Capture One is a pretty good Lightroom competitor and still has a standalone license. It’s $300, but it’s pretty decent.
I played around with Darktable, which does a pretty good job of recreating Adobe’s madness for trying to export an image from the catalog.
It gets better the more you look at it. Like, how in the hell did they get the bolt on hanger to work with track ends?
It looks like it weighs 32 pounds
Well, shit! Today I learned these exist.
That’s an amazing kludge and I love it. Sheldon would approve.
Damn, photopea is good. Let’s me paste multiple bitmaps onto the one layer and let’s each one remain individually editable. Just got to work out how to resize them with the cursor rather than by putting in a smaller pixel size. Edit. Found it. Transform controls.
Guess you don’t have to worry about rolling the bars or centering them.
how is this better than just mounting the bars on a top cap stem clamp?
is this a PVD thing? It feels like a PVD thing.
I think this is explicitly for MTB shredders going fast and hitting features, not flannel buds farting around the Northwoods at 4mph on their 18kg battlewagon.
Are there other 0mm stems than the Discord one? It has a lot of fussiness and doesn’t seem great. The main proponent of those stems also has an off-putting online presence. Meanwhile Pacenti (even if he’s not involved) reminds me of the 90s alt-rock guitarist who used to drive our bus in middle school smoking cigarettes with his arm out the window and cranking tunes from his mini-boombox.
It’s like he played Filter’s LP on repeat for nothing!
but yeah I don’t know anything about what kinds of things people do with mountain bikes, the whole affair seems terribly uncouth.
It just seems like if getting the bars closer to the body is the goal, why not topcap? too high?
when do we get flipped mtb stems? like a -35mm reach?
The smaller riders in the XC world are running serious negative drop in some cases, due to the higher stack on a 29er.
Pinkbike commenters get so offended.
I think right now the issue is industrial scale hasn’t realized the demand (if it exists) so only boutique option(s) which means less people are trying/designing for. Probably it will be like <60mm stems and in 2-3 years we’ll have a bunch of options from China.
It’s getting like this with gravel bikes as well. To get effective reach one needs either a super long stem which is less than ideal for technical riding, or a giant size with huge headtube and subsequent negative stem.
Has anyone ridden a reverse stem? I was always curious but too lazy to try.
When will stems go under the HT ala early 90s pursuit bikes
I think the idea is with less “tiller,” moving your upper body around on the bike has less of a direct effect on the steering. Going to negative tiller is weird/unstable from what I’ve heard. Tho negative tiller is part of the handling equation for recumbents.
That stem is dumb tho bc the bars would be weakened with a big dent there. What actually matters is where the grips are, just use bars with some sweep to put the grips at 0
The crowns have plenty of material to start mounting stems there
I’ve briefly done a flipped stem and have more time on negative tiller via swept bars on MTB and it does feel a little weird. You might be able to adapt but I feel like there’s some funky control feedback things going on.
I am also offended
I ran a syntace flatforce stem on my 2014 Spec Camber Evo and it felt great. Looked almost pro or something, just funny with a pike and such. Kinda like my saddle to bar drop that is likely bigger on the enduro than any road bike I have.
