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I still wonder what will happen with all those bikes being UDH ready for Transmission. 

Who will be the first to make a cable actuated derailleur for direct mount UDH complete with an axle? Like rd-m800? SX level..?

Haha you nailed it with this review! A bike for riding with jetlag. Reminds me of most of the Canyons I owned.

This new groupset sounds all great and fine in theory, but I guess SRAM overshot their goals a little bit with this. How will any product manager ever put this on a bike that is to be sold to the masses?

Maybe the tech will trickle down to GX or even NX (which is standard equipment on many sub 3k bikes), but all that drivetrain mixing with Sunrace cassettes, SX chains and Aeffect cranks must be carried on somehow, and they will become inventive... we will see. Maybe it's the same way the old first Saint mech went. Into the bin, new from the bike.

American Classics sold these nipples too. Avoid those soft DT with the Torx head.

No problem with e-bikes, but as the Spectral 125 cf7 (Pike Select, GX, carbon) goes for 2500€ again I would always opt for such a light trail bike to make the way up easier instead of buying such a complex heavy monster  for 6000€ or more that can only be serviced at the shop.

I am wondering whether such guards on a single crown fork will hurt you when the bar is turned around (in case of accident etc) 90 degrees or more?

This protruding aluminum pod does indeed scare me a bit. Will the plastic shield keep it from rupturing the vein in your leg or your spleen? Or is it the same anyway as with brake levers and the bar end?

Just go swimming. 

I once knew a girl who was into swimming from when she was a kid - nothing else but immersing into the water and being really fast, feeling only your body, the air and the water. Ok the before and after especially in winter.. I personally hate it... but in summer it is great, no clothes, no machinery, just the water and (hopefully) the sun. Plus, one doesn't have to think about where to ride, being in the water it doesn't matter whether it is the same as yesterday and the week before and the years before. Just water.

Amazing, yes - but in the end most of the yellow bin "recyclable" packaging goes into the waste incineration plant or to some third or second world country (like Turkey) and gets dumped there. Because nobody and no robots can get enough really recyclable PET or PE or PVC out of these mass of plastic. Black and silver doesn't work anyway, mixed or contaminated plastic won't be recycled, and many plastics end up as simple downgraded single use devices like those woodlike brown planks that smell funny if the average guy tries to make a campfire with them.

And even in Germany there are a lot of waste "recycling facilities" that are in fact waste dumps - when they have earned enough money for that local mafia guy, they go bust and the community has to care for it and spend millions to clean the mess up. Just buy some wrecked up old industry building or ground and stuff it with waste, get an old drunkard from Poland or else as CEO and then declare bankruptcy for the firm after you sucked all the money out.

There is so much hypocrisy about recycling.

I am just trying to fix my 35yrs old washing machine, luckily I found a good used motor on ebay - but even Mieles are so expensive to repair (new motor around 400€!), plus the Miele service coming to your house would charge you at least 120€ for just looking, that buying a new washing machine at 800€ would be a cheaper solution. Ebay is filled up with old (say 6yrs and older) washing mashines with minor faults that could easily be repaired but no one does. Never to mention the chinese washing machines for 250€ that are used for 5yrs and then get thrown away.

It goes for so many products, even bicycles - all this could be repaired with decent used parts, but who would do that when you get shiny new toys for less? Thinking of all those eBikes with dead batteries...

In my city (Germany...) there is a little truck from the city's garbage facility that drives around town and collects any hazardous fluids and chemicals (like rat poison etc) left overs. Every 4 weeks it stops for some hours near my garage,  very convenient.

For me still shorts - those Fjällraven pants are only available in 32" inseam regardless the waist (they have up to a 42" waist!!) . I need 36" inseam at least. 33/38 in jeans. 34/32 look like clown pants, tried on a Norrona last time...