Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:47:19 UTC No. 158365

I now have all the parts for my Yeti Arc build. My goal is to have it rideable by saturday morning so I can hit an easy flow trail I first rode a few weeks ago. Even though it's built to be an XC bike, the components and frame are more than strong enough to handle black diamond trails. I'm going to try riding it first with Schwalbe Wicked Will tires. If I need more grip, I may toss the maxxis assegai and dissector I have on it but I already planned to put them on my Wreckoning and save the Michelin Wild Enduros for the winter. These come from the factory with a DHF in the front and a dissector in the rear so putting a tacky tire in the front is intended since the bike is supposed to be ridden hard.
My goal is to make it a very colorful bike, but I don't want any of the colors to be overpowering like that overpriced santa cruz posted a while back that has the rims covered in neon decals. I want lots of colors, but in small sizes. The bright green DVO fork might be too loud but it was the only one in stock

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:55:16 UTC No. 158366

>>158365
about the Schwalbes. I used to have them on my full squish trail bike but took them off because it's hard to get the PSI right on dry trails so I didn't trust them at high speed or when hard braking. They call them "downcountry" tires but they're really just tougher XC tires with the cornering knobs and tougher carcasses from their beefier tires. I think putting on something like a Big Betty in the front would give it more grip and still keep the bike fast rolling

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 09:01:31 UTC No. 158373

Riding and maintaining my bike has genuinely been such a wonderful learning experience

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:42:20 UTC No. 158394

>>158373
Yeah but fuck transmissions. I can't manage the XT to shift correctly, its so sensible to cable tension.
>make first 3 shift correctly
>doesn't goes down on the biggest cog
>adjust top and bottom correctly
>middle of cassette doesn't shift correctly now
>make it shift good
>high gear now doesn't shift/ falls to the smallest cog
>repeat ad infinitum
I'll an hero if I cant get it done by EoD

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:43:56 UTC No. 158399

>>158394
>12 speed
>Shifting problems

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:57:39 UTC No. 158400

>>158394
That's why I like electronic but they're not perfect. I don't know how I managed to get XX1 and XT mechanical to shift perfectly on my first try. Not a flex, I just got really lucky. I still can't get GRX to shift perfectly into every gear

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:12:08 UTC No. 158404

>>158394
Transmission is a brand name, not a description of a drivetrain.

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:41:26 UTC No. 158419

Its done. Slight bad shifting in 2 middle cogs and harsh metalical sound when changing speeds but shifts good enough. I also cut the bars even more, its ~765mm now. Was 780mm I think. When riding berms at the bike park I often noticed me lifting outside of my hand a bit. I think I'll feel the loss on long straight chunk but corners should feel better.
The screeching on my rear brake wasn't the pads being glazed, but the metal spring rubbing the rotor as pad is unevenly worn.

Now, if they accept my PTO tomorrow, inshallah, I'll be racing saturday(enduro +750m -2350m) and on sunday the mass start race(13.6km -2000m).
>>153507
>>155727
Parking lot riding seems to confirm your shit. Testing in high/low gear and didn't feel it.

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:43:35 UTC No. 158424

>>158373
Same. It's all pretty straightforward but satisfying. Suspension is the only thing I've not touched yet. A bike work stand has been one of my best purchases.

Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:53:09 UTC No. 158462

>>158399
I know right this is basic shit lmao
>>158394
Buy a derailleur hanger alignment tool they should be cheap since all the fanboys say the end of hangers is near

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 02:40:06 UTC No. 158492

>>158424
Bleeding my brakes will probably be the next lesson for me. I need to get a workstand

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 05:14:08 UTC No. 158515

Almost done building the bike. I always get centerlock hubs so I can use 6 bolt rotors on them with an adapter if I choose to, but the special was on the 6 bolt hubs in turquoise so I got them instead. I already had the centerlock rotors so I took the 180mm 6 bolt rotors I use with adapters off the rear wheels of my other 2 MTBs and put them on this hardtail, and used the two new 180mm centerlock rotors for those bikes.
I forgot to thread the rear brake cable through the cable guide on the frame so I have to detach the hose and try again. Luckily Maguras don't lose fluid if the levers are turned straight up so I may not have to bleed again. After that, I just have to get the dropper post and lever hooked up, get the saddle, shifter, and grips on, and lastly I have to get the cockpit and suspension feeling right.

>>158492
It's easy but it can be a pain in the ass in some cases. Get a lot of rubbing alcohol, preferably in a spray bottle, so you can clean the DOT fluid or mineral oil off quickly. One good way to keep brake fluid off the levers and cockpit is to wrap a rag or old sock around the lever so any spillage is absorbed.
Read this carefully and memorize this. When you're done bleeding and it's time to put the bleed screw back into the lever, STOP TIGHTENING WHEN YOU FEEL IT CLOSE. Don't give it just a little more, just stop, they're so fucking easy to overtighten and strip, and yes, I have done it more than once and have had to buy new levers. They have rubber seals that do the work so you don't have to tighten it past screw head touching the lever.

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:48:58 UTC No. 158524

>>158394
Is your chain clean and lubed?

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:25:10 UTC No. 158536

>>158515
Thanks for the tip sensei.
Dropper is back together, just need to replace cable and housing now

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:10:17 UTC No. 158646

>people put cum when installing, before seating, tires
>inflate them
>tire explodes
>cum gets everywhere like in a porno
>>oh why did this happen
You can just use a syringe to put cum through the valve after seating the tire to prevent a bukake

>>158462
Gook derailleur hangers are like 12 yuros, a wrench(what I used) unbent it a bit. Though I'm planning to buy a 100% gook bearing puller.
>>158524
Yes, chain is new

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:06:53 UTC No. 158677

>>158646
Just don’t suck at this, idk I’ve put on literal dozens and dozens of tubeless tires and dumping sealant in the exposed bead is the superior method. The syringe method is why you’re gonna complain about valve clogs next months, it’s all a conspiracy to sell $50 reserve valves

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:55:21 UTC No. 158689

newfag here looking for first mtb, thoughts on vitus rapide 29? at 11.2kg it's very light for an aluminium frame and seems to have good components compared to other similarly priced/more expensive bikes, although my knowledge in that department is limited. also has remote lockout, which is nice. the main drawback I've seen is it's only 10 speed, the others I'm looking at have been 12 speeds, is that a big issue?
other's i've looked at are:
canyon exceed cf 4 (more expensive, heavier despite being carbon fibre and some of the components are worse)
specialized rockhopper expert 2022 (reviews were talking shit about the fork. would be more expensive but currently on sale)
marin bobcat trail 5 (heavier, don't like the tan tyres, but has more suspension travel)
also feel free to correct any of the retarded assumptions I'm probably making

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:07:54 UTC No. 158695

>>158646
Not all sealant is created equal. Stan's Race Sealant uses bigger crystals and they will clog an injector and the valve.
I still prefer to use an injector and inflate the tires first. Tires usually go on easily, but other times they don't and I won't know which it'll be until I try get that last section of bead on.

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:10:36 UTC No. 158696

How come all pressurized air, whether it's from a tire, dropper post, or from the suspension, smells like rancid cum? Every time I depressurize something, the smell immediately reminds me of the cum casket I had in middle school when I hadn't emptied it out for months.

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:12:49 UTC No. 158697

>>158696
The smell of the pump used to inflate it?

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:30:29 UTC No. 158701

>>158689
Looks bretty good for a first bike. The air fork is pretty nice, but the remote lockout is a bit of a meme. I would avoid any that come with a cheap coil fork. Don't worry about the number of gears, it's the range that's important and 11-46 is fine. 10 speed has the advantage of being less finicky than 12 speed as well. I would personally go with the 10 speed over the 12 speed setup. You'll also want to add to the budget some money for a dropper post.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:40:56 UTC No. 158767

I wanna gopro. I’ve been riding DH occasionally since 2011 and riding all types of mountain biking consistently since 2019, and I’ve never once seen myself riding a bicycle. I think I’m getting pretty good and I need to be taken down a notch, what’s the ideal setup for gopro these days? Chest mount (does that work with heart rate straps)? Chin mount for my Fox RPC helmet? I have money but I certainly don’t need the latest and greatest, what can I expect to pay? How’s battery life?

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:40:54 UTC No. 158793

>>158767
You should consider a DJI Osmo Action. Significantly cheaper than a GoPro, really high quality and great tech, doesn't overheat like GoPros can(not sure if they fixed this), uses the same accessories. I use it and I'm satisfied with it but it seems to eat its batteries when not in use. I still get 30 min of footage at 1080p60fps at a full charge on a bad day.
I also considered getting an insta360 but someone pointed out to me that it's going to be in the line of fire all the time and at risk of being broken so it's better to get something cheaper.
Chest rigs are good, they probably won't interfere with a heart rate strap since they fit pretty loose, only problem is that the angle can take some trail and error to get it just how you want it but there gimbal setups if it matters that much.
Helmet mounts are fine too, the extra weight on your head may bother you.
I do not recommend mounting it on the bike. The camera just doesn't stay in place and you can hear the rattling coming from the bike. The positioning is hard to get right.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:13:35 UTC No. 158811

>just called 8 bike shops
>7 don't have FINNED metallic
>all have resin pads
>the remaining bike shop has 1(one) for 60€
Kek wtf, how kike can they be?
Fug, I need them for sunday. I'll die due to overheating and fading. At least I got new unfinned pads to not fuck up the rotor.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:10:12 UTC No. 158870

>>158767
>I think I’m getting pretty good and I need to be taken down a notch
Somebody else recoding you on a phone or actual camera would be best. Gopros are designed to be as flattering as possible to the wearer because the ultra-wide lens and tunnel-vision hypersuperultranigger(tm) filter on the video makes it look like you're going at warp speed no matter how slow you actually are.

It's also cheaper to just go enter a race. If you must get a gopro, chest mount is best

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:21:06 UTC No. 158873

Going to do a local "downhill" race, everyone else has been practicing for the whole last week including the course setter and I rode it twice in the last 15 minutes of practice. Let's see how I do, I'm hoping better than midpack

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 23:13:22 UTC No. 158879

>>158811
>Kek wtf, how kike can they be?
>Fug
Take a break from this site.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 00:40:46 UTC No. 158883

>>158879
cringe and bluepilled
>>158873
>"downhill" race
>Stumpy with the gayest available paint option
Damn the competition looks fierce

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:03:36 UTC No. 158885

My Nukeproof Horizon v2's have finally come in after I bent my original B*ntrager rim on a rock during a downhill run.

Now I am starting to shop for tires. I do a big downhill day twice a year and the rest of the time it's rooty climbing and flow. Suggestions? I'm between the Maxxis DHR/DHF combo and Michelin Wild Enduro for now

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 05:35:23 UTC No. 158912

>>158646
>tire explodes
How high are you pumping them wtf

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 14:30:02 UTC No. 158964

>>158885
I ended up going with Maxxis DHF/DHRII combo with some thicc sidewalls

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 14:47:33 UTC No. 158966

>just set up a dropper service with fox
>$115 (plus possible $50 in parts)
>shipping not paid for
>brand new fox post is $250
>brand new PNW post (that I’ve also had no issues with for years) is $150
Did I goof

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 15:00:30 UTC No. 158968

Day one is finished. 750m of climbing and my legs are kill. Niggas decided to put those 750m on the last 2 liaison between 3 stages after 3 stages of all downhill. One month of almost no riding took a heavy toll on me. Tomorrow is the mass start race where I'll get osteoarthritis on my fingers after 50min of pure downhill.
XT drivetrain is fucking amazing, I can upshift 3 gears or downshift 2 in a push. Instead of just one like before. And the high engagement of the spank hex means I can pedal easily after/while exiting techy shit while changing gears.
>>158879
you are here for ever
>>158912
Not me. Other people and bike shops to seat them. I've had yell at the bike mechanic once as he couldn't hear due to a tire exploding while seating it before attending me
>>158964
You could've done Michelin or Continental...although today at the race some dude had a flat with a kryptotal enduro casing. Almost all flat I saw today were m*xxis

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:02:37 UTC No. 159000

>>158968
what spec maxxis tires were they running and what terrain? Maxxis has cheapo tires that are only meant for light stuff and the expensive ones are for downhill. A majority of riders I see run maxxis at my downhill park and they get thru double blacks.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:06:06 UTC No. 159002

>>158968
Deore drivetrain does the same thing.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 17:12:37 UTC No. 159004

>>159000
Maxxis has expensive tires only meant for light stuff and expensive ones for DH

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:14:00 UTC No. 159025

>>158701
thanks for the feedback. I was ready to buy that one, but it turns out their partnered seller has a huge sale on right now which means I can afford the next model up, the rapide 29 vr. was £1400, now £900, which is the same price the cheaper model would've been, so may as well go for it.
this one is an 11 speed with 11-51t range which clears up my previous concern, and has a few other upgrades, including the fork and brakes. I prefer the colour, too.
and yes, I'll be getting a dropper post.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:17:08 UTC No. 159026

>>159000
DD or DH casing. Terrain is rocky alpine terrain (pic) for first 2 stages and forest loam roots for last 3. Saw several flats and tires off the bead, maxxis, on the end of stage 2 which went from a blue jumpline into black tech. Anything less than DD and you'll destroy the rim on roots.
Thats because maxxis was undefeated before. DHR+DHF was/is the to go combo.
>>159002
Doere shifter can't downshift 2, which was noticable when it got steep and needed to pedal which was often. Deore + xt shifter should've been a good option. The rest you are right and its just weight. RD on the deore has bushings on the pulleys instead of bearings which will develop play like NX. But I got XT cheap.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:27:33 UTC No. 159027

>>158968
>Not me. Other people and bike shops to seat them
So do they just keep going to fully seat instead of deflating and reinflating? (I wouldn't know, I've never asked a shop to do it)

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:49:08 UTC No. 159031

>>158873
>day later no update
So did you get BTFO or what?

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 22:23:21 UTC No. 159057

Took the Arc out on its maiden voyage to a very easy and flowy trail. Once I got the tire pressure, cockpit, and saddle right, I was beyond impressed. I already had high expectations for this bike and it exceeded them. It climbs like my gravel bike and is as agile as my dirt jumper. It is so much fun to ride and it is so fast when pedalling. It does feel sketchy when hitting a chunky turn but that just means I have to slow down and choose a different line. It wheelies on command and is so easy to get airborne.
These Schwalbe Wicked Wills are good tires if you have the pressure low. I took them off my Evil Following because I didn't trust the traction on dry terrain, but I just had to drop the pressure to 20 psi front, 24 psi rear. I had them at 25psi front, 30 psi rear at the start of the ride and it was still better than before, but a little too drifty when hitting a corner, now it's near perfect.

>>158968
>You could've done Michelin or Continental...although today at the race some dude had a flat with a kryptotal enduro casing. Almost all flat I saw today were m*xxis
I'm planning to take the Wild Enduros off my Wreckoning and putting on M*xxis assguy and dicksucker. I considered going Kryptotal front and Xynotal rear to try something different because I already have Wild AM and Force AM on my Following and they're top tier there, but the Continentals are only in stock with the trail casing and I don't want to risk them ripping. Nothing wrong with the Wild Enduros, but I don't need all that grip now that's it's dry and dusty so I could go with something faster. I also already have the m*xxis tires since I was going to put them on the bike first until I saw the Wild Enduros finally came back in stock last year
I'm never going back to DHF+DHR. The Michelin Wild AM+Force AM are a straight upgrade over them except maybe in durability. The carcass feels softer but I have no reason to doubt them otherwise

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 22:23:28 UTC No. 159058

>>159026
There still isn’t a comparably heavy DH casing to maxxis, even the continentalotals in DH casing is more comparable to maxxis DD than maxxis DH

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 22:25:30 UTC No. 159060

>>159057
I love my maxxis but yeah continentalotals are just straight up better DHF/DHR and maybe even assguy if I may be so bold

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:54:08 UTC No. 159076

>>159031
Got rained on pretty hard 10minutes after I took that photo. The off camber section of the course was a slip n slide literally and unrideable so I had to try and tripod my way down it, nobody cleared it.
As for results The guy who is in charge of the series is gone to go race at Downhill southeast this weekend so I will see how I did when he decides to post the results if he even counts them as 4/5 of the field went home because of the rain. I think I did pretty decent 2nd or 3rd out of the 10 people to put down a wet time. Depending on how many people rode the course dry, my time could get destroyed. The dirt is similar to the clay out west where it turns to slippery peanut butter when it rains. So a wet vs dry time will decide how I did.

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 05:52:24 UTC No. 159116

>>159027
>So do they just keep going to fully seat instead of deflating and reinflating
Looks like it.
>>159058
>comparably heavy DH casing to maxxis,
Mishillin DH casing. I've read that continental DH casing is just a bit heavier that you mighy go straight into dh casing instead of enduro(made in Chayna).
>>159057
>I considered going Kryptotal front and Xynotal rear
In the continetal MTBR thread, people claim the xynotal is amazing in SoCal terrain
I'd probably lower the pressure if I rode hardtail to get the damped feel of full sus. You better ride smoothly to not fuck up the rim. How much travel you got oj the fork?

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 08:29:36 UTC No. 159134

Went out for a "club" ride today. I say club in parentheses because there 25+ people in the club but the same 5-6 people come to every club ride and we never hear from the others, even though some still hold committee seats they have all lost interest by the looks of it. Anyways, we went to arapuke MTB park today which has a hard clay based soil which gets very slick in the wet. There's been about 3 weeks of rain followed by 2 days of fun so the trails were all super slick. Great fun.

Anyways, I have decided to sell my two mondrakers and buy a proper Enduro bike. I'm quite keen on the Marin alpine trail C2. It lookss a pretty good spec for the price. It has the geo I want. I would prefer a mullet and I also think the 38 may be overkill for a pedal bike. But also I want a proper Enduro bike and 38mm stauntions are just the way they are all going so idk. Is there anything else out there in a similar price range? I would prefer fox + Shimano build.

https://www.99bikes.co.nz/products/2022-marin-alpine-trail-c2-black-silver

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 08:36:08 UTC No. 159135

>>159134
Samefag here, if anyone's wondering we ride foo fighter (x4), rocky into Rambo, mind the gap (x4) jumping jack into humpty jumpty and karearea (x2). I fuckin love mind the gap. I dont really do gap jumps, but I do the ones on mind the gap. Fuck it feels so cool I just want to gap everything now.

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 09:29:45 UTC No. 159136

>>158968

Which race is that? Schwalbe has best casings although on the heavier side. Thread/rubber combo comes down to preference and terrain.

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 10:02:22 UTC No. 159140

>>159134
I've been here 20 years and I still keep thinking Palmy is near Hamilton
Didn't make it to the trails this weekend, but I did do a full strip down and re-cable of my dropper so I'm pleased with that

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 12:24:22 UTC No. 159148

Thunderstorm at night left 2/3rds of the race slippery and muddy. I could barely hold on my bars/pedal/brake due to fatigue. 2000m of D- nonstop kills an untrained body. Terrible results.
>>159136
That was the Enduro of Chamrousse which was the qualifying race for today's Derby of Chamrousse.

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:22:53 UTC No. 159158

>>159148

I only did some amateur dh races so far with some amateur team which where kinda fun, even in the mud (ixs rookies cup) . Maybe try that before doing Enduro race without training.

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:31:35 UTC No. 159162

First time doing Dirt Merchant couple days ago with some random dad I met on the chairlift
Still not quite sure what to do with myself when I'm in the air for more than a second, but maybe its to do with unfamiliarity with the trail

Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 17:01:18 UTC No. 159186

>>159116
The fork is 130mm. I already have a short travel full squish 29er so I wasn't interested in making it a hardcore hardtail but goddamn, I wasn't expecting it to be so much fun. I built this to be an XC bike. I'm not worried about destroying the rims. Evan from EvansMTBSaga on runs these same rims on his hardcore hardtails and he's hitting jump lines and some chunky trails just fine.
I want to try out the Xynotals on my Wreckoning since my Wild Enduros aren't the ideal tire for how dry it is now and I'd like something lighter and faster rolling. These tires are incredible when it's moist and they're not even the official mud tire

Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 07:38:47 UTC No. 159280

I thought I had picked some relatively dry and mud-free gravel climbs for an evening workout.


Turns out i had not picked some relatively dry and mud-free gravel climbs for an evening workout and both me and my bike are filthy.

Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:58:55 UTC No. 159356

I’m gonna go to rei and buy a GoPro 9 or 10 and a chest mount I just need validation from strangers online just give me the gopro/nogopro

Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:05:44 UTC No. 159358

>>159356
Do it. You better post the footage here nigga. Shitty or not, post it

Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 22:54:55 UTC No. 159377

i don’t know what this is called but it’s at my local trails, a wooden bridge with a steep slope down. how am i supposed to hit this? it’s on a blue trail - is it basically training wheels for a drop?
>picrel

Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:04:48 UTC No. 159379

>>159377
>huck to flat

Is it a smooth roll in and roll out or are they sharp?

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 03:57:23 UTC No. 159417

>>159377
You need to stoppie it

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 04:22:08 UTC No. 159421

Took the Yeti Arc out to my usual park and it is more capable on the chunk than I thought it would be. I forgot my legs function as a suspension. I still can't corner with it well on tight switchbacks but I think I have to lock the front wheel to swing the rear up and around to clear these at a better speed.
As much as it pains me to say it, I don't think I have a reason to keep the dirt jumper around anymore, especially since the park I ride it at still hasn't fixed their bike park. This bike is better on the pump track and it's so light that it's easier to get air on it at the jump line. I'm just not looking forward to going through the selling process and getting lowballed by filipinos and beaners again, or having dudes flake at the last minute.

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 06:25:23 UTC No. 159433

>>159358
REI doesn’t carry GoPros and Best Buy was out of the $250 hero9, only $350 10’s and $400 11’s, so I’m back at good ol internet stores debating yet again whether to GoPro or noGoPro
I also need to buy new shoes, ideally find the exact pair of discontinued shoes I already own in exactly size 11.5 again, if I could get both of those from the same place I’d buy it all now

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 07:24:08 UTC No. 159434

The conti dh kryptotal f/r lasted 10 days of riding in the pds memezone, not much wear on the rear surprisingly with 5000-6000m of downhill per day.
Comparable m*xxis would have had ruined side tread, I'm converted.

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 07:33:32 UTC No. 159435

>>159433
I would go for the mini 11(gopro pls bring back the session), but the full size 10 is good too just make sure to get the white "enduro" batteries.

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 07:55:59 UTC No. 159438

>>159435
Like always, I should’ve spent more time listening to 4chan. I just ordered $400 worth of GoPro 9, chest mount, 2x extra fancy “enduro” batteries, 128GB SD card, and a little foam wind muffler.
Hope the 9 kicks ass, excited to cut a hole in my jersey, everything I read says the 9 and 10 are essentially identical (aside from the processor update, which people say is mostly identical), and I plan on staying below 4K so the improvements on the 11 don’t affect me
I didn’t even see any articles on the mini versions…

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:01:05 UTC No. 159439

>>159438
put the camera on your helmet, it's much better viewing as you get the stability of your head in addition to looking into corners etc
IMO the chest mount puts too much of the bike in frame and it's annoying to wear/check the angle all the time

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:02:48 UTC No. 159440

>>159435
>No screen and app-only for 23g weight savings
Nah get outta here, the full size was the right move

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:06:47 UTC No. 159441

>>159439
I already have GoPro mounts on my helmets for lights, but if I was putting one on my full face id like to have a chin mount, those videos always look really good. But I wanted to be able to use the camera with any helmet so I got the chest mount. I guess I could try the helmet mounts once I have it, but that also means no visor and it’s just barely dropping under 100° max these days

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:14:34 UTC No. 159442

$400 for a camera, I could’ve replaced my squishy Code R’s for that money… This better be sick, I’m never going to produce YouTube videos, probably just flood Trailforks with trail videos. I expect it to be a half-decent still photo camera as well

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:19:30 UTC No. 159444

>>159440
kek it's an action camera not a phone, those extra screens are just shit to break and drain battery but I guess it depends what you want out of it
I would have bought the mini 11 over the 10 had I known it was coming out
>t. used the gopro session for like 5 years due to the shape/size of it

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:24:50 UTC No. 159445

>>159444
The screen is what makes it so you don’t need to bring your phone though, the mini can’t take still photos and you can’t change the battery(!). The session was a sick design but it was half the weight of the 11 because it had terrible battery life if I remember right, the 11mini uses a full battery so it’s not really much lighter than the full-size, still way heavier than a session

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:34:13 UTC No. 159446

>>159444
If you’re willing to deal with custom battery, they sell the “GoPro10 Bones” with no screens and no battery, external power only for FPV drones and it’s 20g lighter than the session. I just don’t know what the session did to get that tiny honestly

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:35:57 UTC No. 159447

Should I just buy a new bike frame or should I just buy the whole new set as is?

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:47:59 UTC No. 159448

>>159447
>Should I just buy a new bike frame or should I just buy the whole new set as is?
depends if your current components are worth transferring

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:56:52 UTC No. 159449

>>159448
good point, not really in terms of equipment. but the parts of the new bike is kinda expensive...

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 10:17:14 UTC No. 159456

>>159446
the 10 is fine even if it is HUEG and has a shitty touchscreen UI, makes up for it with great stability and audio
gopro pls

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 11:21:00 UTC No. 159460

>>159449
Probably cheaper than buying the frame only + same components though, no? Like how prebuilt PCs are usually cheaper. You could always buy 2nd hand components I suppose.

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:08:57 UTC No. 159465

>>159434
>>159435
>>159439
>>159444
Kino pics.
SS front and Soft back right? And what about the casing, DH? Was it solid shit keeping it from squirming and damped feel?
M*xxis fags undeniably btfo once again

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:09:45 UTC No. 159466

>>159460
yeah thats true, since makers and suppliers would have a cheaper deal on the components. time to count my cash...

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 13:18:59 UTC No. 159469

>>159465
yes ss/s kryptotal f/r dh casing - going again in September on the same set but might bring an argotal incase the weather is wank
They were fine when pumped up to 25-30 psi on fast hardpack corners.

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 14:39:07 UTC No. 159476

>>159447
Really depends on what you want out of it. You can make a better high end build for less than the top tier prebuilt kit but you probably can't build a cheaper one than their cheapest kit. If the prebuilt has all the stuff you want, then that's fine, but if you're like me and know you're going to upgrade it immediately and swap components, then don't bother buying prebuilt and just build it yourself

Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 15:25:12 UTC No. 159478

>>159379
ok i’m regarded its a little bit of downhill wood into a dirt bank not huck to flat. i hit it today with more speed and landed in the bank

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 06:09:44 UTC No. 159588

>>159476
good way of thinking about it

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 07:50:40 UTC No. 159591

>>159476
I have a similar fuckshow going on. Last week I decided I wanted a new bike, had a Marin alpine trail c2 on my list and the price actually dropped on the weekend to $5250, which is a pretty good price for it's spec (I think) so I have put my blue mondraker foxy up for sale for a bit of extra money to make it all work.

But then, this morning, my friend sends me a link. It's an alpine trail c1, frame and shock only. I could strip the mondraker down and build the Marin up into a very similar spec as the C2 I'm looking at, but at what cost? So I have sat down and made a spreadsheet. If you want to have a look, the first column is the cost of buying up the bike and pedals. Second column is building up the frame from a mixture of second hand and new parts, some of which I already own. Third column is the cost of stripping the blue mondraker and using those parts to build up the Marin. This would be arguably as good a spec as the factory build c2 save for the fox 38 performance elite that they come out with, which would add approx $750 to the build cost (there's one for sale on FB now).

I have also included in the blue totals 'paper cost' which is the cost of parts that I'd be using that I already own, so as much as they wouldn't be costing me anything to use they still have a value. The orange totals are real cash outlay for that option. I honestly don't know what to do here guys. I can have a brand new one for $5500 or a second hand build with better wheels for $2460 but wreck a bike I could potentially sell for $3000. Thanks for reading my blog post.

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 08:28:32 UTC No. 159594

“What’s the best value?” is a cancer on my mtb subreddit

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 08:32:55 UTC No. 159595

>>159591
what do you mean by paper cost?

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 09:09:11 UTC No. 159598

>>159595
Parts that I already have but aren't in use.

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 09:37:46 UTC No. 159600

>>159591
>m*xxis

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 11:56:20 UTC No. 159616

>>159591
Seems obvious to me that you get the new fully built bike. Price is the same if you can sell your current one, you don't have to do a bunch of work, and the company will stand behind the build and hopefully fix any issues

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 12:45:43 UTC No. 159621

>getting pain in ITB
>again
I knew I should've warmed up more on saturday and sunday before riding

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 14:08:41 UTC No. 159634

>>159621
foam roller bro
changed my life

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 16:31:23 UTC No. 159650

>>159600
>ride the m*xxis tyres 1.5 times
>side knobs ruined
>have to buy new tyres now hehe

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 16:35:26 UTC No. 159651

>>159591
you could have saved more money by just buying a new bike instead of making a big gay spreadsheet
go buy a new bike

Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 23:49:23 UTC No. 159706

>Another peaceful day of riding empty trails during waging hours

>>159621
>IT band syndrome
Riperoni, I know that feel. Try lowering your saddle by a bit if you haven't already

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 00:22:21 UTC No. 159709

>>159600
>>159650
Do you think one day you guys will figure out that we don't all ride on the same surface and that maybe what works for some people doesn't work for everyone?

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 00:36:16 UTC No. 159711

>>159709
Don’t yell at him he can’t even spell maxxis he’s trying his hardest

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 03:42:13 UTC No. 159735

Just rode with the Assguy and Dicksucker that replaced my Michelin Wild Enduros for the dry season. They sure do roll faster. The rear has less braking grip but not to the point where it's useless or a hindrance, the Michelins just have that much grip.
I have the feeling the Michelin Wild AM and Force AM on my trail bike have better grip, at least for the dry

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 04:18:12 UTC No. 159739

>>159735
Meant to specify that the Dissector will skid on really hard braking, I've yet to do that with the Wild Enduros. Feels like ABS the way the wheels keep rolling

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 06:31:07 UTC No. 159750

>>159709
>t. cst shill
minions are good they just don't last very long on the rear even in mixed conditions

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 08:46:55 UTC No. 159756

>buy workstand
>buy bleed kit
>buy fluid
>set aside an evening to learn
>lol u need a special bleed tool for these brakes m8
Thanks sram

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:13:22 UTC No. 159758

>>159756
you learned something already well done kek
there's lots of kits that come with the bleeding edge adapter

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:31:18 UTC No. 159759

>>159758
Not this one unfortunately
Time to pay the huge markup that proprietary tools have in this country I guess

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:32:18 UTC No. 159760

>>159758
Also lol what happened to those guys

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 13:14:39 UTC No. 159781

>>159709
You are objectively wrong. There's no reason to ride m*xxis unless you want a tire thats called assguy to represent your nig(tit vs ass map) preferences. Yesterday I met a guy on the trails, he was running DHF/DHR combo. Of course I went on asking why he rode m*xxis instead of something like continental, schwalbe or michelin. He said that he hasn't tried schwalbe, he did not like kryptotal enough for a spiritual conversion and did not want to run 1.5 Kg per wheel in tires alone. He also added that m*xxis is the only one to make tires in thin/light casing with soft rubber, it would've given him a case but Michelin makes the non competition line of Wild Enduro in MagiX2 with Gravity shield which weights 980g in 27in and 1030g in 29in. The assguy in paper thin Exo+ with maXXnig 3c is 1250g. Unfortunately for him I forgot about the noncompetition line.
>too muuh grip I want rooolling
The AM2 is 900g in 27 2.4

M*xxis btfo once again

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 13:30:45 UTC No. 159784

>>159756
>using sram
ishygddt

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 14:17:43 UTC No. 159790

>>159781
Michelin uses 33tpi plies those stupid french

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 14:38:19 UTC No. 159791

>>159781
>Michelin makes the non competition line of Wild Enduro in MagiX2 with Gravity shield which weights 980g in 27in and 1030g in 29in.
Have you ridden with this casing yet? Love the grip of the Wild Enduros but I'm not racing DH or shuttling so the extra kg and stiff as fuck sidewall are overkill. I really love the soft compound of the Wild AM and Force AM competition line. If they end up having the same compound of the WE CL, then it sure as shit doesn't feel like it just by squeezing the tires.

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 18:08:32 UTC No. 159818

>>159781
>M*xxis
why are you such a faggot? Why self censor the name?

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 18:32:47 UTC No. 159821

>>159790
On dh casing its 4x55 and gravity 3x60 on WE. 4x33 on BP.
>>159791
I haven't tried WEs yet. The bikepark 34 I'm using for rear is a different gravity shield but feels soft. I gotta inflate to 30psi so it does't sag and I'm ayylmao mode.
>I really love the soft compound of the Wild AM and Force AM competition line. If they end up having the same compound of the WE CL, then it sure as shit doesn't feel like it just by squeezing the tires
Its weird but I was squeezing the gum3xd knobs of the wild AM and it was softer than the magiX on the DH22 but the gumX of BP dh34 is harder. WE CLs are magix2 front and magix rear

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 18:37:53 UTC No. 159823

>>159818
Why are you such a newniggerfaggot? Some things are too nasty even for 4chan

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 22:08:10 UTC No. 159845

just installed DHRII and DHF on my bike and they feel great!

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 22:17:39 UTC No. 159847

>>159845
Continental would make you march to the death for your crimes

Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 22:23:23 UTC No. 159848

>>159845
Based
Fuck m*chelin

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 00:26:17 UTC No. 159861

>>159781
How was my post objectively wrong? Is it factually incorrect that we all ride different surfaces?

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 01:22:54 UTC No. 159870

>Gearfags shitting up the thread yet again

Ok anons, the thread question is: What is your favorite time of day to ride?
For me it's from 10 am to 1pm. This way I get to avoid all of the wagie traffic both on the trails and the drive to/from them. Plus the bugs aren't as bad in the middle of the day around here.

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 01:42:49 UTC No. 159874

>>159791
Not the guy, I've ridden them. The tire compounds great, tread pattern is great. It's just more vulnerable to punctures with a lighter casing. Michelin dominate the tire market in every other industry. And they know how to make a good tire.

If I didn't sell my soul to Continental and whatever German magic that makes their rubber soft and grip roots while also lasting multiple park days with barley any wear

I would be running some wild enduros. But continental currently make the best terrains specific downhill oriented bike tires.

>>159870
Wagie here, I ride after 5pm on weekdays and usually start at 10am or 7am on weekend/holidays. I love where the daily average at 5pm is 96-101° fahrenheit so I can get heat stroke if I do anything besides xc or if it rains.

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 06:25:59 UTC No. 159904

>>159870
I like overcast late mornings with an ambient temperature of 15-21 degrees C. Overcast spring or autumn days are the best because there's normally still enough moisture in the soil to stick all the dirt together

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 08:25:10 UTC No. 159913

>>159760
sudden lack of grip then brain freeze kek
>dyfi on super swooper in winter earlier this year

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 13:16:27 UTC No. 159920

>>159913
Incredible
>>159784
I do until I can afford to replace these with XTs

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 14:30:34 UTC No. 159932

>>159870
depends on the park. I rode those hours at my usual park when I was in between jobs and it was full of old people walking dogs. Riding after 4:30pm when everyone is out of work tends to be better since it's less hikers, and more riders.
Weekend mornings are a favorite too. Sunday was my preferred day since all the asshole normie hikers are at church or nursing hangovers, but I ride saturdays so my other friends are able to join

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 20:11:19 UTC No. 159979

>>159781
>Yoooo bro, you were shredding sooo hard, what tyres you running?
>Maxxis broooo, those are shit why don't you run INSERT OTHER EQUALLY SHITTY TYRE CORPORATION HERE
>You'd definitely shralp those berms so much harder with those
>Check out my vimeo edit for how hard these tyres grip man, it's called "Earth Based Kickouts 1" definitely getting sponsors with that footy, totally going to get a 10% brand ambassador discount next year once they see it

You disgust me, every time I meet a person like you in real life I want to fill your mouth with Peaty's Holeshot Biofibre Tubeless Sealant™ so you'll just shut up and stop telling me about X product you've bought that'll take 0.3s off your strava time.

🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 20:56:25 UTC No. 159981

>>159979
Cope nigga
>i-if I met you irl I-I'll punch you like I punch fascist
You wont do or say anything but take a DH22 straight up your ass

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:06:03 UTC No. 159982

>>159870
Riding in the morning is nice due to the weather but that leaves me with the late afternoon/evening bored, tired to do anything else and somewhat wanting bit more. Compared to riding EoD, once I'm back I just eat, take a shower and hit the bed tired and satisfied.

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:20:21 UTC No. 159983

>MICHELIN AIRSTOP(tm) TUBELESS READY TECHNOLOGY

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:23:54 UTC No. 159984

>>159870
I am said wagie and I’m really bad at waking up early or doing anything before work really so I like to go night riding sometimes after I close the kitchen
But the coyote howls seem to be getting closer and closer so idk

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:40:52 UTC No. 159986

>>159981
>cope
>going to all that effort to shill your favourite tyre.
Go outside, touch some grass and ride your damn bike.
Quit bothering people with this crap

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:47:59 UTC No. 159987

>>159984
Do you carry to show prairie critters who was made in the image of God? I wouldn't be comfortable riding alone in the evening in pacific northwest knowing there could be a bear with cubs ready to rape me or a fucking moose

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:57:16 UTC No. 159992

>>159987
Ultimately it’s probably safer at night considering the snakes aren’t active, I’ve seen a single coyote 3 different times during day rides, but the nighttime howling sounds like dozens of them just over the hill. No bears or aggressive hooves around, just a couple livestock/horses loose on the trails.
I haven’t gone up to the local mountain (pic related) at night but i really want to, I’ve already ridden there directly there lightning storms and heavy winds, it’s getting less intimidating. This is also the outer edge of where black bear warnings start being posted so maybe I should consider bear spray. Never used it before but I have encountered black bears on the trail while riding a few hours north.
Driving a few hours east however gets me HUGE big-mountain epic world class riding trails I’ve always wanted to visit… and grizzly bears. I consider myself terrified of wildlife overall

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 22:01:14 UTC No. 159998

>>159986
Nuh uh, I'm saving you by giving you unlimited grip in steep rowdy shit. Its a selfless job.
>ride your damn bike.
Tomorrow evening or sunday. Had a RA flare up today

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 22:51:57 UTC No. 160003

>>159984
Late night animal noises are cryptid-tier in California. The animals sound like women in distress and it's uncanny enough for you to recognize it's not a human, but something else. When you read about it in the daytime, it's nothing, but when you're out there, the paranoia kicks in and the sounds of your tires flinging rocks into the foliage sounds like something following you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE7YOJVSoIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYyrGpJYRl0

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 22:54:10 UTC No. 160004

>>160003
Well California has much scarier creatures of the night

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 22:56:57 UTC No. 160005

>>160004
homeless meth addicts?

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 23:02:20 UTC No. 160006

how long do you often drive/ride to your trail?
how do you actually practice your skills?

Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 23:20:55 UTC No. 160007

>>160003
>The animals sound like women in distress
That's just foxes. Those sounds used to terrify me as a child, I thought there were satanists murdering babies in the woods. I'd be more worried about what you don't hear - bears and cougars.

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 03:19:27 UTC No. 160035

>>160007
>I thought there were satanists murdering babies in the woods.
Its california anon, home of hollywood pedos and america's degenerate central.....

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 05:59:46 UTC No. 160051

what a good Saturday for a ride.. oh
so much for all this super hot summer climate bollocks

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 07:28:06 UTC No. 160055

>>159591
Samefag here.

So as much as I said I wasnt gonna go thru with this build, I crumbled and bought the frame and fork today. I've had almost no interest in my blue mondraker for $3k so that's gonna be the donor bike. I messaged the guy with the 38 elite and he is apparently having the same issues as me with a cooling bike market and sold me it for $500. I got so excited about that deal I bought the frame. I've remembered I actually have a spare rear wheel (needing bearings) and two tyres hanging on the (Magic Mary's, I'm sure that maxxis hating faggot will approve) so all I actually need to buy to build up this bike is a bottom bracket, brake rotors, cables and outers, dropper post, seat, pedals, bars, stem, grips and a front wheel. So it's not actually super expensive.

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 08:22:21 UTC No. 160057

man my gopros gonna show up and then I’m gonna have to go to work instead of bike, I should strap it to my burger spatula to test it out

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 09:54:05 UTC No. 160059

>>160051
Bri'ish

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 11:47:58 UTC No. 160065

>>160051
The UCI Downhill at Fort William is live on BBC1(!) in half an hour. Stream here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16Ixdm3aDw

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 12:04:07 UTC No. 160068

>>160065
>No Rob Warner after he offered to commentate for free and instead have Neethling and some guy the BBC bring out once a year for worlds
>only show the motorway and the start hut
I hate the UCI, the BBC, Discovery and GCN so much it's unreal.

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 12:21:41 UTC No. 160072

>>160068
Yeah they aren't showing much of the knar.
Stream has gone down for me now too.
Great job.

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 12:38:36 UTC No. 160077

>>160072
it's on bbc 1 or eurosport now
nice how they hide any large exposure of the sport behind subscriptions and private streams
shit tier coverage of the track as well

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 13:43:08 UTC No. 160083

>>160077
Pissing it down now. Men are practically going at women's pace. Hope the track dries out for BKs run.

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 14:03:16 UTC No. 160084

>>160083
>Men are practically going at women's pace.
kek that's harsh, maybe the ones that got a flat

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 14:22:24 UTC No. 160090

greg minaar's tyre came off, m*xxis fags btfo once again

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 14:59:10 UTC No. 160095

this saffa commentator is cursed kek
>he's keeping it smooth floating on the pedals
*loses a foot*
>he needs to be prepared to crash
*crashes*

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 18:43:31 UTC No. 160116

>>160090
I run maxxis and I had diarrhea this morning it all makes sense now fuck maxxis

Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 19:07:43 UTC No. 160118

ENOUGH

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 03:14:27 UTC No. 160122

Fuck me boys.

I have lime disease now, I caught it in the early stages so I should be mostly fine but make sure to remove your fucking ticks man

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 06:56:31 UTC No. 160151

>>160122
trouser chads rise up, shorts virgins cursed with ticks

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 13:03:16 UTC No. 160179

>>160122
Fugg. I got bitten by some of those suckers about a month ago, I got them off within 24hr and no bullseye but I'm still a bit paranoid

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 15:42:02 UTC No. 160198

landed a small jump this morning at a local trail and my head, brain, and neck started hurting like a motherfucker. Thanks, Maxxis for making me worry I was having a stroke.

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 15:55:08 UTC No. 160202

Good ride on the hardtail yesterday. This park is easy as fug, but it feels like a long slalom course so that keeps it fun.
I got passed by some fat ebikers, they actually were fat, then I caught up to them less than a half mile later and never saw them again and I took a few long breaks

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 16:07:31 UTC No. 160203

>>160198
inshallah, it would not happen if you were running Continental brother
>got my megatower muddy and damp in wales today

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 16:33:15 UTC No. 160206

just bought my first bike, arriving friday. the pedal instructions say I should tighten them to 30Nm, but I don't have a torque wrench. how important is this, can I just guess or do I need to buy one?

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 16:39:32 UTC No. 160207

>>160206
just make sure to put the pedals on the correct side of your cranks as they are different thread directions... nobody uses a torque wrench to install pedals either just get them gud n snug with a bit of grease on the threads

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 17:14:32 UTC No. 160211

>>158363
where in california is this?

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 17:51:32 UTC No. 160222

>>160211
Serpentine Trail at Camp Tamarancho in Fairfax. This is specifically where the black diamond climb meets the blue climb. There is another alien on Endor flow trail.

Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 19:17:29 UTC No. 160235

>>160122
Oof. Thats why I tend to stay in the trail and not freeride too much. Do you think tick repellants work?
I got bit by something or allergic to something 3 weeks ago at the bike park that had my whole body itching for 1.5 weeks. Got several "attacks" per day where my skin got rashes like this, this was a minor one. And there's nothing you can do but scratch and scratch while hoping it goes away. The worst were on the scalp, base of penis and back, not even direct ice could stop the itching. I'm still taking antihistamines every night as I've never had my body itch like that before.

Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 00:02:57 UTC No. 160285

>>160235
could it have been a plant? I got a scratch from what I think was stinging nettle and I felt soreness in the muscle underneath for 2 days

Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 01:12:38 UTC No. 160298

>>160202
this nigga got a pink drivetrain

Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 01:23:16 UTC No. 160299

>>160285 I think that may have been something else
Nettles usually only sting for about 2-5 minutes with a 10 second delay from when you actually touched the plant. That or your allergic.

Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 01:32:57 UTC No. 160301

>>160207
>>160203
how do yall like your Float X's? I am riding on a regular Float EVOL Performance and am considering an upgrade next year or so

Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 05:57:18 UTC No. 160336

>>160301
usually have a dhx2 on the megatower it was just off for warranty, the x2 is one of the best air shocks BUT it can be quite high maintenance depending on your frame (trunnion/frame misalignment)

Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:08:17 UTC No. 160412

are full sus meant to have such a long reach in general, especially when theyre a 29er?
>>160207
>>160203
mashallah my brothers, how long are the rear travels for those bikes?

Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:37:10 UTC No. 160419

>>160285
Dunno. But its not stinging nettle for sure as I've been unlucky before. Thing is that the rashes come randomly out of nowhere, like just now, and its been 3 weeks since it started. I think its an allergy but for what, I don't have the slightest clue. (And just like that the rash is now gone)

Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 18:45:20 UTC No. 160465

>>160412
mega is 160 rear and megatower is 165 or 170 depending on the shock stroke (they're both me kek)

Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 04:20:48 UTC No. 160573

>>160298
It's purple

Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 13:12:16 UTC No. 160625

>>160202
How do you deal with cali's hobos/druggies/negroes/mexicans eyeballing your bike waiting for a chance? The wheels alone are enough to fuel a 2 week bender easily if sold at current pinkbike market price and risk is basically zero as they'll be set free easily. I once noticed a teenager group of 2 sand niggers and 3 niggers eyeball me and starting to spread around the park after I ended in the wrong city part after a descent and I was checking the route home on my phone, got away when they began spreading. Never relax.

Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 21:59:39 UTC No. 160745

>>160301
I think mine is dieing, keep adding pressure and compression but it still feels like a wallowy mess.

Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 22:20:34 UTC No. 160747

>>160745
how long has it been since its last service?

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 07:10:59 UTC No. 160793

I can't decide where I should go for my 2 weeks alps road trip. I don't want to ride blown out bikepark trails and stand in a queue at a chairlift. I wanna experience big mountain adventure with flowy but technical trails. Preferably from points where I can park my campervan in beautiful nature.

Any ideas?

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 08:00:01 UTC No. 160795

Hey guys I had fun riding my bike today that's all thanks for reading my blog I hope you had fun

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 08:29:23 UTC No. 160800

So i ended up getting my gopro and its sick but all the videos are like 2GB for 3 minutes and i cant figure out how to make it a postable webm ive already downloaded adobe premeire rush and handbrake this is so confusing
god damn jpg related because even the png screengrab was too big for 4chan

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 08:53:44 UTC No. 160803

>>160793
you will have to pay for a guide to get anything that resembles that

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 09:33:02 UTC No. 160805

>>160803

Not true. I did it in the past. Riding epic stuff all day without relocating is difficult tho if you know plenty of prime destinations already.

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 11:56:47 UTC No. 160813

>>160800
I've used vlc to convert videos to webm with mixed results
Or https://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter and obs I've seen recommended

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 13:09:19 UTC No. 160822

>>160747
It's brand new, only 4 weeks old

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 16:14:48 UTC No. 160861

>>160793
Try the parks around Lac Serre Ponçon?(les orres, réallon). Look up the reallon review on pinkbike. Between embrun and briançon there are also alot of trails.
Chamonix area
Alpe d'huez area, i'm planning to spend the last weekend there but in oz en oisans-vaujany.

>>160800
Upload kino, its looks like you are rattling your teeth out.

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 16:24:14 UTC No. 160864

>>160625
>How do you deal with cali's hobos/druggies/negroes/mexicans eyeballing your bike waiting for a chance?
I am the mexican

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:06:34 UTC No. 160870

>>160822
warranty it if it's leaking, usually that means a seal is gone or the stanchion is dented

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:09:37 UTC No. 160871

What lube(e)s do you use /MTB/?
Thoughts on waxes?

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:11:48 UTC No. 160872

>>160871
>lube(s)*
Just got back from a ride and feeling retarded from endorphins

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:25:33 UTC No. 160874

>>160871
I use maple syrup
Make sure to get my hole nice and sticky

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:44:49 UTC No. 160878

>>160871
if you have the time, space, and will, then hear is the best thing to do if you really value your chain.
> have extra chain
> take dirty chain off drivetrain
> stick in jar of kerosene or gasoline and shake it around to decrease it
> take chain out of jar and stick in jar of rubbing alcohol/ethanol and shake it around to get kerosene or gasoline out
> take chain out and let the ethanol dry off
> put chain in a crockpot/slow cooker full of melted wax and make sure it's completely covered in wax
> take chain out and let it hang dry
> once other chain is dirty, take it off and repeat the process and put this waxed chain on.
It's actually an easier, cleaner, and faster process than it sounds like. You'll just have to keep around a slow cooker used solely for chains. I know of several riders who swear by this process but I personally don't do it because I still have a lot of muc-off chain lubes

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 17:48:45 UTC No. 160879

>>160878
or just wipe it down and use normal chain lube, the time you spend fucking around with it isn't worth it on a £30 xt/gx chain kek

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 18:28:47 UTC No. 160881

>>160861

thx for the tips! I was in montgenevre/briancon for a few days last year but didn't have time to check out more than a few trails. Its hard to decide between east and western alps...

I didn't like the gloomy vibes from the dried out vegetation. Is it still lush in the western alps? I think you also got plenty of rain?

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 18:41:20 UTC No. 160883

>>160871
For me, it's teflon dry lube. I've found that the wax based ones pick up dust and turn into an abrasion compound that decimates my drivetrain if I don't clean and re-lube every ride. I use automotive brake grease on threads that need lubrication, and slick honey for suspension components

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 18:52:27 UTC No. 160885

Fuck this seal, I somehow removed the other seal after struggling for 20 min and after 20 min I ripped this one. Gotta continue.
>>160871
Mucoff drylube because it smells good. Its shit btw, finish line one lasted longer.
>>160878
I use the boiling hot water from the faucet, dish washing soap and a toothbrush. It doesn't really rust as the water will evaporate when I leave it drying.
>>160881
>Is it still lush in the western alps? I think you also got plenty of rain
Absolutely, it's pretty green. Its also cooler than I expected, I haven't bitched about hot weather like I did in June and I sleep with the comforter. Last sunday I even had to use my wind breaker in the afternoon as it was cold in the bike park(1300m). Yesterday there was hero dirt but I got a flat 1/3rd the way and I didn't have a pump with me so walked down 2 hours then a bus to get home.
Though it will get hotter later this week.

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 19:34:29 UTC No. 160891

>>160885

Do you live there? Lucky you!

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 19:39:54 UTC No. 160894

>>160878
goddamn, I should have paid more attention when making this post.

The people I know who do this are roadies and gravel riders who are searching for maximum efficiency and power. I don't know any MTBers who do this since everyone I know who rides MTB just climbs to get to the descents so these marginal gains aren't on the top of their priority list

Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 19:49:55 UTC No. 160895

>>160891
Its nice. Then I feel bad for the dutch anon that rides in dikes

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 05:43:31 UTC No. 160937

>>160861
Bro I’ve been trying to shrink this 2GB file down to nothing and it’s looking like absolute garbage, what do I post big videos on nowadays? I tried posting on pinkbike but even that looks like trash
Do I make a YouTube account or something

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 08:42:50 UTC No. 160957

Today I dropped my fork down 4 PSI, made the rebound one click faster, and I made the LSC 2 clicks firmer. Those sound like real adjustments right?

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:11:52 UTC No. 160990

Bikeshop niggas don't want to service just the damper, its either the full fork or nothing. I can just buy another RC2 2.1 and have money to spare. Fags.
>>160937
Streamable. If it doesnt work then YT
>>160957
Those are big boy adjustments. I leave LSC open as its a goodbye to small bump, open or 1click of rebound but mostly open, and 2 clicks of HSC if I'm riding chunky fast( open if slow like in mud day and I remember to do it). No volume spacers as I'm light as a feather. Actually I do touch LSC if its a mellow trail like a pumptrack where I don't want to be diving on a fucking roller.

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:39:53 UTC No. 160993

>>160990
Send it to manufacturer?

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:42:35 UTC No. 160994

>check out the new chromag fs bikes
>medium sized bike has a reach that is as long as L/XL on other bikes
huh????? its not my fault god made me a manlet

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:51:14 UTC No. 160995

>>160993
Its gonna take 2-3 weeks and I need it ready for the 24th. And the worst is that in france in august everything is closed as it seems everyone takes vacations on the same 2 weeks. And I need it as the oil in the lowers was black black black.

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:39:12 UTC No. 161029

>>160994
Try a S frame then manlet friend
Manufacturer sizes mean very little, look at reach and seatpost height. I find it difficult to find big enough bikes

Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:58:59 UTC No. 161055

>>160957
Doesn't matter if they sound real or not, adjustments are for making your bike ride the way you want. But yes they do sound like reasonable adjustments. It sounds like you want your bike to ride slightly deeper in the travel and you added LSC to compensate so it doesn't dive during rider inputs. Keep in mind that this is probably going to feel stiffer than before and that's either going to be more controlled or feel bad depending on how you like to ride

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:55:17 UTC No. 161102

are you going to ride your bicceles this weekend friends

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:16:15 UTC No. 161103

>>161102
Of course I am but I’m kinda craving a long trail loop rather than the DH park laps I’ve been hitting the last few months. The problem is it’ll be 90° and it’s silly to not be abusing my season pass while the lifts are still open. Plus my bike with a water bottle mount won’t have a working dropper until September 12th so I’ll have to take my gravel bike or a camelback. Might just stick with the chairlifts idk
My GoPro chest mount was floppy so next I’m gonna try it ziptied directly to my full-face chin

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:21:59 UTC No. 161104

>>159439
>>161103
inshallah I see you have finally learned kek
I rode last night and the sky was doing some mad shit

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:05:49 UTC No. 161112

>>161102
yep, i WILL do that drop off on the jump line. I know it is within my abilities.

>>161103
I wish there were some of those longer rides anywhere near me. theres a couple of small trail networks and some shared walkway things but thats it.

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:31:37 UTC No. 161121

how long are you willing to travel just to ride on a trail?

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:40:28 UTC No. 161130

>>161121
depends how much riding I can get there. I like to at least get as much time riding there as I did driving there and back.

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:32:15 UTC No. 161141

Some guy( recommended by 3 bikeshop mechs and facebook comments) in his grandparents garage just serviced the damper in 30 min for 40 yuros. Paid in cash because taxing jannies would be after him otherwise. I expected to be off the bike for 2 weeks...

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:09:27 UTC No. 161145

>>161102
Ye
>>161121
I live in a suburban hellscape, so my average drive time is 45 mins each way for the closest trail system that I actually enjoy riding at. I'll do a 2 hour drive each way about once a month for some nicer trails
>>161141
Based. I'm guessing he just changed the oil in it? That is extremely cheap if he included the 200 hour service kit. I'm thinking of doing suspension and brake maintenance for some side cash since turnaround for that around here is pretty long, sometimes months for suspension work. There's basically only one shop here that'll do it, and the rest will just be a middleman that sends your suspension to them anyways kek.

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:22:27 UTC No. 161159

>>161145
Yeah and the red seal. He went full sperg on eliminating the air bubbles from the oil. Instead of using the maxima oil he used another one, same weight, that has lower viscosity and it says that it takes longer for it to heat up. trust the geek.
>rest will just be a middleman that sends your suspension to them anyways kek
In fact this is the case on two shops.
The dude had everything. Compressed air to clean, blocks to hold different sized dampers, like 7 different syringes, a manitou dorado he was working on and just lots of tools
If turn around is too high you can easily get customers. Get a vaccum chamber and put a flask with oil, then put up a video on facebook or someshit like that
https://youtu.be/z4Egxf555LU
Like this and do the 'muuh deaeration of sr*m/Shimano oil for crisp braking' There's a vid of a guy strapping the vaccum pump to the lever syringe to get out the microscopic bubbles to expand to get them out instead of them expanding when the oil is hot and shitting up the brake. I'd cum if I did that on mines

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:38:06 UTC No. 161162

>>161102
Yes, I want to do a big pedal day vs the park days I have been doing. I'm going tomorrow and if I have time I will do a smaller 1hr warmup loop after work. You have to keep your cardio in shape

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 17:43:14 UTC No. 161163

>>161162
>You have to keep your cardio in shape
based cardio enjoyer
I love to ride my tallboy for more xc/trail stuff, it's a really different experience to wallowing about on my 180mm enduro bike

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:47:52 UTC No. 161175

Had the new rig for 3 days now and it's had its first hard crash, overshot a table at the local dirt jumps and crashed straight into the takeoff of the next larger one, snapped half my tooth and bled a bit but thankfully the bike is unharmed

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:17:12 UTC No. 161185

>>161159
…you are supposed to apply vacuum pressure on your fluid when bleeding sram brakes

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:55:12 UTC No. 161193

>>161175
>snapped a tooth
damn I'd much rather break my bike than do that lel

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:15:48 UTC No. 161212

>>161175
F.
Aren't you the anon new to the sport who was looking for bike recommendations? That's pretty heavy. Hope you feel better, learn from it and don't get put off. I've been biking for a while now and still pretty wary of drops and jumps because you can really fuck yourself up.

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:32:57 UTC No. 161215

>>161212
Nah not me man, I've been riding since just before the start of the dreaded c*vid, I've taken many a fall like this in my time with skateboards and scooters over the past decades so I'll be back in no time

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:33:40 UTC No. 161216

>>161175
I recommend you get an IXS Trigger FF helmet. It's a lightweight full face helmet that is very breathable. I use mine a lot for trail riding

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 21:36:21 UTC No. 161217

>>161216
Yeah I've been looking at stuff like that, I was only wearing a TSG bmx style one with the ear bits at the time, i like the look of those new Leatt ones with the detachable full face cos I ride a good mix of xc dj and enduro

Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 23:21:38 UTC No. 161237

>>161141
>Paid in cash
based
paying by debit card is man's curse these days and a way for Big Tax Man to track you.

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:45:53 UTC No. 161251

>>161237
I pay by credit to flex on the tax man

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:01:08 UTC No. 161274

>>161121
Riding time must equal the two-way commute time

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:09:59 UTC No. 161275

>>160118
You just have to know when the sun goes to sleep

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:16:44 UTC No. 161276

>>161275
use one of those windows activator scripts to activate your windows anon.

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 05:41:14 UTC No. 161279

>>160990
Streamable has a 250MB limit without an account these videos are all 2GB+ should I record in 1080p or something this blows

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 07:39:21 UTC No. 161285

>>159358
Ask and you shall receive...This took painstaking effort and the footage is indeed shitty
https://www.youtube.com/@DH2024B
13 year old pic unrelated

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 07:46:02 UTC No. 161288

redpill me on the best way to know if a bike will fit me without relying on one or two numbers

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:07:47 UTC No. 161293

Well... I know I did my spreadsheet and it was a dumb idea to build up the sec/hand bike - but I said fuck it and did it anyway. So here is the alpine trail mid build, just got to find a dropper, some rotors and some new brake hoses and il be riding it next weekend for <$2500

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:05:05 UTC No. 161298

>>161288
I just checked reach numbers against my previous bike, 99 spokes is a good website to compare them on, but i guess it depends what you want out of the bike size and geometry wise

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:40:54 UTC No. 161300

>>161293
2500 Freedom Eagles or 2500 Sheepbux?

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 10:31:51 UTC No. 161306

>>161288
Rely on 3 instead: reach, saddle height and R.A.D

If you're buying new look for demo rides, a lot of dealers offer them on an adhoc basis and big events often have a selection of demo bikes.
Manufacturer can probably organise these on your behalf or point you in the right direction.

If you're buying used, sit on a few bikes, simple as. Figures can be tweaked slightly with stem, riser bars and changing the saddle position but it's better to find something that feels good out of the box.

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:42:53 UTC No. 161308

>>161300
2500 sheepbux. So about what I get in the hand for 2 weeks work, if that puts it in some kind of context. Il add an extra column to my spreadshet with actuals once I order my dropper, saddle, brake rotors, cables and hose that I still need

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:48:01 UTC No. 161311

>>161293
>pink shoes
can i see ur wife's feet?

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 11:49:21 UTC No. 161312

>>161298
thanks
>>161306
>mfw the boutique bike i want is in either canada or burgerland

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 16:11:15 UTC No. 161331

Just picked up one of these alibaba-tier shocks (Bolany brand) off amazon to replace the coil one on my generic brand hardtail that I use mostly for family bike rides. Any one have experience with them? Seems like the consensus that is they're a good upgrade from most coil shocks, but obviously can't compare to a $500+ name brand air shock.

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 18:12:29 UTC No. 161351

>>161312
In that case I would look at the numbers compared to your current bike and if you're between sizes and deadset on that bike, size down.

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 19:01:52 UTC No. 161353

>>161306
Rad is useless and Lee is a retard

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:01:16 UTC No. 161360

>>161353
Rad just werks. Lee is a based retard

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:04:11 UTC No. 161362

>>161311
She's got hobbit feet you don't want to see them

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 20:27:25 UTC No. 161363

>>161331
danger of death / 10

Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 23:52:13 UTC No. 161400

>>161351
Yeah. I've been checking out the numbers and compared it to other bikes, going to try the similar bikes in person at my local shop and see if it fits me well first

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 04:14:46 UTC No. 161428

did my weekend ride, what about you niggies? respond only if you rode your biccies

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 04:28:30 UTC No. 161430

>>161428
I made a god damn YouTube channel and nobody has even given me a (you) I finally entered the world of content creation and all I achieved was a single downvote on /r/gravelcycling

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 04:54:44 UTC No. 161434

>>161430
that sounds rough. good luck fren

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 05:30:50 UTC No. 161435

>>161430
learn2webm, 99.99% of that gopro you're capturing is not worth watching and that goes for everyone

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 06:52:31 UTC No. 161443

>>161435
Well you know what I’m gonna repeat my same video but with a 2.0” tire in the front instead of 40mm all around maybe it’ll even be at the same time of night and I’ll post it right next to the first one

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 06:55:26 UTC No. 161445

So apparently the stated reach on a bike's geo means nothing when you factor in the handle bars, and the current calcals are telling me the effective reach is shorter than it is. that would explain why there's always pain in my palms when i grip it

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:11:31 UTC No. 161460

>>161428
Had a little cruise around the streets before the pub yesterday, probably gonna go out soonish today but not sure where or what I wanna ride

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:59:52 UTC No. 161468

>>161285
>https://www.youtube.com/@DH2024B
finally delivered nigga. I thought I had replied
>Hobo Juice
the case at 1:09 was cringe
>G19
the chunk looks fun. No loose rocks and just boulders to smash. But you do terrible line choices.
I didn't even bother as soon as I saw the dropbars on the first one

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:43:31 UTC No. 161473

>>161430
Gonna be real, there is nothing more cringe than someone promoting their YouTube in subreddits. But don't let that stop you. Learn how to make your videos better and how to get traction on YouTube. Honestly, I would just focus on YouTube and instagram shorts.

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:49:01 UTC No. 161474

>>161306
> Rely on 3 instead: reach, saddle height and R.A.D

RAD is retard. The people who came up with it and the people who use it should feel bad. Unironically Specalised's and Merida's sizing systems are the best approach for sizing MTBs.

>>161288
Best way is ride the bike. It depends how your body proportions fit the overall geometry of the bit and whether you prefer nimble or stable.

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 12:56:18 UTC No. 161476

>>161474
>Merida's sizing systems
So they split the sizing difference based on full sus and hardtails, but why?

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:01:50 UTC No. 161483

>>161473
I don’t know how to post a video on Reddit without YouTube either so that doesn’t help even if I had any other options for posting a 2GB video because everything seems to be hot fucking garbage except YouTube

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 14:43:24 UTC No. 161496

>>161428
Did my afterwork ride Friday, and Saturday I did a bigger ride, 38miles and 5000' of vertical later I realize that I am in worse shape than I want to be.
Pic related from my ride, the mountains in the background are Mt Mitchell and the rest of the black mountains. I need to get better at cornering on off camber wet roots

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:53:44 UTC No. 161506

>>161445
what part of your palm?

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:40:42 UTC No. 161518

>>161496
>38 miles and 5000ft climbing
You're hardly unfit kek
Lovely view and bike

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:42:19 UTC No. 161519

Cows are fren

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:56:09 UTC No. 161534

>>161443
>gr*vel
kek i watched 30 seconds of a dustin klein video once and had to turn it off

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:38:57 UTC No. 161544

>>161496
based and cardiopilled
double that climbing figure next time and become the gigachad of climbing

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 20:12:58 UTC No. 161549

>>161476
Because the one fortys and one sixtys are a new generation of bikes which have a new sizing system. All the other bikes are too old to have it.

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:19:54 UTC No. 161559

I just ordered it.
>2/3rds the viscosity of shimano oil
Goodbye to the 0.1mm wandering point point I feel on the rear brake. The longer hose amplifies the isssue 10x. I didn't get wdp even when using the 17mm/s2 (it made the rear one unrideable) oil in the front but a slight mushy feeling as bubbles were harder to get out. Arm pump might decrease on nonstop long descents. Either that or I'll brake will be kill
>>161544
Nice pic
https://youtu.be/wVPf4sA1CLk

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:23:44 UTC No. 161560

>airpods in
>arm fully healed
>ritalin taken
yeah... it's biking time.

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 21:26:00 UTC No. 161562

>>161559
i bought some of this for my bikes that have shimano brakes, not had to bleed them yet but when I do i'll try it, apparently great in cold weather as well which affects viscosity

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 22:35:52 UTC No. 161567

>>161496
For what it’s worth I feel alpha as fuck after a 10mi 2000ft and I’m pretty sure I haven’t met someone as athletic as me in many years

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 22:38:59 UTC No. 161568

>>161534
If it was a webm you’d watch at least 1/3rd of it, but nobody on the internet wants to host an HD video except YouTube
>>161559
Just accept wandering bite point as a valid downside of shimano brakes, look at the price of other brakes, and realize that MT-420’s are still worth recommending 100% of the time

Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:42:39 UTC No. 161574

>>161428
>B-tension screw got bent halfway through ride
It was certainly better than not riding in the first place, but it's surprisingly annoying not being able to use the 3 easiest gears

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 01:27:56 UTC No. 161589

>>161428
moderate gravel ride. 50 miles, 3800ft of climbing. I knocked a lot of time off the big 2100ft climb through redwoods. There was a woman selling handmade popsicles at the top of the climb and they were so good. I wish there were more random vendors on my rides. My friends and I all agree that a taco truck would be perfect at some trailheads but I know people would fuck that up for everyone by leaving foil on the trails
I'll get back on a mountain bike on wednesday and probably this weekend too.

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 06:43:24 UTC No. 161624

To anons that use hip packs:
What do you use and what do you like/dislike about it?
I'm trying to decide between an Evoc 3l pro and an Osprey seral 7 but have to order them in

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 07:33:47 UTC No. 161625

>>158365
nononnoonno

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:01:24 UTC No. 161633

>>161589
>gr*vel

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:46:15 UTC No. 161672

>>161624
I use the Dakine Hot Laps 5L. I really don't like that it sags if I fill the 2L bladder with more than 1.5L of water. The sagging is a minor annoyance when seated but it sags a whole lot more when trying to climb out of the saddle.

>>161633
any time I've seen someone who looks like that(a typical redditor), it's been an eMTBer. Every gravel rider I've seen IRL is a sub 150lb skeleton roadie or senior citizen

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 17:33:59 UTC No. 161695

>>161624
For me it's the rumpshaker from pit viper. I like that it's neon and made out of beefy fabric. There's not really anything that I dislike about it desu. I also use the evoc capture 7L for photo seshes. I like that it holds my camera with a fairly beefy lens securely. I don't like that it's big, but it has to be for my purposes

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:08:34 UTC No. 161705

>>161672
I forgot to add what I like about it
It can hold 2L of water and it keeps it decently insulated from body heat and weather
The storage area is well put together since you can organize what you're putting in there
it has molle straps so you can put more bags on it
It has straps to hold down other things externally like jackets or gloves, and it holds them pretty well.
If I put 1L of water in there, it stays pretty stable for my 1.5 hr long after work rides even when I'm riding down something chunky.
It's solidly built too. I've had it for years and it has no damage or wear on it aside from dirt

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:57:10 UTC No. 161713

>>161285
Those look like some really fun trails

Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:11:05 UTC No. 161730

This summer has been a complete washout and I'm moving back to the city tomorrow. It's over.

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:09:56 UTC No. 161763

>>161695
It looks like a 2000s hip pack you would use to go to disney or from the barbie movie

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 03:02:27 UTC No. 161781

Went with the Evoc, hope it gets here before my trip this weekend. Also hope my shoulder strain heals

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 05:24:11 UTC No. 161803

>3k
Seems like a good option. I would change the sr*m brakes to some Saints, change the assguys to some Dh34-22, transfer current transmission(xt-oval) and rear wheel, my 35mm stem and that would be pretty much it. And its mullet and it not loooooong like commencals meta sx

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 05:44:16 UTC No. 161808

>>161803
looks good, if the brakes are rsc they're actually decent (provided you bleed them occasionally)
much rather have dominion a4s personally hhehe

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:17:19 UTC No. 161809

>>161803
>sram bad
>maxxis bad
>but OVAL CHAINRINGS
I don’t save wojaks but I’m sure you can imagine

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:41:07 UTC No. 161811

>>161808
Not even that, but the Rs.
>>161809
>>sram bad
>>maxxis bad
This but unironically

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 08:12:25 UTC No. 161816

>film myself doing some shit turn
>slow mo
>blast the most grating hip hop zoomer music i can find
job done!

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 08:13:26 UTC No. 161817

>>161811
>>161809
what are good tire and fork brands then smartypants

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 08:25:16 UTC No. 161818

>>161817
Sram and maxxis I’m the cool guy in this argument.
Fork brand doesn’t matter because you’re gonna send it in for custom damper and tweak the airspring anyways

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:22:24 UTC No. 161819

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Dunno. You can't really go wrong on fox, rockshox, ohlins, intend, formula etc. Setting up boutique shit would be more of a problem, I only touch HSC depending on trail now after messing with everything on the fork. Met a guy who bought a Selva R from a dude who bought it from an EWS team mechanic and he didn't like it as he couldn't set up, this guy says the custom negative air chamber and damper are good and found it to stick more to the ground than what he could with the 36 he had. I'm fine the Debonair+ and 2.1 RC2.

Im the cool guy that does 1500m of steep singletrack descent

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:24:04 UTC No. 161820

>>161818
>>161819
well i think suntour does the job

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:33:13 UTC No. 161821

>>161820
Suntour are fine but id suggest going for a slightly higher end model like the raidon or epixon, or if you can a bolt through model like the axion or aion etc. The cheaper ones like to develop bushing play over a short amount of time if you're doing jumps and stuff plus the damping is useless

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:47:22 UTC No. 161822

>>161819
You can’t be cool if you measure your descent in met’res

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:51:53 UTC No. 161823

>>161821
Yeah suntour really fucked up by making bike parts for the 99% now they look like noobs to us rich assholes

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:52:39 UTC No. 161824

>>161820
Yeah, you cant go wrong on the durolux 38 aswell. Though I've read that it doesn't handle chatter really good.

Reading more about the Selva R, I forgot that the damper is tunable through different valves for compression curve changes
https://www.rideformula.com/technologies/cts/
12 compression clicks and 8 exchangeable valves, 96 options for compression tuning. You then get 21 clicks of rebound, 2016 individual options on the right side. Now you gotta set up for 2 air chambers and if you want, volume spacers can be put. Then test airspring side with 2016 compression options.
NAH nigga, too much is too much. I haven't even assembled my fork back

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:02:05 UTC No. 161825

>>161822
>foot
old and archaic sounding
>metre
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>bong
lmao. We use the superpower english here, not jeet colony english
>METER
chad and scientific sounding name for a measurement unit defined by the length path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:10:57 UTC No. 161826

>>161825
It was actually designated as a fraction of the distance from the North Pole to the equator it doesn’t matter all measurements are ultimately defined in some arbitrary unchanging way

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 10:25:39 UTC No. 161828

>>161826
>all measurements are ultimately defined in some arbitrary unchanging way
and one's definition is is cooler than another one's.
>It is ordained that 3 grains of barley dry and round do make an inch, 12 inches make 1 foot
Thus you are cooler if you measure in meters(not metres)

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:22:26 UTC No. 161831

Hm. Dunno if I should do the "upgrade".

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:55:48 UTC No. 161863

>>161831
Do it

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:58:04 UTC No. 161877

>>161803
> I would change the sr*m brakes to some Saints

Thanks for telling me you are a bad rider who doesn't now how to maintain his bike.

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:31:05 UTC No. 161878

Met a friend on my ride today, he looked injured i wish I could've saved his lil ass

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:27:20 UTC No. 161886

>>161877
>he thinks bleeding over and over will make rsc as powerful as saints
Kek. Try saints nigga, or A4s if you want the power but need muuh modulation as you can't into fine finger movements

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:29:03 UTC No. 161887

>>161863
Done. Maybe tomorrow I'll take it for a spin if the nigger tire stops losing air(BP DH34)

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:34:27 UTC No. 161889

>>161886
Luv my A4s. Love them so much, I put them on my Following and Wreckoning. I would have put them on my Arc too but I wanted to save money so I got the Magura MT Trail Sports for $150 together when just one Dominion would have been at least $200. Not like I need all that stopping power on a lightweight XC bike. Maybe some day I'll put A2s on it if I go OTB and destroy the plastic levers.

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:45:18 UTC No. 161891

>>161889
Would you sell a bike to try trickstuff maximas? 1300eur here for the pair

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:00:59 UTC No. 161896

>>161891
I wouldn’t sell a bike for them, but I would work full-time for three weeks for them

Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 22:25:27 UTC No. 161901

>>161891
The A4s are more than good enough. I don't see a reason to spend 3x more for the Trickstuff brakes other than to flex on other trail users. My A4s don't overheat or fade when I chicken out and ride them through a long and steep trail, they can stop on a dime if the tires have enough grip and I weight the bike properly to not OTB, modulation and adjustability is excellent, bleeding is pretty easy, they're durable and are good at tanking crashes. I know the Trickstuff brakes are better, but I don't need them. I've never been let down by my A4s and I pair them with 203mm+180mm galfer wave rotors.
I wish Hayes paid me to shill them. The only downsides I know of with the brakes are that you have to take the wheel or caliper off to change the pads(SRAM lets you load and unload from the top) and that parts availability and customer service can suck according to a post I read. I haven't had any problems getting a replacement lever and it was easy to get more of the hose fittings.

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 04:32:31 UTC No. 161937

make a new thread nerds and stop arguing about brakes

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:36:07 UTC No. 161949

>>161886
Lol, you are a certified potato.

A lot of the 'more stopping power' of Saints and Shimano brakes come from their poor modulation. Also, the only.riders who are taking advantage of the marginally.increase stopping power of Saints are pros, and yet a lot of world champs are riding Code RSCs.

The reality is the money spent 'upgrading' your Code brakes could have been better spent else where on your bike.

Remember, it isn't your bike making you slow, it is your fitness and technical skills

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:40:37 UTC No. 161950

Shimano > SRAM. Drivetrain or brakes.
Simple as.
Bet I'm faster than you niggas on my deore setup.

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:45:04 UTC No. 161951

>>161950
sram drivetrains > shimano drivetrain
shimano brakes > sram brakes

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:46:43 UTC No. 161952

>>161950
Having rode sram and shimano groupsets and brakes back to back on thr same day and same trails, the only difference is ergonomics. Anyone who claims otherwise is a consumer still and coping for their lack of skill.

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:52:59 UTC No. 161953

I'm hoping to find some people next week who'll let me test their brakes in the carpark. I want to replace mine, but have absolutely no point of comparison. I've never even tried another bike

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 07:53:49 UTC No. 161954

>>161951
Nothing wrong with Sram drivetrain, I have GX on one bike and it shifts fine. But the cost of the shit is insane. I replaced a casette on my ebike (SLX) for $180. My riding buddy replaced his GX one for $430 and he said that was on sale. Same with shifters and derailleurs. Sram shits just so expensive. I know you'll call me a poorfag (apparently only poorfags own ebikes) but I don't see the point in paying twice as much when the two brands both perform so similar. I do like that my XT shifters will double up and double downshift and the upshift works in both directions.

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:05:49 UTC No. 161956

>>161949
>yet a lot of world champs are riding Code RSCs
And those who do? What suspension are they running? Lmao dumb nigger.
The only reason you need lots of modulation is due to your lack of/very shit fine motor skills. The modulation in saints/shimano is good as it is, you can feather them as much as you want very very easily without issue. Fast ramp up early in the stroke allows more pressure to be easily exerted at the end of the stroke, lowering armpump. Juat because code Rs(lmao) are enough for what you do doesn't mean they will be enough for long alpine descents.
>>161949
>The reality is the money spent 'upgrading' your Code brakes could have been better spent else where on your bike
Brakes are one of the most important places to spend money on. You cant go fast and do precise hard breaking with mushy(muhh modulation) brakes, you cant enjoy a long fun descent as you are stopping every 4-5 minutes due to arm pump as brakes heatup power is lost and you gotta pull harder but you cant on mushy brakes.
A set of MT5s are 25% cheaper than a set of Code Rs lmao and better.

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:06:52 UTC No. 161957

>>161954
personally, I find sram shifting is much crisper than shimano but I do agree both systems work when set up correctly :)

I run gx with the cheap sram cassette made of steel that still fits on a hg freehub :) the gx shifter let's me upshift 4 slots at a time, but downshifts one a time, granted very quickly. I had 11 speed deore before this and hated it, was super unreliable even after repeated set ups.

when I was putting bikes together for a job, I always found sram slightly easier to get dialed than shimano :)

I think the materials used by both companies are pretty similar and sram spends more on marketing - if I wasn't still working in the industry, I'd probably just run whatever I could get a good deal on through my local bike shop :)

None of this really matters! have fun riding your bike!

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:12:14 UTC No. 161958

>>161954
When looking to change my drivetrain I though of getting GX but was way more expensive than shimano XT. 300€ for a cassette/chain/derailleur/shifter while XT was 200€. Not gonna die on the drivetrain hill, as long as shit allows me to pedal and reach the top I'm happy

Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:20:12 UTC No. 161960

>>161937

New

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Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 09:28:31 UTC No. 161965

>>161950
Based deore enthusiast
Loved my last 10spd deore, 2 years with no service and a bent derailleur, still shifts

Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:35:09 UTC No. 162147

>shuttle my downhill so I can make the climb with my xc bike