Boooo i expected square steertube
This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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I remember thinking Troy Brosnan's helmet cam from Andorra was sped up, till I checked and it matched his race time.What's wrong is sped up vids
As if he needs something like this...
Actually not so much whats wrong with the industry. I'm sure people out there want those. But surely those things aren't gonna survive the first rock garden pedal smack?
yea, it definitely doesn't seem sped up. esp when you look at the trees and transitions to the road to gauge how steep it is.
Eh...at that price why not just get a Stages crank arm meter?
Dorenaz is one of 2 spots I ride during the winter that are close to my house. I ride that track all the time and didn’t think those clips were sped up. It is just narrow, rough and fast. It makes the GoPro look fast and it feels faster even. There’s 2 more trails there but in a legal grey area.What's wrong is sped up vids
As if he needs something like this...
Okay, okay, I stand corrected. It's just the third part that looks hellish fast given the terrain and narrow nature of that trail. You knowing that trail and giving him credit is all proof needed. Maybe it's the bat flu viruses inside me atm that don't let me comprehend those speeds
i‘d rather bitch about riding with such speed on hiking paths. this is definitely not helpful in the rider vs. hikers debate.
It’s open year round too. The trail goes up about twice as high too but the gondola doesn’t go up higher. So you can earn your turns if you absolutely have to!
@Flo33
I am not 100% but I don’t think Finn needs any help speeding things up. The new GoPro and a narrow trail ridden fast gives that impression. Vinny T told me his settings but I forgot them since I don’t have a GoPro myself. He gets sections in Morgins to look sped up too.
Distortion on the outside of the image creating a hyperdrive effect. Also, those guys are just fast.
Come check it out one day! You can do a long trail down to another town called Fully and descend into vineyards and wine tasting bars. It’s a MIcroclimate for wine and dry dirt around here.
If I wanted an explosion of carbon fibre particles all over my trails I'd ride a Yeti.
Yeah, but it's unknown if that's the actual proximal event. Usually, a carbon failure will have some loud cracking associated as the strands snap under tension, which is one give-away, but I am unsure if the carbon on my turner swingarm started busting due to a big drop to flat in Sedona, or if it was due to cumulative/acute use before that point. I only noticed it after that drop, but can't be sure it wasn't already starting. Same with my Pivot main-frame flaw, at the main pivot a crack developed that was a known issue with the frame and Pivot replaced it, but I only checked when I saw other's reports and yep, mine was doing the same thing.
But anyway, that's why he paid 5000 for a Yeti frame...for the inevitable warranty replacement, right?
I missed the memo. Are Yeti frames as durable as paper?
it's not unheard of for them to crack. a coworker went through i think 3 warranty replacements (maybe 3-4 years ago) before getting a pivot
Did something change with pivot or does your coworker has a weird warranty fetish?
to be fair he's pretty high up in management and likes to spend money. and the pivot has lasted longer than all his yetis combined.
i heard the crack/crunch when the chainstay on my nomad let go.
I killed a CF rim (but to it's credit it held up fine with a tube in it for a 7 mile DH back to the car) on a ride where I didn't put enough pressure in for the chunk and it sounded like a hard shock bottom or pop. I tried to figure out what happened by looking over my bike, but didn't see anything initially, all seemed fine. Rode it for a while and then felt a little sealant spraying out, looked closer, that's when I saw the CF had busted, but it took a pretty hard hit and it didn't just shatter into a million parts either. The noise definitely got my attention.
i'm a packaging engineer and i can tell you several ways you're right, and several ways you're wrong
The last time I rode with a Yeti owner (not often), he dropped the bike in a switchback at 3 mph onto some exposed rocks, and that vertical section of the rear triangle cracked like an egg. Maybe it was just the surface layer, and I don't know what follow-up he did.
I don't know if that's normal for carbon bikes, since I don't ride 'em.
I don't know if that's normal for carbon bikes, since I don't ride 'em.
Wow! I guess you feel pretty badass showing up in the parking lot after a ride, still riding your bike, but with half of the mainframe strapped on your backpack. Probably worth it despite all these nasty CF splinters you got in your legs and genitals.
Yeah when that one snapped I was sussing it out afterwards and couldn't get past how thin the carbon was. I've seen a new Yeti frame where you could compress a small section of the tube with your thumbnail like it was an empty beer can- that one got warrantied before it was even built though. Some issue with the layup apparently.
I have received minor injury multiple times breaking down cardboard boxes, especially pizza boxes.
You gotta shave grams when you put an over-complicated sliding-condom thing on your bike instead of a simple linkage.
My shop was a dealer for nearly 20 years but had to drop them around 2016 when they were all breaking, giving us the run-around, and replacements took months. I thought they'd changed manufacturers since then and were on par with other brands.
Update on the No More Bike Park At Keystone:
Heard from an A-Basin patroller today that he heard Keystone bike park is done. He also heard that one of the reasons is management was sick of the cost of employees getting hurt while on the clock. This was both lifties taking a lap and bike patrol riders doing their duties. The final straw was an employee breaking their femur last summer in way that was really expensive.
The good news is he said A-Basin seems to be doing well financially and wants to have a bike park.
Heard from an A-Basin patroller today that he heard Keystone bike park is done. He also heard that one of the reasons is management was sick of the cost of employees getting hurt while on the clock. This was both lifties taking a lap and bike patrol riders doing their duties. The final straw was an employee breaking their femur last summer in way that was really expensive.
The good news is he said A-Basin seems to be doing well financially and wants to have a bike park.
Soquel Demo Forest always has Swerks, Yetis, and whatever $12k-Ebikes on North Shore racks attached to Teslas in the parking area. Conspicuous consumption, "VC"-style.
But...but...if you show up at the trail head with a Yeti on top of your Audi SQ7, you're sooper cool!
Hucking to flat is for commoners! Bah!
Booo. (@Nick so you can boo too as I know you like(d) Keystone)
A-Basin has certainly got steep enough terrain for some fast trails. Anyone from out of state will be worn out from hypoxia after two laps.
that's a bummer. keystone was my first experience doing lift access riding. hooked for life.
speaking of, is there anywhere to grab a decent rental to ride in santa cruz? Planning to be out there for work in about a months time.