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Falcon Added a reply to Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
5/23/2025 9:16am I loooove USD forks on motorcycles; always have. However, I feel like the benefits of the design are somewhat muffled on a single crown setup for MTB use (More clamping area, smaller axle overhang to clear ruts). There's also more weight in a USD fork, I'm assuming. There's no doubt they look trick, though! I remember a test in this...
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Falcon Added a reply to Dumb Bike Problems
5/8/2025 9:12am I spent months of frustration and probably lost years off my life, trying to sort out my tubeless setup. I taped and re-taped my rims, tried all sorts of different settings on my air compressor, and swapped out the cheap cone-shaped tubeless valves several times. Could not get the tire to inflate. As it turned out, all I needed was...
Falcon Added a reply to Drivetrain Talk
5/6/2025 3:37pm I'm fine with slower shifts. I know modern drivetrains will handle more, but I'm still in the old-school mindset of interrupting my cadence a little bit and shifting one gear at a time, so as to put the least amount of stress on the whole system. I'm on an NX deraileur now. Going GX Eagle on my new bike.
dolface Liked a reply to forum topic 1,000,000 feet in a 100 days
4/16/2025 2:28pm
Seconded. I've never done anything that approaches his feat but I have done some stupid-hard things and this stood out to me as the key part: " This wasn’t a physical effort, but a mission of mental resilience." The physical fitness is just the start, not giving up, especially when it's real easy just to roll home, or not start the next day, is what's so impressive to me.
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Falcon Added a reply to 1,000,000 feet in a 100 days
4/16/2025 2:27pm Now, I'm not a climber, so clearly others can do far more than I can. But even doing 10,000 feet in one day sounds superhuman to me! (My single-day best is around 2200 feet, I think.) Doing that for 100 days is pure insanity.
Falcon Added a reply to Tall 10yr old dilemma - full-suspension
4/2/2025 10:45am Commencal Clash XS is an option. It's a 27.5/26 mullet designed for tweens. It's fairly close to an adult-sized bike but not quite. My friend's son has one and it's awesome.
Falcon Added a reply to Left foot/right foot
2/17/2025 2:15pm If I force myself to do it, I can jump left foot forward and it's no big deal. Left to my preference, I'll always choose right foot forward.
austin-NC Liked a reply to forum topic Ken Roczen on Racing Mountain Bikes
2/17/2025 2:13pm
When he actually retires hopefully he wants to do some DH, if anyone at RedBull is listening this would be an opportunity for some awesome content. Get Ken to come out to the Windrock national, pair him up with Aaron Gwin and have him show him how to do track walk. How the whole race day works, which lines to change and take during practice and sort of guide him through the day while filming it all and then have Ken do a zero pressure race run would be such awesome content. You'd get some crossover from both fan bases...
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Falcon Added a reply to Ken Roczen on Racing Mountain Bikes
2/13/2025 11:31am There is a lot of crossover between the sports but it would be very difficult for someone from either endeavor to jump right into the deep end of the other and be successful. Even a rider of Roczen's skill would require a few seasons, in my opinion, to find the little tenths of seconds that all add up to a...
austin-NC Liked a reply to forum topic Ken Roczen on Racing Mountain Bikes
2/13/2025 11:28am
Honestly I think fitness is the least of his worries, yes to be at that top level he wpuld have to alter his training a bit to be more sprint focused but he is still in better shape than probably 99% of the world cup guys. He is also the best at first few lap sprints than anyone in Supercross which is less than 5 minutes.
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Falcon Added a reply to Spraying your bike
1/9/2025 9:32am Gentle spray, sponge wash with car suds, rinse, then re-lube the chain. It doesn't seem to have hurt my bike in 7 years. (Avoid spraying water into the cable ports or bearings.)
Falcon Added a reply to How would you measure pedal kickback?
11/25/2024 3:09pm Here's an angle nobody has mentioned yet: isn't pedal kickback a little bit like free acceleration? Suspension compresses = chain "tightens" = assuming no movement from the rider's foot = cassette turns forward.
Falcon Added a reply to Felt "Bixby" Beach Cruiser -$100
11/7/2024 10:06am Wait, there is one blemish: the left-hand grip is punched through. Don't know/remember how that happened.
Falcon Added a reply to Felt "Bixby" Beach Cruiser -$100
11/7/2024 10:04am
Falcon Started a new thread Felt "Bixby" Beach Cruiser -$100
11/7/2024 10:03am Hey guys, I'm looking to make room in the garage. Somebody in SoCal (Temecula-Murrieta-Menifee area) come take this for $100! My mom bought this bike a few years back, then decided she was too old to ride bikes anymore, so she gave it to my wife. Wife would rather put hot sauce on her eyelids than exercise, so she's out...
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Falcon Added a reply to New to mountain biking
10/30/2024 1:57pm Just for the sake of info, I want to point out that Canyon does have a US demo center in Carlsbad, CA. I don't know if it's actually a distribution warehouse, though. They have also just teamed with REI for service support: https://www.vitalmtb.com/community/iceman2058/blog/10/30/2024/entry/126…
Falcon Added a reply to Stiffness versus Compliance
10/17/2024 10:14am The engineers know far more than I do, so I'll take their word that the compliance is in the right ballpark. I'm not much of a test rider anyway; the only flex I can ever feel is when I try to push a Harley-Davidson into a parking spot and the steel handlebars flex about an inch and a half. 😅...
Falcon Added a reply to Market is crashing … so how many new bikes you got?
10/1/2024 10:07am I haven't purchased yet, but I have a whole spreadsheet of enduro bikes all lined up. Going to get the best one. Still deciding between a Strive, a Tracer Expert, or a Capra. Maybe a Meta with Ohlins.... Hmmmm...
Falcon Added a reply to Your Thoughts on the Cost of a New Mountain Bike?
9/26/2024 11:59am I don't think I'm a better rider than I actually am; I know I'm a better rider than I actually am. Wait...🤔
Falcon Added a reply to Mxer has been humbled
9/4/2024 11:54am Welcome to the fold. I used to consider MTB just a cross training tool for my MX racing as well, but now it's another passion. You may feel the same before too long!
