I wouldn't really classify that as what's wrong with the industry, given the use and intent of those trails. We don't hate on paved pump tracks..
This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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with the hordes that are now visiting bikeparks this soon will be a cost reducing thing there too
I'm starting to as councils provide them as an alternative to proper dirt jumps they're closing down.
That blows yeah.
Any city run dirt jump or pump track here has failed miserably. They almost always put zero maintenance into them and also don't want anyone doing volunteer work (liability or some shit probably). It sucks.
The local urban pump/skills course here has become the local fecal matter, used needle, Hepatitis repository. Sadly I think Skookum actually put a lot of work into building it.
Farther north where I-5 goes over the ship canal. I only went to ride there once and noped the fuck out. Not only do you risk an infectious disease from crashing, I feel like there is a good chance your bike would be freed from your possession. It has gone downhill a lot since then, I don't think anyone wants to take the responsibility with the risks associated with trying to clean or maintain it.
Duthie gets a ton of traffic and maintenance. It is basically MTB daycare.
That's a shame. The main pump track in Edinburgh was built on waste ground next to a small wooded area which was originally an old historic stairway entrance to the Royal Park but had been neglected for years and years and become littered with well... litter, (actual) shite, used needles etc. and dodgy people. Prior to the pumptrack being built a clean up of the whole area was done (arranged by local residents and suppoers of the proposed track). The pumptrack has now been there a good few years on the whole it's stayed a clean and safe shared area ever since. and the entrance to the Park is no longer a dodgy place to go.
Our councils (along with local residents and lottery funding) Have mainly used Velosolutions to design and construct the tracks so they end up not requiring a huge amount of maintenance as VS tracks are constructed in such a way as not to collect standing water and built with very durable/sustainable materials which seem to hold up remarkably well to wear and our crap weather. They're still popping up in towns all over the country and seem to be welcomed by (most) local residents.
Our councils (along with local residents and lottery funding) Have mainly used Velosolutions to design and construct the tracks so they end up not requiring a huge amount of maintenance as VS tracks are constructed in such a way as not to collect standing water and built with very durable/sustainable materials which seem to hold up remarkably well to wear and our crap weather. They're still popping up in towns all over the country and seem to be welcomed by (most) local residents.
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Colonade was cool in the early days but has turned into a dangerous, scary place!
Would you say it's ass-end?
They had the great idea here too that they'd run out the homeless camps by building trails next to and through them. All that did was make the new trails sketchy to ride. They aren't much, just some stuff that roughly parallels a bike path, but the homeless camps keep expanding and getting crazy. They'll tap into the lights for the path and run electric blankets and chargers. In the day time they'll use solar panels. Yes, solar panels.
Wrong thread. That's what's right with the industry.
Look up how thats going in Vancouver...
You seem to be a sponsored Switzerland influencer, but just so you know, they do the same in Quebec too and at other places in the world.
I live near San Francisco. That policy (and others like it) has turned the whole city into a mungy drug den.
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I think this is a surron for under 2k... wtfwait is that a graphics kit they're definitely not showing or a whole damn bike?
not the only one either....
there's a scuff on the swingarm
probably fell off a truck in Beijing
I can't even buy a set of wheels and tires for my anal-log bike for that price.
So you're keeping a butt journal? Care to elaborate?
Whenever I go to buy bike stuff anymore I feel like the industry is giving it to me rough and raw!
Well I for one am, butt that's just because I had butt-surgery two weeks ago.
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While I definitely think that there are riders that do well on certain bikes and worse on others, it comes down to the rider. Somebody like Gwin won on Yeti, Specialized, Intense, Trek, whatever. Somebody like Danny Hart can come in fifth on virtually anything, anywhere. And Brennan Fairclough can come in 38th on the same scott with remarkable consistency.
First off, biopace and modern ovals are rotated 90*. Biopace wanted to make force output consistent through the entire pedal circle, making it harder at the top and bottom. Ovals try and make it easier at the top of the stroke, where you can't make power. Honestly I don't know which would feel worse if you were on a totally smooth and consistent surface.
What I thought the new MTB ones do is to reduce required power at the top and bottom of the stroke so that your cadence is consistent throughout 180 degrees and on real steep climbs, when you can't get that last 5* of rotation because there's a root or whatever bullshit, you drop the ring from 32 to 28t and it makes it easier to kick over. Then you're back to 32t for where you are able to put down the most power. So torque is applied consistently at the back wheel and there's a reduced potential to slip. I put one on back in 2015 and don't notice it anymore. I don't think it makes a huge difference, but I'm also not going out to buy another round ring. I do think it makes steep, 5-20ft technical climbs easier.
I run round rings on my road bikes because it's not impossible to spin smoothly. I wonder if switching to shorter cranks, where your hip angle isn't as large, reduces the benefit of ovals.
actually she was a dominant dh racer in the southeast for a long time and a mentor to a lot of junior women riders and her hubby calls many of the dhse races and is a huge regional cycling advocate.
I'm pretty sure that San Fran's policy is NOTHING like the Swiss one.
sf just hands out drugs with zero follow up or support network
from what I can tell stolen gold swizzyland provides a full makeover with 100% mind meld assimilation
Yeah - I suspect SF half-asses it because suggesting bootstraps is a much more popular fix amongst a certain Brain-y section of the population.
That's the way I feel seeing ads these days splashed all over the internet for 30-50% off high end bike parts and completes. That's employee purchase levels of discount and I work for really low pay to get them. Dentists are supposed to pay retail.
Has me questioning if I should start training for a new trade, but the bong's already in my hand, the double I started building yesterday needs a landing, and this could be the last day over 60° until March.
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