Posts tagged with 'ask-uncle-dave'

Dave reflects upon his first ride on real trails since the beginning of the pandemic...

Uncle Dave engages Noel Buckley of Knolly Bikes to answer a question about frame alignment...

"I would dry heave and weep and feel sorry for myself and wonder if it was all worth it. It felt like the cure was worse than the disease..."

"Honestly, I think my riding of bicycles contributes more to my ecological footprint than anything else in my life..."

"Like a frat boy hitting the ground after his first kegger. It was kind of shocking..."

"It was just easier to leave my riding gear in the back seat of my truck? Who is going to steal that shit, anyways?"

"I told him that he could try to find some new springs for his fork, but that there was a good chance he might not be able to..."

Uncle Dave tackles OEM tires and digs into the decision making product managers face when they spec your bike...

Uncle Dave finds the world conspiring to unsettle his tenuous grip on reality, time and space...

Should we believe companies trying to convince us their helmets protect better than the rest?

Does the presence of zombies change your requirements? Maybe a chainsaw holder...

The joys of having a signficant other who wants to learn to ride with you isn't always fun for all…

Uncle Dave ""haaaates" writing these sorts of things - but it turns out he wants some shiny crap just like the rest of us...

"Eventually, I took my son and left because I didn’t want him to learn such awful technique..."

Our grumpiest tester gets hold of some Gore clothing for all sorts of weather as well as some custom items from NWT3K in Seattle...

"It all comes apart six hours into your roadtrip when you can't agree on which shitty restaurant to eat at..."

Uncle Dave gets wined, dined and thrown into the Adriatic - is it all so he'll say nice things about new products from Specialized?

"I seemed to have no answers to their questions and no real ideas as to what I was looking for, and just kept saying 'you know...a bike?'"

Uncle Dave offers his "semi-coherent advice" for the gear a new mountain biker should consider…

"How on earth can you talk about value when you have no experience paying money for the thing that you are talking about..."

"A thought I have often had when reading fresh reviews is, just how good is this guy at riding the bike..."

"It seems like we’re doing something wrong if we don’t drop a bucket of cash on the latest and greatest..."

"Not like a major gun shot. But a minor gunshot. Like a really large pellet gun, or a really small cannon."

Stop worrying about what others are doing and hold yourself accountable for your own actions…