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When are those Graphene levers coming to market?  ;-)

The term I'm an engineer should only be used while hammering something in place with a 2 by 4 while using copious amounts of duct tape.

As someone more on a budget and still stuck in the era of 10 speed 11-36 has anyone experimented with the SunRace 11-42?  It's priced at only $90 at MEC and is hands down the most affordable option for getting a 42 tooth granny gear on a 10 speed.

You would have been a hero to me and my unborn children if you had showed up with a patch kit that day.

I'm eating cold Glico curry for lunch...

I had to walk down John Deere last year because the dumb dumb I am got a flat two days earlier and then flatted again and I hadn't replaced the tube in my camelback.  In the old days when this happened you could usually count on trail Karma from someone who had an extra tube.  But EVERY single rider was like "Sorry I ride tubeless.  I don't carry a tube anymore. "

Add medical tape to #3 also.   It has the magic ability to keep it's adhesion even when it's pouring rain.  Plus you might need it to close someones gash in an emergency.  A couple feet wrapped around an M&M minis canister with some first aid essentials inside like some gauze and an alcohol wipe makes an excellent 'enduro' first aid kit.

Thanks Cam for coining the new term Heirloom bikes which will now be used to refer to any 26er with a 142 or 135 hub size. Personally I still enjoy my Heirloom Slayer.  😂😂😂

I learned this trick from an electrician years ago.  Super easy.  Twist them off with a pair of pliers.  No sharp bits and no special tools.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-nxt7jMiys

Bring my dog.  She's the perfect sandbag.  You need to make extra stops at branches in the trail so she doesn't get lost which guarantees extra spots to catch your breath. (Before anyone gets uppity I don't really bring my dog on days when I think the pack will be to fast for her.  She's fast but she's not Fiver World Series fast. Lol)

Do it

I have TrackR chips but TrackR and Tile aren't real GPS devices. They are crowd GPS devices.  Most of the chip ones are.  They rely on someone with the TrackR app on their phone (and the phone having GPS) being within range of your tile so the app only shows the GPS coordinate of the phone that pinged your TrackR.  I originally bought them to put on my dogs collars but when I realized the chances that if the dog got lost on the Shore there is almost a zero percent chance that someone with the app that will be in range in the forest who will also have cell reception.  The good dog collars that have GPS tracking usually rely on some sort of SIM card technology which means that there is a monthly fee on top of the purchase price.  The other option are ones that rely on blue tooth that communicate with another device.  So if you come within 300' of your stolen bike then you get notified.  Not really ideal either.

Posted by: Mic

Yeah, kind of like my marriage. Deader than dead.

Good thing your wife doesn't come on NSMB anymore either.  ;-P

Posted by: ReductiMat

Can you send out a note to everyone who used to post here that you're sorry and you'll do something to placate them?

Free Stickers?  Lol

Interesting.  This is the second missing OneUP tool I've heard of in the last week.  Is this a design flaw or are people taking them out to use and forgetting about them?  (god knows I've left my share of tools sitting on rocks after using them).

Super cool concept.  Just watched your Expresso vido.   It was fun to watch it in lowres and not full screen.  When I expanded it to full screen and increased the res to HD it was seizure inducing.   Absolutely unwatcheable.   I can't wait to see where this is going.  You could almost imagine being on the bike riding.  Keep working on it.

Sheldon Brown knows all.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/

Sign up to do one of the fiver races.  You will be talking about the ass kicking the Shore gave you that night for years.  Plus you'll get fed and watered.

https://nsmba.ca/fivers/

The one thing that always amazes me when I see some racks on cars is the lack of tongue weight knowledge.  With my VW Golf with a 1 1/8" hitch from U-Haul the tongue weight is 200 lbs.  The kicker is that weight is measured at the actual point where the hitch mounts to the car.    

The guy at U-haul that installed it explained that because the actual rack sticks out 2 feet behind the car when it's folded down (older Swagman G2) that the bike rack acts like a lever.  So the actual tongue weight gets reduced by approximately 50 percent to only 100 lbs when the rack is down and loaded.  Seeing as the rack weighs about 25 lb and 2 bikes weigh about 35 lbs each then I'm at maximum tongue load pretty quick. So as you can see the hitch mounted racks need weight to be kept to a minimum if you are running a smaller car with a low tongue weight.

I'm glad I paid the $60 to prepay for all the races and own the chit.  I'll never have to wait in line again to sign in.   Even during the gong show that was the line up when I got there Christine very efficiently got everyone singing waivers and then Brian picked everyone out of line who bought the chit so we could get right to racing.  In the future I just go to stage one and start racing.  (And the chit is good for as long as they use them)  It's the vip access card to the fivers.  Best $20 I'll spend on biking this year. 

http://nsmba.ca/fivers/