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Screaming down Toat's Coulee on the longest day of the year... Grinding up Freezeout Pass the day before... Baking in the Sun at Elbow Coulee...

The Burley Coho XC pictured in this thread is a fantastic trailer but it costs almost $500. It also has a built-in kickstand that keeps your bike and the trailer upright when you aren't on the bike. If it were me I'd also look for a pet crate that would fit inside the trailer as well. You...

Before you ride it, I'd suggest finding another bike shop with a good reputation and take the new wheel to them and have them check it out. It shouldn't take very long or cost you very much. Two things might have happened here: The manufacturer is cutting corners on the wheel builds. The...

Done properly (which takes practice and some nonobvious supplies) it can be pretty good.

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Just saying here... Back in the day I had a wonderful Trek 970 mountain bike. This was a non-suspension mountain bike with modest (under two inch, actually like 50mm in normal people units) tires. I rode this bike everywhere for many years. That included down long flights of concrete stairs...

There are multiple tire pressure calculators out there that will give you a starting point, e.g. https://csbikes.com/en/resources/tire-pressure-calculator https://silca.cc/pages/pro-tire-pressure-calculator Also, what is the rated tire pressure of the tires? Usually you can find it on the...

Hot and shadeless climb this morning. https://www.relive.cc/view/v36AG5YYWGv

It is 2025 now? 2024 went by so fast!

No, and so what? There are lots of companies out there making great bicycles that aren't one of the dinosaurs. And they often have been doing so for many years. And just because they are a Great Company (in the sense that they are very large) doesn't mean they'll be around forever (cough...

Having put down over 5000 miles in the last year or so on a Pinion bike, I can say that they are as reliable as a well-made shovel. And if you have a Pinion gearbox and belt drive the only periodic maintenance you really need is to replace brake pads and gearbox oil. You'd replace the gearbox...

Just some facts to counter the ignorant luddite malice this thread has degenerated into: The first derailleurs were built about 1905 The first internal gear hub patents for bicycles were filed in 1890 For that matter, electric motors were invented in the 1830s Pinion gearboxes have been around...

I'm gonna double down on my assertion. In the US, the average car trip distance is about 12 miles. The average per day driving distance is about 40 miles. You can get to those distances with most e-bikes on the market today. And it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the average...

I often think we ask the wrong questions about e-bike range. I mean, who buys a car and asks how far you can go on a tank of gas?

Actually lightning strikes the same place all the time. Think about tall buildings and mountain tops. And speaking from personal experience, lightning can strike the same place (or nearly the same place for all practical purposes) multiple times in rapid succession. Which sucks when you are...

My own experience using both tubes with sealant (mostly slime) and tubeless (mostly stan's) was that flats requiring more intervention than just airing up the tire were 3x to 4x more frequent with tubes than with tubeless. I have no clue as to why. Also, the "interventions" with a tube...

The Wera tools are spendy but of extremely high quality. The silca ratchet tool is less expensive and not bad for a lot of bicycle applications between 2-8 n-m, which is most of the bolts you deal with most of the time. But not those pesky ones under 1 n-m, which you generally just make barely...

The case where you need to be really fearful with respect to torque are for small bolts on carbon-fiber frames and parts. You need to be pretty cautious with aluminum as well, though not as paranoid as with carbon fiber. With steel you don't need to worry very much. One more advantage of...

I fail to understand how so many people can spend upwards of $2000 on a bicycle and not be willing to spend $150 for a decent bike fit. Also no saddle, padded shorts, or suspension seat post is going to help you at all if the bike is already wildly out of adjustment. And the depressing fact is...

We should all remember that people make pretty silly facial expressions when they are exerting themselves. And we shouldn't read any emotions into those expressions.