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Best to set multiple different privacy zones around your home. With a single one on your address it's still not too difficult to figure out from a couple of rides.

I fixed the photo

Fixed! Thanks for the heads-up.

Ah that would explain.

Actually, now that I look at the picture again, I'm not sure there is a spacer.

Looks like the CF 7 is specced with a 150 mm fork with a 10 mm spacer between the crown and the head tube? Weird, why not just spec a 160 mm fork?

I think what Brian is saying is not that the math is incorrect but that reach on its own does not say much and that it should always be considered together with stack.

Reach and stack together determine the distance between bottom bracket and top head tube or, in a more practical sense, how much space there is for you body in standing position between pedals and bar. The different ride-9 settings only change the angles but not this distance.

Slipped through the spam filter 🙄

I've also seen some weird driving behaviour in the past few days. I think it's because people are under above-average stress.

I think the guy who designed the humorous signs retired a few years ago, I remember it being in the local news. My favourite is the one addressed to dogs.

I'm a little scared the post will just work and I won't have anything interesting to report!

I've been using Squirt chain lube exclusively for the last 12 years, in every imaginable terrain and weather conditions. Works very well for me in all but the most extreme wet conditions (think monsoon rains, axle deep creek crossings).

Hey, there hasn't been any active development for a while so no movement on the ignore user function or anything else. I'm sorry if I created any expectations, that wasn't intentional.

For the record, for the last couple of years it's been just me volunteering my spare time. I'm trying to do at least the minimum maintenance to keep the site running and keep an eye on moderation queue, spam/bots etc. With my day job it's been difficult to commit to anything on top of that. For the last 5 months or so I've also been dealing with my partner having serious health issues. I'm sure you'll all understand I'm giving that priority over anything else.

We don't really have any mods for the forum, I try to keep an eye on the moderation queue and spam/bots and that's pretty much it. Maybe some of you want to volunteer as moderators?

Probably a spam bot, it was caught in the moderation queue this morning and I mistakenly approved it. Foreign IP address posting in a 2014 thread....

Posted by: SixZeroSixOne

Posted by: niels@nsmb.com

GSM + Mushroom is a lot nicer, when I do that I don't bother pushing up the last bit and just drop in to Corkscrew from there.

Pushing up Incline is also a good way to access Pinch Flat Alley and Cabin/TNT...

I know but thread is called "Climb routes to Corkscrew" 🙄

If I want to ride Corkscrew and ride up GSM+Mushroom, I don't bother with the push up Incline for 30m of additional elevation.

I prefer riding up over pushing up so even to reach Cabin/TNT I usually take Old Buck + road. If the climbing route would somehow continue all the way up I'd probably choose that about half the time.

I think it's just very personal how one likes their suspension to work (in addition to weight, riding style etc.).

I've always ended up with settings that are wildly different from the manufacturers' recommendations or settings posted in reviews and bike checks. It seems that I especially run my forks very soft and open, lineair, and with fast rebound. I'm pretty light and not a super fast or aggressive rider. Cam is lighter than me I think and when I did the parking lot test on his Zeb fork it felt almost like a rigid fork to me! 😳

Posted by: syncro

Is there a way to have some sort of +/-  or vote up/down for posts on the forum like there is on the main page?

No, not out of the box. Sorry.

I kinda like Old Buck + road to Corkscrew because it takes you up fast. Good for a quick lap of Corkscrew, Pingu and Pangor or Boogie. I would say it's not a great climb but it's not too bad either.

GSM + Mushroom is a lot nicer, when I do that I don't bother pushing up the last bit and just drop in to Corkscrew from there.

Posted by: Sethimus

another great feature would be a forum that actually transfers you to the first new post in a thread from where you left at your last visit. this works here only around half the time

Absolutely!

Posted by: chupacabra

I like that you can upload pics directly to a post in Discourse.  I am always too lazy for the extra steps.

Yes a lot of people have asked for a better way to add pictures to comments and forum posts.

Nice to see some kayak pictures! My partner has been into kayaking for a while. Unfortunately we don't have space to store a kayak. She always wanted an Oru foldable but they're pretty expensive. So she made do with two different inflatables but they were not ideal.

Last year we rented a double at Deep Cove Kayak a couple of times and I liked it enough to want my own. We ended up ordering two Orus. They finally arrived in October and we lucked out with some nice late fall weather so we could try them out. They are really light and paddle a lot better than expected.

Looking forward to a lot of paddling this summer!

Posted by: Henry-Chinaski

Posted by: niels@nsmb.com

My preference would be to eventually migrate to Discourse forum software. See https://try.discourse.org/ for a demo. It's very feature rich, has a modern interface and I find it very pleasant to use. Have a look at the demo and let me know what you guys think.

Please be aware that right now this is just me thinking out loud. From a quick look we should be able to make it work with our site but it would cost time to set it up. Unfortunately, time is something I'm in short supply of. So I don't see it happening in the short term. But it would probably be a better time investment than trying to improve the current forum software IMHO.

Seems like a good idea:-). Lots of work, I'm sure.

https://nsmb.com/forum/forum/the-shore-3/topic/look-at-this-forum-141/?post=2776#post-2776

Ha!  Mea culpa. The forum migration was handled poorly, I think we all agree on that. Time to look forward.

I think it would be worth investing time in this if it would satisfy most people's wishes and would run without too much maintenance once it's set up.