What have you bought/upgraded today.

[grskier]

That is one nice looking bike.

[One (+) Sentence]

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Procured a Ranger V2 a few months ago, rode the Sid Luxe and Sid Ult fork for a bit but the plan has been Fox squishy bits. Finally got a 34 SC, went with orange because fuckit. Also swapped on some GX AXS stuff I pulled off the Rascal I sold to TechTonics.
So far so good. The V2 is noticeably stiffer when pushing into chunky turns. Takes a little more to find the limit of the bike compared to V1.
I just like AXS Eagle shifting now. The shit works great. Might get transmission on this at some point, but ultimately would like a Transmission -style direct mount with regular AXS Eagle shifting. That would be the holy grail.


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Does the Bivo fit? There's a 17oz insulated one now too. Lemme know...

[Roxtar]

went with orange because orange looks unbelievably badass

Fixed it for ya.
Congrats. Looks awesome.

[Roxtar]

Finally getting around to posting my recent Dentist Lite (XT, not XTR) build for a customer/bud:

Evil Wreckoning LS







Mezzer Pro (burnished and retuned)
I9 EN325/310 Carbon wheels and A35 stem
XT drivetrain and brakes
Transfer dropper
Raceface ERA cranks
OneUp carbon bars
CK BB

Took it out for a shakedown run on XC-ish stuff to see how it would work as a daily driver. Was pleasantly surprised.
VERY good on tech climbs and none of that big bike sluggishness on flat trails. I was impressed.

[Roxtar]

Oh, and did get myself a little sumthin, sumthin:



5DEV Enduro cranks

[volklpowdermaniac]

Epic evo -> gone

Stumpy -> arrived
About ten days into build, 99% done, need to sort some faffing in the headset.

[skaredshtles]

Finally getting around to posting my recent Dentist Lite (XT, not XTR) build for a customer/bud:

Evil Wreckoning LS







Mezzer Pro (burnished and retuned)
I9 EN325/310 Carbon wheels and A35 stem
XT drivetrain and brakes
Transfer dropper
Raceface ERA cranks
OneUp carbon bars
CK BB

Took it out for a shakedown run on XC-ish stuff to see how it would work as a daily driver. Was pleasantly surprised.
VERY good on tech climbs and none of that big bike sluggishness on flat trails. I was impressed.

What happens when big-ish rocks get thrown into that pivot/bb area? Does it have some design that sheds rocks out the bottom or something?

[Roxtar]

What happens when big-ish rocks get thrown into that pivot/bb area? Does it have some design that sheds rocks out the bottom or something?

Why would you throw rocks into your bike linkage?

But seriously, not sure why this design would be any different from others in that regard. In fact, being a single pivot, it would probably be less likely than the multi-link designs. All the linkage bits are up at the top of the shock, away from the rear tire, rather than exposed like a multi-link.
Wife and I have had a year of abusing our Offerings on sharp, janky trails in New Mexico with no issues like that.

[J. Barron DeJong]

Who wants to volunteer to give one of these a go?



https://road.cc/content/tech-news/sa...ackrest-304951

[Roxtar]

Who wants to volunteer to give one of these a go?



https://road.cc/content/tech-news/sa...ackrest-304951

Updated version of the Ass Pounder 4000?

[J. Barron DeJong]

Updated version of the Ass Pounder 4000?

That’s a back rest, silly.

But yes, probably intended for workout bikes:

[grabtindy]

I’ll be interested to hear how you like it. With the shock open, my Spur with SIDLuxe actually has a bit more movement when I pedal than my Norco Sight with Super Deluxe. The shock on my Sight has a Vorsprung tune for a more aggressive rider than me and might be sticky and due for a service, but my sense is that the SIDLuxe is fairly lightly damped. I don’t have any issues while descending, but I definitely make frequent use of the lockout on the climbs, which surprised me for a short travel bike.

Shakedown ride was a self-shuttled Ribbon lap with some Lunch Loop trails added on. Good mix of smooth singletrack, pavement, high speed slickrock, and chunky tech.
Huge improvement IMO. I would say small bump sensitivity is improved a bit (as it should for any new shock vs something with a year+ since service), MUCH improved midstroke support, and actual usable rebound damping.

[volklpowdermaniac]

with deals too good to be true, and luckily - EE at the time still at full retail and Stumpy at 40% off, was able to flip my EE frame into a SJ with little dollar difference.
Godspeed green prince. Absolutely loved this thing. Hoping for more of the same with a little more modern feel.


Enter purple

[NuMexJoe]

Not much compared to all the recent new bike content, but I needed to replace the Trail Boss 2.4 on the big bike and the Maxxis sale hadn't started yet, so $40 from BlueSkyCycling got me this tire. The 2.5 is wider than the 2.6 Mazza I have on the front. DH casing, so I chose not to keep running the Airliner insert. Two rides in on Salida rocks and it seems to hook up and hold air. Yeah, it's heavy, but so is the bike.

[joetron]

My first real trail hardtail in about 18 years.
Got a good deal on an Esker Japhy Ti frame and had a bunch of parts kicking around for the build. Just needed a post, stem and bar….and tires; went 2.6 Forekaster with EXO+ in back.
Excellent shakedown ride today, excited for our future.


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[unitofstuff]

My first real trail hardtail in about 18 years.
Got a good deal on an Esker Japhy Ti frame and had a bunch of parts kicking around for the build. Just needed a post, stem and bar….and tires; went 2.6 Forekaster with EXO+ in back.
Excellent shakedown ride today, excited for our future.


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I'm a sucker for titanium, and that thing is gorgeous.

Just curious, what pushed you to pick up a hardtail in this area? I've been trying to explore stuff in the area that I haven't ridden and a lot of it has been extremely mild and I've felt stupidly overbiked on my Rail29. So much so that I have a hankering for either a hardtail or fairly short travel FS bike, but some of it has been so boring that I'm not sure anything but a CX bike would make it interesting or challenging.

[LeeLau]

My first real trail hardtail in about 18 years.
Got a good deal on an Esker Japhy Ti frame and had a bunch of parts kicking around for the build. Just needed a post, stem and bar….and tires; went 2.6 Forekaster with EXO+ in back.
Excellent shakedown ride today, excited for our future.


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Gorgeous

[Eluder]

My first real trail hardtail in about 18 years.
Got a good deal on an Esker Japhy Ti frame and had a bunch of parts kicking around for the build. Just needed a post, stem and bar….and tires; went 2.6 Forekaster with EXO+ in back.
Excellent shakedown ride today, excited for our future.


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Almost the same as mine! It’s been a good bike for me.

[joetron]

I'm a sucker for titanium, and that thing is gorgeous.

Just curious, what pushed you to pick up a hardtail in this area? I've been trying to explore stuff in the area that I haven't ridden and a lot of it has been extremely mild and I've felt stupidly overbiked on my Rail29. So much so that I have a hankering for either a hardtail or fairly short travel FS bike, but some of it has been so boring that I'm not sure anything but a CX bike would make it interesting or challenging.

Ahhhh, I had to look at your location. I’m no longer in SLC, but when I was, my gravel bike saw a lot of action on Shoreline for after work miles and good times.
A hardtail would have been fun.



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[volklpowdermaniac]

Stanton Sherpa out:

Bird Forge in


Looks incredible. Build in progress

[Dantheman]

Ahhhh, I had to look at your location. I’m no longer in SLC, but when I was, my gravel bike saw a lot of action on Shoreline for after work miles and good times.
A hardtail would have been fun.

Yep, love my Ragley in CC.

Finally got the new commuter in proper form. The saddlebag holds a new Abus Catena 6086K lock, which after much research seemed to offer the best tradeoff between mass and security.

[volklpowdermaniac]

Yep, love my Ragley in CC.

Finally got the new commuter in proper form. The saddlebag holds a new Abus Catena 6086K lock, which after much research seemed to offer the best tradeoff between mass and security.

This is sweet.

[Dantheman]

Thanks! The rear fender is still giving me some grief. I set off for work yesterday morning and discovered that the angle of the stays doesn't provide enough vertical support, so it bounces off the tire over bumps and rattles up a storm. It's entirely unacceptable on a bike that is otherwise ghostly quiet. The best potential solution I've thought of so far is to drill a new hole 6-8 inches higher to get the stay angle to ~30*.

It's a great bike, but going from a 69* HTA on my old bike to 72* on this one has been an adjustment. Also, after running 2-finger MTB brakes for years 3-finger levers feel positively barbaric. I'm tempted to swap in some SLX or XT levers.

[singlesline]

Thanks! The rear fender is still giving me some grief. I set off for work yesterday morning and discovered that the angle of the stays doesn't provide enough vertical support, so it bounces off the tire over bumps and rattles up a storm. It's entirely unacceptable on a bike that is otherwise ghostly quiet. The best potential solution I've thought of so far is to drill a new hole 6-8 inches higher to get the stay angle to ~30*. Going from a 69* HTA on my old bike to 72* on this one has been an adjustment. Also, after running 2-finger MTB brakes for years 3-finger levers feel positively barbaric. I'm tempted to swap in some SLX or XT levers.

Just looking at it, I'd guess the problem is that the whole fender is designed to be rotated forwards another ~6 inches--so your solution sounds reasonable.

Usually the front of the rear fender is meant to land somewhere near the bottom bracket, but your bike has a mounting screw somewhere further up the seat tube.

I wonder if your bike is designed either for shorter fenders or fenders with a new hole that's about 6" higher on fender (and then the rest of the fender continues down to the BB). If you were to rotate it around and add a new hole, I think your stays would work.

Do the fenders have any connection to the bike at the seatstay? Hard to tell in the photo--historically fenders connected to the brake bridge, but now everyone has discs.

E.g. here's the fender on my old commuter--it was attatched to a reinforcing bridge between the chainstays (where you'd attach a kickstand)

Of course these fenders also have double stays AND are connected to the brake bridge, so the rear has 4 connection points.

[Dantheman]

The frame does have a seatstay bridge that the fender connected to, but I think you're right about the seat tube mounting hole being too high. Instead of drilling a new hole in the rear and rotating just the stay, I think I'll take your suggestion to drill a new hole in the front and rotate the whole fender. Thanks!