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Once more in case you didn’t understand the first time. FUCK OFF🖕👆👆!!!!!

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Lately there seems to be a reemerging trend in MTB suspension design. The high pivot rear suspension. Commencal has of lately been crushing the competition with their high pivot downhill rig. The high pivot idea is not new but it appears that the engineers have finally gotten the geo and suspension kinematics dialed to work well in real world situations. I like the idea of the design allowing the rear wheel to start its travel with less resistance effectively getting the rear wheel to just travel over obstacles without trying to get hung up on roots, ledges and rocks. Kind of like a trailing link fork design. There are now a handful of companies dedicated to this platform, is this the new direction mountain bikes are going or just another marketing fad? Any thoughts? I'm game to give one of these a try.

Their 9 Volt triple is pretty good.

One of my neighbors was on blood thinners after a heart attack. About three or four years ago I came home from work on New Years eve and there was a bunch of cop cars and an ambulance at my neighbors house, I assumed he had another heart attack. I find out later that he was on a ladder with a pole saw trimming tree branches. The ladder slipped and twisted he fell about fifteen feet landing on a flagstone patio hitting his head that caused bleeding around his brain, due to the blood thinners they couldn't get the bleeding under control and he died. He was the same age as me very eye opening experience. Go easy out there and and remember most traumatic bicycle head injuries occur at less than fifteen miles an hour.

I agree. Up and Over was much better than Mulligan.

I was out there Sunday and ran into a couple families out walking the trails. The sad part of this is that many times the hikers have the attitude that the trail is for them and not MTBers. I don't think that these people know or realize that if not for the MTB community none of these trails would exist. I think that people are generally ignorant and think that the trails have been built by the county or city for pedestrian use. I completely understand that once these trails are in place they become public multi use which is fine, I always yield to pedestrians but sometimes it's hard when they're just standing at a blind point in the trail. Many times these people are oblivious to anything around them and are staring at their phones not paying attention to their surroundings. It's crazy that as we evolve with all of this "Social connection" that we have at our fingertips we seem to be coming more antisocial.

People are cutting B lines all over 1/4 Notch.

Adelberts was out of Flyin' Monks for a little while. Waiting for it to age.

OHH... shit! Didn't know.

Tripel B is always a good beer. I really like Flyin' Monks also.

Nelo's also has the tools to face head tubes and BB's.

Dt Swiss are the benchmark aluminum wheels for me. I have a set of XM 481's that have been on three bikes and two sets of hubs. I also have a set of Nextie carbon that have been excellent so far. As far as saving weight carbon is negligible, the difference in weight between the carbon and aluminum is 186 grams for the set, not a game changer. Where I think the carbon excels is in lateral stiffness the carbon wheels track better and stay on line through the chunky stuff, the aluminum has a bit of lateral flex that is noticeable in the rough stuff. Just my two cents worth.

Remove one spoke on each side of hub and measure with a metric ruler or tape measure.

Somebody should let this guy know that clipless are faster than flats.

When you say proof readers do you mean spell check or predictive text?

At COTA? Was there with wife. Great show!

How do you lose a wheelchair?

If we wait a few more years we should be able to get affordable Walmart e-bikes🤣 On a serious note just think of all the Walmart e-bikes finding their way into landfills in the not so far future. I say this because we all know that Walmart will eventually be selling e-bikes.

Hoping for the best outcome dude!

8-9 will work on 10 speed. 10 speed ring has narrower teeth. 10 speed chain on 8-9 ring probably not.

He probably enjoys anal also🤣

That really sucks dude! Hope you recover OK. Good vibes. Look forward to riding with you again!

Presta valves weigh less than Schrader.

I've found the most important things in wheel tension are making sure all the spokes are within 5% of each other and not exceeding the max tension for the rim. I have the Park tension meter and use it every time I build a set of wheels. Tension is more important than trueness. A properly tensioned wheel will stay true longer than one with tension all over the place. Tensioning by sound is ok for me if I'm on the trail and have an incident where I need to tighten a spoke but for actual building it's not that reliable. I've always found that I over tension the wheel when doing it by ear. Park also has an app for wheel tension that's pretty cool to make sure your spokes are evenly tensioned. The tension meter can also help you determine if a rim is repairable or just complete garbage. Aluminum wheels that have been severely taco'ed can only be re trued and evenly tensioned to an extent, as for carbon once the spoke tension is removed the rim goes back to its true state and can be re trued and evenly tensioned many times.