Gonna have a quick moan about chain rings.
I have been told that the classic salsa chainring, very popular in 1×9 and single speed set ups will no longer be available. I think salsa have had enough of keeping up with chainring compatibility. (It will still be available in black only under another QBP brand)
It used to be a simple job getting a fresh chainring. Grab a 104bcd if its a mountainbike, 130 for road. But now with bikes being 1 to 11 speed, and all the crazy new BCD patterns, and with some crank brands just being awkward with odd shaped tabs that mean only there brand of ring will fit… It’s a pain.
There is that odd three arm BCD pattern that has shown up. But where do you go when you want a tall toothed one speed ring for it?
A new BCD patten does not really add anything new, does not improve things, but does complicate everything.
You can substitute the word “chainring” for “headset” and pretty much get the message on what else annoys me.