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Woom. Seems like lots of non-cycling people know about them now. They have a great product in their niche

my daughter has this one and really likes it.

the canecreek anglesets that let you pick an angle are known to be bad, but the works components that let you add a fixed amount work well.

just as a reminder, looking for people who are interested in updating trail conditions. It is a quick spreadsheet update. And if you dont end up updating it is no big deal, someone else will. Would be helpful if you updated the trails you ride most, dont need to be trail steward.

rode walnut starting at 7:30pm on sunday and it was a bit chilly in the shade. Also have been doing short rides on cat, down then back up around 4pm and it has been fine in the shade. We got a new dog so Ive been too tired to ride in the morning, but this morning at 6am was amazing.

I do everything except press headsets and bottom brackets. Ill gladly pay $20 for the 5 minutes it takes to press a headset because I dont want to destroy my 3K carbon frame.

burger restaurants are a total scam. I can buy awesome wagyu beef for $6/pound and make a 1/4 lb burger that is so much better. It only takes like 8 minutes to make a burger that would cost like $15 instead of $2.

@AustinBike If you want to add it to your site, I can give you the iframe code for it.

drop me the email you use to authenticate to google apps and Ill give you access

it shows up fine on mobile. You can make a bookmark to the site and make it an icon on your phone

100% because of your post. The hard part is finding the people to maintain it. I can partially do it.

i threw something together last night at https://austintrailconditions.com If any trail stewards are interested in maintaining it, let me know and I can give you access.

figured something out. dont need it any more.

LOL everyone too scared to like this..

someone had a brand new wahoo kickr and kickr climb on bicycle sell and trade austin (facebook) for 1K earlier this week. It was a screaming deal. I got my kickr (2nd gen) used for $500 which was a good deal, I dont really understand the climb. I put an old bike frame on it and use zwift. I dont care for the simulation but trainner road was more expensive and I just need simple programs which zwift has. I dont have a wheel on it, I just took a fork mount and attached it to a wood structure and mounted the fork to the wood. I use a commercial speaker stand with a laptop tray to hold my computer. I mainly just watch tv and ignore zwift. I put zwift into power mode and keep my cadence up and it automatically adjust resistance. I can tell the future of bikes is going to be electric shifters where you set the power output you want and the bike automatically shifts for you.

For a 29er. Prefer a higher end fork, not an entry level Thanks!

I was including fica, workers comp, unemployment insurance etc. For a typical company with salaried employees, I use 30% benefits on top of pay.

they could pay you more per hour but only when you worked on bikes or they could pay you less per hour just to be there. Did you work on bikes the whole time?

someone selling new 27.5 carbon rovals for700 on bicycle sell and trade austin. Almost bought them for a future bike but im sitting on too many bikes right now

I would think of it as two main cost factors - utilization of square footage and utilization of resources. A reasonable retail location probably costs about 30-45/square ft/year (utils included). How many square feet do you need for service bays? Lets say you need about 100 square ft for a service bay and you can operate 8 hours/day (if you can run in shifts you can be a lot more efficient). A typical charge would be around $60/hour and pay rate would be $20 hour + about 20% benefits (payroll taxes etc). So the gross margin is $35/hour. 2 Bikes in storage need about 15 square ft (racked above each other). Lets say on average a station can turn around 8 bikes/day (1 hour on average per service ticket) so you need about 60 sq ft of storage per station, maybe a little more depending on how fast customers pick up bikes. If they pick up bikes right away then you dont need as much storage. If the pickup time averages 3 days, then you would need 180 square ft of storage per station. So 160 sq ft/station that costs 45/sq ft so $7200/year for the station. At $35/hour gross margin, you can expect revenue of about 70k/station/year at full utilization. At the longer pickup time you need 280 sq ft per station and a station costs 12,600/year. Startup costs are maybe $500 per station for a full set of tools and a full set of common inventory of parts. Perhaps 50K for inventory of common wear items of average cost $50. Your breakeven point for a station is only 205 hours of labor, not including markup on parts. If you can keep a station utilized at 50% and only pay people for the hours they work, you can still make a solid gross margin and profit/station. A fully utilized station can support the entire inventory and 2 additional stations for growth Obviously marketing will be a big expense, but from a gross margin point of view it seems like it could be a reasonable business.

I personally dont love VPP, there is just a little too much pedal bob for me compared to the ibis dw-link. On the downhills VPP is more plush. In areas where they have extended non tech climbs, locking out the VPP is fine. On our up and down technical trails, locking out is annoying. Because of this I would mainly look at pivot, ibis, and giant (maestro ripped off dw-link). I ended up with a ripmo v1, but am still trying to decide if I like the really steep seat tube angle. There is a lot of weight on my hands. I would buy a frame and build from scratch using better parts than what you could get on a build. I typically by an older model frame at a discount. For example v1 ripmos were on sale for a while for 2300 at backcountry, which is what I got. Also you can build a bike up for a lot less if you are willing to get a used fork from pinkbike. This is what I did: Works 1 degree angleset - $70 Used 160mm lyrik - $350 Used I9 torch hubs (I tend to collect these in anticipation of eventual new builds) - $350 chinese carbon rims (xiamen 30mm wide) - $300 (130 each + 50 shipping) sapim laser spokes from dans comp - $64 XT 1x11 drive train from merlincycles - 250 XT brakes from merlin cycles - 200 one up 210mm dropper - 200 (actually had one, but it didnt have enough travel) wolftooth lever - 60 (had one but decided to upgrade to the wolftooth) stem - $40 seat - had one bar - had one grips - had some pedals - had some tires - had some, but also got some from the pay it forward thread So about 1900 for parts + whatever for the frame (eg 3K for a ripmo v2, 3.3K for hightower, 3.5K for yeti). Whatever parts you already have decreases the price and you get to recycle parts and save the environment. Even if you dont get a used fork and hubs, the new prices only add about $700 to the build. i ended up selling my old tallboy LTc for 1800 and an old frame/fork for about 350, the net out was about 2400 for a ripmo v1 full XT build with carbon wheelset.

A pirate ship leads you to enlightenment but not to god Follow the marbles to the mother id like to fuck, try not to shoot your whole wad This cactus has thorns so don't fall You can be a champion if you do it all Have your cake and eat it too But if you talk about it, Ill have to kill you

I think you are probably wrong here, but maybe you also arent paying enough attention to what you are actually doing. As you enter the corner you weight your front wheel. As you exit the corner your front is in the direction you want to go and your rear is turned, so you can shift weight to your rear. So maybe that is what you are feeling. But entering the turn there is no way you should weight your back wheel, you will wash out your front which is catastrophic. Washing out your rear is no big deal.

If it is daily, maybe get a group to watch for a day or two, taking 2 hour shifts. Alternately I have a game camera with cell access that you can use to monitor the area.

Is he on here? On a mountain bike Here is his channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8iE--f8m7ex462ohuCVuiw/