# Bike blerg thread
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [August 25, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793 "2018-08-25T15:07:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 66
### Author:  [@Blakey](https://tarck.cc/u/Blakey)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 1:05am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1306 "2019-01-11T01:05:29Z")
Vale Mike Barry.
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### Author:  [@igor](https://tarck.cc/u/igor)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1307 "2019-01-11T01:27:27Z")
It really is a terrific bike. Even though it’s absolutely minuscule on me, I rode it around the parking lot a bit and it is quick lively.
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### Author:  [@cousinmosquito](https://tarck.cc/u/cousinmosquito)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 8:15am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1308 "2019-01-11T08:15:47Z")
> [@iwillbe](#):
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> Trust funds
> seasonal work
> skilled gig work
> comfort with frugal living
> huge pile of industry connections
> only in it for the short term, can sort out a normal life after
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> My guess is that the average influencer / traveller has at least two of the listed items going on. It’s not really less responsible than a jillion other ways of living
These guys are legit. Put all their shit in a shipping container and hit the road. I suspect they may picked up some minor sponsors on route. He has always been a photographer and I think she was a designer for an outdoors company. Really nice people. [https://www.highlux.co.nz/alaska-to-argentina/](https://www.highlux.co.nz/alaska-to-argentina/)
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### Author:  [@todd\_bonzalez](https://tarck.cc/u/todd_bonzalez)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1309 "2019-01-11T15:53:47Z")
From the moment that stupid reverse Headshock was introduced, my thought that “Oh, that’ll be a fun recall.”
> **[Specialized issues recall for Roubaix, Ruby, Diverge, and Sirrus due to Future...](https://road.cc/content/tech-news/254374-specialized-issues-recall-roubaix-ruby-diverge-and-sirrus-due-future-shock)**
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> Own a Roubaix, Ruby, Diverge, and Sirrus with Future Shock? You need to read this
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### Author:  [@schultzor](https://tarck.cc/u/schultzor)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1310 "2019-01-11T15:56:26Z")
wonder if they did the math when they launched it and decided that NEW\_SHINY\_DOLLARS \>\> COST\_OF\_RECALLS
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### Author:  [@igor](https://tarck.cc/u/igor)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1311 "2019-01-11T16:00:40Z")
At least it isn’t a whole frame or fork, just the collar. I’ll stick with my bloated tires.
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1312 "2019-01-11T16:13:00Z")
I’m not interested in being a lab rat for this experiment, but I wonder if there is an awesome road bike to be had by:
-installing 15-30mm of f/r shock absorbtion in the headtube and seatstays
-using very lightweight 23mm tubeless tires with high pressure sealant
you’d get the snappy acceleration feel of the light tires, but also the more surefooted feel of a steady contact patch if the suspension was tuned well. Also no wallowing when cornering hard, like you get with wider lower pressure tires on the road. The tubeless part would take care of the pinchflats that would otherwise plague the setup.
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### Author:  [@igor](https://tarck.cc/u/igor)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:17pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1313 "2019-01-11T16:17:23Z")
Talk to dear susan, something like that would be right up their alley.
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1314 "2019-01-11T16:20:03Z")
seems too potentially practical for them.
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### Author:  [@turpentine](https://tarck.cc/u/turpentine)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1315 "2019-01-11T16:20:39Z")
Hasn’t that been tried a billion times though?
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### Author:  [@drwelby](https://tarck.cc/u/drwelby)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1316 "2019-01-11T16:21:42Z")
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1317 "2019-01-11T16:23:01Z")
Specialized, Moots, Pinarello, a few others. I’m thinking that a key element is high quality tubeless tires, so you can fuck with the pressure a little more without destroying your tires.
what I’m not sure about is how much … lateral? movement you want your tire to be capable of. I’m assuming that good tire feel is more than just a contact patch squishing in towards the rim.
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### Author:  [@Shamp](https://tarck.cc/u/Shamp)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1318 "2019-01-11T16:30:38Z")
When I was at the shop buying my Seqouia the sales guy was really pushing a Diverge instead. I told him i wasn’t really interested in the Diverge, especially with the dumb suspension that will eventually break. “Oh, these don’t break” was the response.
I kinda want to go in there and ask how the recalls are going, but I’m not a douche.
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### Author:  [@cheese](https://tarck.cc/u/cheese)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1319 "2019-01-11T16:56:51Z")
> [@iwillbe](#):
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> you’d get the snappy acceleration feel of the light tires, but also the more surefooted feel of a steady contact patch if the suspension was tuned well.
So in my understanding of vehicle dynamics, this is moving more total weight unsprung vs a boinger. Kind of like putting too-oversized wheel/tire setup on a car where you end up with a harsh ride. There’s a lot of comfort and damping effects from a fatter tire that occurs right at the rolling interface. Part of the answer could be going to a smaller overall diameter to reduce angular inertia while keeping the wider tire cross section intact (e.g. supple 559s).
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### Author:  [@russ](https://tarck.cc/u/russ)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1320 "2019-01-11T17:11:24Z")
This is the entire point of the Trek Domane with pinned seat cluster and upper headset cup
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### Author:  [@iwillbe](https://tarck.cc/u/iwillbe)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1321 "2019-01-11T17:26:59Z")
interesting, I’d not realized that the front had that much movement
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### Author:  [@russ](https://tarck.cc/u/russ)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 5:30pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1322 "2019-01-11T17:30:55Z")
15mm is also really not that much if you see a bike in a test fixture
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### Author:  [@russ](https://tarck.cc/u/russ)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 5:31pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1323 "2019-01-11T17:31:18Z")
especially carbon
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### Author:  [@fabaceaesp](https://tarck.cc/u/fabaceaesp)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1324 "2019-01-11T17:36:37Z")
I used to have a trek 2100c with an elastomer in the seatstay wishbone. It kinda worked? Weird bike with caliper brakes and clearance for 40mm tires, so it’s hard to nail down one variable. Good watermelon hauler. Smooth ride.
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### Author:  [@russ](https://tarck.cc/u/russ)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blerg-thread/21793/1325 "2019-01-11T17:45:05Z")
A+ bar tape / cargo color coordination
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