Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

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Originally Posted by LaBelle23

Where is Rontele when you need him?

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You should PM him.

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Dick size? or worlds smallest violin? Hard to tell from the photo. Nice base layer. I think I have the same vest...:fm:

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Originally Posted by LaBelle23

Honestly at a shop a question like 'do you get rad' and the response answers most of what you need to know about how to set someone up.

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He was questioning why she needed to demo a particular bike because she is a girl and the bike was more burly than what he owned and he didn't like it when he rode it. I see what you are getting at but my rant was about shop boys talking down to my wife like she is a child, not good shop boys asking relevant questions. I was there, you'll have to trust me on this, and no one asked if I got rad.

But if they did , I would have yelled YOU KNOW IT, BABY!!!!!! OH YEAH!!!!!!! /highfivestoeveryone

And if they had not already guessed it they would have known for sure you are a tool.

I remember the circumstances of that photo MTM. Nicely played.

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Originally Posted by LaBelle23

And if they had not already guessed it they would have known for sure you are a tool.

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I agreed with you that it can be a relevant question but I politely explained to you how this was different....and I'm a tool?

For someone ranting about this place not being funny, you sure ain't helping bro. Unless you have worked at a bike shop and took offense for some weird reason THAT would be funny, and that would make a lot of sense. Ha. Do you ask people if they get rad?????? Kidwoo wants to go to your shop, where is it?!!

I'm not a bro

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.

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...

No shop should survive if they're treating any customers badly. What fucking dipshit is going to say "oh, I don't know, are you cool enough to ride this $5000 bike?"

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Originally Posted by mtngirl79

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...

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Why you no get rad?

Please.

Everyone.

Get rad.

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

I get way radder than I ever thought was possible!

Fucking trail sanitizing, line dumb-downing assholes.

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Originally Posted by LaBelle23

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.

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^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!

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by deliberate

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

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These exist.

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

Not sure if there is an equivalent for rockshox.

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Originally Posted by LaBelle23

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.

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

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Originally Posted by LaBelle23

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?

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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.

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

For now...

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Originally Posted by wkd-rdr

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

For now...

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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

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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

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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.

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Originally Posted by joetron

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,

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heehee

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.

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Originally Posted by joetron

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.
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.

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Ha, I don't think my wife has to deal with this super often, but I've heard similar complaints from her, up in PC.

One guy broke his arm on a first and last date with her years ago trying to be faster than her. I like that story.

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Originally Posted by scrublover

Fucking trail sanitizing, line dumb-downing assholes.

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Ugh, this. We do not really have anything very technical or difficult on the lower and easily accessed stuff around town yet I constantly see roots get cut out, rocks moved out of the way and even a big rock step got hammered/chiseled down.

There is one short little ride up over some roots where someone cleared out a bunch of rocks so you had a smooth ride around. I could go up the thing on my cyclocross bike. A few of us have tried replacing the rocks but they keep getting cleared out.

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Originally Posted by jamal

Ugh, this. We do not really have anything very technical or difficult on the lower and easily accessed stuff around town yet I constantly see roots get cut out, rocks moved out of the way and even a big rock step got hammered/chiseled down.

There is one short little ride up over some roots that you can now go around because someone cleared out a bunch of rocks so you had a smooth ride around. I could go up the thing on my cyclocross bike. A few of us have tried replacing the rocks but they keep getting cleared out.

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The grape smuggling crowd rules Missoula with an iron fist.

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Originally Posted by rludes025

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.

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Now are those plus size memberberries? Or 650b?

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Originally Posted by joetron

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.
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.

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Please get her a GoPro and have her buzz these fools tires in the future until they blow up... for the lulz.

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Originally Posted by joetron

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.
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.

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sooo annoying
well I hope that his masculinity was at least shredded since she stayed on his tail

'Member when mountain biking was hard?

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Originally Posted by HankScorpio

'Member when mountain biking was hard?

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Meh

Go the right speed and it still is.

I keep getting injured. That blows.

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Originally Posted by toast2266

The grape smuggling crowd rules Missoula with an iron fist.

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Hey well as a member of missoula's plum smuggling elite I still don't agree with dumbing down of the trails.

Rattlesnake needs directions, not 2-way signs.

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Originally Posted by gramboh

Please get her a GoPro and have her buzz these fools tires in the future until they blow up... for the lulz.

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This.

I don't speak Utah. What's "the Ward"?

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Originally Posted by scrublover

Fucking trail sanitizing, line dumb-downing assholes.

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Gah! We have some of this going on in our back yard too...

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Originally Posted by shirk

This.

I don't speak Utah. What's "the Ward"?

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You know, several wards make a stake. C'mon man, this is basic. ;)

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Originally Posted by Powder Ho

Oh yeah, thanks a bunch for cleaning out your trailer at the parking lot. That's super awesome.

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A guy I know who has a, um, blunt personality once witnessed some horse riders at a popular local TH show up and shovel out their trailer into the lot and head out. He then shoveled the sizeable pile of horse shit onto the hood of their truck.

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Originally Posted by joetron

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.

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That made my day. Sig worthy.