Mainland Australia sucks arse, I'll grant that. A few decent tracks but mostly meh. But yeah, Maydena in Tasmania is as gnarly a park as any I've seen anywhere in the world. I think its actually like a bit of NZ got chipped off and stolen by Australia. There is a reason they're sending Hardline there.
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do this on your 2023 xc bike
I don't care how good you are, it will literally break underneath you
don't me wrong, I fully recognize that the beach jungle of your homeland has the only loopty loo ever seen on a world cup dh track
I have wireless blips, working on a set up, kinda.
Interesting. I just put those on my Tt bike. Works a treat. How do you have them mounted?
And im driving down for the day monday. And i own DH bike.
By the way my Meta goes all right for an XC bike.
we arent nz. They have more class than us
It's true a lot of the time when you aren't coming down a double black diamond on a DH bike. And most people don't ride that kind of terrain...so it's even truthier. But on that kind of terrain, big nope. But it takes some pretty crazy terrain again for that to be the case IME.
shimano can’t be modded to 13s. your arguments are invalid
(also apex, you have no shame? that’s like admitting you have SX parts on your mtb)
and sram didn’t abandon it, they just moved on to axs. the new mechanical 12s apex is of course still doubletap
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In todays episode of “not surprising, but still sucks to hear”.
Friend of mine in Squamish re-presses CSUs for people in his garage. He rolls around on forks with one black and one gold leg.Suspension shop around here are doing that unpressing and pressing it back in and seems to fix the problem. As far as how it might hold in the hands of a professional short jumper, that I don't know.
back at Durango Mountain Bike Camp in 1996 one of the shop-rat fellow kids there had a fork that had one Mag 21 SL leg, one Specialized FSX Carbon leg. easier in the days of bolt on crowns eh
This is what's wrong and what's right, all at the same time:
The worst thing about the maximum performance of anything from AB...it is not common knowledge, but, they MUST be lubricated with organic baby seal tears. The only way to get organic baby seal tears is to beat a baby seal with the tusk of a narwhal. While both are hard to acquire, the gains are as close to a miracle as you can get (with out access to the Lance Armstrong RX cabinet).
The worst thing about the maximum performance of anything from AB...it is not common knowledge, but, they MUST be lubricated with organic baby seal tears. The only way to get organic baby seal tears is to beat a baby seal with the tusk of a narwhal. While both are hard to acquire, the gains are as close to a miracle as you can get (with out access to the Lance Armstrong RX cabinet).
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How he broke the display?
hambini is like all of ridemonkey combined; marginally talented, marginally funny, and somewhat halfway decent at engineering. and he complains about everything
I can't imagine being into tech enough that you want wireless shifting, but not into tech enough to download the app and use it once a week to check your battery levels. My wife begged me to not replace the XX AXS on her new Spark with XX1 11spd, so I told her it's her responsibility to stay on top of the batteries and I'll have zero sympathy for mistakes.
I bet if you check battery levels during the cold they are low. The only other thing I've seen causing similar issues is the battery tabs needing some bending, but that wouldn't change with temperature.
yeah, for these batteries I may buy some "higher end" coin batteries from a brand name. These are off amazon and they work fine in my heart rate, cadence sensor, etc. etc., but they simply may be more temperature sensitive. The first ones lasted plenty of time.
Wait. Japanese industrialists would abuse Malaysians? This has never happened before!
we sure are lucky that there are definitely no other cases of modern slavery in the bike manufacturing industry.
You have done wireless shifting, right? AXS? It is actually really impressive. The speed, the acuracy. It's actually really good. Like really good. Did I say it was really good? And I hate SRAM. So there's that. But hate is a strong word, too.
Do they make it in 11spd?
you've done mountainbiking in the middle of fucking nowhere right? Like 6 hours deep? The dependability of cables, the fact that you can get your cold ass home. It's actually really good. And I hate SRAM. So there's that. But hate is not a strong enough word.
If I check the same batteries this morning that gave me trouble in the cold 4 months ago, they are green and ready to go. The app is kind of shitty and can't predict battery loss due to cold. These are probably just bad or particularly temperature sensitive batteries.
So much this. I hate SRAM, I think they're full of shit, but AXS shifting is objectively good, lower maintenance, and generally super reliable. Plus you get rid of your shifting cables and clean up the handlebars quite a bit.
What happens if your cable breaks? Housing gets crushed? Bolt comes loose? It's easy enough to pack a spare battery pack in your fanny pack if you're going on a six hour ride. I've done 5 hour rides on my road bike without issue and without a spare battery pack, and I've gone out for a ride not realizing the battery was low, starting with a red warning light, and finishing the ride without issue.
I'm at least happy we can all agree to hate sram
You must be joking or more likely deluded.
AXS T type shifts noticeably slower than mechanical.
And personally I felt all previous 12spd wide ratio gearing shifted dreadfully slowly to begin with.
True. I can see where that would be a concern. But really, the batteries weigh about as much as a couple AAA's. So not really a big deal. Now if it just stops working, like it lost it's ability to do anything. Yeah, you're probably proper fucked.
My days of 6 hour rides in BFE don't really exist anymore. More like a Whole Enchilada shuttle type thing where as long as it's mostly downhill, I'm not too worried.
Really? I haven't noticed. I'll have to pay more attention. I just got a t type axs. Felt like the regular axs. Maybe my head is up my axs.
Does anyone want a smart trainer? I've got a Hammer2. Hooks up with all the cycling apps like Zwift. Mimics climbs and descents, all that stuff. Turns out I just don't really like any of it. Call me old school.
Got a set of rollers. Way more fun. And scary. For me
Got a set of rollers. Way more fun. And scary. For me
Now imagine industries that make money and realize that Apple has suicide nets around their factory that "employees" 200,000 inside FOXCONN.
Yeah I guess that's easier than carrying a small multitool or looking at your cable to see if it's fraying once a year.