Warroad (seriously need to go back to the drawing board with the name) seems not terrible, but that hta is… not awesome.
I get that everyone is trying to game when and in what form road bikes will come back, but this approach seems weird. Why do relatively normal road geo for everything but the headtube? Did the Acqua Blue fiasco not scare people away from 1x road setups for a few years?
The Warroad’s stiffer head tube and chainstays eliminate frame and fork wind-up and spring-back through fast corners.
:Sadjan:
No more flexy wind-up
No more flexy fra-a-ame
No more corner spring-back
Its head tube’s so stiff, it’s obscene
SQ but is this even a thing? I feel like you’d have to be such a 1mm-er to think you can notice fork windup on any rigid frame
Wow Warroad is the worst Salsa name in a long line of horrible Salsa names.
Maybe it’s different than the planing that Heine et al claim happens when pedaling? I remember some advertorial that Trek put out about how the HT-DT-CS is supposed to act as a stiff member under stress, but that doesn’t say much about the DT and TT, which is where I thought most of the “planing” wiggle happened, right?
Anyways the bike looks like it’s 90% of the way to being something I’d ride, if only they made it in my size. I note that the 61cm tt model comes with a 110mm stem, which suggests that it’s less of an endurance bike and more of a …relaxation bike?
It’s an unfortunate name, but it’s got MN heritage. Warroad, Minnesota - Wikipedia
That’s cool, but also it’s the road version of the Warbird, hence Warroad. It’s not as dedicatedly weird as Trek’s decision that “ADEMNO” are the only letters you can use to name a road bike, I’ll grant that
I dunno appropriating first nation culture is even worse than the general warmongering nature of the name atmo
They should have called it the Lake of the Woods.
I’d much rather ride a Lake of the Woods than a Warroad.
Even Roadbird beats the hell out of Warroad
looks like a messed up coffeegrinder
EDIT: ALSO the Ultegra model is $4399! Thats like 1250 more than a synapse ultegra, or 800 more than the SE model (which would probably best compete with this). and idk, at $4400 i’d rather have a complete OPEN U.P. for a few hundred bucks more
Lol, new “Hexband” Otto lock press photo:
now with extra grimace
lol
Dirty Finger Hood River!
I watch the Lockpicking Lawyer videos but what is starting to drive me crazy is that he loves defeating locks on his desk. The Ottolock probably isn’t a good example, but he uses hydraulic cutters often to defeat locks and depending on how the lock is used I’m not sure they are always accessible to the hydraulic cutters.
The only worthwhile videos are the ones where he picks them. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows that you can easily chop through a steel shackle in the comfort of your basement with power tools.
And what’s more frustrating still are the commenters who think that these are effective reviews of the locks, the most notorious being the Otto Lock, which is literally advertised as a lightweight lock for riders who don’t want to leave their bikes completely unguarded while they poop at the gas station. It’s effectively a zip tie with a key and that’s fine.
It’s weird because his channel is a straight rip from Bosnian Bill but even Bosnian Bill will set up the lock in the most likely way it would be out in the world.
Not sure if this is the right place but what the heck; our shop was the distributor for Compass Tires in Dutchie Land. We sold them to dealers but also had a website selling them to the general public. A website that had the name Compass in it.
Took about a year to get up to speed, but here’s the important part; we sold a shitton of them. Then, a couple of months back we received an e-mail from Jan Heine threatening to sue us if we didn’t take the website down that had the name Compass in it.
No prior warning, just an e-mail saying he was going to sue us. We changed the URL just to have a lawyer not shit on us, but he still took away our distributor rights. My boss tried again and again to ask for an explanation. Not a single word from Mr Heine. Unfathomable. We could have just changed the website name, make some new business arrangements and continued selling large quantities of Compass Tires, which would also have been in his interest of course, but no, he decided to be a sad little bitch about it. His ego is yuuuuge. I guess they don’t call him The Snake in the industry for nothing.
You’re underestimating the power of the name Salsa to midwest qbp buyers.
