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  1. On 9/1/2019 at 8:20 PM, KuЯdt said:

    Oh and I spent a while looking for the setting on the Hero 7 to flip it upside down.  Well it turns out this motherfucker rotates automatically like a smartphone.  I'm digging it.

    funny.  as long as that technology has been around, it's about time they got onboard.  I wonder what happens if you  crash while skiing and go into a starfish.  does it just look like you're suddenly cruising downhill sideways while the camera keeps the frame upright?

    I like the idea of not having a gimbal.  just seems cumbersome.  I've hit my camera on my saddle several times, as it is.  but I can't see spending $320 on a 7.  looking at getting a 6.  from what I've read, the 7 isn't any better on picture quality or stab.  it just has more features for me to ignore or get frustrated with, being the old fart that I am.

    Thanks for the info, and the video tour of Reimer's.  been trail riding for 20+ years, and I've never been there.

  2. 51 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

     


    What do you mean by harsh? Bouncing off shit more/squirrelly? It’s significantly lighter, so I’d think it would climb easier. Could be way off on that.

     

    I would say 'not as plush'.  you'll feel more vibration and rattling in your bones on rockier trails.  but you get dialed to whatever you got, eventually. for me, I don't know if it's worth spending Felt money on a hardtail, esp if I'm not a racerboi.  if it fits, is a screaming deal and the frame's in good shape, go for it.

    I would think about that stem, tho.  it's a mile long by today's standards.  if the cockpit feels short when you demo, I would walk away.  I wouldn't want to go longer on that stem.  endo city.  a setback seatpost to compensate is a dubious babdaid.   the trend has been toward shorter stems and longer bars.  now that I'm there, I know why I was so scared all the time on technical decents.

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  3. 3 hours ago, KuЯdt said:

    I went out to Reimers Ranch yesterday and figured I'd take the GoPro.  It's this first time I've used the Hero 7 and its hypersmooth feature. I thought it did a pretty good job of smoothing out the bumpiness a bit without the full gimbal effect.  I'll have to play around more with it, and try and figure out the best angle for the camera on the chest mount.

    I put together a quick vid with a few clips.

     

     

    damn.  now my wheels are turning to get a 7...

    as far as the angle of the camera.  if you hang it upside down, there's a lot more trial and error to setting it.  but you have a lot more 'upside', in that you can set it higher for downhilling when your chest spends a lot more time being horizontal.  for around here, I find just setting it upright, adding a short female-female knuckle between the chesty plate and the camera, and angling it all the way back puts the handlebars right at the bottom of the frame, which is optimal, imo.

    the major downside to hanging it upside down was that it seemed to bounce a lot more.  but the internal stab on that camera looks like it is more than adequate to compensate.  

  4. you should see flat spots on sides of the Stan's valve cores.  grab there with some needle nose if it's too gummed up to unscrew with your fingers.  I'm not aware of any special tools for this.

    while you have the cores pulled, I would try to clean them up as much as possible.  should be able to pick out any dried latex around the threads and the stopper.  make sure it moves easily.

    to answer your question, I assume you using a Stan's injector syringe.  if you're just doing a refresh, one full load should be fine.  if you're on 2.5s or bigger, you should probably go 2.

    wait.  29er?  I'd go 2 shots each.  especially if it's been a while.

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  5. I'm confused:  was the bruised anus the win, or your wife not wanting to inspect it?

    Kurdt:  I should also mention that if you're armoring up to do lift-served trail in NM, wear your chest protector on the outside of your clothing.  when I did AF last year, I wore a moto jersey over the top, and it effectively lubricated the chesty over the hard plastic of the body armor.  almost all the cold early morning footage was trash.  similar slickery effect happens if you wear two layers of jersey material.  if you can feel the camera bouncing, your recording earthquake simulations.

    I briefly experimented with a chin mount on my fullface helmet.  sucked.  it was smooth, but was too far forward, so no handlebars and I couldn't ever get the angle right.

  6. I use a Hero4 silver on the standard GoPro Chesty.  camera shake has alwaays been a problem.  I ran that thing as tight as it will go.  some trails are smoother than others.  not gato.  constant rattle.   my cheapskate solution was simply to tie a couple knots in the straps to where there's almost no stretch left.   that thing is so tight now, I either keep it in my pack or unbuckle it for sustained climbs or whenever I'm not filming.

    a friend of mine recently offered to loan me his gimbal.  I'll probably take him up on it.  but you have me scared that it takes too much work.  personally, the gimbals are so smooth, it hardly looks like mountain biking.  it's a very visceral thing, for me.  I find videos that look like flight are often boring.  it's more about reliving the experience.

    speaking of, rewatching the video from yesterday, I noticed the first major mistake I made on my crash:  I forgot to drop the saddle.  (the second mistake was fixating on the rock I eventually hit, instead of looking far ahead).

    can't remember if I shared this one.  shorter and less shaky than the other video I made.

     

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  7. 13 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Sonsabitches who think that maybe you’ll be granted permanent Canadian residency if you just camp out in a bathroom stall at YYZ. I wait damned near 10 mins. I can hear a guy in the handicap stall walking around and doing stuff. He finally vacates. I go in...to find the floor flooded and all the TP gone. So I have to bail...and continue to wait on any of the other three stalls, where I am convinced the occupants are busy constructing a nice 2br 1ba cottage. A while later, one emerges. At least he hadn’t taken a goddamn bath all over the floor, and there was TP. Fucking a.

    sonsabitches who reply to everything with a video.

     

    related, but the opposite:  I get excessive pleasure when I enter the men's room and the lights come on automatically.  usually  means I can breath like a normal person, immediately.  once in a blue moon, though, there's a camper in there, like your friend.

  8. my buds all went to Brushy for a second day in a row.  I had my mind set on this place, weather and fitness be damned.  sketchy ride today.  damp and snotty in places, hero dirt in others.  at least the wood was dry.  

    tweaked my wrist very early in the ride (toward the end of the video).  really didn't even notice it when it happened, but the pain ramped up through the whole ride and was a major distraction and confidence killer.  riding solo didn't help.  skipped out on a couple of goals. trying to get more comfortable on TTFs for my upcoming trip to Bentonville.

    as usual, a song stuck in my head and I had to make a video with it.  Dirtbombs, again.  1080HD.

     

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  9. you need some air, dude.  but I think anyone running <25 psi is insane, especially if they're not running procore.  I run around 28.

     I was having some intermittent squirreliness a while back, and I thought it was my shock. turns out my floor pump has gone out of cal.  I pump the needle up to around 32 now, and it feels good.  I was probably running somewhere south 25, but because the gauge said 28, I had convinced myself that the softness in the squeeze test was just my massively strong hands.

    everyone's comfort zone is different.  but if I was you, I'd try Maxxis Ignitors (w/ EXO casing).  I love those.  I run them on my hardtail.  any rolling resistance you think your saving with those Rekons is cancelled out by the low psi.  you've got a full-suspension.  no need to roll marshmellows and risk your rims on a root or rock.

    again.  personal taste.

    and no, the patter of the weep doesn't indicate anything, that I know of.  the Nevegals I used to run were solid ooze on the sidewalls.  never had a problem there.  the knobs would wear out or tear off, or I'd get a big rock puncture in the tread that leaked even after plugging it.  that's when I'd replace the tire.

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  10. just Stan's weep.  not a big deal.  just a reminder that hot weather dries it out faster, and need to refresh it.  I probably do mine twice during the summer.  maybe three tumes, if the heat comes early.

    at least around here, your knobs will be shredded before you need to worry about the weepage.

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  11. no shit, 2x.  great job, Braff.

    that made me look back at my Strava feed from when we did South Boundary Trail, last year, after 3 days of DH at AF, last year.  we started at the Osha Pass climb:  10.1%, but only 1.4mi.  I was seriously sucking wind.  took me 52 minutes.  KOM is like 18.

    anyhoo.  what happened was the saw, like this one https://www.lowes.com/pd/Corona-RazorTOOTH-18-in-Pruning-Saw/1000108027 made too quick work on the cut.  half-fallen tree I was working on gave way suddenly, and the pressure I had on the saw drove it down, the tip going into my shin, just next to the bone.  I'd never seen a fountain of blood like that before, and I didn't take the time to see if it was pulsing before I tied it off with my shirt and started (briskly) hiking out of there.  short drive home from the trailhead, stopped off at my neighbor's house where the kids were and asked him to drive me to the ER.  fuckin mess.  shoes are trash.  only 5 stitches, but I've found I have to keep a tightish dressing on it if I'm on my feet for any length of time or it will start flowing again.  dunno.  probably ok, now.  just feel these needly little tears sometimes when I try walking around with it uncovered.

    PA that stitched me up was hot, though.

  12. off the bike for a couple weeks.  trailwork oopsie, the other day.  

    Spoiler

     

    never a good thing when you're a passenger in your own vehicle.  protip:  don't undercut your cuts if your trying to set a speed record with a tree saw.

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    good thing I don't give a shit about paydirt.

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  13. man, it is hard (for me) to stay motivated, riding solo; esp in the heat.  get someone to ride with, not only for safety, but to push each other.

    rolled out yesterday around 4:30, a little later than usual, but still a 102+ heat index.  it's not a high-mileage ride, but it's steep and intense.  lots of ducking and weaving.  I'd already been out the lake, snorkeling with the kids, feeding hotdogs to the fish, so I was ready for a nap before we even started.  my buddy still wanted to go, so I went.  after the first dirt section, I knew I was gonna be ok.  but you have to stop occasionally and manage your core temp.

    funny story, Braff:

    I fired up the smoker last saturday, so figured it'd be a good time to finally breakdown and do some real maintenance on the bikes, while I was already hot and sweaty.  serviced both rear hubs and switched out the chain, cassette, and chainring on the Kona.  I had already pressed in a new BB, a couple weeks ago, which didn't cure the creaking, as I'd hoped.  bike runs silent, now.  anyway, the derailleur mounting bolt was about a half-turn loose, which would atleast explain the funky shifting in the middle of the cassette.  oops.

    oh.  +1 on 1x.

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  14. 18 minutes ago, KuЯdt said:

    Ha, that's awesome.  I've taken calls from a few interesting places, but not yet from the trail.  perhaps I need to try it.

    "ok, everybody shut up."

    [normalize breathing]

    "this's wd, what's up.?"

    heat rides?  every week.  carry a platypus of semi-frozen electrolyts, take breaks, all good.  hang your jersey in a tree on breaks, and it actually feels cold when you put it back on.

    gravel (for isu dude)

     

    heat (for Texas dudes (three bikes ago...this video makes no sense unless you ride there (as usual)))

     

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  15. 4 hours ago, RPM said:

    I know we have a few Surly Docs and I have a question. It hurts when I do this... But seriously, I do have a question. My feet are fubar (Trump spurs) and always hurt. My VA PA said, "Son, don't you understand?"  I thought 3 was max and this guy is telling me to double it daily. I'm sure my liver and kidneys have bigger issues to deal with, but this seems like excessive piling on. 

    fifb

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