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No, cable operated stuff was released like 5 years ago.

Why is there so much drag and what is that awful noise? Oh. What is the purpose of this feature on Shimano Mx100 derailleurs? It isn't structural and it forces you to break the chain again if you accidentally route it the wrong side.

I’ve had the same set of pre-production Edge Composites(later changed their name to Enve) xc rims since 2008. Way too stiff for xc, they are living out their days on the trials bike that I ride very poorly.

I’ve been mountain biking since I was a teenager in the 90s and the marketing material has never been as sober as it is right now and the products have literally never been higher quality. Thirty years ago you’d drop a huge stack of cash on 1.9” tires made out of QC-rejected pencil erasers and hay, they’d be hard as coffin nails and look leprous after three rides (several flats per ride), and the marketing material would be all like “God himself couldn’t make rubber stickier; this rubber is so sticky it’s gray; you can ride on the damn wall”...

Downhill bikes are like nukes: if you want to be taken serious you need to own them, if you use them or not. 😉 Hoping that the downhill bike gets plenty of use and the nuke none.

Jesus, sorry I asked about a coil shock on the new Tallboy.

“Why do these new grips feel like crap?” weeks pass “Why does my right grip have a big L on the end? … Oohhhhh” I also found myself the other day mistaking the ft-lb scale on my new torque wrench for the Nm scale so now I’m wondering what bolts on my bike are fighting for their lives rn.

Not sure what "actual data" is required but...let's use maven (noted red) and motive (noted green), both sram brakes, as an example. At the start of the stroke, the motives have a lighter pull to start biting, so there's a data point for that (bottom left green).The mavens are going to take a bit more to get going, so bottom right red point notes that. At an arbitrary high force, the mavens will generate more braking force than the motives - you can base that either on many of whom have rode both, or the simple fact that motives have...

Pinner Machine Shop also makes an adapter for the Shimano bleed cup to fit on SRAM mineral oil brakes. Once you have the adapter, you can use the fancy billet aluminum Pinner bleed cup or a standard white plastic Shimano cup. The adapter is only $13 USD. Worth it's weight in gold: https://pinnermachineshop.com/en-us/products/bleed-cup-adapter?variant=… I agree with others about the efficacy of the lever bleed method to get any tricky air bubbles out of a Maven bleed, especially when they emerge over the course of a ride or two after a bleed. I've found a lot of luck doing the overnight...

Someone pulled out in front of him in practice. I believe at the step-down jump. Hopefully he wasn't the cause of the helicopter evacuation.