Archer Components, it's single speed time again.
Glad I spent the extra $400 for the new remote.
Glad I spent the extra $400 for the new remote.
This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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what was your initial attraction to the archer system? I could never figure out what problem it was solving.
Weird. No problems with mine. Is the shifter dead?
Shitty thumb and I love short cage Saint mechs, being able to run 11 and maybe 12 speed Saint is nice too.
Shimano shifters are horrible.
It had been going to sleep(?) after a minute but only for downshifts so I'd have to double tap.
Then it went normal so I figured something bad was about to happen, it's died three times in two rides.
have you turned it off and on already?
Personal preference init?
10spd Zee is my favourite shifter ever due to its 2 way upshift paddle being operational with a push or pull. Using either your thumb or forefinger each way gives 4 different shifting options. It's also way lighter and smoother action than XT/SAINT. I kinda hate being restricted to only using thumb push on the SRAM shifters I have on a couple of bikes.
Di2 is brilliant for road bikes but I genuinely dislike the lack of feel/control Di2 and AXS gives on an MTB over a cable. (Eg. No way to overpush the downshift lever when the drivetrain becomes worn or covered in mud).
Yeah, should have said feels horrible to me.
I think I have or had a Zee shifter, both Saints were horrible, on the nine speed one I had to make a stopper to stop the downshift lever coming out so far then shave the downshift lever so I could hit the up, from memory I also made it so it would only click one gear at a time because the shift points were so close.
Then I ran my shifter on the left for a few years but droppers messed that up as I needed to use both thumbs, so I went AXS dropper and Archer for gears, that keeps my thumb pretty happy.
Saint and XT shifters just aren't a nice light action, even out the box they have too much resistance then after a short while the ratchet always goes gritty and stiff and they then feel even more horrible. I can only imagine how terrible they would feel for you.
I do like that double shift thing the Shimano shifters have where you can drop a couple of cog sizes with one motion. I don't really have a favourite for ergonomics between Shimano and SRAM but I do appreciate the SRAM picked one matchmaker option 50 years ago and stuck with it. Shimano's I-Spec nonsense R&D department must be stealing funds from the Saint development team because they release a new version 4 times a year.
I def prefer multi shift down to lower gears (changing through multiple larger sprockets with a long push of the lever before or at the beginning of a climb) but prefer single clicks to higher gears like SRAM has (and as luck would have it that's exactly how a Zee shifter is configured too). clicking how many gears you want to shift is much more intuitive in the heat of the moment than pushing the shifter a certain distance. for me anyway.
As for ergonomics. It's only chugging along on the flat or climbs where I'll ever use forefinger shifting. During descents or fun/technical riding I rarely change gear at all but if I do it's always thumb thumb. it's just nice to have the option of different hand positions and shifter operation.
As for ergonomics. It's only chugging along on the flat or climbs where I'll ever use forefinger shifting. During descents or fun/technical riding I rarely change gear at all but if I do it's always thumb thumb. it's just nice to have the option of different hand positions and shifter operation.
Shoving one of them into a 26 x 4” tire was one frustrating experience for sure, especially since that size still needs a (smaller) tube. Made Cushcore seem like a piece of cake.
We're you getting a lot of pinch flats? Hucking stair gaps? Extreme bike pathing?
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Really? I have CushyCore on one wheel, Tannus on another, and I prefer the ride of the Tannus. I think I can feel that it sits up higher and has a more gradual shock absorbtion. A bit lighter too.
EDIT: Just realized we're talking about different products. Me: tubeless insert. You: thing that goes over tube in tire.
Here's a "what's wrong with the industry" for all the Mainstreamers out there (that hopefully doesn't affect most of us). Why do most of the cheap, popular, electric getting-around bikes use weird tire and wheel sizes? Super tiny wheels on Costco bikes. Fat tires on commuters that will never leave pavement. I've even seen small rims with fat tires. They do the job worse and are more difficult to find replacements for. Why do these companies think they need to spec weird tires to sell bikes?
Fat tires behave quite nicely on pavement.
Not as nicely as 700x40c tires designed for commuting or touring. I get that up to the power cutoff speed the motor makes up for all the drag but they're the reason you can't pedal above that speed, even when a slight downgrade would make that easy on typical tires. The bigger issue is the hassle encountered after tire or tube damage. I once saw the #1 reason Americans stated for not using a bike was because it was sitting in the garage with a flat tire. This is not the demographic that needs more difficulty in repairing tire damage.
Putting inserts in a fat-tire just seems like self-abuse? Like, I can already roll down stairs...because they are fat tires.
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Depends on how rough your commute is. The fat-tires are kinda nice for rolling down stairs, etc. I quite like some faster-rolling and not-winter-size fat tires for commuting. You can make your commute a lot funner IMO than just trying to aero-700cs. That said, if you just want to be riding like a road-bike, but with more utility/carrying capacity, then sure, 700c.
Agree. If you've seen most of them ride, however, you know that this is, however, the demographic that needs fat tires to safely navigate train tracks and other road hazards. Plus, with all that tire volume they can go months without pumping up their tires.
I haven't seen much in the way of cheap electric bikes. I was looking at a yamaha civante which is an e-roadbike for commuting, but then I decided to just try and do it myself with the spooky. Most I see are 650 with like 2.1 tires or something like that.
Why is pf30 too narrow? I just installed a bb386 crank into a PF30 BB with the appropriate adapters. My understanding is the bb386 is PF30 with an extra10mm on each side. Why not have the option if you wanted a narrower q factor?
Anyways, the only pressfit bottom bracket I had was a RF bottom bracket to adapt RF 30mm cranks to a bb92. All of the 30mm and 24mm plastic PF cups I've personally installed have been flawless in their entirety. They may not be sealed well, but I also don't ride through the peat bogs of scotland.
you're probably not looking in the right places.
It’s the thorns around here. No pinch flats or the like.
I’d rather a 700c x 47 mm as on my acoustic commuter but this one worked overall for my commute desires besides the tire size. And it turns out the super heavy wheel/tire package makes for nice gyroscopic stability.
The people commuting on bikes, like a real commute, not some high school kid rolling down the block a kilometer, probably aren't going to Costco or Walmart to buy their bikes*.
*okay they might make that mistake once, but I'm sure most have moved on and tossed that garbage aside.
On that note, I walked by the bike section in Walmart the other day and yeah they had some oddball choices (mostly the non-offroad capable offroad bikes), but they had some road/gravel looking bikes that didn't look too far off from the cheapest of some of our name brand stuff.
Not sure what constitutes a "real" commute but plenty folk here do commute on absolute shitters.
unless you can bring your fancy "analogue commuter with gyroscopic stability"in to your work and store it somewhere safe it'd be stolen in no time.
unless you can bring your fancy "analogue commuter with gyroscopic stability"in to your work and store it somewhere safe it'd be stolen in no time.
They're everywhere on Maui. This is a culture that has always embraced the cheap Chinese Vespa style scooters for in town transportation so I think a lot of those users are now using these department store grade ebikes. The tiny wheeled ones from Costco can be spotted every 5 minutes around town.
Nah the Tannus thingy that wraps around a tube (not the tubeless tyre insert) protects alright against glass and thorns from what I've seen. Whether its any better than a tubeless setup with decent sealant I'm not sure though.