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only impressive if you have a real ACS rotor and checkered Vans. you must do all that with a full-face helmet as well.

Most likely, you can buy the appropriate seal kits and a pack of Thirsty Goat and bring it to my house.

The multi-release cleats have been around a long time. They come with low-end pedals that are designed for casual and beginner riders who are hesitant to commit to clipping in. However, they seem like a good idea for technical, slow riding.

A bunnyhop is a bunnyhop. "J-hop" is what Juggalos on walgoose BMX bikes call a bunnyhop because they've been huffing glue and don't know any better.

it should not be all that hard to remove grips and put TOGS on. even with slip-on grips, they can slide off. most people leave a gap between their brake lever and the end of the grip (unless you have itty bitty sausage fingers), so there should be some room for the TOG to fit there.

lost my footing a few times on rocky terrain. otherwise, good shoes and good pedals + time to hone technique means I have 50X more confidence on difficult climbs where I would be afraid of stalling and falling over with the bike and 1% decrease in the last ounce of power to get over something difficult. the bonus is, when I lose traction or momentum, it's effortless to get off the bike and walk, and hop back on and start pedaling again. starting on an uphill and trying to clip in is a huge PITA< especially when you only have one gear on your bike.

The main problem with flats is that people don't take time to adapt. You can't ride anything just once and declare that it sucks. It takes a few rides and a consious effort to unlearn some old habits. The results are worth it IME. I thought the term "j-hop" went out with "gooseneck." If you hop front wheel first, that's just a skillful bunnyhop that can get some height. Hopping with both wheels at the same time is just a lousy bunnyhop.

Even better, I'll give you a pair for free and you can make your own assessment.

Also, you'll be amazed at how much doing this helps your riding overall, in addition to making it 10x easier to stay on the pedals through rough stuff.

I switched to flats about a year ago. Five Tens or Adidas Terrex shoes work well. it takes a few rides to get used to it if you've been clipped in for a number of years. I rode BMX (street, park, etc) for about 15 years before getting on a mountain bike, so the transition to SPDs was rough! switching back to flats was easy, even after ten years clipped in, because of all those years of experience and the shin scars to show for it.

have: Bar and drivetrain stuff are gone. TOGS, grey. I got these a while ago, took them off my bike for a bit, could not find them again and bought another pair. then I found them. looking for a 30.9mm seatpost, 400mm or so long.

any decent bike shop should be able to do that in-house. I am at the point where i can completely reassemble my Reba blindfolded, so it's not that hard to do.

All gone.

"pain in the ass" is an understatement. I don't understand how the damage caused by riding muddy trails is hard to grasp. Spend a few hours trying to fix a trail that was ridden when muddy if it's not automatically plain and obvious to you why that sucks.

Why would that not be real? any good bike shop or rider who has a Lefty should have one. How else would you get a Lefty hubin a wheel truing stand?

I used a knarp on my BX dropper to make a KS Southpaw work. The hole in the Knarp is indeed a bit wide for a shift cable but it worked just fine. The KS cable collar probably works better.

Get a KS cable collar or an Odyssey Knarp. Empire has Knarps for $5 a pair.

I'm not sure Tim wants certain people to find him.

Here we go again. Another thread where RA gets to matyr himself in a flurry of long-winded posts over a non-issue.

https://www.texasobserver.org/is-texas-overcrowded-underfunded-state-parks-system-being-loved-to-death/ worth a read. have you been to a Texas State Park recently? I camped and hiked at Inks Lake last weekend. it was not very crowded and everything was in good shape. "the counties of Bexar, Hays and Travis and their seats — San Antonio, San Marcos and Austin, respectively — have created more public land in the last 20 years than either the state or federal governments. In fact, Texas leads the nation in local ballot initiatives to invest money in parks and other green space."

might be a good idea to hit up Performance Bike.

I can't sell anything on Craigslist because Bike Farm and a few other "dealers" keep posting all of their bikes on the "for sale by owner" page. Or I am trying to sell stuff that no one wants. You be the judge! Seriously though, when I see 30 different listings with photos of bikes taken on the exact same background, that's not "for sale by owner."

Do you really want to buy shorts from a place that accepts returned cycling shorts with someone else's pubes in them?

He has a point. However, there's no shortage of creepy people who will find you on Craigslist. I just hate trying to sell something on CL because everything you post gets buried under 20 pages of rusty crap within 6 hours.

What rich mfers have enough money to buy their kid a bike that costs more than most of us spend on an adult bike that they'll outgrow in a year? I don't know what is worse- mountain biking's golfification or it's wussification. Looks like both of those trends are converging.