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Thanks for the recommendation Seth! I just got my son's bike back. Cracked Carbon Repair fixed us up. As you said, the price was great and he was easy to work with. Thanks again!

Taking out spacers is a super easy 5-min job, and 4 is a lot. I've found that I like a less progressive fork. I could be wrong here, but my thought is that my favorite fork that I ever had was a Fox Vanilla coil. Coils are known for being plush and more linear. Less volume spacers should make an air fork feel plusher and more linear, right? Also, I'm about your same weight. To me, it's always seemed like the guys who like super progressive setup with lots of spacers are either bigger, ride more aggressively, or both.

I'm jealous. I've only seen the post about the post. I have yet to see the post.

With that 140 and 4 spacers, I'd set the sag higher, maybe 30% or 33%. That's an easy change. Then just play with your bump and rebound before you go make more drastic changes. In fact, on my 100mm fork I plan on adding spacers just so I can start with more sag and not worry about bottoming out.

Just got off the Colorado Trail a couple hours ago. The pic is the TOP of the last climb!

Paint that repair gold! https://mymodernmet.com/kintsugi-kintsukuroi/

I bet you'll be seeing more posts about more posts soon and then maybe see the posts in person and you can then post again about the posts!

I drives my wife mad when I call chickens "The Yardbirds." She has very little tolerance for me.

You can manual anything. Just have to stick your ass out like jagger😁 Your preferences, and austin trails are an outlier, and are not driving mtb development. If the industry reverts back to fully rigid misery machines, texas will be ground zero for the next retro bike bubble.

Also took my camera with me to Brushy this morning. (This will be my last photo spam of my bike for awhile)

Actually I was good the first week since I was taking narcotics. But from week 2 on - yes daily 12oz curls. Hoisting a Stash IPA right now in fact but it's getting a bit light. Believe I should replenish for added weight!

I start my PT next Wed. Saw the doctor today and he told me to start weaning off of the crutches. He suggested 3-4 months of rehab before I'll be able to resume normal activity. I'm thinking maybe first 6 weeks with PT and then rehab on my own from there.

Wait a few days on your post pics, i've still got to put on the topper.

Hopefully the other post don't get postponed.

Be careful to avoid asking questions you may not want to know the answer to.

Where did they wear the second thong?

I have the Fox Factory 130mm and found the sweet spot to be 2 spacers. Wasn't getting the level of travel I needed initially while still maintaining adequate air pressure. Working out really well now though, at least for my go-to trails here at Brushy Creek. I'm on a FS though vs HT. Oh and I ride at about 195lbs with gear.

Haha reminds me of Mann's BBQ that used to be here in Austin. If you ordered a 1/4 chicken, you had to specify "runnin" or "flyin". Really miss that place!

That's how you order BBQ Chicken at SpringCreek BBQ up in Dallas.

Sounds good. thanks for all the insight, folks! I'll play around with spacers. This is handy: Borrowed from https://www.ridefox.com/fox17/help.php?m=bike&id=551

Would you postulate that post post-placement posts will appear post haste, rather than post-apocalyptic?

I'd bite the bullet and drop that Fox to 120 and be done with it. Then you've achieved exactly what you wanted...a better stiffer fork with very little change to your setup. -CJB

I saw the post last night...it looks awesome!

It's more convoluted that that. Even the Yardbirds version was a cover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_(song) Anyway, it drives my wife mad when I call Led Zeppelin "The Yardbirds."

You should probably drop it to 130 immediately to see what that feels like. Every time I've ridden a fox 34 I've ended up with the rebound cranked all the way slow or nearly. My fork setup revelation was that extremely progressive with low pressure is great for our slow chunky trails. The low pressure sacrifices some efficiency, but the beginning of the travel is extra soft to help get over rocks. The spacers give you OTB protection when you roll something you probably should've dropped. So if I were you I would lower the travel, check rebound, lower the pressure to use more travel, and experiment with keeping the spacers.

Thanks for all the pics/efforts, but he's already outgrown 15/16" (16s tend to be much shorter TT/reach than the 17-18 range) and still growing, and 19" would be the max I'd want to put him on right now (he'll grow into it in a year or so). I'm ruling out FS for simplicity/maintenance/parts availability purposes; I'll be his tech, and I don't want to be tasked with linkage maintenance, chasing squeaks, creaks, etc.

Never understood the appeal of drinking gin straight or on the rocks. Probably cuz of the time I stole a bottle from my Dad's stock and guzzled if with my friends. It's only been gin & tonic since then!

I've heard good things about this place. https://bellavistapoa.com/thingstodo/recreation/rv-park/

The plan is to have a sign post at every entry point.

Well that's certainly one way to have the trail all to myself!

I liked the LOViT better than Womble. Runs from the dam to mt ida on south shore of lake Ouachita. Also south of Hot Springs on Lake De Grey the Iron Mtn trail is a blast. Haven’t been yet but they added great Bentonville-like stuff onto Cedar Glades in HS. Think it’s called Northwoods. And yeah I need to make it to bentonville. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

My biggest decision-making as far as de-risk has to do with how essential I am to my family and my job. I do want to learn how to do some of those drops, etc. But I'm totally OK not doing that. I get my thrill doing the endurance XC long rides and training for them. I'll ask for an update in the injury thread.

Subjective. Give me all the ledgy, uphill switchbacks or give me death. If I want to ride something flowy, there are virtually endless flow trails all around called "roads."

I have another angle on this. I don't own pads, I don't wear pads (that may change one day, especially for a place like Bentonville.) My reasoning is pretty simple. In my mind, having pads will encourage me to take more risks. I believe I am more likely to crash with pads on because I am doing something that is outside of my comfort zone. There are those that argue that to have fun you need to always be outside of your comfort zone and always need to be pushing for more. I disagree with this position. I have a ton of fun riding at my skill level and I do push myself, but I take smart risks, not stupid risks. I believe pads would encourage stupid risks so I stay clear, for now.

I had to be the 1st to post a pic of their bike and new signpost.

Damon, I've got the same bike and rarely ride with a C-back. I usually use 2 bottle on the bike...and then one in my jersey pocket when hotter outside. The real reason, I'm posting this is that I'm considering putting in a water bottle mount on the bottom of the DT near the BB. This would give me 3 cage mounts. We could add them at the same time if your interested? Later, CJB

Wanted to play around with my camera in the garage so I took a few photos of my dirty bike after riding Spider and Brushy this past weekend. 2018 Transition Scout NX that I've been slowly upgrading over time.

Chief comes through again with the out of state goodness. Used to help out at this distillery when i lived in NM, and this was the first gin wife and i were able to drink on the rocks.

2 snaps up

Youtube won't allow this to linked directly, but it's worth the click. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ffBRhtWjEQ

Testing new setup to ditch the camelback.. Much nicer in the heat.