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I feel like anyone who's successfully parented well adjusted children realizes that punishment is almost never effective long term.

Drag on the Hammerschmidt was sooo bad though.

Schlumpf!

Seems like anonymous trolls should be banned when they don't provide any valid discussion.

Yeah, that would suck. I assumed the park would come with the same dropper and drive-train, but I guess not. You should toss a boxer on there for a long term review as an excuse for more shuttles.

It would be cool if they'd sent you the boxer option to test. Just go all the way to dorky guy on giant bike pedaling slowly up the hill. Stop messing around in this inbetween zone.

Two light bicycle and one WAO.

I totally agree with your inserts+aluminium being the best value.  My bike came with a nice hub, and the added cost for a fancy rim didn't seem too crazy (roughly $300) for life time warranty. I'd read all the reviews about how average riders don't really break carbon wheels anymore, and figured that a zero maintenance rim with a life-time warranty would actually make sense, considering that I was going through an aluminum rim or two every season. What I didn't quite take into account is that a lot of the dings that I could basically ignore in aluminum, would completely destroy a carbon rim without an insert.  

The reduced maintenance is pretty sweet.

I think it really depends on how rocky the trails are and your style. Like I said above, I destroyed three carbon rims in 3 months until I added inserts.

My personal experience is 3 broken carbon rims in three months (lifetime warranties ftw) without inserts, and none for over a year with inserts. Better be pretty xc with carbon rims and no inserts, or smoove, or you'll be spending a decent amount of coin on shipping and getting wheels relaced.

Yep, quite light, but quickly getting heavier (40 lbs since quarentine, and none of it fat, as far as I can tell), which means that I've had to go through the setup process multiple times.

Seattle, u-district neighborhood.

Hi - Keep your eyes out for a gray XL taniwha, thanks!

https://bikeindex.org/bikes/616669