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ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Silent Bikes - What tricks do you have to keep your bike quiet through the season?
7/3/2025 6:49pm Have you tried wrapping your frame in electrical tape? But actually, if the service doesn’t work, perhaps some strategically places strips of sound deadening stickers meant for car body panels will help stop the amplification.
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ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Silent Bikes - What tricks do you have to keep your bike quiet through the season?
7/3/2025 11:01am Here’s a weird one; my hub and cassette would make so much noise no matter what I did to my bike so I got electrical tape and wrapped a few layers around the hub body and then wrapped the spider of the 52t cog with tape as well. This muted all the reverberating hub clanging noises and it seems really...
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/28/2025 7:25am I had to google what a gaylord was after that. Now I know. Cool info about domestic tubing as well.
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to How Noisy Is Your EXT?
6/25/2025 6:26am I found the gushing noise very minor. Generally I couldn’t hear it over the check ball tapping constantly and the spring creaking. Between challenges with set up and the incessant noise, I’ve put mine up for sale.
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to STFU Chain Damper
6/18/2025 8:07pm Anyone have tips for installing an stfu chain damper on a Pivot Firebird? Stfu said only one would fit with the curved chainstays but I’m not sure where it would go. I would assume it’s where the chain stay is directly under the chain.
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Silent Bikes - What tricks do you have to keep your bike quiet through the season?
6/10/2025 10:05pm Did I mess up installation? It seems like it would be pushing the derailleur outboard because it doesn’t allow the derailleur to tighten on the rotating b tension screw tab piece (sorry for that. Don’t know what it’s called). I can try with the retaining ring out but I can’t picture what that would change. I made my plastic washer...
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Silent Bikes - What tricks do you have to keep your bike quiet through the season?
6/9/2025 11:08pm Is 1.5mm too thick for a Hall Lock? I made a washer out of magic carpet sled plastic (basically a mud guard) that I can slip into place without removing the wire clip, but for the life of me I can't get my bike to shift nicely into my lower 6 gears.
carlinojoevideo Liked a reply to forum topic Kinematics
6/7/2025 10:44am
The rear cog you are in will make a much bigger difference than the front chainring. I always try and descend in the smallest rear cog. Try the difference between biggest and smallest to see if you can feel the difference
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ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Kinematics
6/7/2025 8:50am Thoughts on chainring size and suspension performance? What percentage change does going from a 32t to a 34 or 36t make to anti squat and does that make a noticeable difference in downhill suspension feel? I’ve heard it’s not much of a difference but have never seen numbers put to it.
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Modern Geo Talk: Chainstays, Stack, Reach, and Bitching About It
6/5/2025 7:09am This guy gets it. It’s like riding skinny skis. Why?
bizutch Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 World Cup Downhill / EDR - Loudenvielle, France
6/3/2025 10:27pm
As a former race promoter, I’d say this. Making ZERO exceptions is more widely accepted POST race. Hard time cut offs & heavy handed rule enforcement make timing accuracy & “fair” racing possible. The other 99 racers there on a strict schedule PLANNING for zero mistakes expect that goes for all. The second you’re in the start gate, zero chance to back out. Zero assistance. You’ve got 5 seconds to break the beam or the clock starts itself. In the gate for 6 seconds…no excuses. Only things to change a schedule are those that change it for EVERYONE. Timing system...
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ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/31/2025 6:10pm I would think the rear would heat up more than the front because of how you use them. Front brake hard and intermittent and rear brake is more constant for speed management, thus not allowing it to cool. I’m surprised it gets that hot in 3 minutes but I guess it's super high intensity.
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Silent Bikes - What tricks do you have to keep your bike quiet through the season?
5/30/2025 6:22pm What other lower pulley guides are worth considering besides MRP mxg and Deviate that have large pulleys? Tips on orientation? I know the Slash had very particular placement, is there a way to figure out the best place? I assume there is some benefit to not having the derailleur fight the clutch every suspension cycle, even though @CascadeComponents commented somewhere...
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Kinematics
5/30/2025 8:50am Of course. With the dhx2 it seems possible, with the EXT I couldn’t see light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks for the note about the sprindex.
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Silent Bikes - What tricks do you have to keep your bike quiet through the season?
5/29/2025 6:48pm How’s the lower guide on a non high pivot? Worthwhile? I’ve been imagining it would have positive results lately so cool to hear people are running them on lots of things.
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Kinematics
5/29/2025 6:45pm Thanks for all the discussion on this. I tried a few things since last posting. I didn’t have a heavier EXT spring but I tried opening the rebound most of the way, completely opening HSC, and almost closing LSC. It seemed better. Poppier, less “wrong” but still harsher than I’d like. Previously it just felt bad in so many ways...
ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to Silent Bikes - What tricks do you have to keep your bike quiet through the season?
5/29/2025 4:46pm A high engagement hub. Chain bounce engages the hub and the lower the engagement, the louder the hub is when it engages. This is with an o chain too.
AvgMTBEnjoyer Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/29/2025 4:37pm
I don't get it, people usually want to see shimano content.
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banj Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/29/2025 11:30am
Me too, but I do it with no gap between crown and handlebar.
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ebikepartyshirt Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/29/2025 11:36am Rather than measuring a gap with your eye, align it to “touch” and all of a sudden it’s far more accurate than anyone needs. Just saw this was already posted. Also, I didn’t slide my grip all the way on and never noticed so….