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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 better valves with the flat rubber block on the backside, instead of the cone. Instant fix and I'll never go back to the cheapos. It's a dumb problem to have over $12.

I spent more time than I would like to admit trying to fix my shifting. It would shift fine for some of the cassette but some gears I couldn't get to work right no matter how i adjusted. i even replaced a derailleur hanger. Turns out i routed the cable of my shimano derailleur backwards.

I had gotten a Kids Ride Shotgun kit to use for taking my daughter around. She loves it. After installing, I just could not get this weird clunking to go away from the stem. I had the right number of spacers, and when riding it felt perfectly fine. Only when rolling off curbs and picking the bike up did this clunk happen. I rode a few times without thinking too much about it. Well, slowly inspecting it, I realized that I had installed the thing while the bike was on the ground, having just needed to take the stem off...

Short chainstays don't help you load the front...they do the reverse...

Non negotiable because if it was any longer the frame would be an instant warranty.

watch the video. neko explains what he's up to

From the other site... 438mm + 17.5mm at sag (although the sag % wasn't mentioned). Max rear center growth of 23.5mm. So you're effectively getting a 455mm rear center. Pretty much spot on these days.

It's a grower not a shower

We’re not allowed to call them chainstays anymore . We must refer to them as (part of) the rear centre… or face forum judgement.

Are there any elite riders / coaches / engineers lurking here who can explain current or changing schools of thought on optimal body positioning? Do you start with body position & balance, then build/adapt the bike from there? I remember Minnaar talking about trying to adapt to the more upright modern position you see from riders like Jackson, Asa, Loris, etc but at a certain point over-elongated wheelbases and additional drag might prevent setups from scaling accordingly for large riders (ex Coulanges/Kolb are more hunched-over). I'm imagining that many many riders (including myself) are very poorly fit into our cockpits...

Maybe a little bit, but him not being very tall is good for highlighting my point, and that him liking longer stays on some bikes while feeling a bit off on others is also great to show that it isn't the end all be all fix that a lot of people online make it out to be. When I started the thread, it was in response to long chainstay talk, but I did want it to be about geo in general, what we like and don't like, how we experiment with it and how it's going, and general complaining about...