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New bike day! I took it easy on my first ride today and adjusted components as I went.....and promptly got rained on. You’re welcome for all the upcoming rain we will get. Guerrilla Gravity Smash carbon. 29x2.5, Gx eagle, Hope pro4 hubs, Hope brakes, one up dropper. Bought the frame and had James (formally of City Limit Cycles and now part of Velofix) spec out and build it up.

Stans have gotten worse since the MK3's. Very soft and they have a terrible weld joint that makes getting the wheel true and round very difficult at best. DT have been the truest roundest wheels I've dealt with and the easiest to build aside from carbon hoops.

Having this delivered on Monday. I've put on 10lbs since my injury on Jul 4th, tipping the scale right at a 2-dollar bill. With another 3 months of rehab ahead of me, my goal is to get down to 185lbs riding weight with cardio restored to pre-injury levels by Christmas. Leg strength and ROM are improving greatly week-to-week thanks to Jarrod at Texas PT Specialists in Cedar Park. He has been fantastic to work with and is part of a great team over there.

Some days I miss rolling fatties. I don't drink, gamble, cheat, murder or maim. I do enjoy gummies in Denver though.

Those are some monstrous brake levers! Repack run time! Put on some jeans, hiking boots, and a flannel shirt, roll a fatty, and point it downhill!

Not an official EB ride but... Riding tomorrow (Sunday) morning. Leaving from the Walnut pool parking lot at 8am sharp. Taking the road to City Park and doing a lap in the new (clockwise) direction then riding back to do a lap at Walnut. This ride will include Courtyard, Jester, and Yaupon road climbs. Not a fast ride (walking some climbs on my single speed), but not a babysitting ride either. This is a good way to see the new City Park direction, all major road climbs, and the full Walnut loop. Post up if you are interested.

I had some Flow MK3s built and they were some of the softest rims I've owned. Like ENVE, never again.

I've only broken two spokes on my MTB due to snagging rocks with the spokes. Recently my gravel bike has been breaking spokes for no apparent reason other than being 24h wheels. So onto another wheel build for my gravel rig. Going DT Swiss 350 straight pull 28h laced to DT RR481 hoops with comp spokes.

I was breaking a rear spoke every other ride at one point on my backup bike. After about the third spoke change, I just replaced the stock wheels with a set of Stan's Arch MK3s that came with Speed Tuned Super 6 2.0 hubs and DT Swiss spokes for $400 (complete set). Haven't had another spoke break in the 2 years since, although as a backup bike it gets limited duty. The new wheels were noticeably lighter than what came on the original bike.

Good luck! Last weekend I got about 18 miles in on my first try before I locked up at Russels park. Plan to go back and clean it here in a month or so when it cools down. Let us know how it goes!

I broke 2 on the same wheel which happened to have different size spokes in some spots, and the tension was all wrong. I replaced all the wrong spokes with correct ones and I haven't had a failure since.

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Even has a SIM slot for future cell network use. Android OS so it can become many things.

FWIW, I can attest to how this machine resulted in significantly less muscle atrophy than on the previous leg that had healed without this treatment. The leg also maintained full range of motion without the issues I had with the first one. The first leg developed scar tissue, significantly restricting full bend and full extension. Well, at least until I was riding a dirt bike in a deep sand rut at Skull Creek which pulled my foot off the peg and folded it back rather quickly. At which point I felt this hard crackling in the knee. In the moment it was kinda worrisome as I thought I had lunched all the doc's hard work. After a quick inventory I realized the leg was actually better now, and the ruckus I had felt going on down there was the scar tissue breaking up under this force. Naturally, I made a few more runs though those ruts, strictly as a form of therapy, which resulted in nearly full range of motion returning in an afternoon.

Could this machine give me KOM winning quads of steel?! I'm liking where this is heading.

I got used to it quickly. The rig ran at a low cycle rate and I've always been a sound sleeper. For best results the doc specified use for 6-8 hours a day. Doing this while sleeping was the best time slot to get those hours in as I didn't miss but a few days at work. Thankfully, for this second recovery round the company had moved to a location where I no longer had to negotiate 2nd floor stairs to get to my desk. ha ha It also seemed that riding a motorcycle to work while still on crutches raised more eyebrows than telling anyone about that gizmo rocking my leg in bed ever did.

I have a set of carbon 29ers on my Tallboy, and I love my Dirt wheels!

How often do you guys break spokes? I think I haven't broken one in...7 years? Then again, my wheels have always had specialty spoke nipples due to both Mavic's UST rims with their FORE spoke holes and DT's use of squorx nipples and washers on their rims. Both of those rims were more of a pain to lace up, but they were bomb proof. Especially if the fancy spokes/lacing method are designed as part of a stronger wheelset, then what is the worry? Sure it's more of a pain when one does break, but if I only have to worry about that once a decade, then I think I'm okay with that. I always thought that when your wheel starts popping spokes, it meant that the whole wheel was starting to go. Replacing a spoke is only a bandaid fix.

Whatever you do, don't actually try walking on your pool's bottom as a workout unless you wear some kind of shoes. Epic blisters!

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Need to get this thread back to the top,

Not sure how I feel about this one😂