This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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I'm sure many bike mechanics probably see updating electronic components as a skive but I actually hated waiting around while a laptop progress bar kept me in limbo. No doubt Seths shop's Mechanics are on triple time bonus' when some unfortunate swiss punter drops by for their 400Euro rear derailleur firmware update.
" Toasty feet tonight guys! "
swiss landlords invest in good appliances that last a long time, it's normal here that you rent a whole kitchen + washer/dryer (in germany flats are usually empty, you move in with your kitchen/buy the one build in from the former renter). stuff build in here was about 14k in total. those are the connected ones, the steamer oven and the normal oven are not connectable sadly.
somedays the sales clerks like me are bored and help out the overworked mechanics. can't sip coffee all day long
mind you based on the BORGAR index:
things would appear to be 40% more expensive in switzerland than the US
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that small döner was 22 chf, but worth it. you won't believe what they usually serve as "kebab" here.
isn‘t this the whistler bike park standard uniform to signal you belong to the cool group?
Really?
You're part of the problem why its okay that hamburgers cost $20 now.
Thats not worth it!
it is. they make their own skewer with steak meat, not the usual mix from ground meat and fat like the cheaper ones. such döner cost 8-10 eur already in germany now too.
Running a shop with employees surely is costly.
Ive considedered doing work out of my large sized garage/small sized work shop, but what holds me back is crazy boutique bike owners.
I have in the past worked on groms bikes that were thrashed for nothing. And the bikes are then a 1000% better afterwards, and they are amped to go full send again.
Ive also helped out a friend of a friend on a Crestline Ebike specced up, who was jumpy everytime i touched a bolt, who needed an explanation what i was doing and also looked up the Sram tutorials as i was doing it…haha classic. Shouldve seen his face when i refused the torque wrench for some small torque parts…
Ed Hardy rejects
What is SO fucking ironic to me here is that when I went to Whistler in ‘05, I had a thing for polyester/etc pearl snap button downs. ($10.00 at the thrift store) Kind of like cowboy shirts, or more cheesy 50’s (originals). I was on some big bike, had a full face, etc, and some Fox/Troy Lee bro said “You look like you are into XC”.
I chuckled, and realized they took themselves as seriously as roadies.
Full circle, when the ’Party Shirt’ thing happened, I was pretty amused.
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I convinced myself that pedal bulge pedals are fine, because grease port and no bushings.
After two months on Horizons I went back to non concave, pedal bulge pedals and I am happy to admit that I am an idiot, with the Saint cranks and Sytace pedals I felt like I was going for a check up with the gyno.
Pedal bulge pedals are dumb, 2mm thinner per side doesn't really reduce rock strikes as the pedals have to be 10mm wider, so you just hit different rocks.
After two months on Horizons I went back to non concave, pedal bulge pedals and I am happy to admit that I am an idiot, with the Saint cranks and Sytace pedals I felt like I was going for a check up with the gyno.
Pedal bulge pedals are dumb, 2mm thinner per side doesn't really reduce rock strikes as the pedals have to be 10mm wider, so you just hit different rocks.
back in that era I wore a bright orange hawaiian shirt fairly regularly, no one else was doing it though and I stopped before it became 'trendy'...thank christ!
‘05 is the era where i often did chainless days in a long sleeve skinsuit and a bowtie, to fuck with people.
I must be one of the weird ones.
I have no problem with bearing bulges on pedals.
Have been running them for years, up until the latest Tenets.
I like the Tenets, but do miss the pedal bulge for foot placement. Without them, I end up putting my foot to close to the crank-arm and rubbing. Even on the wide DH bike BB, pedal bulge is no problem.
As for Seth and his 35.00 Gyro. WTF
I thought when Sammy's Souvlaki hit 10 bucks for a Gyro, it was getting a bit much. By the pic our favourite edge-lord posted, I'm getting a great deal and Seth is getting the shaft, which strangely he seems to like. 
(NTTARWT)
I have no problem with bearing bulges on pedals.
Have been running them for years, up until the latest Tenets.
I like the Tenets, but do miss the pedal bulge for foot placement. Without them, I end up putting my foot to close to the crank-arm and rubbing. Even on the wide DH bike BB, pedal bulge is no problem.
As for Seth and his 35.00 Gyro. WTF
I thought when Sammy's Souvlaki hit 10 bucks for a Gyro, it was getting a bit much. By the pic our favourite edge-lord posted, I'm getting a great deal and Seth is getting the shaft, which strangely he seems to like. (NTTARWT)
this. i am definitely more towards the ball over the axle, although my favorite pedals since my og wah's are rf atlases which have a small bulge.
ok genius. you sure are an expert. i've never encountered a situation where it isn't, for me. that's where i can apply the best pressure and get the best feel/connection. whether climbing, riding local xc shit, or riding dh. i must have been an idiot for decades. but go ahead and dispense your godly knowledge on us all.
Well that settles it. I'm just fucked.
I am a ball of foot over spindle guy who does not mind the pedal bulge on my concave style pedals. I have tried, but just can't get along with a mid foot placement. With the ball of the foot over the pedal spindle, I can let the bike float underneath me. If I try a mid-foot placement, then I feel like I'm gonna lose (and have more than once) the pedal as soon as things get spicy.
The crosses we have to bear.
Well that settles it. I'm just fucked.
I am a ball of foot over spindle guy who does not mind the pedal bulge on my concave style pedals. I have tried, but just can't get along with a mid foot placement. With the ball of the foot over the pedal spindle, I can let the bike float underneath me. If I try a mid-foot placement, then I feel like I'm gonna lose (and have more than once) the pedal as soon as things get spicy.
The crosses we have to bear.
*Splutter* WHAT!!!!!
How dare you not be fine with the one true foot placement, as proclaimed by the holy Apostle St Gary of Irn bru.
BURN HIM!!!!!!!
the trick is: accept that food costs a fuck ton in this country, as the swiss like most things swiss made and that costs more due to the high wages. all the nice things to play with though, like bike parts and electronics cost the same as in europe and therefore even less in switzerland, due to the low VAT of 8.1%, combined with my low tax rate of 10% which let me, after all the other social dues, keep around 80% of my wages. so yes, the kebab is expensive, but costs me next to nothing relatively speaking.As for Seth and his 35.00 Gyro. WTF
life is good.
I'm a fucking idiot.
But I'm just smart enough to know you assume that already, hahaha!
Oprimum sounds like some bougie cat food, I had to look the meaning up, that fucker ain't used in Australia.
Damn, I wasn't trying to suggest anything about optimized positions or one being better than the other, and I also wasn't trying to suggest any universal truths about positions and bearing bulges. I'd have thought "tend" would be enough to make it clear it wasn't some universal truth. Some of yall really took that and ran with it.
I just ordered some Pinnd CS2 pedals so I can come in here in a couple of weeks and whinge about shite products made in Scotland.
They are some 1990's lookin' mafuggers.
They are some 1990's lookin' mafuggers.
and i'm the crazy one for investing in 300 cad pedals
I don't think I would have called you crazy for spending $300, buying a pedal with a shit design that your foot can almost fit in to, that's different.and i'm the crazy one for investing in 300 cad pedals
However, I have basically bought two expensive bricks with axles, so I shouldn't judge.
It's not just about the pedals.and i'm the crazy one for investing in 300 cad pedals
I think the thing that not everybody in this thread is appropriately appreciating is that everybody is stupid except me, and if the industry (or and individual company) ever does something I don't like or appreciate, it (the entire industry) is stupid because of that fact.
And this includes anybody who thinks different pedals that I don't like are cool and okay.
And this includes anybody who thinks different pedals that I don't like are cool and okay.