There’s been a surprising number of (generally older) folks riding e bikes on the paths around our suburb.
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Same here in outer-suburban Sydney.
Also lots of middle-aged dudebros on FS MTBs riding the dirt MUPs…
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New MTB data just dropped:
Note: they asked how many bikes respondents own, and capped it at 5? The fuck kind of amateurs do they think they’re dealing with?
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No wonder the comment section is insufferable, MTBR afflicted as well for sure.
Is this sport growing or just getting better at selling shit? Or the declining relevancy of niche websites, I suppose.
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I updated the list of v-brake arm lengths for all you canti-hating nerds.
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this is something i wonder all the time. i still want a place to go talk about bikes, but most of the places i went to when I was a young teen dreamin’ bout bikes seem to have aged considerably.
is everyone just on r/xbiking? or discord?
bicycle counter culture (BCC) slack is poppin
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whats that
Zoomer Tarck
It’s sort of a bizarro tarck, in some ways
Your bike is awesome and we have a team of experts to tell you why
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is it the same person as who runs bike insights?
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hes around for sure, but not sure who began it
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i just assumed it was jdgesus 
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yeah, hobocross (one half of bicycle insights) started it
also consider tarck’s decade+ of archives vs bcc slack’s “messages older than 10 days or so fall off the back of the free slack tier’s history”
How does one view this? I have no experience with slack
do you have any insight into how old tarck search was so bad it was hostile?
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of uk yeah
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this is infuriating, especially when you’re in a slack workspace (cough cycling tips cough) where access is part of your paid membership
How much does the cyclingtips membership cost?
Slack fact: Slack charges $100 per user per year for the paid plan no matter the size or purpose of your organization
I pay $100 a year to support a newsletter I really like and there’s a Slack group to go along with it. It’s a bummer that the messages disappear, but I think the group would lose a lot of subscribers if the membership rate went up to $200