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A nice treat and costs very little is to keep a bunch of new valve cores on hand.   It’s usually the valve core itself that gets gummed up with Stans.  Change out your cores once in a while and improve your multiple times per week tire pumping and air pressure checking experience.

"I remember riding Grannies with Cam and a buddy in the nineties".
  So Trevor, can we infer that Cam is not a buddy?

Quite likely you guys who don't get bothered by chainslap are JUST running trail bikes. The new carbon DH bikes with large diameter tubes are noisy. And very much so with VPP designs like the V10 and Intense (likely others too). The SRAM X-Horizon derailleurs help a lot (compared to Saint). And with chain growth you have to be super careful shortening your chain to remove slack. Its killer (like bad) to spend a fortune on a new DH machine just to clack your way down the hill. That's why anything like this that can help to silence your drivetrain is awesome.

Good reading.  Although Jeffs answer about a deal that extends didn't exactly nip the rumors in the bud

Remind me again why that Starling wouldn’t suffer from brake jack?

This is great stuff.  Anyone else riding a new geo bike and finding the their upper body getting more tired relative to their old bike?  Anyone willing to admit it after spending 9K.  Early feedback will likely need to come from bike testers who are not as invested and ride many different bikes.  If Steve is correct (and he likely is) then there should be an upper body fatigue trend that follows the longer reach trend?

Packless riding came from Bikeparks and DH. Not Enduro.  

Coil shocks on trail bikes came from Enduro. No wait, that was DH too.

I have avoided low profile rims since the Stans flow went low profile and became less strong.  Not scientific I know but is an expensive experiment. 

Crank Brothers really does seem to have turned a quality corner.  Last season my kid went thru 3 sets of mallets.  This year, with the new design, he is still on the original ones from the spring.  

If you are in the market for carbon rims then to me the obvious ones are the WeAreOne with the good price point, crazy quality and huge exchange rate boost (for non Canucks)

Speedster, I actually found the suggested suggestions on the BOS fork and shock were close to bang on. This was surprising to me as usually for Whistler the standard settings are too soft. I did quicken up the fork more than recommended.
Regarding the seeping I have seen it quite a bit but don't worry about it anymore. All the Minions and Magic Marys work well tubeless with the Stans rims I have found. I do tend to add a little air a couple times a week but I think that is a small price to pay for almost no flats.
Haven't tried the Evil or Pivot.

I set up the Rapid 30 rims tubeless as well and ran flat free for the last two months of racing. Used Stans 1″ rim tape and 120 ml of sealant (60 ml Stans sealant and 60 ml Stans Race Sealant).