Less than totally pleased with my m8000. Calipers started sticking pretty bad which led to uneven pad engagement no matter how many times I bled them and lubed the pistons. If the m8100 are any better in this regard I’ll just do that. I do like the redesigned lever body shape/brace on the new ones though.
I can’t say I’ve ever experienced that with that style of caliper body. The Deore stuff has always worked.
I loved the g-spec quadiems I had. Tons of power, but also the sram-like modulation. and easy shimano bleeds. Takes saint pads so when you forget to tighten the pin and they fall out on the first run at the bike park, they are easy to replace.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjn1VJ03Fvg
Sigh. Can’t get the right embed link on mobile. (delightful mod edit to fix it)
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Came here to post this. That looks fun.
I think the one with the TurboSpoke is my favorite.
I have lots of mtb questions for Tarck.
What’s Tarck’s take on e MTBs?
Are coil shocks the deep section rims of the trail bro world?
If your bike isn’t color matched to your Toyota are you even really a shredder?
Do parking lot wheelies matter?
Is Tarck up to speed on SJLMBCS?
Is Remmy’s BC edit still blowing your mind or have you never ridden BC?
How y’all balancing covid and trail risk?
If I say guh guh guh… what you think I mean?
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I am a facilitator.
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Is that you, Loris?
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- You mean electric mopeds? Fine anywhere an internal combustion engine is also allowed, should be illegal on human-powered trails.
- No opinion other than that coil shocks provide an opportunity to be color-matchy that air shocks don’t.
- What’s a Toyota, some sort of antique Sprinter?
- Important if there are kids present, to remind them to try silly things on their bikes.
- Social Justice Low Margin Bi Cycle Sales?
- Have not ridden BC.
- Mask at the trailhead, no mask while riding, pass wide and fast.
- Sounds like when I try to go up rocky tech switchbacks and get angry at where my front wheel has decided to go.
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nice
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Glad I’m not the only one on the program Amy.
Jimmy! I’m stoked your MTBing in bend. I was there in February and drank beer in Carl Deckers garage. I also did the high divide last summer, I’ll post about it eventually!
Fred, did you hang out on Alki a bit this summer in Bikini bottoms, weird blouse rash gaurd thing and a giant hat?
nope
most people now only send me their sightings of other JDM firetrucks
instead of other bikini boys and blousey nevernudes
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Happy that I don’t understand some of the references on that list. But don’t get me wrong it’s a good list.
I might get one when I get too old/creaky to keep grunting up climbs.
Carbon rims are the Deep V of the MTB world.
Oddly enough, my bike now matches my Toyota due to a fluke.
When did they not matter?
Is that like AYHSMB or SKRTPOV?
More impressed with Jesse Melamed’s Psychosis run.
No car, not far, no gnar
People bitching about braking bumps.
I went to Whistler last year but I had hurt my knee so we only did one non bike park ride. Still slightly frightened of BC riding, but hit all the blues and blacks on the bike park. Turns out you can descent 75,000 ft in a week pretty easily with them nice chair lifts…
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Ooooo…yeah I wanna hear about that high divide, I think we have a “blog” function somewhere on here for stuff like that. (?)
Sup mtb folks. I need a quick check on my line of thinking as I shop for rims:
DQ: Is 29mmID too narrow for a 2.8 tire? Is 45mmID too wide?
My thinking is that 34-50 Id would be optimal.
I ask because I either own or could get good deals on 29 or 45 rims, but 34-40 ID rims seem more expensive/popular.
My instinct would be that 29 is too narrow and 45 is too wide and there’s a reason everything in between is more popular.
Of the two, I’d rather do 29 I think.
35 would be pretty standard, 29 would work at higher pressures in more XC type applications, 45 if you’re planning to push the low end of support for pseudo-fatbiking.