Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?

[XXX-er]

I'm in Canada on an e-bike so people let me by and say sorry

[NuMexJoe]

I have too many 10mm sockets in my tool box. I’m overflowing in the 10mm sockets department. [emoji6]

So that's where they all go! A mystery of the moto universe has been solved.

[rideit]

It is funny from a bike mechanic point of view, there hasn’t been a 10 mm bolt on a bike that I can think of in the past ten or twenty years. Maybe some random bash guard?

[beaterdit]

I'm in Canada on an e-bike so people let me by and say sorry

LOL!

It is funny from a bike mechanic point of view, there hasn’t been a 10 mm bolt on a bike that I can think of in the past ten or twenty years. Maybe some random bash guard?

My cars have tons of them though and I'm down to one 10mm. Sweatin.

[rideit]

Thanks to IKEA, everyone has ten or twenty short 4mm allens!

[beaterdit]

Of the shittiest 4mm allens ever made.

[jackstraw]

I'm in Canada on an e-bike so people let me by and say sorry

Gold

[McShortyShorts]

I'm in Canada on an e-bike so people let me by and say sorry

I'm also in Canada and one time I was riding behind an e-bike and got a flat. Turned out he realized I wasn't behind him anymore, turned around to make sure I didn't crash, then plugged my tire for me and used one of his CO2s for my tire and whizzed off into the sunset

[BigHerm]

Three times today on my ride. I come up from behind and say “whenever you’re ready”. Rider accelerates and doesn’t yield. 30 seconds pass and I say louder “whenever you’re ready”. They double down and accelerate more. 15 seconds later, full yell “please let me pass”. All three then say something snotty after I pass. It’s weird. I hate having someone on my wheel. And all three were female. Getting Agro on people asking to pass is just bizarre.

As someone who pays a lot of attention to compliance and effective communication, your communication was pretty shitty. Your first statement "whenever you're ready" means what? Ready to gtfo of your way? Ready to go faster? I'm not surprised you got weird reactions. Add in male/female differences, unknown tone, it explains a lot.

My rant from the other side: I'm cruising along on a gradual climb section of narrow XC singletrack on my enduropig. Zone 2 ride, chilling just enjoying the solitude. On a windy part, I see there is a dude a ways behind me cranking getting his sweat on. I think, "cool, dude will be up on me soon."

A short time later, I am startled by dude behind me yelling "Bike!" In my head I'm thinking, "what a shitty way to announce that you would like to pass. I am also on a bike." I try to converse with the guy, tell him I'll pull over when there's room, but he has headphones on and he doesn't respond. Yells "Bike!" at me again. I don't recall what I did, but I let him by somehow and tried to converse about his announcement strategy. Headphoneland...

Definitely made me feel some kind of way. I climb slow as shit and am pretty accustomed to getting passed on climbs. Other guys mentioned some great passing announcements. I find treating people like people and not obstacles will get you farther with less animosity.

[beaterdit]

Agree on all counts and "bike!" guy is a douche. Communication can be hard even for those who know that and try to consider it carefully but I don't know why anyone would go with that tactic.

Seeing it again makes me think "whenever you're ready" sounds pretty passive aggressive.

[buttahflake]

So much drama out West

[toast2266]

I'm also on team "can I sneak by when you've got a chance?"

But as soon as I pass, I make sure to yell "see ya later, bitches!" just to assert dominance.

[beaterdit]

Good strategy!

[muted reborn]

Usually if you say "nice ass - can I pass?" the dude or girl ahead of you will stop very very quickly.

[XXX-er]

honestly i didnt know about the uphill rider having right of way until the buidler told me a couple years ago, I don't think many people up here know cuz uphill riders pull over so I explain to " actualy you have the right-of-away "

bump into a Canadian at costco and they will say sorry

[californiagrown]

1: Cough or clear your throat loudly, backpedal to buzz your hub, grab a squeaky brake. Whatever natural sound you can make from a ways off to let an attentive trail user that another user is coming up on them from a ways off.
2: "Mind if i sneak by when you get a chance? no rush." Proceed to hang back a few bike lengths so that they dont feel rushed into making a bad choice of where to pull over/off.
3: "Thanks, have a great ride!" proceed to the ride with no stops at the faster pace for at least 15 more minutes. No one likes the asshole who just does interval rides and continuously leapfrogs with you.

Is it really that hard?

[XXX-er]

do you actualy cough ?

or say cough like Robert Plant did at the end of a song ?

[Roxtar]

Not sure where the "Bike" thing comes from. I know calling out "Track" was an XC race thing that was understood back in the day.
I've never had a problem using, "can I get past when you get a chance?"

[californiagrown]

do you actual cough ?

or say cough like Robert Plant did at the end of a song ?

Personally i just bump Ludacris on my handlebar speaker. Im just saying what people should do, not what i do. Rules for thee, not for me, etc.

[XXX-er]

Most people do the Camino pilgrimage on foot but its great on a bike and some people even ride horses

but all those fucking pilgrims on foot are plugged in or meditating or SFT so they can't hear and you pass hundreds of them every day for 3 weeks, the road should be wide enough but they are walking 3 or 4 abreast so if you pass without a warning you scare the fuck out of them and maybe they jump in the way

they don't hear a normal warning device like a bell but what works every time is hit the brakes for a small skid at about 30 ft out

[XXX-er]

Personally i just bump Ludacris on my handlebar speaker. Im just saying what people should do, not what i do. Rules for thee, not for me, etc.

in british accent " Thats gona be the one !"

[zion zig zag]

3: "Thanks, have a great ride!" proceed to the ride with no stops at the faster pace for at least 15 more minutes. No one likes the asshole who just does interval rides and continuously leapfrogs with you.

I had a guy on an e-bike leap frog me three times last year, I’d let him pass me and then he’d be stopped halfway off the trail a few minutes later. The fourth time I told him no and got pretty aggressive with me, luckily we were only a few hundred yards form the downhill and I never saw him again.

[El Chupacabra]

Just yell "STRAVA" loudly.

... works whether you're the one passing or bring passed.

[Dee Hubbs]

DT Swiss Freehubs. It use to be a simple solution, now its all fawked up.
Old way was two simple options, 3 pawl OR Ratchet.
Now its:
3 Pawl
Ratchet (traditional system)
Ratchet EXP (new 1 star system)
Ratchet LN (on cheaper 370 series hubs)

Trying to upgrade a clients bike to SRAM XPLR and I have 9 different DT Freehubs and none are the correct one.
The one I need is not in stock, so it's easier (and almost cheaper) to buy a wheel with the right freehub, and pull it off.

[jamal]

I'd kind of assumed the ratchet LN and standard/older double ratchets on the 350 etc were maybe the same and compatible.

But yeah freehub bodies and endcaps being specific to different hubs is pretty annoying when they could probably just all be the same. I wanted to put torque caps on my trek wheels (with dt hubs) and just kind of had to guess which ones were right. Did get it on the first try but yeah had to dig through the dt site and use a different distributor we don't order from much to get them.


e-oh, ratchet ln moved the seal to the freehub instead of the shell so that's different at least.