Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

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11-12-2019, 02:46 PM
EWG

Quote:

Originally Posted by riff

Finally, I'm riding enough to have a rant.
Can we get mountain bikers to quit parking themselves and piles of bikes in the middle of everything? After two weeks in the desert, and one back home, I'm tired of having bikes splashed all over the tiny parking lot with quasi parallel parking, carelessly dropped and ignored while I try to drive in/out. Also, don't hang out straddling your bike under nice drops on the trail while you chat, I will land on you from the sky.

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Yup. And don't leave your bike in the middle of the trail when you decide to stop and have some of your 100 cubic inch lunch.
11-12-2019, 04:03 PM
El Chupacabra

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Originally Posted by beece

Yup. And don't leave your bike in the middle of the trail when you decide to stop and have some of your 100 cubic inch lunch.

There's no replacement for displacement, even in lunch.
11-20-2019, 04:06 PM
wendigo

Currently sitting on the side of the road in Tucson, waiting on my wife to circle around and get the car. Partway through the inaugural ride on my new bike the pawls stopped engaging (dt Swiss 240). Had a “chainless” descent to a different trailhead
11-20-2019, 04:19 PM
Bunion 2020

Not to be a dick but DTs don't use Pawls and are super easy to service, even on the side of the road.
11-20-2019, 04:20 PM
wendigo

Thanks, ratchet. Dick.
11-20-2019, 04:23 PM
Boissal

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marmot or Fox

Not to be a dick but DTs don't use Pawls and are super easy to service, even on the side of the road.

Don't you have to pop the cassette to get in there? I don't do that shit roadside, I always end up stabbing myself wit the cassette while trying to get it off.
11-20-2019, 04:36 PM
wendigo

Yeah. Popped the cassette off, no obvious issues. Easy way to lose a spring though!
11-20-2019, 04:57 PM
Bunion 2020

Well, now you are fucked.

And that is Mr. Dick to you.:fm:
11-20-2019, 05:41 PM
rideit

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marmot or Fox

Not to be a dick but DTs don't use Pawls and are super easy to service, even on the side of the road.

Current 240's use star ratchets. Super easy to service.
11-22-2019, 06:59 AM
sb

Whoooo boy, 5 flats in the last two weeks.

The rant is for Kenda tires that are so tight to the rim that after wrestling with the back tire for over an hour and finally got it off I said fookit and cut the front one off.

No regrets.
11-22-2019, 09:39 AM
HAB

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Originally Posted by SB

Kenda ... cut the front one off.

#therightthingtodo
11-22-2019, 10:02 AM
skaredshtles

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Originally Posted by SB

Whoooo boy, 5 flats in the last two weeks.

The rant is for Kenda tires

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11-22-2019, 10:12 AM
rideit

Kenda is still in business?
11-22-2019, 10:15 AM
skaredshtles

Please, please, pleeeeeeeeeeeez tell me they were Nevegals?

Please?

:D
11-22-2019, 10:17 AM
Andeh

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Originally Posted by skaredshtles

Please, please, pleeeeeeeeeeeez tell me they were Nevegals?

Please?

:D

If they were, he'd be dead or posting from the hospital.
11-22-2019, 10:35 AM
Dantheman

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Originally Posted by rideit

Kenda is still in business?

A guy I know who is no slouch on a bike luuuvs Hellkats. Haven't tried them myself.

Back to ranting: I had to buy that single NDS crank arm for my commuter. I couldn't find an exact Shimano replacement so I had to get an unlabeled Sunlite one and now my crank arms don't match. The new one looks enough like the original that no one will ever notice but me, but it still bothers me. The fact that it bothers me at all bothers me even more.
11-22-2019, 10:42 AM
sb

They were Juggernauts, they came on my Nomad Ebike. Ran them since the spring.

Put a Big Fat Larry on the front and a good ole Endomorph on the rear.

At least if I have another flat I know I can get these off the rim to patch or swap out the tube.
11-22-2019, 11:02 AM
EWG

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dantheman

A guy I know who is no slouch on a bike luuuvs Hellkats. Haven't tried them myself.

Back to ranting: I had to buy that single NDS crank arm for my commuter. I couldn't find an exact Shimano replacement so I had to get an unlabeled Sunlite one and now my crank arms don't match. The new one looks enough like the original that no one will ever notice but me, but it still bothers me. The fact that it bothers me at all bothers me even more.

Spray paint it red.

Problem solved.
11-22-2019, 11:08 AM
Touring_Sedan

The season keeps going and I'm tied to the trainer in the basement... Picked the wrong time to get my rotator cuff fixed. At least I found a good place to move my shifter. #crippleshift.

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11-22-2019, 11:22 AM
rideit

Sweet engineering
11-22-2019, 11:38 AM
sb

Is that Russian pee tape?
11-22-2019, 11:55 AM
evasive_MT

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Originally Posted by rideit

Kenda is still in business?

I don’t know anything about moto, but I have friends who are heavily into it, even to the professional level. I understand from them that Kendra is to moto what Maxxis is to MTB.
11-22-2019, 12:56 PM
skaredshtles

Quote:

Originally Posted by SB

They were Juggernauts, they came on my Nomad Ebike. Ran them since the spring.

Put a Big Fat Larry on the front and a good ole Endomorph on the rear.

At least if I have another flat I know I can get these off the rim to patch or swap out the tube.

"Light fatty - With 835g the Juggernaut Pro is one of the lightest fatbike tires on the market."

https://media.giphy.com/media/aZ3LDBs1ExsE8/giphy.gif :nonono2:
11-22-2019, 01:19 PM
SchralphMacchio

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Originally Posted by beece

Spray paint it red.

Problem solved.

And *only* either the Sunlite or Shimano arm. Then they will be *obviously* not matching, and therefore awesome.

Just like the car I used to drive:
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11-22-2019, 01:43 PM
gravitylover

Quote:

Originally Posted by evasive_MT

I don’t know anything about moto, but I have friends who are heavily into it, even to the professional level. I understand from them that Kendra is to moto what Maxxis is to MTB.

I'm pretty sure Kenda makes Maxxis tires. Kenda is a huge OE manufacturer that also has a line under their own name.

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