Yeah, it’s basically a derailleur sans the deraill-ey stuff.

It seems like every day another review is posted where stiffness is not the be all and end all.

Vitus review on BR today too.  Apparently it ‘shimmies’ through the rough, reducing fatigue, but also listed as a con.

Commencal frames have been on a stiff-flexy rollercoaster.  from the Meta 55 to the V3 and then V4.  The press release for the V4 specifically mentioned it being less stiff than the V3 (which I guess was built for strength to recover from the snappy, flexy 55), for the better.

How many of you have actually spent any time riding a Session?

Does it count if they’ve ridden something that looks like a Trek?

Just fitted deore 4-pots last week and power is very good, but grabby.  Definitely an adjustment needed after coming from Hope X2s or even the older Shimano 2-pots on my other bike.

Yes! Club Roost I-beam, bitd, right on weld at the steerer. Faceplate on a RF stem that was consequently found to be part of a recall. Twisted a cheap (uno, tranz x maybe) one in an altercation with a tree.

https://bikegeo.muha.cc/

Won’t this do it?  Just swap the a2c length between sagged and extended to see the difference.

Isn’t the actual shell of the 150mm hub different, wider, not just the axle and endcaps?

Is it a Fox shock, or a Rockshox Monarch?  If it’s a Fox you’ve got biketoyz in Denmark, but experience of them as the Scandinavian distro for Fox was that it was almost always better to send stuff to the UK than to let biketoyz anywhere near it.  That was a couple of years ago, though.  They may have improved.

I’ve had various Endura in the past, but tired of the random sizing and have now settled on Race Face shorts.  They’re usually cheap-ish in the sales, fit me better and quality feels better/more consistent.  I think I’ve got are their Indy, Ambush and the waterproof Agent ones.

POC VPD Air is the standard answer, assuming they fit you well.

Yeah, they’re fine.  Used them a lot over the years (in Sweden).  Item descriptions are often lacking, so it’s worth double-checking if you’re not absolutely sure, but everything else is good.

I agree it’s a bit of a revelation.  I never thought riding with a full backpack was a problem, and it’s not really, but I’m a convert. I’ve got a Dakine one (reviewed here on ST not that long ago iirc) that’s ok, as long as you don’t overload it.  If I had to replace it today, it probably wouldn’t be like for like.  So, not a recommendation, but more of a ‘don’t bother with Dakine cos there are almost certainly better ones’.

Everytime someone recommends Muc Off Wetlube I begin to suspect that some merry prankster had swapped the contents of the bottle I bought with some kind of epoxy.  It can be the only explanation for the foul rubbish I ended up with.

Sounds mostly like setup issues, barring the puncture, which is just bad luck, but hard to say for sure.  The bar thing sounds weird, though.  They should curve back towards you, maybe slightly upwards.

Fred is well known for being petty, even some of his friends find him very difficult at times….

This has really upset Pete, he’s such an easy going guy and will do anything to help anyone

So, a guy you know to be a dick acts, unsurprisingly, like a dick and it somehow turns into the perfect excuse to mess up Pete’s day and pat yourself on the back for trying to

put something back into the community and help someone out.

Marvelous work there.

I think it was mentioned in the PB article for the new record.  Don’t remember really, but it was something like a constant 700 watts for whatever time is required to break the record after the car lets go.  So, sounds pretty impressive to me, and then, you know, the death and stuff too.

Edit: mentioned in this article here https://www.wired.com/story/denise-mueller-korenek-bike-speed-record-168-mph/

Honestly, I probably wouldn’t ride one I’d straightened any significant amount, unless I really had to.  I just couldn’t trust it not to be weaker and the step between broken mech-hanger and shredded rear spokes is a short one.

How are you ever going to know if you are going to try returning it if you don’t just contact the place you might return it too?  And really, there are no ‘ifs’ or ‘mights’ about it.  Just contact them, tell them what’s wrong and let them handle it.  If they don’t, remind them it’s their obligation to handle it.

Put down the pitchforks, it’s only “purely just for the video”.

Somewhere around a Shorty or Magic Mary I’d say.

I’ve lined up alongside Peaty in a local “mates race” dual. Wouldn’t be fair to say I raced him as he finished about 5 secs up on a 17 second course!

I have exactly the same experience with Martin Söderström.  Otherwise, there are a couple of local riders who are beyond just ordinary good; raced DH at WC level bitd and another does well at national level in trials.

https://www.tigersheds.com/product/cycling-log-cabin-summer-of-sport/

Not really when set up well and bedded in. How have you set them up?

Can’t edit previous post, but radios and an app called nytatime is what we’ve used.  Bit better than stopwatchs as you can set it for stages and riders so the need for extra mates just to run the timing is gone.  Anyone with the app can start/stop.  The radios aren’t even really needed, but it saves the first/last rider having to fiddle with getting out their phones in a race run.

What Tom said. If you get all serious you can probably find somewhere that’ll rent you a sportident system. Then there is no disputing who the winner is/losers area

Guide RE maybe?  It’s the cheaper Guide lever with Code caliper.

Where? Never seen any chat that enduro is ‘over’? Oh well, at least I won’t need to get up early to enter ard rock this year, shouldn’t be a problem getting in….

In the wider context. 3 national series have failed due to lack of numbers, and there has been general doom and gloom in comments sections after each of those.

‘Ard rock is proof of the opposite.

Why not ask some important questions and provide well researched / proven answers to these questions.

@Trimix any suggestions on things you’d like to read about?

This could be an example of what Trimix means.  Presenting a bunch of graphs without giving the wider context you think you see, which in this case pretty much gives you a question, isn’t insight.  It’s just a summary of some numbers.  Not knocking it. It was quite interesting to see, and I hope you keep it up.  It’s more than a lot of the cycling press try.

I thought the final maps were interesting.  You mention the DH races having a greater spread, and in terms of distances between furthest races it looks to be true, but there is a much more consistent spread between only slightly closer endpoints for enduro.

You’re gonna need a toddler.  First things first make sure they can pootle along by themselves.  Then you’re going to think, “Right, now that junior can ride I can go out with them!”, which will immediately turn out to be stupid as junior only pootles as about 4mph.  It’s here that you’re just going to have to say, “F*** it, maybe I’ll try to manual along behind them.”  Give it a week or so and you’ll have it down.  The actual technique is pretty much like what geex said, if you can’t be bothered getting the toddler.

Pads + droppers + e-bikes = MAYHEM!

Sick sell them in the UK, I believe.  I’ve also been interested by them, but it’ll probably take me a few more months of putting them in and out of the basket before I do it.

edit: https://sickbicycle.co/collections/components/products/revgrips-race-series-grip

Drop your saddle a teeny bit (maybe start with 5mm).

Genuinely interested in how people manage to damage tape whilst changing tyres?  It’s just never occured to me that it could happen.

1st batch of aluminium chainstays on the current model had a recall for some pretty spectacular cracking.

Spring was (is?) different.

I reckon bear spray’s the answer

Going by the description I’d say twink spray would have been more effective.

Maybe HT realised what a good earner they were and decided to keep them for themselves.  I seem to remember they’ve done it before with another model.

Last training session we had with wheelies we had people basically lifting people’s bikes to the balance point. Most were surprised by just how far back it was. Mostly, though, it just sounds like you’re overthinking it. Put some flats on, find a gentle uphill grassy slope and get used to landing on your arse.

Very little difference apart from the obvious with the spring. It’s basically the same chassis and the differences in the damper are pretty minimal with the changes you already made to the Sektor. Maybe consider something like a Splug in the Sektor, or even just an rct3 damper unit from a rev?

Just to be clear, the rct3 in that rev is not the same as the charger rct3 in newer rs forks.

Just stop unscrewing when you feel it release from the threads? Seriously, it doesn’t need more than a couple of turns. After that you’re playing with fire.

My parents have one, a really old one.  Gotta say it’s pretty good.  A simple strap, or two, is all thats need to hold the wheels in line and stop the bikes bouncing off one another.