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Yay, more min-maxing. I didn't realise how much I was enjoying these until I saw this pop up.

Did they hire '80s John Carpenter for the music?

I kept expecting the axe murderer to appear from behind a rock.

I'm not a very man specific chap at the best of times. My usual colour scheme is designed to detect arseholes.

I bought a pair of Mechanix gloves yesterday, the 'leather' wraps right around the fingertips to the second knuckle (this is where my gloves usually fail).

Pink. Womens large. Off-brand. Warm and strong looking for $10, I'm looking forward to the jibes.

I like this idea too, I have a Giant Contact dropper (min-maxing on my Spitfire) which I recently turned the lower clamp back to front.

It gave me ~5mm of extra forward adjustment, but it's still bottomed out on forward tilt. Post/upper clamp is the limiting factor, but I'm nervous about getting the dremel onto it. I tried a few saddles, and some are too nose high still - especially WTB. Bel-Air 2 is working for now.

I made one based on this, good for keeping crap out of the linkage, does nothing for my arse.

I realised how valuable a fender is to me after discovering (one of) the reason(s) I ride so badly in the wet was leaning back to keep crap out of my eyes.

This.

Our city council has officially permitted eBikes on a very few select trails as a test run, but in reality there is no policing, and it's starting to look like permission by ignoring the issue. 

I've only seen one small sign, but plenty of users heading up my local trails (not in the test group) who seem surprised when I hoist myself out of my rocking chair to inform them of the error of their ways.

Did you miss the picture of riding up stairs?

They're already having an effect in the components market.

Shimano has a 4pot deore brake coming, sram has a wide range 8spd drivetrain...