You’re a real smug asshole
i am just catching up on tarck after a few days away
what happened here?
Drizzly and not as cold in Brooklyn
I’m having bad thoughts
Already have a coil that would fit
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Wow. Coil is so good like… biggest single positive improvement I’ve ever made on a bike…. And this is just with a parking lot set up. Fucken hell it’s so nice.
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dq: if coil is so good then why don’t bikes ship with a coil
cuz it’s not adjustable like air. maybe i’m wrong though
That seems right.
I bought a spring with an adjustable rate which maybe made all the difference.
adjustability
weight
suspension design, too. Not all are able to really run coil.
" Your bike’s frame design and suspension kinematics will dictate whether a coil or air shock is compatible with your bike.
Due to their tunability, most mountain bikes tend to use air shocks as standard, with suspension kinematics being designed around them."
new used bike has SRAM Level brakes, frame is spec’d for 180mm/180mm. found the previous owner was running a 160mm out back and only a little bit of the pad was touching a little bit of rotor!
this is my first disc bike, do I need to scrape up a SRAM 180mm rotor or is like any old cheap Amazon letter-jumble-brand 180mm rotor fine?
Rotors are rotors
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ya unless you’re buying thicker ones it don’t matter
Whatever pretense I was maintaining previously, wrt MTB aesthetics, I’ve completely given up. So I’m buying Surly corner bars. Does anyone have strong opinions on width?
For XC/endurance racing, and solo spirited riding.
I’ve ridden drop bars exclusively the past two years so my first impulse is to buy the narrowest model but I can see the argument for wider.
Wrong thread
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The minivelo I had a few years ago ended up with a china carbon clone of the corner bar because I wanted to go even narrower than the narrowest version Surly made: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804012243266.html
I got the version that was 440mm at the “hooks”, 620mm C-C at the ends. Seemed like a comfy width, my two other most-ridden bikes are 44cm Cowchippers.
I rode them for a year, mostly commuting but a few rough & rowdy Marin Headlands rides and didn’t die.
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I’d say go a bit wider than whatever your current drop bar aggro bike is running. I have not used these, but played around with dirt drops a fair amount. A bit wider than your norm drop bar works well.
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so I landed a jump onto a small poky rock a few weeks back on the e-bike, which caused me to rim out and poked a spoke through the rim tape. i thought it had made a hole, but i guess it just poked up the rim tape enough to let the air and sealant start flowing right under it.
anyway, i got the broken spoke fixed, but he didn’t redo the rim tape thinking it would hold I guess. but it didn’t. so i decided to redo it myself, only to find the rim was just full of sealant. so much sealant. tried to let it drain out. shook it out numerous times. cleaned the rim a bunch of times. finally tried to re-tape with stans, but it wasnt sticking that well so i wasn’t too confident when the tire appeared to hold last night. it was of course flat today.
so i gave up and took it back to the bike shop and asked if they could try wider tape (it could easily go 2-3mm wider) and asked them to put cushcore in it.
it’s a stupid hookless rim, but it has a really thick sidewall. the dent i put in it goes all the way down onto the space under the rim tape, despite not being that much of a dent. i am worried just based off my partner’s experience that these hookless rims just dont hold up well to dents, so cushcore feels like the move? though i’ve never felt i needed it before.
hoping for better luck after i pick it up tonight.
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is it an Ibis rim? i cushcored the rear on my bros ripmo and it never really holds air properly lol just enough for a ride or two