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Mr. Chainring
✋🏻 never. I have frayed the end a bunch of times. Usually when I’m installing a new cable with a new derailleur.
I did just break a seat post cable, which was a bitch to replace.
Most overhyped bike trend?
- Thread starter Dave Taylor
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I did just break a seat post cable, which was a bitch to replace.
mwlikesbikes
Well-Known Member
I see the point of them on carbon FS frames but on double triangle HT frames I’d rather have proper cable stops. I considered it a bit of an art form to snip the housing to just the perfect length.
Riggedfmx
Active Member
I think we can all agree that the biggest trend that has come and gone is @Dave Taylor 😆
Jmann
Never gonna let you down.
Overhyped? Bikepacking
Or specifically, the idea of bikepacking. I feel like a cottage industry popped up a few years ago building bike bags for bikepacking and touring. But I’m skeptical on how many were actually used for said purposes. And those that did found out what trying to climb and descend with a 50+lb loaded bike was like.
Or specifically, the idea of bikepacking. I feel like a cottage industry popped up a few years ago building bike bags for bikepacking and touring. But I’m skeptical on how many were actually used for said purposes. And those that did found out what trying to climb and descend with a 50+lb loaded bike was like.
But everyone needs a frame bag, TT bag and handlebar bag for their Fat Bike and their Gravel Bikes to do a 2 hour ride.
Your housing is too long or something is weird with your setup bc mine don't rattle or slap around. It would drive me nuts till I fixed it
Jmann
Never gonna let you down.
Admittedly I do prefer reaching down into a frame bag over trying to pull stuff out of a jersey pocket.
I love my my aero frame gravel bike that I ride slower than my non aero frame road bike.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
But the added weight of the pulley system, extra links of chain, and decreased shifting performance actually adds wattage 😂
Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
Overhyped
Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
You’ve had every new model of a gravel bike. You make excuses to buy the next overhyped trek supercal, trek checkpoint, scott addict, specialized crux, fezzarri …and now you don’t even ride the steed that’s the fastest in your stable…the SS.
Riggedfmx
Active Member
This thread is getting kinda old quickly
get fast or die trying son.
@rick81721 is definitely the answer
Dave Taylor
Rex kwan Do
Surprised u don’t have blip shifters on your internal barends bro.
zmartene
Well-Known Member
Agree. A threaded BB is a press-fit inside a threaded housing. Unless someone can show me a bearing with threads on the outside of it... Get the appropriate tools to replace them and don't stress.
Like Fat Bikes, I think it's a regional thing of what the area has.
There's a bunch of bikepackers near me, but there's also a lot of overnight hikers and also bikers so it's not that weird to combine the two. But I don't think NJ lends itself to any great overnight bikepacking spots just as it's not great for hiking. I see them on both gravel bikes and mountain bikes while in the national forest.
I guess if you're the sort of person that really just wants to get away to a campsite, build a campfire, sit around it and then sleep in a tent, it's the same thing if you road a bike in or hiked in. But yeah I doubt the numbers are huge but I'm willing to bet the #s jump up in upstate NY, VT/NH.