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  1. Just got my bike back from @WLemke. I have to say that I am very pleased. In the past I've worked at 3 different bike shop (many years ago) and also owned a bike shop for a little bit of time (almost many years ago), and his work is as good as I've seen. Now ,he didn't really do all that much to my bike....but the details that he noticed when giving my bike a once-over are what led me to understand how good he is. His attention to the details and his logic for the outcomes are sound. Likewise, he went beyond my request in what he assessed, and the work he performed, along with the feedback he gave. We didn't really talk all that much, but he's working out of his house and I strongly think he's doing this 'for fun on the side'. But his method leads me to guess he prolly has an engineering background. πŸ™‚ Thanks again, thread closed. -CJB
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  2. I don't have a job, my kids are back in school, and my wife really needs some quiet time. I'm only going to help everyone else out. πŸ™‚ -CJB
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  3. Bountiful trip to the corner store. So glad they came back with the Atomic Pumpkin!
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  4. Erik Eokerholm(?) He ended up being a customer at the HH shop early on. We had him a custom built Ventana 29er (for a 6' 6" tall dude) and it completely changed his riding life! The big 29er wheels suited his size so much better and Ventana was able to make one to truly fit him. We custom spec'd a few tubes for strength and rigidity while running quad bearings everywhere. It actually ended up being a nice success story. Later, CJB
    3 points
  5. Pretty much the only ARR ride I have been on outside of a random R&I appearance... At least if you are going to eat it, make sure there is plenty of audience and subsequent evidence.
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  6. Nope. Just updated the feed. We got rain but I just walked down to 1/4 Notch and besides slick rock right now it looks like the ground will be primo by 9PM. I should add that I just saw one person on FB said the trails β€œlooked sloppy”. They didn’t specify the trail and looked is different to was. 1/4 Notch for sure will be rideable.
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  7. Pm sent Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk
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  8. Enthusiastically agreed.
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  9. Nice! Love this compressor over the oilless craftsman 33 gallon I had prior. First and last oilless ill use. For the sake of transparency, I used a 25ft 10/3 extension cord to hook the compressor up. The compressor is wired 14g and from my calculations the 25ft 10g isn't an issue for the required amperage.
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  10. Wow! Even used a plate and all for the hose. Nice! I have the same compressor btw. Big step up from the 9 gallon Central Pneumatic I had. My next step is also to permanently install the compressor and route airlines to several spots in the garage. My main issue is I have to move an outlet, or extend it, so I can connect the compressor directly and not have to buy or use an extension cord of the proper rating needed.
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  11. Decided to stop being crap and update my own garage for once. Bought a goodyear retractable hosereel and got everything installed today. Excited to not have hoses and cords everywhere. Next is matching extension cord reel.
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  12. You can run 46 with the 7/8/9k stuff and up to 51t with the 7.1,8.1 & 9.1. I'd buy the 8100 just for the better design even if you're gonna run 46t. IMHO, hard to beat the MX8 series sunrace 11-46. Fairly light considering, and plays well with OEM and doesn't have the stupid 37-46 jump like the shimano cassettes. Here's the place I buy my shimano & sunrace and various bike stuff for a good price. https://www.lordgun.com/
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  13. Yea I’ve got 42 now and thinking of going 46 is time for new cassette and chain so ur right I prob will thanks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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  14. Thanks Barry that’s more than likely my prob, I am not getting an obvious click to lock it in but it has had its share of bruises and is at least 2 years old so just time for some new stuff [emoji3] thanks buddy Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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  15. No doubt. But still without active administration the forum will likely break down over time. Or become another spam pool. A lot of us get a lot of functionality out of this forum, and it doesn't have to be completely thankless. While I'm not about to moderate, I'd be pleased to donate money on some regular basis to assure it keeps running.
    1 point
  16. Until I recently sold a couple of bikes, I ran XT RD-M8000 on 4 bikes. I still have it on 2 bikes. I tend to get about 4000 or so miles out of them until they just wear down or get bashed enough to stop functioning. I keep a lot of the spare parts, so in an emergency I may cobble one together. But I also always keep a new on on the shelf. They're only $80, after all. So I'd venture to guess that I've bought quite a bit more than a dozen of them over the 6 or so years that I've been using them. And in all those I have encountered 2 that have had issues that I've managed to warranty. The first one sounds a bit like yours, but it occurred on a new derailer. Oddly the clutch didn't lock on. When you engage the clutch, it didn't "click" into place. It flips to roughly the on position, but it doesn't stay engaged for more than a few minutes of riding. After a couple of minutes, it is full flipped into the off position. Fully tightening or loosening the clutch didn't help the situation. And when I pulled it apart to look at it, the little friction cam that was supposed to hold the clutch lever in place just wasn't doing it's job. Jenson sent me a new one. The other issue occurred with one after a just few weeks a use. The clutch just stopped returning. It was still very stiff, but it didn't actuate back once it moved forward. Odd. I didn't bother to break this one down for diagnosis. Jenson sent me a new one.
    1 point
  17. Even better: We were at Palo Duro Canyon riding. Met up with a bunch of girls from Dallas, Olkerhom was trying to hit on them. Mentioned we were from Austin and they said "oh man, we saw this video of a guy in Austin going over the bars..." <cue the record scratch> "Yeah, that was me." Classic moment. If I had not see it live I would never have believed the story.
    1 point
  18. Well they made some kind of update over the last few days to the map. Now they can show me exactly how slow I am at every point of the ride.
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  20. Even my dogs are like *Don't you have anywhere to go, besides home?*
    1 point
  21. Few things: Is this MrTheCatLady? I've got to give some props for hitting that on a rigid bike. Seriously, that's not a normal use for that kind of feature (which means that you need legit skilz to pull it off successfully). Next, I've always wanted to see that video in full speed. The slow-mo changes the flow of what happens and accentuates all the subtle nuances (sometimes in misleading ways) Lastly, initially the take off and landing look OK. Its a few moments later on the lower stuff where he gets out of wack and looses the front end. (Loss of focus?...shock that he pulled off the upper and now has his hands full with the lower stuff?) HOWEVER, I suspect that even though the launch looks pretty good, you CAN see that he's off ever so slightly from the centerline of his mass, thus causing his bike to gently over-correct in the air, which may ultimately have set him up for loosing the front end later on (as his mass moves left and right). Its almost like a mini tank-slapper. But as I said above, I think seeing the video in real time would answer a bit more. Still it wasn't a bad effort IMHO. But with that kind of tool doing that kind of job, there is very little margin for subtle errors. (this is coming from someone who's pretty much been a life-long hardtail rider) Cheers, CJB
    1 point
  22. this might be one of her last voyages! far south end of SATN
    1 point
  23. Was looking at getting a Chamois Hagar to upgrade my gravel bike but then a little bird had asked me about considering upgrading my aging FS bike. With some advice and research that is the way I've decided to go. Just put a deposit on a Revel Rascal. Got an email that the frame will ship late October early November. Get ready for rain πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ sorry. This be the one. Looking forward to experiencing CBF.
    1 point
  24. Having kids (well, my wife having kids...credit where credit is due) has made a significant impact on my riding. First, I have found that it unintentionally decreased my risk tolerance. Now I have this unconscious awareness that I have people depending on me. It keeps me from blindly sending stuff or attempting technical challenges that I'm not reasonably confident of completing successfully. Second, I don't get to ride as much anymore. So I don't want my precious ride time (and future ride time) to be cut short or ruined by an injury. Third, my oldest son is very cautious. He won't attempt a new thing until he has watched others do it a hundred times and studies their attempts. Then, when no one is watching him, he goes and does it like a pro. At first, this frustrated me a lot when trying to get him to try new things. But, I've now realized he gets a lot of that from me. If I come up on something technical that I'm not confident of cleaning, I won't try it unless I see other people do it a lot (often over multiple rides). This helps me visualize my own attempt at the feature until I can rehearse it over and over in my head. By the time I attempt a new feature, I already feel in some way like I've already done it. In Bentonville I sat and watched rider after rider hit the tall drop in the skills area of Slaughter Pen Phase 1, but finally I had it visualized and I hit it...felt awesome. I need to do it again though and really cement it in, and then try some of the less "sterilized" drops around that area and here at home. The upside of this approach is that it has kept me fairly injury free up to this point. I've never broken a bone, torn a tendon, or had any major lacerations. I probably have 1-2 spills a year but they usually only result in some bruising and some scrapes. My family and bank account is thankful for this. The downside is that I miss doing a lot of features that look really fun when watching my riding buddies hit them. I suck at jumping and tall ledgy climbs. I'll probably never ride Cat Mountain even though it looks like a blast.
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  25. 😲😲😲
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  26. i keep trail conditions updated at https://austintrailconditions.com You can make a browser bookmark on your phone that becomes a home page icon
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  28. Is anyone else following Blake Builds Mountain Bike Isolation Workshop garage build on GMBN? It's been fairly entertaining. He claims not to have done a lot of the stuff before but he's doing a pretty good job of it.
    1 point
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