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having a good homeowners policy is a beautiful thing sometimes. check to make sure yours has coverage.

Pretty much this Someone has to see the irony of paying 2-3k for wheels that are less reliable than aluminum without any real true weight savings. You have to add tire inserts, and DH carcass tire only to have them ride rough as sh*t in the end. Once you add all the shite to keep them alive, saving 100 grams doesnt matter..... Oh wait! Zipp is making carbon wheels that ride like aluminum now🙄 Never again

Wife and I didn't ride but we could have as the park is still operating during the race. We spent a night in Montreal, another night in QC and stayed in chateau richer for the races. The whole area is into the MTB race and everyone is really friendly and supportive of visitors. The park was great and it was surreal to hang out with the riders and journalists for the day and then again at parties at night. Bottom line the whole experience was beyond awesome and i cant recommend it enough.

Being a goofy MTB fanboy at MSA last summer. Nino and Luca Shaw .

Glad that dumbf@ck got caught. Anyone that stupid.........

Surprisingly it wasn't that fast or low pressure. The sidewall on the lightweight racing ralph XC tire was completely unblemished but the rim caved in enough to bend the hoop out of shape to where the spoke had about 2mm of play. Cased that same thing a few times on my flow ex and never even bent a lip.

Reveille for sure

My experience with MK3s are different than yours. The pic below is the first 10 minutes of owning a flow MK3. It was also damaged on a lip that I'd hit with my old flow EXs multiple times without damage. Making it even worse was the fact that the racing ralph that weighs under 700 grams that was on that rim was completely undamaged and was used on several bikes later. First sign of trouble was they made the MK3s wider yet lighter than EX. The MK3 arch on my wife's bike seem to be okay.

Hopefully these newer ones are better than the MK3

I blame the druid

No bikes since august, but we did buy a car yesterday and drove home in the worst of it. sucked

Saw the PB article. Pretty cool!

About .5 here in south austin

Funny, pinkbike just posted an opinion article about this very thing. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/opinion-carbon-and-aluminium-wheels-head-to-head.html

This^ Im on a set of M70HV enves and they've been nothing but trouble. Hard to seal, ride rough AF, expensive, not that light, and make you paranoid. To do over I'd buy a set of DT swiss aluminum in a heartbeat. O.P. What rims are you running? That seems pretty fragile for a 3" tire and weighing 160lbs.

Recorded on a phone and overmixed with good intentions, but still god-like. RIP

I get my bike stuff done at Bastrop signs. Give Matt a call and see if he can take care of you.

Nice! Pics definitely doesn't do that rock justice. That f@cker is bigger than it looks.

Had a few of those in my time too, glad all you had were some scrapes......and yes some speed on drops is your friend. FWIW, i ride my XC rig on some of the same trails as you and it has a 66* HTA and never feels lazy, slacked or enduro bro. Nimble to me means twitchy, and takes too much energy/focus to keep the bike under control rather than just plowing ahead and having fun. I've spent the last 2-3 years riding bikes with 64-66* HTA, including 29ers, and i'll never go back to twitchy. You're welcome to take my bike for a spin the next time im over there.

3 cinch cranks with multiple chainring swaps and never had one loosen up.

you ever thought of buying a second hand yari and building it up?

Glad to hear you're liking it. Solid choice for sure. Some of those OEM hubs can be problematic. Take it to the peddler and have them do once over. Worth the $

This^ Most of the flex is designed in to minimize fatigue. A good example of this is cast VS billet steel parts in engines like cranks, rods etc.

This'll make you feel better then