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I thought millennials ruined everything. And you damn kids keep off my lawn.

68mm shell and 73mm BB. Should have required 2 spacers, but with 2 installed the crank would not turn. With none it was loose and shifted from side to side. With one installed it was mama bear.

Actually I have 3 forks, the Reba RL Ti, a Fox Factory 34 and a Pike. The Reba (with a 20mm axle where the other 2 are 15mm) is too stiff for me. This might be because the fork could use some service, but overall I have found the Reba to be the least favorite of the group. The Fox and Pike do a great job of eating up the rough stuff but when I get done with a lap on the Reba my back and shoulders are stiff.

Just let me know. Available any week day but I use it on the weekends.

So you know how to add a spacer to a Reba? I have a 140mm with a cane creek crown race. If you want to add a 10mm spacer to it to drop it to 130mm it would actually work out better for me. Only downside is you’d have to try it with my front wheel too because I am guessing ou don’t have a 20mm wheel.

Mission accomplished, TXN had a GXP. That, with a spacer did the job. Now on to the next crisis, which looks like it might be brake related.

If you have a king headset you can borrow my Fox Factory 34 for a day.

Damn, Amazon is faster than you, a new one is headed here on Monday or so. I will take it anyway, but let me see whether this one that is showing up fits, good to have a backup plan.

Most of it depends on the geometry of the frame. My HT takes a 130mm Fox and the pike I am putting on the new HT I am building should work as well. But I would think anything over 130 will chopper the bike. I might even have some spacers put in to drop the fork to 120mm someday.

I have the spacers, if I add 2 spacers to the ND side it would probably fit. But I am thinking a GXP BB might be a more logical solution. Long term I will probably swap out the cranks but I am trying to get this bike up and running right now. $300 worth of parts are showing up today (dropper and then some) so digging out another $110 on cranks is not in the cards for me today.

That is what I was trying to get to - sounds like my crank is too big. Guessing I need a RF crank?

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Building up my hard tail. Spec says a 68/73mm BB. Check. BB says to put one spacer on the drive side, just like on my singlespeed (same frame). but when I put the crank (SRAM) on the bike, it has a pretty big gap. Do I add extra spacers (which means the cup in the center won’t fit) or do I have to get a different crank?

Not really. Most of the women I ride with can kick my ass on the trails.

If you think that someone switches genders only to gain a competitive advantage in a sport then I think you are misguided. Seriously. I won't take a position on what is fair in racing as I am not a racer, but the idea that someone decides to swap genders to gain an advantage is disingenuous at best.

Did a greenbelt ride yesterday, on a climb up to a former retail store I stopped to catch my breath, leaning onto a tree to steady myself. Put my hand into a whole bunch of it. That is all. Ride safe.

You had me at German....

I plan to get there a little early but still circle back for the 4:30 social group. Gonna be a beautiful day.

Yep, no conflicts for this week, I intend to potentially even spend some extra time on the trails on Tuesday.

It looks like the dropper industry has finally started to coalesce around a handful of models that are all equally good. This is a very good thing. Yesterday Chuck and I was talking about how an Ibis Ripley rode and the general consensus was "about like any other >$2500 bike." At this point, if you are spending over $2500, everything rides fairly similarly and it is hard to choose a bad one. Life is good.

We probably passed you somewhere out there, clocked in 23 miles from YMCA to ninja and back.

As a follow up to this, I was trying to grease the stanchion and ended up breaking the dropper. Took it to the shop and $20 later, plus a 6-pack, we were running again. And then that broke. Reached out to PNW and they not only replaced it, but they sent it second day air so I had it in time for the death march. Awesome service, great people to work with. Will be buying another one for my hardtail now

Monday afternoon and Wednesday morning would also be good for a greenbelt ride for me.

If you are going to install a concrete filled steel pipe, you should put a metal sign on it explaining why it is there and telling people not to sanitize the trails or this is what will happen.

Depending on the other ride options for Sunday, I could possibly do a Sunday GB ride too, but about the same time.