Yeah fair call, I was trying to connect the dots between no Zerode owners complaining vs. a bunch of people complaining about the 11's, I never bothered to count the shifts on it - I presume then that the Alfine 8 is a reliable unit. Is it produced in parallel to the 11 or has it been superseded?
Reversed still. Big button for go faster. Not an issue on a Alfine as the shift isn't having to pull a mech up a cassette. Shifting either way is effortless compared to a derailleur shifter going to easier gear. It's nearly to easy until your used to it. Unless you're shifting under full stomping power, then it's like a rear mech but not, load time is shorter, but you learn to light pedal a touch for a shift, same as a mech, but not.
Hit it with a gearbox. Duh.
here it be:
Entire thread was ruined by Gearbox diarrhea....
sorry for the delay, I had to actually work for a few days - and now chiming in from the far east: our chinese overlords deny access to youtube and facebook, but - get this: they don't block ridemonkey! they must be reaping the secret information about titanium forgings and other military secrets discussed here. Please keep all discussions on the DH forum at Classification DBag or lower - if not for you think of the children.
Good to hear that Santa Cruz gets their frames produced in a country that lives by the same standards as the US: Land of the free, home of the brave!
Looks petty trick.
qft^^^
China is another story, but having lived in Taiwan for the past 3 months I've got a long list of things the land of the free and home of the brave could learn from the way things are done here.Good to hear that Santa Cruz gets their frames produced in a country that lives by the same standards as the US: Land of the free, home of the brave!
Yes because offloading pollution to a country like china because you don't want to pay for clean production in your own country is totally cool.
It's not about pollution, it's about labor cost. Still don't want one in my backyard, although I could do without jet lag.
TBH countries with proper environmental and worker health regulations should just have a blanket import ban on products produced in factories not meeting those (as in your own HSE and environmental) requirements, simultaneously encourage china (mainly) to boost human rights and environmental standards, whilst also not ****ing over local manufacturers with unbeatable competition. It's the same case in Australia where we export all our coal (and iron ore) to china, let them burn it in a coal station (then smelt some iron with the electricity) then make regulations requiring Australian coal stations to fit scrubbing equipment and wonder why we can't compete, globalisation is the worst evil to befall our world.
wUrd. We all suffer when the stuff made in china is made in the most polluting, cheapest way possible.
It is officially lighter than my 2013 road bike frame.
So Ti saves 1/2lb at this size. The RC4 shock itself is lighter than I expected. With a Ti spring it only gives up 1/2lb to the Vivid Air.
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