ilnadi
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Da beast is in da house!
Now I have to ride
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Now I have to ride
ilnadi
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Speaking of what can go wrong, brought the bike to Durham to ride a bit, try out the new bike, etc. Start at 10, ride a few hours before the heat. Ended up riding 31mi over 5 hours! I wish I could say this is unusual but alas, it's right on brand for us.
A little break in the middle with some excellent NEIPA saved me from a heat stroke. Is it a bad sign that I rode better after?
Hopefully I have better luck with this purchase. Instead of a complete bike I found a frame and fork to build up using the hardtale as a doner
Revel Ranger xc bike. Not sure if I'll go with the 130 fork I have.
Edit. This is promising.
Bikeflights is $200 to ship a frame and fork.
Highway robbery.IMO
Revel Ranger xc bike. Not sure if I'll go with the 130 fork I have.
Edit. This is promising.
Bikeflights is $200 to ship a frame and fork.
Highway robbery.IMO
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Bikeworks
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Going from 12L to 8L, I need to give my back a break.
Got this for the gravel side of things, Chase 4 bike vest. The water bottle setup on the bike isn't ideal, so this seemed a good solution.
Giving these a shot as they stopped making the PIs I use (which weren't the grippiest). I gave the Giro Latch a try, awesome grip, but way too narrow toe box, even after attempting to stretch. If these are good, I may upgrade to the new GF800 when it drops end of summer
Lastly, upgrading the grips to these Deity Megattacks.
Got this for the gravel side of things, Chase 4 bike vest. The water bottle setup on the bike isn't ideal, so this seemed a good solution.
Giving these a shot as they stopped making the PIs I use (which weren't the grippiest). I gave the Giro Latch a try, awesome grip, but way too narrow toe box, even after attempting to stretch. If these are good, I may upgrade to the new GF800 when it drops end of summer
Lastly, upgrading the grips to these Deity Megattacks.
iman29
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I have a gravel specific camelback like that for water only (compared to my mtb one which has more storage) and it makes such a huge difference mentally as well knowing i have easy access to extra fluids on a ride. However I only put ice cubes and water in that one to limit the amount of nastiness that could build up since I am lazy at cleaning it.
serviceguy
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This is weird...I have been salivating over the Salsa Stormchaser since @Steve Vai posted his gold rocket back in the day, but I did not find a decent used one using my usual channels (craiglist, ebay, FB marketplace) as I could not justify paying the full price new given my reduced, to say the least, riding mileage...then one in my size and favorite color popped out eBay, I placed my highest bit but it did not make the reserve price. Oh well, no biggie and I didn't need it anyway. Then a second one popped out from another seller, same size this time new, never ridden so I did it again, placed an even lower highest bid and forgot about it. Well, ended up paying half the price of a new frame(not even my highest bid) and it should ship shortly...
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Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
I saw that bike on eBay. I have single-speed road frame saved as one of my searches so it sends me alerts.
Ohlins kind of sucks at rebuild time ($$), but I don't doubt it'll be way better than the Float X.
John the Plumber
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Ian F
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That reminds me... When I bought the Orbea Orca a couple of months ago, I was talked into trying Speedplay pedals again... which basically ended up being a really expensive way to confirm how much I hate those effing pedals... I thought the older version was bad but the new Wahoo branded model is even worse... but the Lake CX242 shoes I also bought are really comfortable... so I ordered a set of Crank Brothers 3-hole cleats to fit on those shoes.
I also added some cleat wedge spacers since I may as well try to duplicate that aspect of the fitting.
After I can pedal the damn bike, maybe I'll be able to figure how to make it fit... since right now I can't ride it at all.
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Yea, but at $380 shipped it’s hard to beat. I rebuilt all my shocks anyway…. Although the float x sucked, getting air out of the oil took way to much oil.
Lake shoes come in a wide that is actually wide. My feet look like a slice of pizza. @jdog put me onto them
John the Plumber
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I am hoping the Sidi's work but will check the Lake shoes out. Nothing worst then foot pain while pedaling.
John the Plumber
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I had bought the EVO Trail for my flat bar gravel bike build. Very happy with them.
Have you tried Dominions yet? I've had good luck for the past year or so with A4's.
No , thought about them and the Chinese lewis brakes but I was pretty happy with the last version trp dh evo and they apparently fixed the few things I wasn't crazy about. Also having a healthy stock of pads, banjos and bleed kit it's kind of a no brainer .
Ian F
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Oddly enough, I have two sets of Dominions. I bought them when we still had a deal with Hayes (after hounding our rep for years about a proper 4-piston gravity brake) and those were the brakes I initially installed on my Megatower. However, I didn't like them as much as the Saints that were on my M16C, so when I sold that bike I kept the brakes and installed them on the Megatower. The other set of Dominions were supposed to go on the Chameleon, but have never made it out of the boxes 6 years later...
I ponder selling them (along with bins of other parts...), but selling things online is such a PITA anymore...