^^^Are they riding illegally or just being douchebags?
If illegally, that guy at like 1:20 is kinda incriminating himself…
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^^^Are they riding illegally or just being douchebags?
If illegally, that guy at like 1:20 is kinda incriminating himself…
Playa Bikes.
Pro Tip: When arriving home after your sweet spiritual journey, give your bike a little rinse and consider fixing the issues so it’s ready for next year. Then you won’t have to bring your disgusting clapped out burner bike to a shop the week before you leave on yet another spiritual journey after 11.5 months of sitting your shed, rotting in playa dust. NCYGTBM.
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Both illegal and douchebag. This is a city open space park. Non-motorized only. And all the rich people who live surrounding it already complain to the city every time they see bikes with bright lights riding around in the dark.Quote:
Originally Posted by TBS
And yeah this guy is clueless. In his other videos he reps his tattoo shop, so he wouldn't be easy to track down. Unfortunately the city's policy is that rangers or police have to catch someone in the act to prosecute. Video self incrimination isn't enough for some reason. Seems to work fine for crimes like murder though?
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Originally Posted by joetron
Yes! And there’s also usually a certain level of confusion that the bike needs anything at all… yet there it is, in the bike shop.
Really, they’re just seeking your blessing for the next journey.
Many states have a type of misdemeanor presence law where anything lower than a felony must be witnessed directly by an officerQuote:
Originally Posted by evdog
i got stung by a bee yesterday on my ride to work
How very Zen.Quote:
Originally Posted by One (+) Sentence
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Originally Posted by One (+) Sentence
This is very true.
I do have one rad customer who brought his xtracycle in and said “Do whatever it needs.I load it up and can leave camp for a day or two, so I need this shit to work.”
I appreciate this.
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With the launch of the new Bronson yesterday.... frames that don't allow cable routing. First Specialized, now Santa Cruz (although I know they have it on the lower-end "C" frame).
My conspiratorial thinking is that SRAM is incentivizing these companies to ditch cable routing, either by lower bulk pricing or by subsidizing the design and manufacturing of the newly-released frames.
But they only ever offered the 4.1 CC complete builds with XO AXS anyways, and I presume that bare frame sales are such a small portion of their sales. If the CC frames use a different layup and different manufacturing cell - in other words, different standard work - and people are buying them either because it’s lighter weight than the C frame or because they want the dentist builds, then why not also shed even more weight by losing the cable routing?Quote:
Originally Posted by smmokan
I probably would have done the same if I were product manager. It’s not like they went to a PF bottom bracket!
Someone on Vital speculated that a big part of that trend is probably cheaper bike assembly costs at the factory. It probably makes the frame layup a little bit cheaper too. Look at how few brands really do true tube-in-tube internal routing. I remember reading an article or hearing a podcast with Dustin Adams from WAO who said that making molded internal routing tubes without weakening the frame in the area was really, really, really hard, and that's why they didn't do it for the Arrival. He said during development, they went around to a bunch of shops and asked for warrantied frames, then cut them up to look at that sort of stuff.
Solution really is to ditch internal routing and just go back to external (minus dropper). Make some clean looking covers for the external cable guides or make them removable for the clean look.
And the last company that tried that is now defunct?
Fuck 'em.
I'd just run cables with a bunch of ugly-ass zip ties.
It’s lazy. Disguised as something else. But just lazy product management.
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My car doesn't have a 12V outlet. Bullshit! I'm sure GM will go out of business because of this.
Not even in the cargo area? WTF??Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
That GG cable cover was almost more of a pain in the ass to deal with than internal routing, cool idea though.Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
I for one, have zero issues with internal routing, but I also have a shop and the right tools at my disposal so I'm biased.
My rant is about asshole eco-warriors who lie to advance their preservationist agenda (and monetize their “advocacy”)
We have a guy here who is trying to shut down the addition of three downhill/flow trails in our existing trail system. The comment period ended last September.
His basis for stopping the project at this late date - he put up a game cam last month near one of the proposed trails, which caught two cougars, a black bear and several deer.
He went to our local paper with this amazing revelation, claiming a NEPA study is required. The reporter (a nice, ignorant & lazy retired guy) drank up his koolaid like it was 24yo single malt.
Several salient facts were left out of the news article:
- there’s been a family of cougars living near the camera for at least the 12 years I’ve ridden here. You regularly see their tracks on the Hello Kitty Connector trail.
- i regularly see black bear shit in the trails. Saw elk shit last Sunday. See coyotes too.
- The deer are thick in summer. I had a near-collision last week hauling ass on a downhill section and four ambled across the trail.
- The game cam was located 50’ off a paved road to a major recreation area, next to an existing 140 mile backcountry equestrian & MTB thoroughfare. It’s part of the Oregon Timber Trail.
The local MTB community is pissed off - three letters to editor this week calling out the lies/distortions, others are sending in more over the next two weeks.
Unfortunately we have to deal with Brandolini’s Law
which I have found to be an integral weapon in the eco-warrior arsenal.
Fuckheads
Holy shit - thank you for this. I'm going to invoke this liberally(heh) going forward. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TBS
Or as Mark Twain said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
a local bunch tried to mess up a new trail on the ski hill, basicly a summer hiking area with multiple braided trails thru the alpine, dogs running off leash for decades and decades, trying to spin it as a sensitive alpine
to make a long story short the ski hill and mtn bike ass. don't have to jump thru all the normal enviro hoops because its been a commercial rec tenure for probabaly longer than anybody cared about that stuff which is 60 yrs
so they got pissed off ripped up the survey markers and thru em in a water filled tarn, got in the way of the trail crew, threatened to blocade whatever that means, but i think its settled down
Forcing your supply chain to add complexity (i.e., potential for defects, i.e., reduced throughput and increased lead times) for something that detracts from margins and adds practically no revenue upside, mostly because you are afraid of pissing off a few noisy dealers who are going to lose all of 2-3 frame sales per year, that’s actually lazy product management.*Quote:
Originally Posted by nickwm21
*I know nothing about the bike industry - ordering volumes, margins, bike manufacturing - but I do know about lazy product management, I used to manage tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of SKUs of decades of products made in Los Angeles, Shenzen, and Monterrey and sold all over North America, and had to live with my mistakes and the mistakes of product managers before me for the entirety of my career.
Hey - I don’t need tube in tube - I’ve never owned a frame that fancy anyway. I just need holes or cable bosses. I’m not into charging derailleur batteries.
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That's actually only half of it. Not only is it much harder to refute it than to spew it, the pool of available facts is limited while there's an unlimited well of bullshit to draw from.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
I like that the local environment loonie moved to Smithers from North Van!Quote:
Originally Posted by XXX-er
How about driving to the TH only to discover you battery is at home on the charger. I still laugh at that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by nickwm21
I did that to my wife for her second ride of her blingy Bronson 4.1 CC XO AXS that we bought last month, forgot to tell her that I put the derailleur battery into the charger and she drove off with a single speed for the day [emoji1750] [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]Quote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
Probably should be a thread for the stupid stuff husbands do.Quote:
Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
They do - that’s like half of the content on social media these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Powder Ho
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Originally Posted by SchralphMacchio
Pretty much everyone I know with e shifting has done this. The ‘fix’ appears to be multiple batteries but that creates a different mgmt issueQuote:
Originally Posted by Bunion 2020
The buddy that I watched go through that had been unbearable about his raving over e-shifting until that very moment.
To his credit he single speeded the ride only complaining a little bit and borrowing another guys battery to put it in low for the bigger climbs.
I've done this with my rockshox axs reverb dropper. Ever since then I just leave the charger plugged into the usb in my van as I always drive to trailheads, just need to make sure I take the battery off the bike and plug in on the drive home.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
I have had wireless for a couple years, basically since it came out. I've never once gone to a ride without a battery in the bike, never once ran my batteries completely empty on a ride. For anyone remotely organized, it's not hard to do. It's not like an iPhone or Apple Watch which require charging every day - it's more like once every 3-4 weeks on the derailleur and once every few months for the dropper.Quote:
Originally Posted by frorider
I charged my AXS transmission battery at the beginning of the bike season (for me) in April and once since just because I felt like I should. 1200 miles so far this season on the bike.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andeh
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Originally Posted by Andeh
That seems like the solution. Probably nominal decrease in battery health that way but if you have a 20min+ drive it likely guarantees you always have juice.Quote:
Originally Posted by duffski
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My neighbor was a road coach at a world class level and when that stuff first appeared the first thing she told me about WAS dead batteries
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Originally Posted by skaredshtles
I have gone to start a ride with dead battery. Thankfully my dropper had on that was still juiced, but I was slightly annoyed...at myself. I'm not really cut out for battery biking
Three months with transmission so far and only charged my battery twice. Have a spare in my hipbelt in case. Overthinking is the only reason to charge those batteries more than once every few weeks. They last forever, even with consistent use.
I've been pretty good on keeping my AXS shit charged since I got my xc bike in the spring, but post died about 20 minutes before the end of my descent Saturday....did the quick battery swap, lowered seat, swapped back to derailleur to finish ride. I like the post action, and the shift action, but holy shit the derailleur clutch is terrible and constantly needs micro-adjusting and b-tension constantly backs out.
Conversely, replaced my xt der/chain/shifter cable on my bronson while in sun peaks in like 45 minutes, set everything, couple of turns on the barrel adjuster and it just fucking works with no faff. definitely not sold on electronic shifting.