This is what's right with The Industry®
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I have One Ups on 5 bikes and a Wolftooth on 1. All work fine. I wouldn't spend the considerable extra money on the Wolftooth unless the -40ish grams matters.
Seems like it. Won't know for sure until I go back out into the cold with it, but it did amazing last winter and it seems to be totally smoothed out now after the service. I had one of my Revive's do the same thing over the summer, did the service and it's even more silky-smooth. Heck, rode that one yesterday (in the cold) and it's doing great. Thinking about both the WT and the BY, the BY is defiantly smoother, but the WT isn't bad in that respect and a lot better than say a PNW. Supposedly WT emphasized cold-weather performance down to at least -20 and I did use it all last winter, so that would probably be my deciding factor, if you plan to use it in the cold much. The Revive still works in the cold, never had any problems with it, but I'm hesitant to take it into the -Fs, so I don't have it set up on one of those bikes for that reason.
I might have an extra?
my first gen one up has developed significant left/right play after many years of abuse. the valve also spins w/the pump when i add air now, so i have to make sure the threads are super greased and i don't tighten too much when it needs inflating...but it still generally works well.
Yep, done several rides after the service and it's back to amazing. A cold-weather hero IME.
There is one issue with this and even the BY/PNW posts. If ridden in the cold, you need to not extend them fully when bringing inside. If you don't, the actuating mechanism can jam and will only "work" again when brought back to the same temp. It's a non-issue if you realize it, but even the PNW did this on me a few days ago because I forgot to keep it compress. It's rare for me to forget though.
That says more about Americans than it does about Austria AND Australia combined.
Eh, it's gotta be tough when your national identity is, "We're more German than the German part of Switzerland."
Aussie's have it too easy. Their identity is copied from the land they got dropped off on, wild & dusty.
DH racing is really growing again in the US.
Neko and the East Coast are leading the charge, there is the Downhill Rockies Series with some legit venues in actual mountains, and now BME has has announced a 4 race DH series.
I hear Sunrise Park in AZ has some rough and raw trails.
Neko and the East Coast are leading the charge, there is the Downhill Rockies Series with some legit venues in actual mountains, and now BME has has announced a 4 race DH series.
I hear Sunrise Park in AZ has some rough and raw trails.
are those mountains really big?
yes it proved you are a zombie stuck on repeat
The terrain around windrock is awesome, with plenty of vert. And the people building it up are a hell of a lot more tolerable than some espresso sipping pinky finger for a personality overlooking the alps, patting themselves on the back for their own priviledge.
Windham Mountain to be mostly members-only
A letter lays out plans to turn the publicly-accessible ski resort into a club mostly reserved for those paying for a $175,000 lifetime membership.
Stowe Mountain Resort discontinues seasonal parking passes - VTDigger
Last October, online sales of an unspecified number of $450 seasonal parking passes that didn’t even promise a parking spot sold out immediately, prompting complaints from some of the resort’s disgruntled devotees.
vtdigger.org
sorry, this is the "what's right" thread
That whole industry has lost their god damned minds. I'll enjoy watching it implode.Windham Mountain to be mostly members-only
A letter lays out plans to turn the publicly-accessible ski resort into a club mostly reserved for those paying for a $175,000 lifetime membership.www.timesunion.com
Stowe Mountain Resort discontinues seasonal parking passes - VTDigger
Last October, online sales of an unspecified number of $450 seasonal parking passes that didn’t even promise a parking spot sold out immediately, prompting complaints from some of the resort’s disgruntled devotees.
sorry, this is the "what's right" thread
What highland did with an existing hill and a lift being fully converted to a bike park needs to be a model going forward. Although every year, mountainbiking gets more and more like skiing so watch the same thing happen in 20 years....
Highland was dedicated to bikes from the start, and people noticed that. The half-assed attempts by ski hills isn't working- you've got to go balls-deep into bikes. They also learned from their mistakes...people didn't love clapped out jank with 500ft of elevation, so they started building berms and jumps and doubled down on what was working. Hopefully gwindrock will do the same.
I thought that was a failed ski hill that ended up being a cheap purchase, no?
Either way, yeah it's dinky, but plenty of hills in the southeast don't really get reliable snow without gobs of cash in snowmaking equipment. Given the comparatively little public land available to ride bikes on, some of the hills with more vert need to be looking at mtb parks more seriously than they are. The full time or almost full time bike park could be a hell of a lot more lucrative than forcing winters that don't happen.
Like everything else, ebikes will just fuck it up of course
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One Up Components deserve props, they are doing everything right.
bikerumor.com
OneUp Components Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary, Refunds First 42 Customers
Not only has the OneUp Components Expander Sprocket stood the test of time, but the company has too, and is celebrating 10 years.
bikerumor.com
I think they stopped making those 1up replacement cogs way way too early. You could still buy (maybe still can) new 11spd Sram X-dome cassettes and having that ability to at least replace the aluminum cog on that or the 12spd if it wore out (let alone extend it "up") was really nice. I mean, sure, the cassettes can last like 5 years, but usually that is what would go first anyways and you could (I did) still be running it with a 1up replacement. I think it was 3 or 4 seasons ago I scrounged to fine one of the very last and then all gone.One Up Components deserve props, they are doing everything right.
OneUp Components Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary, Refunds First 42 Customers
Not only has the OneUp Components Expander Sprocket stood the test of time, but the company has too, and is celebrating 10 years.
And then they make this abomination, which surely isn't "right":
Switch - SRAM DM
Switch. A quick-change direct mount chainring system from OneUp Components. Switch was developed to reduce the cost of replacement chainrings, increase compatibility with new offsets and to make the process of changing your chainring much faster and simpler. Cheaper Replacement Cost -...
www.oneupcomponents.com
But it's cool they've expanded so much and make so many different products. Them and Wolftooth, nice to see them built a business off of chainrings and shit and expanded into so many markets.
Agreed, that switch thing will be on the slag-heap of forgotten ‘mtb-tech’ pretty quickly, I would imagine.
Yeah kind of weird for them to stop making them. Though I think thats the key thing, they don't make them, their made overseas (most likely) so given the declining sales their accounting department probably told them to axe them. It would be cool if they switched old stuff like this to "service parts" and had North Shore Billet or some other local shop make them in small batches, to continue support.I think they stopped making those 1up replacement cogs way way too early. You could still buy (maybe still can) new 11spd Sram X-dome cassettes and having that ability to at least replace the aluminum cog on that or the 12spd if it wore out (let alone extend it "up") was really nice. I mean, sure, the cassettes can last like 5 years, but usually that is what would go first anyways and you could (I did) still be running it with a 1up replacement. I think it was 3 or 4 seasons ago I scrounged to fine one of the very last and then all gone.
And then they make this abomination, which surely isn't "right":
Switch - SRAM DM
Switch. A quick-change direct mount chainring system from OneUp Components. Switch was developed to reduce the cost of replacement chainrings, increase compatibility with new offsets and to make the process of changing your chainring much faster and simpler. Cheaper Replacement Cost -...
But it's cool they've expanded so much and make so many different products. Them and Wolftooth, nice to see them built a business off of chainrings and shit and expanded into so many markets.
That said though, did you email them and ask if they had any extras? I still have their v1 chain guide, which they no longer list parts on the site. A few years ago, I needed replacement plastic and they sold me some for cheap, that they had laying around in their wear house or somewhere.
This is what's wrong with the industry though - when stuff is still perfectly good and useable but just need a 2-cent plastic piece or something and is rendered garbage because the company has moved onto iteration 23 of the same product.
why? A buddy of mine has some. He rides a lot, so goes through rings fairly frequently. I think he may use them most on his gravel bike? Anyways, he's been pretty happy at the cost savings.
Well, the replacement rings are still almost $50. But to me, if the best expression of simplicity is the goal of good engineering, adding bolts and proprietary parts doesn’t strike me as the elegant solution.
One more possible failure point (loosening bolts) or creaks, etc, for the general population.
Dorks like us would probably be just fine with them.
Just my .02.
One more possible failure point (loosening bolts) or creaks, etc, for the general population.
Dorks like us would probably be just fine with them.
Just my .02.
We don't make those anymore up here in Canada land
FWIW my mtbs are on £3 AliXpress 4 bolt (remember those?) 104bcd narrow wide chainrings. Been running those happily for years. Every one had lasted as long as any other overpriced gimmicky Alu chainring. Actually Scrub that longer than many others.