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Thanks Deniz and Cam, I appreciate this article and the previous. I already picked up the Loam Goats as spares after the last article, but it’s great to know more about the other options. I expect to refer back to this article in the future.

Loam Goat pads ordered for my codes. Thanks! Free shipping and $35 for two sets of pads make them worth trying

Thank you Deniz, I'm interested in your findings.

I've mostly had Codes on all of my bikes for the last 10 years which have had the same pad for that decade.

I wish I had jotted down notes like this over the years. The metallic Sram pads have been the winner for me, but it would nice to know what the next-best option is/was. There's definitely been some pads that resulted in a loss of performance.

It doesn’t appear that the frame can take too long of a dropper post due to the pivot and kink halfway down the seat tube. Did you have to make any compromises when setting your saddle height?

Dear Dave,

Please include me on the list of people you bother for shuttles if you ever get another DH/FR bike to review.

Overwhelming consensus is that we all love your writing and read your review of expensive glasses that we otherwise wouldn’t have. 

I think the takeaway is that the majority of those who take time to leave a comment aren’t willing to spend this much on glasses. 

But there’s even one comment that agrees with you that these are great. What more could you want man?

Fits well is a good point. I should plan to try before I buy (ie not buy online)

Thank you both! This is the type of comment I was hoping to find below the article: cheaper alternatives. I’m impressed with the anti-fog on my Ryder’s googles, I’d certainly like that feature on glasses.

I agree with Kos. Unfortunately I quite enjoyed Dave’s musings and I did follow the link to look at the on-sale glasses... but I’m too cheap.

I’ve started wearing googles and a full-face helmet every ride, just hang the googles backwards around my neck going up, and bring my google bag to wipe the rain out before I put them on.

I’d like a different solution for commuting and trail rides.

I had a Boxxer on my Kona Steely because I needed a fork with a long, straight 1 1/8 steertube to fit the huge headtube on that frame. I ran it that way for a year at 140mm and my tight radius corner experience was similar to Ryan’s. I sometimes did use the bump stop, but it was rare. I don’t think I ever failed to make a corner because of it.

What are the fitz lineups like on the weekend?

I think this would fit the bill for someone 6’2”: https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/3080696/

I didn't buy it, but I did look into it; Boostinater is a 6mm longer endcap on the non-drive side.

You need to re-dish the wheel when you Boostinater it. I have a Hope Pro 4 I needed spaced out and I could have got boostinator for or hope's option. Hope offers 3mm longer endcaps for either side.

I ended up with 4mm of hardware store spacers on the non-drive side and 2mm of hardware store spacers on the drive side because after waiting 2 weeks for the Hope option "DHL lost my order" from CRC and then the part went out of stock.

No re-dish required, and the derailleur still barely gets the chain into the biggest cog. I will admit my chainline is worse than if I had a boostinator or a proper 148mm hub.

Posted by: Greasyone

One of my buddies works with a guy who has a 2014 Aurum 6.3 that he wants a G for.  It's 10 years newer than my bike, the seller did a few chairlift days per year with it, and the price seems right.  Bearing in mind that I'm currently riding an 04, do you think this is a good interim bike?  I still want to buy a newer one, but prices are pretty out of hand, and I'd like to be on something a little more modern...sort of ease into current geometry as it were.

Are you planning on doing any pedalling? A friend of a friend bought the same bike last spring, but he never comes riding with us because he doesn’t enjoy pushing it up the hill. He’s been looking for a trial bike pretty much since he bought the aurum. If you’re shuttling a lot then it’s probably going to be great!

I like to keep my bikes for a long time. I’m hoping this will be my bike for the foreseeable future: production privee Shan No. 5. Steel 140mm R 160mm F. All steel 🤘

Timigrant (Tim Coleman) rode one forbidden offering and one knolly offering last season (I don’t remember what models, but he reviewed the knolly and did a first-ride article on the forbidden). Based on one quick conversation with, I’d really like to try the forbidden mostly because of how excited he got talking about the suspension. I didn’t understand enough to know if it was good or bad, but it sounds exciting and I’d like to try it. 

Chromag has their full suspension bike test mules in the bike park lineups. If you can limp the slayer along a Taiwanese welded steel full suspension chromag frame may be in your future. I only say one a child was riding, so I’m not even sure what size wheels or travel the adult one has.

I picked up the Magura MDR-C rotors as per above recommendation and they’re working great with my 2016 Codes (the last gen model). Thanks a lot for recommending those; I will get another pair for my other bike. 

I think the brakes work better with the slightly thicker rotors. I had a really thin shimano rotor and the pads sometimes didn’t retract and the lever would jam.

Lineups triple in length after 4:30. 

I overheard “dirt merchant squirrel line is open”

Is there a bonus day if you buy a 5-day pass before June 6?

Mullet is 27.5 wheel in the rear, 29 in the front

Probably not too different than 24/26 you just alluded to