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If you don’t have a compressor use a tube to seat both sides of the tire, deflate and carefully pop only one side of the tire bead and remove the tube, put in the tubeless valve stem add a insert if needed and put on the other side of the tire. 9/10 times it works every time with a standard floor pump. -I’ll add the sealant thought the valve stem last, that way if your pump sucks or screw something up you don’t have to deal with sealant leaking out on the way to the gas station/mate with a compressor

If you're using tire levers to mount, never go all the way up, just go to 90° relative to the rim or so and then rock the lever out to the side. You won't damage your tape this way. Some rim and tire combos will work best with two layers of tape, especially if it's a looser fit, but a tight fit is better with one layer. Don't use anything from muc off, valves, tape or sealant.

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Must we, every 3 months, have this same tired drivetrain discussion. You like what you like, I like what I like. No one cares. Start a new topic if you guys want to duke it out about how terrible the wireless world is. Back to the rumors: 30T ochains on more builds in the future from a few brands.

New SRAM stuff is prohibitively expensive. Still buy and use GX Eagle. Why would I need anything else? I’m a gravity rider…my derailleur goes through hell. The last thing I want is to put a $600 derailleur on my bike. Upgrades to shifting? It’s a drivetrain…I click the shifter and the chain changes gear. What is there to upgrade?

Yeah Evil Following will be a 430 chainstay across the sizes. This way all the tall riders can proclaim how playful it is while the small riders get to feel what a balanced bike is like.

Enough. Tell me about the next gen Optic or Evil Following. Anyone have any info?

They're making a "true mullet" from what I hear. Gonna be 32" rear wheel and a 24" front. Just a render from a brand look-book, but pretty polarizing.

Can LeBron flop on a bike like he does on the court?

I wouldn't be surprised to see them utilize a TQ 120 in a new ebike.

In response to the latest Tallboy they're going to start making VPP bikes with interrupted seat tubes

Base build for only $800 more than frameset... yeesh. Gotta wonder how cheap those parts are.

very on brand for ari to hit the ol 'under 5000' line for the 4999 model. classic ari

to get back on track here, what are the thoughts on the new Super deluxe ultimate?

"C hange your politics, fix your problems." Hadn't thought of that one yet. Thanks for the advice. Signed, Americans

Dear Dougal, I know your favorite past time is to shit on the hard engineering work of people and then yell at them when they try to engage you in good faith arguments. I get that you are also trying to be helpful, and probably mean less malice than it comes across over the internet because, frankly, the internet is a shithole of everyone yelling at each other. But Vital has been a space that seems to have remained a refuge of reasonability despite everything else falling to click and rage bate. I am glad Vital is not the pinkbike...

Surprised nobody mentioned it already since it's a fox fork but have you opened up your air spring to see if there is not a 1inch tick glob of grease on top of the air spring top cap ? Edit: my bad, missed the suspensionlabnz post that mentioned excess grease in the air spring

Also respectfully, it's called damping, not dampening.