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  1. William42

    Fort William 2024 Race

    This is thrilling news
  2. William42

    who makes the best sealed zs56 headset? (only need lower cup)

    Perfect, glad you figured out a solution that works!
  3. William42

    2024 racing thread

    "Uhm, AKSHULLLY blahblahblah a bunch of blathering nobody gives a fuck about because it's both dumb and misses the point" *tips fedora* Thats what you both sound like right now. What is it about giving people credit for the things they've done and helped create that's so hard for some of yall...
  4. William42

    2024 racing thread

    Well, she won 10 national championships, 39 world cups, 6 world cup overalls, and 6 world championships... had a kid, started a bike park, founded a bike company... and came back and won on 3 weeks of training last year. Did another race the next week and immediately said 'fuck this' despite...
  5. William42

    who makes the best sealed zs56 headset? (only need lower cup)

    So thats the steerer tube and the top cover - the bearings you'll want to measure are the bearings with the black seal in image 12 (looks like you have a Cane Creek top cover and bearing with a green seal on the upper part of the picture, blue measuring background, and the stock top cover with...
  6. William42

    This is what's wrong with The Industry™

    Santa Cruz has always had a pretty good business model it seems. Make a good DH bike and mediocre everything else bikes that are 3-4 years behind the competition, but bake in a lifetime supply of bearings (for the first owner) to the cost of the frame, then charge an extra 30% on top for shits...
  7. William42

    who makes the best sealed zs56 headset? (only need lower cup)

    Short answer: Easiest thing to do is to buy a new headset - but it's only a tiny bit easier, and it's more expensive by a lot. The one you linked wont work though. Hope's website is kind of a pain to navigate but you need a ZS56/28.6 upper - the ZS56/38.1 is for a straight 1.5 steer tube fork...
  8. William42

    An Amusing Query On MTBR

    Isn't he in prison?
  9. William42

    This is what's wrong with The Industry™

    Yes - you're skipping the period where they were making bikes with geo that was 3-4 years behind the time that were carrying 30% more frame weight than their competitors, used basic single pivots with mediocre leverage ratios, and were producing bikes like the coilair. They did that for 6-7...
  10. William42

    Pole Bikes hates Ridemonkey

    Tomato Tomato. It's the same thing with a different color and a 3g weight difference but hell yah if it makes you feel good. Either way, best drivetrain ever made.
  11. William42

    Pole Bikes hates Ridemonkey

    I like the gearing that 12 speed has to offer. But the facts are, SRAM 11s XO is the best drivetrain ever made. Fight me.
  12. William42

    Pole Bikes hates Ridemonkey

    That's uh... a weird thing to hate. VC money comes in with the expectation of failure generally. It's a "invest in 100 companies because one of them will be successful enough that the other 99 folding doesn't matter." It's not a public company. There's no pumping going on. They're not fluffing...
  13. William42

    This is what's right with The Industry®

  14. William42

    This is what's right with The Industry®

    Not an ideal solution, but could probably throw one of the rockshox elastomers from their old boxxer teams in there. But yeah, this seems liked a solved problem with an incredibly easy solution of throwing a bottom out bumper in there, and this solution of "lets just ignore it and give the...
  15. William42

    This is what's wrong with The Industry™

    Nobody said it couldn't be done. They said it *shouldn't* be done. But hey, progress is progress. Now if they can just figure out a way to mount flat, low rise narrow flat handlebars on there, we can recreate the late 90's mountain bike, but more expensive.
  16. William42

    Random new bike thread

    Fun fact about Squamish: It's actually in a place called Canada, which is geographically considered America's hat.
  17. William42

    Random new bike thread

    I think the one thing we can all agree on is that bentonville is the mtb capital of the world. There are absolutely no places I think of before Bentonville when it comes to being the mtb capital of the world. And more people should go there instead of the places I like to ride.
  18. William42

    What happened to Canfield Bros?

    Looks like I missed this one earlier, but that's fun to hear. I rode with him a few times about 15-20 years ago I think, that dude was absolutely wild. I was 100% confident he would have died of a cocain overdose while having relations with a pair of hookers by now. Happy to hear he's still...
  19. William42

    Who out there is still making 27.5 enduro bikes

    Sounds like the bike you rode was just clapped out, must be a you thing Just like all of them are. Fuck that company.
  20. William42

    Who out there is still making 27.5 enduro bikes

    I'm liking the suggestions of getting a mullet and then either slapping a longer 27.5 fork on that puppy or a crown extender or some combination thereof. That opens up a fair amount of options, my LBS made me a pretty solid offer on a Slash 6 that might be worth my time slapping a 27.5 fork on...
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