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To stay closer to home I've been riding the road and some gravel. I just got a 2020 Brodie Romax Carbon so I'm doing some solo miles around Langley/Fort Langley area where there aren't as many cars. Road is good as I don't need to stop at the top of trailheads where everyone congregates and just keep going. Sucks not being able to get a coffee part way through though (by choice to minimize exposure).

Mudhugger is the best rear fender there is. I got mine from Rick too.

Great article. I just turned 50 this year and I think my join date here was 2002! We were laughing about this on the weekend when we were riding up Old Buck to ride Corkscrew, Pangor, Pingu, the the new Empress Bypass. the last time I rode this was almost 10 years ago and it was great. The bike is now 20lbs lighter and the ride up was great considering back in the day we only ever shuttled Seymour. 

Riding for us now is so much more social. We still ride as fast as we can but it's just fun to get out with the same crew over the last 20+ years.

White Line?? Nope!!!

I'm about to slap on a big ass ugly Mudhugger rear fender. Nothing says Off Season like that monstrosity.

Hi I'm Steve.... and I'm a Fatass... I'd love to ride to the trails but unfortunately I'm one of those that use the Fromme parking lot every weekend because I live in Langley. There isn't too much mountain biking out this way. Even the Delta Watershed would be about an hour ride on some pretty treacherous roads.

Where did you get it from?

What about rear fenders? What's everyone using?

Great review. I'd love to try one of these out. Do they have distribution in the GVRD?

No it's just mostly wet here except for this summer when it was damn hot. Wet and glasses depending on the trail sucks. I don't ride fast enough to clear the fogging so I just ride with no glasses. I also have small eyes being an asian guy! LOL.

Love riding gravel bikes. Started riding them because I didn't want to end up in hospital with COVID going on and just love it now. True adventure, one bike, go anywhere rides like when we were kids. Here's my current ride, 2021 Brodie Romax Carbon.

I blew my shoulder out almost 25 years ago now doing dual slalom on Seymour one summer. 3rd degree separation. It took about 2 months for me to get mobility back and I was rock climbing again in 3. For years after that the shoulder bothered me. Not so much in day to day or mountain biking but thing like I couldn't carry a bundle of slalom gates down the ski hill on that shoulder and I would always get a kink under my right shoulder blade for years. 

Finally a trainer I was seeing started me exercising the shoulder more specifically, flys, shoulder press, etc. and I stretched a lot more. Much better. To this day though I still can't sleep on my side comfortably on that side. Not good for my wife when I sleep on my back and snore like a down shifting semi! LOL.

2017 Norco Range 7.3 in full winter mode. Not much left stock. XT cranks + shifter + derailleur + cassette, XTR BB, SLX brakes, RF Turbine stem and SixC bar, CB DH pedals and RF Chesters, Blackspire chain thingy.

I put a Charger 2 damper and Debonair into the Yari making it a Lyrik (also bumped the travel to 180mm but jury is out on that) and Monarch RC3 rear shock. Replaced the stock 2.3 with a 2.6 DHF front tire as well but I think I'm going back to a 2.5 as I find it too bouncy unless the air pressure is spot on. Mudhugger rear and old school THE front fender off my old Banshee Scream. This is my first new bike since 2002 so it's been great!

I'm using AM9's with Mallet DH's this year. So far so good and it's been a long time since I rode clipless. AM9's have just the right blend of stiffness and flexibility in the shank and fit better than my 5-10's.

Like others my favourite saddle of all time was a Flite Titanium. It moved between 5 different bikes before it was toast. I've hated every saddle since until the stock saddle on my Range, a SDG Circuit that I actually like a lot.

Current bike is a 2017 Range and my old bike is a 2002 Banshee Scream. I guess my turnover is 15 years!

Well I rode the tire today at SFU just for a short ride as I had things to do and the weather was brutal. Tough to say in the slop to be honest. I started the day off at about 22psi and it felt too hard with too much rebound. I dropped the pressure down to about 17 and it felt much better. Not too sure I'd ride it this low all the time and only some better conditions testing will tell. With a max pressure of 40 or 45 psi this is a high volume tire where I think I can go low. 

Profile wise the tire seems to be similar to the 2.3 and not overly rounded but I'm sure it has to be more rounded as the increase in width with no corresponding increase in I.D. It doesn't seem out of place for me anyhow after riding years on Sun Rhyno Lites (ID27.5) and 2.5" tires. Hopefully some better weather soon so I can get a better idea of the best tire pressure to run.

Just an update for the Maxxis DHF 2.6 mounted onto a 29mm ID rim (WTB i29). I think it'll stretch out a bit more still. It's not too much wider than the 2.3 but seems to have greater volume. Riding this weekend so I'll have some ride impressions then. 

This is the DHF 2.6 newly mounted and not stretched out (38psi).

Here it is after a day and mounted up as tubeless (35psi).

Thanks for the info. I ordered one from tbsbikeparts tonight. $88 shipped. I'll update when it comes.

Thanks. I only do maybe a day or 2 in the park if that. That's what I wanted I needed to hear.