This is what's right with The Industry®
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back when camelbacks came out a high school friend of mine would put beer in the bladder.
Now, riding with 3 beers in my pack is definitely something I don’t want to do. It’s enough of a challenge to keep it on two wheels sober.
Practice makes perfect, right?
for the record one beer is the norm. two if its a long ride. only have done three during epics in quebec and north carolina.
I'm still wearing stuff I bought on Chainlove 10+ years ago 
Technical T's I've got a bunch from races that I wear if not wearing an XC jersey with pockets. I do like SpecialEd SWAT bibs with the pockets they have in them...
Technical T's I've got a bunch from races that I wear if not wearing an XC jersey with pockets. I do like SpecialEd SWAT bibs with the pockets they have in them...
A mate of mine did that and could never get the taste out. I normally just fill the bladder with ice water and tuck a couple of beer cans in with it and they stay ice cold up to a couple hours.
I like to fill the bladder partially full and freeze it overnight before filling prior to the ride. Just have to orient it correctly so the the drink tube connection has an air bubble.
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Most tech tees that I find at REI-type stores nowadays don't breathe well enough for warm weather. They're OK for hiking, but not for real cardio in the sun.
IMO this is because outdoor brands went overboard with SPF-rated clothing a few years back. Before that, I could find very breathable mesh tech tees from North Face, etc.
I pretty much only want to ride in perforated long sleeves year round. When it gets a little colder, I'll put a warm base layer underneath. I'm a big fan of the TLD sprint jersey, except I can't hang with 90% of their "colourways". TLD shorts are ace these days tho.
It's on my to-do list to check out warm weather soccer jerseys. I am pretty sure the stuff made for running is too disposable.
IMO this is because outdoor brands went overboard with SPF-rated clothing a few years back. Before that, I could find very breathable mesh tech tees from North Face, etc.
I pretty much only want to ride in perforated long sleeves year round. When it gets a little colder, I'll put a warm base layer underneath. I'm a big fan of the TLD sprint jersey, except I can't hang with 90% of their "colourways". TLD shorts are ace these days tho.
It's on my to-do list to check out warm weather soccer jerseys. I am pretty sure the stuff made for running is too disposable.
I am 100% with you. I bought very cheap ventilated motocross jerseys for like $10/piece for hot summer riding. The TLD stuff is nicer but 10 minutes in the ride, when drenched in sweat, the difference quickly disappears.
What moto stuff are you using? I had some cheap (and extremely ugly) Moose Sahara ones that were great material, but the cut and aesthetics left a lot to be desired.
If anyone knows of perforated / mesh tech tees, please chime in.
If anyone knows of perforated / mesh tech tees, please chime in.
I buy extremely thin Club Ride button down jerseys on ebay in the winter. usually about $25, and so light and comfortable.
Used to ride in soccer jerseys way back. Ones with proper fabric work just fine and dry quickly.
I have a Cycle gear store down the street so I just buy their cheap Bilt jerseys, like this one: https://www.cyclegear.com/gear/bilt-air-con-jersey
They're gonna have to do a lot better than $10k to get people to move to trumpland
Dustin Adams is doing good things! Wasn’t he the last guy to race WC XC and DH in the same weekend?
Not really, they'll go there from better places and be happy.
These look cool - https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/collections/headset-related/products/wolf-tooth-performance-geoshift-angle-headset. Full ZS44/ZS56 angleset. Useful if you want to run an angleset without raising the stack as much as with a Works.
Next: Adjust on the fly like a dropper.
My works basically has zero stack, but I have one of those gigantican ZS62 lowers.
Debating if this belongs in the good or bad thread.
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Monster t forks have always had me reaching for the eye bleach.
That shit is like if Hunter S. Thomson was Russian, and rode bikes. I had to stop reading it because my brain hurt, and just looked at the photos of the weird-ass bikes.Not industry, but scene. Radness
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An amazing, bewildering, look into the Streetetz Clan's old-school freeride culture.
Come on, you know what the world needs now is a single crown Monster T...
At least they got the goddam chassis right. Literally, nothing else, but standards weren't very high...
Thats it? Like they're the glaring problems you identified? I'm actually more surprised it has clips.
I mean purely anesthetics wise. I also don't have my glasses on, so...
But either way, it violates Knollys patent, so I guess freeride is dead.
i had a first year monster (1999). at the time it was pretty cool; certainly a stout chassis, and plush. though the damper was decidedly primitive, but that was a given back then. and was 10lbs. which was about 4lbs heavier than my next fork, a manitou x-vert carbon (which had a decent damper, but required near weekly maintenance, and eventually broke). we've got it soooo good these days, in retrospect.
I mean purely anesthetics wise.
It's got nitrous?
The Monster T had slotted lowers and dynamic bushings, it was basically a re-purposed trials moto fork, possibly why the damping was so crap, since for trials it didn't really need to be taking impacts very fast. But chassis wise, that rigidity was perfect and the lubrication from the design was top notch. If it only had a decent damper, man that would have been just amazingballs. It's so frustrating how the "pieces" have existed from time to time, like the reliable and solid Monster chassis and the damper from Avy in their flexy DHF fork, but these things could never meet up in real life unfortunately. The 2004 chassis was supposed to be better damping, supposedly something from one of their moto forks, but that isn't necessarily saying much, given the other information above. If these could have been had with decent dampers, it would have been the ultimate example of how you don't need 10" of travel, you just need some good travel and rigidity to keep binding/flex down.
Some trials guys in Italy put modified Fox 40s on their bikes. Non compétition ultra light bikes.
a bike with a „wehrmacht“ sticker is „pretty damn sweet“? allright then, no more questions...Is this where Propaine's came from?
This thing would look pretty damn sweet, if it had a different seat and bash ring.