Years ago in my endurance racing days a bunch of us flew from NYC to Salt Lake for a 75 mile Park City UT race. One of my friends had his fork pissing oil out the seals after a pre-ride the day before the race. He took it to a PC shop for a seal change and they phoned him a couple of hours later letting him know the damper rod had snapped when they'd tightened it back up.
You must
I toasted my brand new BB30 bearings after one ride because I didn't torque the cranks to 5 uggaduggas. You better do it.
Meanwhile on two sets of new Cane Creek bb30 bottom brackets, if I look at them wrong, they start to bind up.
Not trying to start a brand debate here, but I noticed the extra stiffness when going from Shimano's 24mm axle to SRAM's 30mm almost instantly. And I'm using a BB30 to BSA converter BB with external cups.
I... I mean... I can't even start thinking of a proper way to bitch about that abomination...The Hammerhead 360 is a Vibration Damping Stem - Pinkbike
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that's cool...i've never thought the ol 24mm was noodly.
i didn't either until i tried cranks that were stiffer, in large part because of 30mm axles. i should at that the first pair i had just made the frame flex much more noticeable.
If going that far, I'd just spring for a custom ti bar and fat grips.
holy shit you're alive
ha that's wild. i moved back to the east coast over a decade ago now, currently in the greater Philly region. my oldest kid turns 6 on Friday.
ha thanks man. i got 2 kids (oldest is getting a proper MTB for his birthday), work in med device, still riding but not as much as i want. where you at these days?
my wife gave me the go ahead to get a season pass to the bike park again this summer. first time since we had kids.
You guys have all the good DH races. We have tons of fresh builds and trails now.
if i'm flying across time zones for riding its gonna be once i can get back into canada and finally go to whistler
to whoever answers, please also provide the corresponding number in IHUs (international hamfist units).
Yeah kai is bugging me to go there so we will probably go this summer....
no, no, i'm pretty sure there's a direct correlation to the number of beers consumed prior to said hamfisting, as well as the lateness of the hour (past maybe 9:00). so an IHU formula would be something like: IHU = (BC) x (hp9)
What park?
Blue. it's the closest to me by a pretty big margin.
Three shittons per pull.
If I did Northstar or Mammoth 3+ times a year a DH bike may make sense. I was way quicker on the DH bike at Northstar compared to the Trail bike even though it felt like I was going half the speed. Last year YT had a good deal and Specialized had the Team Demo for $3250 so half off. Still, $3K is a good chunk of $$$
