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I bought a 2-gallon compressor a while back, mostly to facilitate tubeless installs, just before this wave of products came to market. It works, but I hate it. It's so noisy. 

Also, the price went up quickly when I had to buy a hose and a chuck to make the system work.

Considering I use it primarily to mount tires, I'd be happy to have a lighter, smaller, quieter, and more portable single-use piece.

Man, and I had you picked for my sports trivia team, hands down. Now I'm not so sure...

It's not that the regular Trailmaster was stiffer; in fact it was the opposite. It's that the more supple cover allowed the regular Trailmaster to disappear under me more. Think regular Trailmaster as a single ply tire and LTD as an EXO casing. The LTD ended up feeling wider and stiffer, but not stiffer in the way that a traditional "firm" saddle is stiff. Again, saddles are personal, and I wanted to note that the LTD is, possibly surprisingly, a different saddle fit-wise than the regular one.

I've been riding the Brooks Cambium C17. Rubber and cotton, no need for maintenance. This is the second-widest Cambium model and works well for bar heights that are about level with the saddle. I rode one for 5000 km of touring last summer, mostly wearing padded shorts, but have mostly stopped wearing them now.

As for boxers I have been wearing the Arcteryx Satoro AR for a good few months now. Bought a second pair after the first worked out well. They are a heavier weight and really stay in place well, which I can't say for others I've tried. Prior to that I had a pair of Icebreaker ones that bunched up and were actually really thin, didn't work as well. My go-to in past years (and on that tour) has been anti-microbial boxer briefs from Calvin Klein, which I still have four pairs of. So that with the Arcteryx ones has me covered for weeks of underwear, hah!

The first Trailmaster I had was a standard black one. The padded nose worked quite well for me for steep climbs, and it was good at reducing bruising around my knees and inner thighs. When I built my Rootdown I got a Trailmaster LTD. The fit of the LTD was different – it was less compliant, and as a result felt slightly fatter at the nose. I never really enjoyed it like as much as that first Trailmaster, and ended up passing it on. 

Two things though: saddle fit is very personal, and if it works for you, it works; and I have historically ridden in padded shorts, but am now mostly riding Brooks saddles in merino boxers. So maybe the Trailmaster would work for me again. And, conveniently, the friend I gave my original black one to has just offered to give it back.

Good points there Bruce. SRAM has committed to the XD driver, but your ideas could be part of Shimano's trickledown.

BABE LET'S GO

Oh right, I had forgotten that racing success is the sole determinant of bicycle design value.

Yep, Denver is a Duck Tolling Retriever. He's small for the breed at about 32 pounds and 18 inches at the shoulder.

I don't expect it will be easy. I'll be in touch. Possibly after I throw a wheel into the woods.

The gap between fat bikes and mountain bikes is narrowing, this year more than any in the past. I'm learning though experience that while the fat bike is not necessarily as efficient on singletrack, it is arguably more versatile than a regular mountain bike. By that I mean it is capable of riding on a much wider variety of terrain and not just the extremes of sand and snow. Fat tires hold traction better in off camber situations – and that is what could be considered "outperforming" a regular mountain bike.

big stupid is the wrong name for the trail, it's actually skull or upper skull as a lot of people say seeing as the trail is split by the BP. trailforks has the name wrong for some reason.

The trail was renamed Big Stupid when Digger redid that section of trail, coinciding with the DNV's signage project in 2011. It makes sense to me because this section of trail doesn't actually end at the top of (Lower) Skull. While it was often called Upper Skull by locals, was the trail actually on a map with that name? Asking because I simply can't recall.

http://nsmb.com/4358-the-digg-never-stops/

Wait what? Folding spoke?

Definitely lighter than the seven spokes inside my seat post!

With the 42 tooth cassette, if you want the same low gear as a 24/36, you need to have a 28 tooth chainring.

The 9-tooth jump on the Shimano 11-46 is huge, but if it's just your Old Buck bailout gear, maybe you think that's OK!

No, sorry, I don't even recognize it. But if you can get the shifter back together without it, you should be able to figure out which function is not working without it in there.

Got into the Dropbox and, yep, same thing that I did. You could actually hear the sound of angels rejoicing when we got it back together (I enlisted help, two brains worked better than one!).

I accidentally took the wrong side off my X01 shifter a couple months ago. It took me more than an hour to get it back together, so stressful! Dropbox isn't working for me right now but I assume it's the same problem. Good luck!

This topic is actually completely relevant to our lives, as we've recently moved back to Lynn Valley and plan to stay for the long term. We rarely use our car, and travel through this area regularly. The cycling infrastructure is sporadic to say the least, and we will be at these meetings to find out what the specific plans around cycling are with the project.

You couldn't build a vehicle crosssing at Seymour at the top of Riverside unless you went high up. It's a friggin cliff on the west side and would serve no purpose. Is Canyon Creek just at the top of Riverside Drive?

Right now it's a metre-wide wooden bridge crossing the creek that goes right next to the last house at the top of Riverside.

It looks like this also means they'd be restoring the closed section of Fisherman's on the east side of the river, and hopefully our access to Bottletop! The vehicle bridge at the north end of Riverside would indeed not cross the Seymour River, but simply allow access to the east side of the new pedestrian bridge.

I'm sure it's time for some big tires now that you've gone flat bar. Nano 40s?