Posts tagged with 'uncle-dave'

"I’m convinced that none of these bicycle companies actually know what they’re doing, and I’m having flashbacks to the bad old days of mountain bikes."

"If the primary selling point is a 10mm change in reach and a half degree change in head angle, you can wait until next year to upgrade."

"The character flaw that gets me into the most trouble is my inability to keep my mouth shut when I witness a flaw in a plan..."

"Find the fastest, the fittest, the strongest, and then line yourself up beside them and come to the conclusion that they’re better than you."

Uncle Dave dives deep to uncover what to do with your used bike stuff.

"It’s fabulous that chainstay length has now entered the zeitgeist, but the conversation still lacks focus..."

"I spent a healthy amount of time walking around my house, holding on to various handlebars..."

"Literally overnight, evening rides go from a race against the clock or a juggling of lights to a leisurely thing you do whenever the hell you want..."

Uncle Dave puts on his engineer's pocket protector and decides the Rallon is the love child of ABP/Split Pivot and FSR...

Dave has been stockpiling gear just so he could write about it for his faithful audience - Shoes from 5:10 and Specialized, gloves from Gore and Specialized and a helmet from...

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

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

When selfy life hits the mountain bike world…

"f you want to buy dozens of guns to play with in the bath while you splash around and make 'bang bang!' noises, that’s fine..."

This could be the last time that the "right" kid wins Gold at a flippy-spinny event in the Olympics…

"Communicating with the builder, learning details about how it was built, getting involved in the process, and loving the finished product..."

"We’ve all spent a large chunk of our lives pouring over the rantings of a bunch of schlubs that just happen to be pretty good at pretending to know what the hell they are talking about..."

"Each day, a new "greatest bike ever" is invented but we're so far up our own asses that we don't know what to do with it..."

"Is it possible that wearing my flat-rimmed hat while driving the family mini-van will scare the shit out of a hipster as I drive by..."

"While it is impressive that he was able to hurtle down 45º slope in Chile at 167 km/h down, I’m stuck wondering a few things..."

"I want something that encourages me to ride fast but that doesn't punish me when I'm at 90%. Or 80%..."

"Dual slalom was my best event - as long as the jumps were no more than knee high I could compete with the best of them..."

The big questions are of course - is it green on the inside? Is the oil green? And does it get drunk on Saint Paddy's Day...

"I can almost guarantee that 2-3 years down the line, your bike is going to look more like these bikes than the one you are currently riding..."