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Thinking that shifting across multiple gears is a marketing thing because it doesn't work in practice is just admitting you have no idea how to use a mechanical drivetrain lol.

A drop bar hardtail that I can use as a trail bike and be totally under-biked, and a ~130mm trail bike I can build like an enduro bike and use as an enduro/DH bike and be totally under-biked. I'd love a DH bike for the odd time I'd use it, but I wouldn't get the value from it. And I've...

Yeah I wouldn't recommend that at all. Great way to ruin it. It's bad for it to be subjected to those chemicals and that heat for that period of time. Dishwashers are harsh AF. I take mine into the shower, put it on when I have shampoo in my hair, move it around a bit, get some shampoo into the...

Can we rename this thread and make a new rumors and tech one? This one is tainted now.

As though the the gearbox wasn't also invented in the 1800s... Feel free to hate the lightest, simplest, most serviceable, most efficient method of changing gears on a bicycle that humanity has invented so far, but the rest of us will accept derailleurs where they make sense.

Shut the fuck up about drivetrain efficiency. Holy shit. Go find a different thread.

I had that issue with the Hayes metallic pads, but only on dusty days in the bike park here. It is some sort of bad interaction between our horrible loess moon-dust and the pad material, can do steep sustained descents elsewhere and it's not a problem (and it shouldn't be, 220/200 2mm rotors on a trail bike at 80kg). I...

The internal cable routing on my Norco rattles like a bitch, except it's guided tubes so I can't stuff anything down the downtube to get it to shut up. Quite dumb.

I can assure you that the momentum of your lever has nothing to do with it.

Haven't seen them in the flesh but the outer side has inconsistent flatness with more wear on the areas away from the holes, and the inner side has inconsistent flatness with more wear right next to the holes. Looks like a stamped rotor from here.

Nah I think it's just a modern perspective on an older brake. The Code RSC has always felt like an OK brake for trail bikes for me and that's about it. Code R belongs on Trek Marlin factory builds and not a lot else. Codes have plenty of power in the same way that my old Transition Patrol from 2015...

Name a more annoying sound than an American complaining about ebikes. Honestly, we've all heard your opinions before. We know you have them. I don't really like or want an ebike either but there are 12,000,000 whingy comments online about how you're too pure or too dedicated or too fit or too angry at unskilled riders and you're mad about...

That was my point, just get a longer stem or don't do it at all. Bar geometry varies a lot, bars with the same angle of sweep can have very different sweep distances because it depends where the bend in the bar actually is. You might not gain reach, or you might gain too much and have way more of...

You realise rolling a bar forward is the exact same effect as a longer stem right? Both things move your hands further forward of the steering axis. If you don't like the feel of longer stems then you won't like risers rolled forward either.

If you want to adjust your cockpit for more "reach" then the answer is a longer stem. If that sounds unfashionable then feel free to lower your stem and run some higher rise bars rolled forward, which achieves the same thing. All you achieve by the second option is making your bars less adjustable (because bar roll changes will fuck...

I'd love to see someone attempt a hydraulic damper/viscous coupling type thing rather than using friction in the derailleur clutch. Dunno if it could be made small/light/reliable but it would certainly improve shift quality and might not feel quite so gross through the suspension.

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My gen3 optic + dvo diamond 36 is the same weight as the status 160 + fox 38 it replaced lol. I wouldn't call it a useless bike. It's niche as fuck, but it's excellent at what it does. It's super jibby and the suspension performance is incredible for only 125mm. It's quite stiff and very burly, and rides like...

I'd been thinking I should look into making some new shock mounts for my Optic to slightly lower it and add progression. Colour me curious.

The only way to lean a bike against a car is the rear bike tire against a car tire. Everyone always leans the pedal/crank/seat/bars etc on stuff and wonders why bikes fall over all the time. Leaning the rear tire against something stops the the bike from being able to roll at all. If you do that you can jostle...