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On Santa Cruz, or on a Santa Cruz?

Miranda miller definitely on a santacruz

Seems his main priority is being a father these days but he’s still putting out a couple killer edits a year.

More hair than 3/4 of the members on vital

That's awesome. Ziggy! Talk about being born into a rad set of parents.

New media squidlet

I remember reading MBA for the pro bike checks circa 2009 (more detailed than any other pro bike coverage at the time). Don't think I ever knew there was a Road Bike Action. But looks like another casualty of the Great Outdoor Recreation Media Consolidation of the 2020s...

Tire swapping conversations in team rumors might be a sign of the times, silly season is wrapped up (??)

Back on topic please

No tire levers needed here for the folding bead Maxxis stuff. Wire bead weren’t installed by me, came with the bike. No warping of Schwalbe, Versus, Specialized, Delium, Michelin or Pirelli tires.

Kinda? (Northern California). No to storing by a heater. Almost every Maxxis tire I've had in the last couple years has been or gotten warped, especially in the rear. EXO+, DD, and DH casing. No, I don't use tire levers to install, although I do remove them with them. In the fall I tried Schwalbe again, and only 1/4 of those tires has gotten warped (Super Trail Big Betty), so I guess that's an improvement. I'm interested in trying the Contis also (from the reports of better durability and faster rolling speed), but finding an MX set in stock is...

Most people warp tires putting them on and not knowing how. Every time I see a 3c dh or Dd casing being put on with tire levers and that person's pushing too hard because they aren't pushing the bead into the rim enough, 75% chance that's coming out warped. You just see more maxxis because more people run them, like there were more broken Kona Stinkys out there back in the day because every hack hitting tree's at full pull had one. I can't think of many times ive put a maxxis tire on a wheel in 15 years that...

I’m definitely not that fast. 170/180 bike. Had the same issue with the wire bead super tacky 27.5 with Cush Core pro on my old DH bike.

I’ve currently got 4 DH casing tires that are warped. 29 dhf and dhr2. They all started round but didn’t stay that way for long.

They're doing this on another forum I'm on, it's pretty annoying..

Just wait until the e-bikes become self-aware, then it's over. I'm stockpiling acoustic bikes in preparation for war.

AI has set it's eyes on the mtb world. We're doomed.

There's no way y'all are real people.

Can’t agree more. It’s like Micheal Bolton and god got together to craft it with final say from Patrick Swazye. Awesome bike too