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I'll buy that, I used to work in a shop that serviced the NZ Olympic track teams bikes. That young Eddie Dawkins chap could certainly flex a bar.

35mm exists because 31.8 looks too skinny next to a fat carbon frame.

Guilty of buying a Hope front hub along with the rear, I just really wanted to turn up the ano dial on those wheels. Orange rear, purple front, silver spokes to Spank Spike ano red rims... Ahh.

Also, I now see why you pounced so quickly on my comment asking if the A318 was a Straitline the other day. Pre - stressed things snap more easily. Including people.

This makes me wonder if this trick could work with dimpled forks... Any reason a Fox or RS damper can't be moved over to the spring side?

Don't be offended, I have two SSC stems, yes, different colours and swapped faceplates. Now that I look closer I can see the difference, but they look very similar from that angle.

Not grips, but if that mismatched stem is a Straitline SSC (looks like one) it should be clamped flush at the top, torqued at the bottom.

Less drag, therefore smaller bearings is an argument only a racer would use.

Gross.

Fair enough, I withdraw my request for the fork and shock swap, but the angleset I'd like to hear about.

Interested in the angleset because my bike is 66° too, and I'm waiting for the package from works...

I hope the long term testing includes a burlier fork and shock. (stiffer, not necessarily longer) Just to acid test the geometry trumps travel theory.

Maybe a works headset too? Since they put inserts in there... Rude not to.

Not sure if it still counts as a 'good' jacket, but I saw a Roach jacket / vest in the local second hand shop two days ago. Condition looked sweet.

I'm never going to be an XL, so passed the word on to a Canadian in the hood, it felt like a good deed anyway. (but what was the jacket doing here in South New Zanada in the first place?).

It wasn't a diss, in my view a mountain bike is a machine for having fun. Things like internal routing that are clearly form over function detract from this.

That is the bike of someone who knows what they want, and gives no shits for fashion.

Yeah, I've seen that, thanks (and just added my question there too). They don't list tilt angle in their comparison.

Any got the current One Up dropper and a good eye for angle measurement?

I'm close to pulling the trigger on one, but can't find the maximum angle the saddle can be lowered at the nose. My STA is slack, and the current post clamp is bottomed out + lightly filed. 

How many degrees of tilt is available? 

Thanks y'all.

Strong feels.

My workshop is a hectic pigsty. I'm a fan of a thick soft rag on the bench to place small parts to prevent rolling, and a magnet for hunting the ones I inevitably miss.

My last (well, so far) hospital visit was due to going OTB into helmet... Farting around on the footpath on the way to meet up for the ride.

Ambulance was going past, saw me bin it and stopped to take me along. Smoothest concussion treatment ever.

Posted by: Vik my sense of self-preservation is getting stronger and challenging myself at slower speeds on tech with less capable equipment seems smarter than using a very long-travel bike at the highest speeds I can manage. Fall off at slow speeds hurts a lot less than Mach Chicken. ;-)

This is a thing for me too. Extra capable bikes are a great skills crutch (for me) but they up the danger of a hospital visit when the crash comes around...

Makes me miss my OG Pike, should never have sold it.

Posted by: DanLees1978

Shimano SLX Mech and Shifter

Absolute Black Oval Chainring

Connex Wipperman Chain

Sunrace cassette.

All 10 speed, works fine.  Shifting is about 90% as good as a perfectly set up all SLX 10 speed drivetrain but with a wider range than normal 10 speed. Would probably just run a wide range Deore cassette now.

Similar here - 10spd SLX derailleur, XTR shifter and sunrace cassette. I found the shifting downgraded significantly when I went from a Shimano cassette to the sunrace (11-42, b screw at full in), wolftooth goatlink helped pull it back closer to the performance of the full Shimano set.