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Always de-tension and then bring it back up after replacement. The spokes that didn't break get put under more stress when a snap occurs. I found if you don't de-tension the next spoke to snap is roughly 90deg off from the one you replaced. Orb weaver spiders replace a bunch of strands when they replace a broken one. Kinda figure they've a better idea of these things than any engineer.

The entire company structure was available in the Rocky Mountain bankruptcy filings. We're nerds here, I know. I'll refrain from saying more because we already have the "will more companies be shutting down in the next 12-24 months thread" which is actually "Bike business discussion thread" or "lessons in bike company finance and valuation with Jeff", and I'm afraid someone will link that thread to tell me to stop discussing such things in the tech rumour thread.

So your friend just jams in a hub that is 9mm wider than the chainstays are designed for? What shop does he work at? Just so I can make sure I never go there.

Mooooooom they're talking about chainstay length in the tech romours thread again!

The bigger news is Bionicon was still in business for the last decade. I had no idea

Bah! Que Metallica - Ride the Lightning:

I’d like to know if Gwin hurt the good elbow or the bad one… Danny finished up at La Thuile, headed home to help Sophia deliver their third, and made it back to Andorra to try and qualify. What a lad. If it rains, no one will beat Max and Asa’s times I do not envy Juanfer dropping last. Does a boring track for the riders mean boring racing for us? Seemed so yesterday, today no so much. That tidbit about the MotoGP top ten vs our top ten is bananas. Tightest margins ever. LCQ still providing a great show...

Some tight racing. This morning MotoGP had a timed session. The top 10 spread on a 1:20 lap was 0.718 Sec. Our Q1 top 10 spread on a 2:40 run was +1.349 Sec.. How on earth can a bunch of guys hurdling down a blown out track with changing conditions (stray rocks, berms exploding) be closer than a manicured tarmac Motogp lap with everyone on the same line, 50 person support crews, unlimited data analysis etc. is beyond me. Madness.

The idea of the variable path was what he was going for, but not the high and low speed shaft movements doing different of axle paths. It was called VST. I’ve talked to Frank about this and even asked him about making one for me. He said the axle path almost looked like a football shape, it would move backwards up and then forward and you can pump it railroad track and just generate speed. This is an old image and screen grab I found off of a forum from the early 2010s

It’s hard to say what’s “better”, Jackson just won 4 in a row on low pivot, Gracey won 2 on high pivot, Max in junior won on mid pivot. But I do agree things are settling around the mid pivot area where you can get the best of both worlds. We could go back in time and try this dual pivot? Low speed impacts the axle moves vertically and high speed impacts the axle moved backwards