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Congratulations Greg Bly.

Welcome Mike. I'm not the Bike aficionado that many here are, but I do remember you from that publication eons ago, when that was the absolute bible of bike rags. 

That said, "Beggars Would Ride" speaks intimately to me, as my late Stepdad used that expression regularly, and I don't think I've heard it from any other human apart from him. You've already won me over.

Because we've all been there. .

CO2 is a reflector that allows light radiation into our atmosphere, but keeps the Infrared rays bouncing around within, multiplying the heating affect. It also lasts in our atmosphere many times longer before it breaks down, compared to other things that do this. That is why CO2 has been targeted as the single biggest contributor to global warming.

Do tell...

The position of the insert and bead is key. Once the tire is on, I go around the tire about 5 times (one side, then the other), making sure the insert and tire beads are in the right place. It's in the instructions and the video.

I had the '07 888 WC that came on my Norco Team DH until 4 years ago. I was only in use for the equivalent of 6 full seasons or so, but it never showed any signs of fading/flaking/bubbling. The silver coating on Boxxers however, those would flake just looking at them.

I wouldn't call a $100 service inexpensive. And that was like 3 years ago.

Interesting, I've had no such problem with mine. I've use them front and rear on my hardtail, only with Maxxis DHF 2.5 WT Maxterra, but with 2 different Duroc rims and one Reynolds Carbon rim. No issues. I also swap tires front-to-back as they wear, so lots of swapping back and forth.

Shiny polished Super T! My first real dual crown fork (aside from a Judy DH that lasted about a month). It worked so well and stood up to everything. I didn't know how good I had it with that fork, and went on to probably the worst fork I've ever ridden (story below).

Posted by: IslandLife

Loved living in North Van from 1999 to 2009... but in 2015 we fully escaped the Metro Van area for the Island Life in Victoria.

So if anyone is Isle-curious, wants to enjoy the unique Olympic Mountains Rain Shadow and stop talking about traffic on a Mountain Bike website... let me know.

I'm the opposite. Grew up in Victoria, cut my teeth on mtb in '99, and rode all over the South Island until I moved to N.Van in 2016. I've always had friends over here, and my eyes would bulge at all the crazy Sea-Sky riding every time I came to visit (also raced DH all over the province between '04-'08). Work in S.Van is what brought me here, but I didn't hesitate to settle on the Shore and I love living so close to the big 3 mountains (bikes and skis). One of the best things I love about the location is how quickly I can get North or East when it's road trip time, and the 10/10 riding is pretty much everywhere you go.

My commute is definitely tolerable, leaving home at 6am and leaving work at 3pm is just over an hour elapsed time. Probably the same if I were to live in Colwood and commute into Vic.

It's funny the things you appreciate less when you've become so accustomed to them, and the things that are super high-value when you're not. I'd also add that the cost of living is close to being on par in both metro areas, so that's a bit of a saw-off.

I've was up in the Mystery zone about once every week or two, this May-September. I've never seen people hiking in there.

Posted by: SixZeroSixOne

Hmmm, Old Forks is better known as Mystery DH, is it not? Which is now going to be converted into an uphill only mountain bike trail? 

That's very depressing. That's a huge part of my crew's weekly shuttle gathering.

Thanks for expanding on this Ddean. As I was reading your post I also texted with my good buddy (maintainer of Jersey/Meat). This is all pretty crazy, but like you say, there's plenty of optimism to be found if you look for it.

Posted by: ben.rogers

Improve safety... I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means.

I'm pretty skeptical, and very interested in how the builders are involved.

So now NSMBA has partnered up with District of West Van and BPP to create a new multi-use trail and "formalize" 3 other cypress trails. Cooper saying that the existing builders will stay as such, but they'll receive support and funding now. Very interesting developments indeed.

"Meat Sweats, Jersey Shore and Morgies—will be formalized, and trail maintenance will commence to improve safety while maintaining the integrity of the original trails"

https://www.instagram.com/p/CU_j43-M17d/

https://www.westvancouver.ca/news/upper-lands-mountain-biking-trail-partnership

Posted by: DanLees1978

I set my suspension up so it feels "right".

Normal rides I'll have 15% left in the tank, smashier rides I might bottom out/nearly bottom but if I have bottomed it out hard it generally means I have gotten something wrong!

This sounds spot-on. You need some emergency travel, for when things go a bit wrong, but you also need to make sure you can actually access that end travel in those scenarios. Then, of course, you need the main 85% to feel right, so you're balancing those three things to get the perfect setup. A great example was this past weekend. I rode Iron Mountain in Merritt with a big crew on DH bikes. Rear brake problems resulted in me swapping to my 160/150 trail bike half way through the day, and there was a move that ended up clapping both ends loudly (very rare for me and my setup). If I didn't have that last 15% saved up front, I think would have had a really bad time trying to steer out of it at the bottom.

I tend to use a bit more % in the back than the front on mellower rides, but there is usually some left on both.

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Posted by: Kenny

I think maybe they stopped gluing those lock rings so securely at some point.

Both of my dvo forks were a bear the first travel change, but simple after that as I didn't re apply any locite.

I recommend buying the pin spanner dvo specify for holding things when removing that lock ring. Just to avoid mangling stuff.

Keeping air pressure in the air spring was enough for me to undo the lock ring from factory without any issues. That I recall anyways, it's been a while.

Then you depressurize the spring fully, push the assembly in a bit, and remove the c clip and the whole shibang comes out

Be careful about using this technique. The original air spring assembly doesn't appear to have the c-clip holding the lock ring in place (as per the service guide), which is why they used thread-lock there. So leaving air in there could result in some face explosion action. The boost version definitely has the newer assembly, no thread-lock, and a C-clip holding things together.

The suggestion for having an appropriate pair of spanners on hand is a good one. I happened to already have one when I did the service, and they were very handy.

Posted by: Stuminator

And seriously, what's with people driving their cars around with no lights on? You'd think auto manufacturers would build cars so the lights are always on.

I drives me bonkers! The headlights are usually automatic so half the people are driving around thinking their car does everything for them, not knowing that there are zero tail lights on.

Posted by: Taz123

For DVO teardowns - where are you folks getting your seals and oil? I'm guessing any 7.5wt oil works, and was going to contact SuspensionWerx for seals - just wondering if anyone had a different suggestion.

SW can sell you the oil as well as the seals and other parts. I just ordered Motul 7.5Wt from Fortnine online shop, because I didn't think of picking any up when I was at SW.