Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

[kidwoo]

Our local bike shops wouldnt survive treating women badly... Its not 50/50 men/women, yet, but there are TONS of really rad woman riders here. Probably at least a third of the other riders are female.

Actually, the only real bad bike shop experience I had was before I bought a bike. I went into a shop trying to get a feel for what size bike I needed... anyways, the shop person told be I couldnt ride galby on a hard tail, I couldnt ride galby with out taking jumps and drops, which, again, I couldnt do on a hardtail. If I did not buy a full suspension bike I would have no fun....

that person was a woman...

Why you no get rad?

Please.

Everyone.

Get rad.

Then we'll be prepared for these challenging bike shop confrontations.

[mtngirl79]

I get way radder than I ever thought was possible!

[scrublover]

Fucking trail sanitizing, line dumb-downing assholes.

And I have to add that bitching about the reverb is so 2012. What else are you going to do? We've all drank the kool aid and aren't going back so why not just deal? You just need to have 2 and know it needs a full rebuild at least once every season if you ride a lot.

^This. Have 4 Reverb Stealths in the fleet. One older Gravity Dropper turbo is around in case...

I've got the bleed and service routine dialed @ this point. Always have a rebuild kit; order up a new one whenever it gets used. Bulk fluid buy. Worth it for the functionality!

[Powder Ho]

Horse sh*t on the trail. Please, respect the other user groups and I don't want to hear the manure argument. It came out of your horses ass.
Oh yeah, thanks a bunch for cleaning out your trailer at the parking lot. That's super awesome.

[deliberate]

People that take trail signs as souvenirs.

Bike parts that cut out material to lower the weight, but it just fills up with dirt and mud. Like the bridge of the fork.

I want a single button remote control to lock out both front and rear suspension.

Boutique brands that do no engineering and just add logos to Chinese frames.

Most of kickstarter bike related projects that try and cram technology into bikes.

People that think that bike lanes cause traffic jams.

[sethschmautz]

Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

I want a single button remote control to lock out both front and rear suspension.

These exist.

http://www.ridefox.com/help.php?m=bike&id=620

Not sure if there is an equivalent for rockshox.

[muted]

But yes I worked at a shop a long time and if you actually responded the way you said you would I would have judged you as a tool. It is not a hard question.

Not many can handle my supreme radness, you are forgiven.

[Eluder]

And my rant is why is this place not funny anymore? So serious or arguments about stupid BS. But I just ride and don't get into the minutia so what the hell do I know. Where is Rontele when you need him?

Agreed, sprockets has gotten week. People getting butt hurt when you poke fun or try to have any. Personally I miss the sarcastic asshole comments. I blame the East Coast contingent as well as the Colorado fuckers.... probably the Californians too.

[wkd-rdr]

Creaky cinch cranks, and POS plastic pinch bolt.
Put some spacers in and it's holding, and quiet.

For now...

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Creaky cinch cranks, and POS plastic pinch bolt.
Put some spacers in and it's holding, and quiet.

For now...

Shit just picked up some sixc's. Put a hope bb in . So far so good. Worried I might fack up that plastic adjuster. Quite pleased I got them together. That should be alum and the Allen key bolt should be bigger or deeper hole for the wrench. Fkn rf. they do spin like crazy though

[jetski]

Young fit guys on Electric mountain bikes where access could be denied to all bikes...

People who care about some 71 year old guy cruising on an e-bike on their local trails... Lighten up

[joetron]

Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

Fucking beaters who won't let my wife pass when she catches up to them. Dudes' weiners are so tiny, they can't possibly handle the notion that a woman can ride a bike faster than them.
They'll hear a woman's voice, look back over their shoulder to confirm their deepest fears, then try to go faster...but they really can't.....and that's ok...she's good at bikes...she's been riding a very long time and likes to try hard on her bike....just get the fuck out of the way, safely.

Dale Brigham Christiansen just spent his 6th kid's braces fund on his new carbon superbike based on the recos of the fellas down at the Ward, and gosh darn it, he'll root for the Utes before he lets this woman past him.

This kind of shit used to happen in CO regularly, but it's way worse over here in UT. We've actually had guys let me pass, I'll say "1 more" because she's right with me, guy will look over his shoulder, see a woman and not let her by. Then he'll then ride like a spaz right up till he blows a corner and she'll sneak by.

Pro tip: There is always somebody faster than you. Sometimes they'll have different genitalia.

[toast2266]

Young fit guys on Electric mountain bikes where access could be denied to all bikes...

People who care about some 71 year old guy cruising on an e-bike on their local trails... Lighten up

The 71 year old guy is probably more likely to have less than perfect control of the bike and run into someone. Which isn't doing any favors for access issues.

But if the 71 y/o sticks to moto legal trail, then good on him for getting out.

[kidwoo]

Dale Brigham Christiansen just spent his 6th kid's braces fund on his new carbon superbike based on the recos of the fellas down at the Ward,

heehee

[mtngirl79]

the not allowing to pass thing is annoying, but sometimes the male ego is hilarious!

There is this log roll thing on one of our trails that I call the hump because it took me a long time to be able to ride over. Its made a little tricker because you have to go around a tight corner and over a log at an angle right before it.

Its not a massive accomplishment or anything, but one day there was a middle aged guy with shiny new everything that carried his bike over it. I rode right over it, and when I slowed to get past him I told him it took me a long time to be able to ride over it, too..

he says.. ohh well I can, I just have bruised ribs today.

lol. sure, buddy.