Recent content by scott62

What is a “shimano”?

If it has a throttle, it’s not a e bike. Throttle = motor cycle.

Monster around the back as tons of slabs

June in killington? Peak black fly season, bring the bug spray. Also, don’t be me, refill your tire sealant before you go. Maybe bring a backup tire and check your brake pads. Don’t ask how I know this🙄

Training for the big W? You need to work on the steeper stuff, that and Rocky and rooty stuff. You want Rocky? Jungle, school side of ringwood and wayway has a bunch of stuff. The white or crossover in ringwood… descending that is not bad. If you can cross the Hutson, blue mountain and ninam...

20 or so years ago, there was an old guy that would be up above the walls with metal detector on a lot of weekends . Guy would walk out of the woods with a bucket full of bullets. Claimed he melted the lead for fishing weights. He used to tell us to stay on the trails to avoid the old land mines……😉

Yea, I get that but I have several 27.5 plus wheels with 148 spacing. I prefer to run mulleted with 27.5 plus rear wheels( 38-40mm wide rims) and 2.8 tires. Just doesn’t make any sense to run shiny rear wheels on a e bike. Running plus tires on 30 mm rims is dumb.

Looking at the shuttle lt, kinda bummed it’s super boost.

I keep telling myself I will try a box 9 speed system for an e bike https://boxcomponents.com/products/box-two-prime-9-gen-2-groupset I Might try it, thinking about a low standover enduro e bike . Getting tired of smashing my nuts on the Kenevo top tube.

I want long travel full power e bikes. Going over 100nm is just going to kill your drive train faster than you ever thought possible. My 90nm drive unit eats a chain every 500 miles. Reliable and repairable are also very important to me. E bikes also need bash guards that are not junk plastic...

Yup, it’s those meat powered dirt bikes( some people call them mountain bikes). Got to get those dirt bikes off the trails so the dog walkers are not bothered when they walk the dogs off leash.

Love the DVO 38 WP, best fork I have been on to date.

High standover? Pretty much a given on any bike with the shock mounted on the top tube. Bike geo 101, you set the bb hight, the lower pivot is set by the bb hight. The other pivot locations are set by the design. My s3 Kenevo has a stand over of 32 inches, that’s great for a large but it sucks...

Seems specialized is dropping a long travel Levo, knew this was happening when they said the regular Levo could handle a 180mm fork. Wonder if a 230x65 shock would work. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/the-specialized-levo-4-gets-the-evo-treatment-more-travel-and-more-weight.html

32er stem