes out a mould hung with painted stock parts. You could piece together a fully custom frame in just about any material and hang It with exactly every part you've ever wanted for less. I guess this is a effective statement for someone with more money than imagination but a need for brand recognition.

I was running 40mm Mavic Ksyrion XL tires that came with my wheelset. They've been pretty good considering they're an inverted tread with almost no side knobs. My bike is more like a road bike that can do a little extra rather than a full-on gravel bike.

I ran it SS initially with 40x17 and it was good on the roads and gravel south of the bridges but I ran out of steam easily on the Shore.

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Posted by: craw

All my bikes are happy to see you Craw.

Clearly they haven't been talking to my bikes then.

Tell us about the third bottle mount on the down tube.

Is that an 83mm BB shell or are you just happy to see me?