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As many of you know, I had been working on a Strava alternative that I planned to launch this spring. Unfortunately, I had to put it on pause. It’s still something I want to build, but after digging in further, I became less convinced it could pay my bills anytime soon. And realistically, raising outside capital for a non-AI consumer product with Strava as the entrenched incumbent felt close to impossible. The good news is that the amount of capital required is probably far lower now than it would have been even a year ago. Frontier models have made product...

If you're ever able to get this project going, I look forward to cheering you on, enthusiastically adopting your new tech, and inviting all my friends to join the platform with me, and then later calling down curses on you and the Brines family for generations to come for the inevitable enshittification of your platform after you've sufficiently saturated the marketplace.

I didnt have a bike rack for my vehicle, so id take the front wheel off and toss it in the back of my SUV. Once day I had a particularly long ride and overexerted myself. Got back to my vehicle and took my front wheel off like usually do. Threw my bike and gear in the back and then sat down for a minute drinking some water and trying to cool off before I drove home. Got up and hopped in my SUV and drove away. This was also a brand new bike by the way, one of my...

I say he's put it at the exact spot where it aaaalmost touches the seat post at full compression. 100% functional build.

I haven't seen so much WTF in one picture in a long, long time. @TEASMROBOT, not OCD with this set up. Note the rear valve stem isn't label aligned .

30+ years ago bullet bros was trying to solve the same problems.

Nukeproof had the front jaw of the binding sprung too IIRC.

E-bike cable tourism is notorious for friction, it’s worth checking. You also should check hanger for alignment, a new hanger is not the same as a properly aligned hanger, and often the hanger will need tweaking to account for frame tolerances etc. set is up is right, things aren’t worn, and the hanger is straight, then cable routing is next stop.

Would Strava sell you that data? I know they sell that data to Forestry England as they've whipped it out in a presentation on land access before. Strava/Garmin are logging like an appreciable % of all MTB rides.

At the risk of bringing this back to bikes I listened to the second episode of the escape collective podcast (subscriber only I'm afraid). One of the things they highlighted was that Woom bikes has been having significant growth. If you haven't heard of them it might not be surprising because they focus on (pricy) kids bikes. My son's bike is now newer than either of his parents bikes and he's not even hit his growth spurt yet... Whilst it's easy to postpone a pricy upgrade for the adults it's a little trickier when the bike just doesn't fit. I...

Love posts like this. Broadly, I agree. I’ve always liked Valerie Ramey’s work on fiscal multipliers, especially in the context of defense spending, assuming that’s who you were referencing. The piece I think sometimes gets underweighted is the role of DoD spending in producing major dual-use breakthroughs. The internet and GPS are the obvious examples. Could those breakthroughs have happened through other channels with less waste? Absolutely. But it’s hard to argue that defense-funded R&D has not produced enormous civilian spillovers. Bringing it back to the topic at hand, I’m generally in favor of building more dynamic, redundant, and agile...