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I love it. I'd also like to see a steel version with this geometry.

You sure those are rocks? it reminds me of this creepy graveyard photo from RPR... But yeah, if I get out there soon enough, I'll throw some bones over the hill.

Yeah, might be hard to beat though. Looks like $110 gets you front and rear with tires and tubes.

Lots of cheap options here: http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/parts/replacement-wheel-deals/

I did not! The only thing I did was bolt my pump on the frame instead of carrying CO2. I did the same for the EB and my big Brushy area ride as well. I knew I was taking a risk on the Dragonslayer. After all, a nasty side wall rip with no tube at Goodwater was the one irreparable flat that I've suffered since going to this format. Unfortunately I had ridden up to Goodwater from my house near Walnut. So Uber to the rescue. A smarter man would strap a tube to the bike for such adventures. But still, it has only cost me the one time in all those miles.

HuckNorris instead of CrushCore, but yeah, me too. I don't even carry tubes anymore, just bacon and a pump or CO2. And HuckNorris solved my primary source of flats anyway--tire pinch flats. I used to get them often, now not one since installing the inserts 5250 miles ago.

It looks like it would be fine if it would follow low at 3-4 feet, like a cyclist with a go-pro. But it mostly appears to follow at 10+ feet. I wonder if default height is adjustable?

Have you considered sub-mid-fat? I really enjoy my 2.6x27.5 on 36mm rims.

Thanks for sharing. The interview with the co-founder was quite interesting, but damn his speech patterns irritate me. What's the deal with constantly using rising intonation on declarative sentences? Stop it! Stop it now!

My Stupidbright batteries have started to fail me lately, so I grabbed a couple of these. The lights look nice and bright and I think the mounting solutions are good enough. But the highlight is the instructions. The Engrish is strong with these. Among the highlights: "Note: 1. install the lamp holder shrapnel direction after the release." And "Under special circumstances, the touch switch uncontrollable, please do not worry, the interior lights will automatically reset after 9 seconds, so 9 seconds can return to normal."

Word on FaceSpace is that it's gtg. Makes sense too, as my yard (0.5m away) is completely dry.

This is one of the reasons I went with HuckNorris. They don't offer sidewall support, but that wasn't what I was looking for. They appear to help a LOT with pinch flats though, and they're super easy to install and remove. Also cheap.

I'm 195lb. I'm not a smooth rider by any means. I charge rocks and ledges hard. And I don't mind dropping 3-4 footers and smaller jumps/tabletops. I run 18-23.5psi in 27.5x2.6 Rekons on SC Reserve 37mm rims with HuckNorris front and rear. I don't think I've had a tire pinch flat, nor a significant rim strike in the 4.9K miles that I've ran that setup. And that's significant considering I ran 27.5x2.5/2.4 DHF/DHR on 30mm Al rims at 28-30psi for years and constantly pinch flatted my tires and had rim strike-dinged rims.

I just missed you. I did my usual pre-spin, and was chilling (literally) in the lot at 5:28*. I thought your earlier statement, "the 'R' is still happening," meant you'd be there. I shivered until 5:37*, and then rolled on and did BMX and Windy. When I came back through the lot at 5:57* you had shown up and rolled out. I tried to track you down, but never found you. *Times courtesy of Strava Flyby.

For anyone with the wet trail yips... conditions at Walnut are quite good. Couple of small puddles, but I'm half way through and not picking up anything on my tires.

This is my MonsterTour. To the extent that I ride non-trails, this is the bike that get the duty these days, gravel or road. I also enjoy this bike on trails, like Walnut, 1/4 Notch, and Double Down...but my wrists hate me for it, so it does not happen often. This bike also has set of 26x4.8 wheels/tires (it is a fat bike frame, after all), but I haven't had them on since I put these 29er Ikons on it.

Yeah, it's all just too close together. Like you said, most every run misses the first few turns. But the endpoint is even more variable. All the competitive top times start like that, but end closer to the end. My runs are hit and miss whether the endpoint is close or not. Unfortunately I decided to flag my likely PR last week because it looked just like this one. Had it stuck me in the top 10 somewhere I wouldn't mind. But I'll be damned if I'm going to take a KOM on such a competitive segment by such an obvious glitch. Which reminds me, I really wish you could flag segments instead of the whole ride. I had some other legit top tens on this ride. I could crop the ride and pull PP out of it altogether...but that sucks too.

I looked up and thought, "hey, cool, it's Anotnio." Then a few minutes later though "...where tf did Antonio go?" Somehow that has only ever happened to me twice. First was 10 years ago. I showed up to a group ride with no helmet. Some sweaty local I knew happened to be just finishing up his ride and let me borrow his. I was wigged out by the dripping cold sweat, but quickly got over it. The second time was an after work, mid-week GB ride last year. I managed to make it home in time to still get in a quick Walnut spin. I try real hard to keep my shoes and helmet together, but riding from home so much makes it tricky, and I am very aware on rides that I drive to that I can leave stuff at home. I always do the mental note double check for stuff. And more often that not, I pull over 5 minutes down the road to triple check!

This is the kind of talk that loses orbiters around Mars.

This sure beats the shit out of my plinko method, whereby I drop the nipple correctly 50% of the time, and the other 50% I lose it into the rim, along with about 20 minutes of my time shaking the rim while yelling like Steve Buscemi trying to get the TV to work.

And here I jumped on the old one. Ah well, I'll look for the new one! As is often true.

I'm no expert as I have only been once...last Saturday. If I lived right there I would ride it a bit I'm sure. And it's on TrailForks, but TF certainly doesn't show all the single-track. There is probably 3-6 miles (maybe more/less?) of loamy, twisty and low-tech rocky single-track, mixed with 6 or so miles of gravel paths. The single-track is fun enough, and reminiscent of some of the flat and under-ridden SATN trails. But it is flat and probably not worth going out of your way to ride. It is also hard to combine this with Suburban Ninja because E Whitestone is a nightmare for bikes. Although E Whitestone does have quite a few huge and fun concrete drainage ditches that can get you away from the road in spots. Pretty soon I'm planning to do WilCo again as part of a much bigger ride combining it with Brushy, Behrens and Xtal falls. And it seems Peddlers has the same idea for another Nutcracker next month. But those types of rides will be the only reason I'll get over there.

Since it's looks to be raining all day tomorrow you aren't missing anything. But I took the day off and am ridding and imbibing all day. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk

https://www.strava.com/activities/2111688296/overview From the man himself. It skeeves me out a little to post someone else's link, but as I recall his profile is public. I would have posted mine, but I didn't bother to do the little road out-and-back at the start. This is CCW. And apparently the little road out-and-back at the start is part of the new loop.

You mean tiny as in they mostly only cover the bar, and not also the grip, yes? For me, they're only intended to be used as a replacement for the stupid plastic inserts that come with FatPaw or ESI Chunky and the like. The life expectancy of those inserts even less than the foam grips themselves. But I like something there to protect a carbon bar from getting chipped up when it hits a tree the wrong way and to prevent accidental core sampling in a nightmare scenario. But yeah, they work well for holding in grip tape on drop bars as well. I'm glad you found a use for them!