Was just thinking about you. I mean last I heard you were temporarily in Texas or something!
Only to handle legal matters for a minute.
Nutmeg 4 life.
Or until I can move to a non-racist state with nice beaches thatâs affordable to live in.
you shouldâve come to the nutmeg camping weekend. it was like ragbrai in your own backyard.
But yes if I have a new bike the weekend after this coming one Iâll come to Trumbull or wherever the heck you want.
I shouldâve, but yâknow.
In CT we donât trust anything til itâs been around at least 3-8 years.
Steady habits and whatnot.
pretty much havenât heard a bad word about the sentinel.
good buddy, who shreds as harder than anyone else i know, just upgradedd from the alloy one ('18) to the carbon one ('19). supbf has the '18 model with nx and so does my buddy drew.
nx isnt perfect, but neither oneâs bikes have fallen apart, so must be alright. the rims seem pretty bad. bf already replaced his rear rim, riddled with dents after each downhill day at the park.
This seems to be the case with all WTB rims in the #trenduro #halfsend campâŠ
My friends have the same experiences.
anyone got trp g spec brakes? theyâre hope kinda money but they look pretty ballĂ©ur
takes shimano essential oils and pads
I love them for both of those reasons. Easy to bleed, good modulation of sram but can lock up if you really need them to. And when you lose your pads on the first run after just replacing them the morning of a 7 hour drive, the biek park will have the saint pads in stock.
I got them because saints were out of stock everywhere, and didnât want to fuck with guides after having them fail on me before/wanted something new. Werenât that pricey for us here, maybe.
Which rotors? I should probably replace the stock non ice tech ones on my trance
I was cheap and just kept the basic sram ones that came on the jekyll. I may replace with some TRP jawns soon since they are a bit cheaper than Shimano. Again just to try something new.
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Yes, those are probably the same âdead enderâ rotors that came on my Trance bitd. They âdonât take metal padsâ (resin only, but fuck that you can run metal any way). But a good pair of rotors matters A LOT.
If youâre not ballin hard Iâd go with SLX level ice techâs.
Stilll waiting for seller to get back to me. Found some 2018 Kona Process 29ers Iâd buy in the meantime.
Read/watched a bunch of reviews, all of which said contradictory things. Theyâre both too much bike for me going downhill but the Transition seems more stable and confidence-inspiring. Cool. I also want it to be a bike you can pedal without wanting to kill yourself. I think my style leans more toward having longer stays even for uphill stuff. I tend to have a problem with my wheel popping up on steeps. Transition still wins because Kona has short wheelie friendly chainstays, right?
Both Kona and Transition seem like they pedal equally mediocre everywhere else.
Well the newer Konas supposedly pedal better than the older models, but that was evidently a pretty low bar.
Both have the same STA, which is really what will help you stay over the front end a bit more. Not sure the extra 10mm chainstay will make that much of a difference. But you may like the slightly shorter wheelbase for techy stuff. I guess that claims contradicts the previous one.
In the end you may just like having a little less travel in the back end anyway. Easier to feel poppy and push off stuff (paired with the notorious reviewer statement of âfeels like more travel than it saysââI finally felt that way about the trance 29er). But that doesnât matter if dude wonât respond to you.
Break out a pipe, turn up the sound, sit back and watch what the best Canadian mountain bikers 1993 have to offer
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my grandpappi had cable/pay tv and i remember watching Drop In back in the day, it was so good. there was like a whole season they went to nz and there was a hip jump shot every like 2 minutes
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get yourself a bike then cut to the chase and come ride mountain creek with me saturday
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Question about mountain bikes, hopefully itâs OK to ask here:
When I climb on my Mone La Roca my wheels rocks a lot left and right. Is this normal? Do I suck? Is my stem too long or something? Am I trying to crank too much with my arms?
I have a 80mm stem with some wide bars.
If it helps, here is geometry. I have the M/L.
Got a bike, woo.
Whatâs a a reasonable price one of those helmets with optional full face attachment?
Donât worry about it till youâre sending it
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I donât quite understand whatâs happening. Seated climbing?