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I think you've hit on a lot of why there's so much disagreement here, particularly on the subject of "throttle only" and the "but that's too fast" arguments. Americans can't even make bike lanes properly. My town has three roads with them... allegedly, and in all three cases what was done is to...

VERY handy when you forgot to downshift before a stop, or didn't have the TIME to because of an emergency stop. More so when you just have to get your blasted tuchas out of the way faster. And it's why the pedants saying "nobody should need a throttle' need a boot up their backside just like...

And that is an excellent example of the difference between rights and narcissism. So many people who scream "butt muh rites" wouldn't know a civic virtue if C.B. Motley came back from the dead. It's like New England "intellectual libertarianism" before the sociopathic dirtbag libertarianism...

And that is why tire levers exist. So you don't blow an hour on a 30 second job. Though I do usually wrestle most of it in place, using at least one tire lever to hold a side on helps. I don't usually run the lever around the rim, I use a lever or two to hold one side on using the hook (that...

This is actually something that kind of makes me laugh. I've seen it a lot where we have people who will rail against wide seats, cushioning on seats, but then wear a butt pad. That's as comically silly as MTG not liking solar because she likes to turn the lights on at night. The clown clothes...

Could be in the tire. When I first got my Aventure I put flatout in the tubes, and it felt like front fork oscillation even on level ground. Come winter and something froze inside the tire throwing it WAY off balance. I have a thread here where I initially blamed Flatout...

I wonder how douchy they are in their definition of "Swapping parts". Are they total pedantic asses over something stupid like grips or bars, or do you have to go as hardcore as I have with things like ... well... both chainring and cogset?

Oh and when I was doing this stuff "for real" a little over a decade ago, one lesson I learned was to always "feel around" the inside of the rim and to check the edges of the spoke tape. Because yeah, you can't trust manufacturers to have trimmed or sanded all the edges right. A simple run...

There is at least one advantage, typically you're only inflating to 5 to 15 PSI, so if it does pop it's... a little less dangerous and scary than the 50 to 80 of hybrid tires, or the batshit nutjob pressures of skinny road tires. When you're putting in 130+ psi into a tire, that's just bad...

And again that's you seemingly not understanding a blasted word I'm saying, and making garbage nonsense about what heat sinks are even for. The rotor surfaces would be thinner, I think you're thinking the overall thickness between the two contact surfaces, not the two discs on each side of the...

Almost forgot: Uhm... no. The larger rotors increase leverage for more powerful -- and controllable -- braking, with less friction, for less heat, whilst increasing the surface area to allow for faster cooling. The surfaces on truly high performance rotors also get thinner to improve heat...

Now THAT is a smart design! And sadly smart design seems to be really rare in bicycle tech. Far too often it feels like the mass manufacture stuff is ice skating uphill in a mix of either completely failing to grasp basic physics, or simply cost cutting because "It's just a bicycle"

I really have to question if one square inch -- or less -- of ceramic impregnated resin is "highly insulating" given they seem to get just as hot. To the point I was able to smoke them on a hill. Admittedly steel's s*it heat absorption and dissipation is why it's so prone to heat...

As such, how do you line them up on each side? The problem with normal ones is getting the through-holes for the screws to match, particularly since they are a press-fit. I have a foot long non-threaded rod that fits the inner diameter of the holes I use with a level to make sure I'm on the...

So in other words about the same weight as the allegedly "forged" cranks that came with my Aventure by the time you put the weight of the absurd ring guide, chainring, and BB in the mix. Hell, chainring and cranks for what my Aventon came with is 3 pounds 6 ounces without figuring the BB cart...

Despite having added lock washers, thread lock, and a host of other "fixes" the rear rack on my e-bike let go yesterday. Had to do the wonderful "ride home with it held in place with bungee cords" routine. Whilst the blackburn rack fit the bike's width perfectly, like all of these racks the way...

I definitely could see that being an issue. Overstressing drivetrain components is one of the MANY reasons I didn't go mid-drive. Though it shouldn't be an issue so long as the ratios are within tolerances, the 58's do get a bit spindly. I can't see that being a problem if you've got just...

Which means you either need to run the b-screw in the whole way, or add a derailleur hanger extension. The change in chain angle on the vertical can cause binding which seems to bind the chain on the bottom in a way that -- as you noted -- turns your rear derailleur into a front one. Found that...

Oh and I will say that anything over 5x is probably not a match for anyone but the most crazy die-hard stompers. 58:11 is just asking for it to either be useless, or to actually have the possibility of overstressing components. Like the narrower chains found on most 1x7 and higher arrangements.

A 58 isn't necessarily dumb, it just hinges on what you have on the rear. I do see a lot of people talking as if one doesn't involve the other or failing to think about how the ratio is what matters, not the gears themselves so much. It's a lot like aviation fanboys who run their mouths about...