I think Iâve seen that bike on the back of a Land Rover. The person works at Nike or some place adjacent.
i met a dad/son combo at the nordic ski trails here in rochester ny last winter. my friend and i stopped near them to let the groomer get a head start so we werenât breathing two-stroke exhaust. the dad was head to toe Bjorn Daehlie which is like the pre-walmart Rapha of skiing.
normal conversation of course leads to âwhere are you fromâ since theyâre not local. he says âwell portland oregon and minneapolis, but my inlaws live here and my daughter goes to college nearbyâ and he said what sport she played and i promptly forgot. i think lacrosse.
so my friend, who loves to know this shit, looks him up and discovers heâs the creative director of nike. naturally they probably have like half a dozen houses or something. he commutes from minneapolis to portland.
pretty good skier. very funny that he was wearing zero nike clothing on any part of his body visible to the outside.
covert Nike thong
Wow
Another cool older SS in my size.
This one is still available, too.
TBH if the Brodie was a steel frame I would already have bought it. I believe itâs a year 2000, which is the penultimate year Paul was still involved with the company.
So those two are cool. But thereâs also a Zaskar available which would fit me better than my previous Zaskar I had set up SS (which I sold). Do I want to build another SS Zaskar frame-up? Maybe.
my friend told me he reached out to the Hirschfield seller but the owner had apparently never heard of bike flights and quoted him like $200 for shipping lol
Where to? TBH the last couple of 23" MTB frame-only Iâve shipped have baaarely squeezed under the UPS size limit where shipping cost really jumps up. $200 for the whole bike might not be far off unfortunately.
to Denver area. I havenât shipped a bike in a couple years, maybe thatâs just what things cost now!
same, ive shipped both a frameset and a set of wheels in the past several months and they were about $100 each, which is what i used to pay for a whole god damn bike.
shipped a tandem two years ago and it was $450 to ship.
all good things are ending.
One of my friends on AIM back in 2005 used to have an away message that said âthe future will be expensiveâ
Turns out he was right!
kool 6700 kapu in Oxnard, looks big for a 51cm
shit is dummy expensive now. even with bike flights or a discount.
Itâs a real double edged sword for me as a buyer/seller. Silver lining is it keeps deals localâŚjust gotta wait until sellers realize this and start to lower their pricing.
$400 pugsley
Iâm super late to this but whatever: I love how this dave person goes into his tirades all guns blazing, claiming every car and bike suspension designer except him is an idiot and his design is a perfect marvel, and yet he doesnât even have the brainpower to explain what his design does. His attempt is pitiful. Anyway, deranged assholes like this are both infuriating and super entertaining. Itâs a shame people didnât push him to explain his âthought processâ. And Iâd love to see the wonderbike in action. From what I can work out the genius in the design is that the front and rear suspension move together. When you hit a bump with the front wheel the rear wheel goes up with it. Which massively increases unsprung weight and it will make the bike squat down⌠Which is great because??? âŚ??? Conversely when you get to a drop the front wheel can only move down into it if the rear goes down too⌠Which is to say the suspension has to raise the back end and your fat ass. Thatâs obviously not going to happen. Anyway, A+ entertaining lunatic.
yes I canât figure it out but weâre all idiots because even the suspension designers for f1 teams arenât using his design. theyâre just beholden to the status quo they donât want to go fast and win money. notably no one ever tries crazy ideas in f1
Also everyone knows the front wheel goes over the bump at the same time as the back wheel