Can Vermont handle this shredding machine? Congrats, what a great looking ride, and welcome to the club of the silly wheel sizes!
My Heckler got jacked this morning.
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At this point I have dropped about $6,300 as a result of the theft. Insurance has so far given me $1,875, and there's some more coming since I just sent them receipts for some of the things I have purchased. As it sits, I'm down about $4,400.
There's a bunch of unrecoverable loss; gave a 26" wheelset with studded tires, some spare tires, and all my Hayes stuff to LBS just to get it out from underfoot. I still have to purge spare shifters, derailleurs, etc.
There's a bunch of unrecoverable loss; gave a 26" wheelset with studded tires, some spare tires, and all my Hayes stuff to LBS just to get it out from underfoot. I still have to purge spare shifters, derailleurs, etc.
Plan on spending a few hundred moar on shimz.
I know it's real bro to dump on HFX and related brakes, but they served me very well for years.
i'll take your 26" stuff
the difference between an HFX9 and a XT785 brake is like the difference between a 76 pacer and a prius. They both work.... I had mags on a recent DH bike. The newer brakes are worlds better in performance and more reliable.
the one thing i will give that old hayes stuff is that it worked for a looooooooooong time. i'd see those things go 5 years without a bleed and still work fine (fine being subjective for a disc brake from the early 2000's)
yes, there are plenty of hayes mags out there still working mediocre since day 1. I haven't bled my XTs since I cut the hoses in 2011 when I bought them, and they're still more reliable and powerful than any set of mags I've owned.
JBP has gotten way more mileage out of his stuff than I have, and will continue to, but good brakes are one of the best upgrades you can make.
comparing brakes from then to brakes from now ...
comparing the hayes to what else was on the market at the time they were released is the point i'm getting at.
so...the market for brakes from then right now is....probably pretty slim considering the affordability of GOOD brakes?
didn't say anything about the market for them. just they they were good brakes for the time. and lasted a long time.
Right hand bar plug now missing and bar end seems to be stuffed with dirt. How could that have happened?
End of handlebar, you dumb fuck, sir!
1993 called and wants its equipment back.
end of handle bar ≠ bar endEnd of handlebar, you dumb fuck, sir!
You daft old codger.
One term multiple meanings, check context.end of handle bar ≠ bar end
You daft old codger.
Semantics aside, none of this would happen if you'd just stop jimmydeaning it.
JimmyDeaning is an important part of riding. In this case becoming entangled with a downed tree was part of the rewarding exercise.
Wait a second... this bike has a dropper post, don't it?? How you JimmyDeaning it?!?
really? dropper is not some sort of anti-deaning device...at least not from my experience and that of my friends...
WTF? I think you guys may be doing it wrong. I can't remember the last time I went OTB...
Faster you go... less the chance of the OTB. At least in my experience. Moar speed, pull up.
otb is but just one of many, many ways to j'dean yourself, my friends...
Correct. With the fancy new rig, JBP may be into temporarily Jimmydeaning himself (e.g. the venerable "back Dean"):
*note - I love the fact that "jimmydeaning" is now a verb.
Ah. I thought by its nature that a JimmyDean was a specific crash in which you flipped over and ended up on your head. My bad...
and yet, here is an example of lots of speed and lots of pull nevertheless resulting in Myriam JimmyDeaning herself: http://www.pinkbike.com/news/myriam-nicole-injury-update-2015.html
The whole "pulling up" thing is a pedantic physics pet peeve of mine. It is like telling someone to jump by bending their knees real quick. This will do the exact fucking opposite of what you intend to do. Push on your fucking bars you imbecile, the act of stopping this push, or the deceleration of the up/back motion cause by said push is what gets your bike over shit.
Heh - must be tough going through life like this.
But yeah - what you said.
It just won't fit on a bumper sticker very well.
She obviously needed MOAR speed.
Constantly being surrounded by the clueless does wear thin after a while.Heh - must be tough going through life like this.
Heh - must be tough going through life like this.
Tell me about it...
Wait a second.
All this talk of jimmydeaning glosses over the fact that unrideable bike is unrideable.
Not quite the point. If you are
Also known as suspension loading.
Speaking of handling. When I broke my collar bone and was still determined to ride, I could not pull up on the bars. I learned that I could still pop off a curb just by shifting my weight. This lead me to believe that the majority of bike handling comes from the pelvis and your hands actually have little to do with it.
Even works without suspension. Actually the backwards motion works better than any upwards motions as there is a larger range of motion, basically backing that ass up, then stopping. You don't necessarily need to lift the front end as much as you need to apply a moment to the bike, same effect as a pedal kick.