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If his contract is up I could see Norco making a push for him.

Old man/ old eyes hack. If you have presbyopia( the loss of the ability for your eyes to focus on close objects) you most likely have your fix with you. Curl your index finger tightly until there is only a small gap. Bring this close to your eye and look through it at what you’re trying to focus on. This small aperture is the same thing a camera lens uses to increase depth of field. It’s not perfect, but it may get you by. I have a 2.0 diopter close up correction and this works for me if I don’t...

This matters. Worked with a guy who was how you say Very Proud of His Excellent Mech Skills. Watched him struggle with a front derailleur for over a half hour before he asked me to take a look at it. Cable was on the wrong side of the pinch bolt. Not even 2 minutes to correct his installation error. That right there is why I spent extra time reading up and watching vids of Sram and Shimano's newer style front d's when they came out. A good mech knows they don't know everything, terra incognita means you study the map...

Eeww! I got a pretty good one for you. So I'm converting my old homemade 26" DH bike to 27.5" to give to a friend's son. (If the son ever gets it away from his father...) It's a second gen Santa Cruz Bullit swing arm on a steel front end. It's got modern geometry from before it's time. The drawing says "Atherton style." because they were the only ones doing long, low and slack at the time. I'm just making new bolt on dropouts to fit the bigger wheels and we'll put a 27.5" fork on it. So today I...

I’ve broken an MT5 lever body by over tightening, that sucked. I think the trick, without using a crow foot torque head, is only tighten until it starts spinning the hose. All the threads are usually just disappeared into the body at that point. Thoughts? Here’s another dumb one, possibly already mentioned above. While installing a front brake caliper with an adapter, to go from 160 to 180 rotor, I screwed in the longer bolt where the shorter bolt was supposed to go and sheared the post mount right off the fork leg. Expensive.

I too have blasted out a piston while trying to piston massage a caliper. Late at night before a big ride wife mentions that her brakes feel spongy. Take a quick look and only one of the four pistons is moving. Brakes are long due for a bleed but I figure a quick piston advance + cleaning will do the trick. In my haste to push one piston all the way back in I shot one of the one working piston onto the floor.

I have a friend who is a perpetual bolt over-tightener, and he managed to split a Maven compression nut. He had this shitty bleed that wouldn't hold air, and I checked the lever under the rubber hose/nut cover and saw oil coming out. I thought it was probably leaking because it had been under-torqued. Nope. I'm sitting over here thinking, "Dude, I'm afraid to torque those compression nuts to the CORRECT torque spec, how did you over torque it?" More recently, I was helping the same friend do a 50-hour service and replacing seals and wipers on his Zeb, and...

Catalyst Cut from Aletsch, short and sweet.

I've had countless bikes, still chasing the dragon of my Ex Dean Lucas world champs wilsons rear suspension performance. There was so much trick stuff on that bike, coil converted world cup, proto 27.5 rear linkage. Dumbest move I ever made selling that bike

If Tahnee retires early, I won't be surprised. She seems to be dealing with concussion symptoms and rider are taking that more seriously than we've seen in decades past.. She can still uncork a race winning run, but at what cost? Still so much that is unknown when it comes to TBIs...

Highlights from day 2 of racing in Aletsch Arena:

The final round in Morillon is gonna be epic, with 7 elite men who can mathematically still take the title

Highlights from day 1 of racing in Aletsch Arena: