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Old July 19th, 2016, 03:06 PM   #1761
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Basically hold the front brake and pedal. Do it both standing and seated. It's the easiest way to isolate the seatpost and seatclamp as the culprit or not.

Then do the basics. Skewers, chainrings, headset, whatever. Bottom brackets are frequently the culprit on older bikes or bikes that spend a lot of time riding in wet conditions, but those are also the most work and expensive option, so save that for last
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Old July 27th, 2016, 02:59 PM   #1762
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average 12% grade... peaks up to 17% where i'm standing in the middle of the vid.

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Old July 27th, 2016, 09:16 PM   #1763
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What canyon is that? I don't know the territory around Long Beach very well. Looks like it has some nice views.
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Old July 27th, 2016, 11:08 PM   #1764
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What canyon is that? I don't know the territory around Long Beach very well. Looks like it has some nice views.
its actually highland valley in san diego
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Old July 28th, 2016, 10:10 AM   #1765
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Old August 2nd, 2016, 02:04 PM   #1766
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Good day for a ride in the CVNP. #getoutside




Just finished converting my MTB to a hack 1x10 setup with some parts from One Up Components. Dropped about 1.25 lbs with this setup, down to 26.2 lbs. Also added 15mm of travel to the fork last week by taking out a spacer in the air spring. Looking forward to hitting the trail tomorrow.
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Old August 4th, 2016, 10:10 PM   #1767
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Old August 6th, 2016, 06:49 AM   #1768
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Old August 9th, 2016, 08:22 PM   #1769
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Old August 10th, 2016, 08:26 AM   #1770
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Old August 10th, 2016, 03:44 PM   #1771
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lol it'll probably get ridden like once and then get hung on a wall or something. nostalgia or whatever
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Old August 15th, 2016, 06:20 PM   #1772
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So... not to brag or anything, but I rode moar milesez and climbed more feetsez last week than Rojo.

And for once, he wasn't injured or taking an off week.

I'm pretty stoked. It hasn't happened before, likely won't happen again.
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Old August 15th, 2016, 06:36 PM   #1773
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So... not to brag or anything, but I rode moar milesez and climbed more feetsez last week than Rojo.

And for once, he wasn't injured or taking an off week.

I'm pretty stoked. It hasn't happened before, likely won't happen again.
I knew I shouldn't have been a lazy **** on Sunday, blame it on the early morning temptation of Moto GP races.

We bow to you greatness

Now do it again this week
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Old August 15th, 2016, 07:57 PM   #1775
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Old August 15th, 2016, 08:32 PM   #1776
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We bow to you greatness

Now do it again this week
I kept checking strava Sunday to make sure you hadn't gone for the extra 14 miles or whatever it was.
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Since I turn 15, every year on my birthday I would pedal the mileage as my age.
Every time it's been near the hottest day of the year.
Most of the time on my own bike, few times on bikes that I bartered, borrowed or even stolen in war zone.
During the ride I would contemplate on challenges I met, events that have shaped me, people I've met or lost, or just plain surviving the ride.
In most part of the world, cycling is not about fitness or leisure.
It is a way of transportation, connection between people/villages that have limited roads or safety to travel.
When you ride a bicycle vs driving or motorized vehicles, you are more connected to the locals, discover and befriend strangers.
I suppose it is similar to motorcycling, but pedaling allows me to slow it down, to my own pace, and really observe my surrounding views, whether they be natural or human.
Cycling is my religion, I have faith when I am on my bike.

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Old August 18th, 2016, 09:04 AM   #1778
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There are a lot of words in this thread that I don't understand.

I got my Giant Acapulco (looks just like this one) out for the first time in years. It's possible that I haven't ridden it since buying my first motorcycle six years ago. My uncle put RockShox on it before deciding the frame was too big for him and selling it to me back in the late '90s. He borrowed it a few years ago and replaced the pedals with ones that had built-in toe straps, which annoyed the crap out of me for my mundane riding. I picked up some plainish metal pedals from the local bike shop the other day, and took it for a ride down the rail trail yesterday. Runkeeper said I did a little over 10mi; Pokemon Go (my ulterior motive in going outside) said I did a little under 2km.
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Yes, and my small behind has been thoroughly put in it's place this week. I have some catching up to do tomorrow and Saturday. I'm not going to beat him again.

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Old August 19th, 2016, 08:15 PM   #1781
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Got some video of the newest trail in my area. First MTB-specific trail in a national park in the country. It's super flowy and fast and it's been teaching me to jump. Got my lap time down to sub 11:00. I have a few features I need to clean up my lines on.

Don't mind my legs in this video, looks a little weird because of the wide angle GoPro lens.

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Old August 19th, 2016, 08:40 PM   #1782
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Been inching closer and closer to a top speed of 65 mph all week. Today I hit 64.9mph as if the gods of speed are just laughing at me. Looks like I'll have to o some aero mods it keep improving or find myself I really F**king big chainring.
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Old August 19th, 2016, 08:48 PM   #1783
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or find myself I really F**king big chainring.
There's some large options for TT riders, no?

Those won't let you spin to 65, but they'll definitely let you get there faster by letting you spin the bike a little faster so gravity can do work starting at a higher speed.
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So the gauntlet was thrown, the challenge accepted and the challenger thoroughly crushed.
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Got some video of the newest trail in my area. First MTB-specific trail in a national park in the country. It's super flowy and fast and it's been teaching me to jump. Got my lap time down to sub 11:00. I have a few features I need to clean up my lines on.

Don't mind my legs in this video, looks a little weird because of the wide angle GoPro lens.

Link to original page on YouTube.

I love those angle where you get to watch the suspension do its thing.
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So the gauntlet was thrown, the challenge accepted and the challenger thoroughly crushed.
Oh so thoroughly...

This week I rode 143.7 miles and climbed 7,080'. Jason, on the other hand, pedaled 565.6 miles and climbed 33,330. Yeah. Gauntlet thrown.

I'm still enjoying my ONE WEEK EVER where I biked more than Jason. Good enough for me.

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I love those angle where you get to watch the suspension do its thing.
Then you'll like this one as well. Same trail, riding the other direction, camera pointed at the back end of the bike instead of front. I should aim it down a tad more for more rear wheel movement. Still neat.

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I haven't posted in here for a while, but the fiancee and I just got some new toys, so I have to show off!

I ended up going with the Altamira I mentioned when I first joined the thread. Unfortunately, the bike ended up being quite a bit too long for me, to the point where it started causing me back pain after about 28 miles. Looking at standover height was the extent of the "fitting" performed by the shop where I got the bike; I know better now. After talking to a fitter at another shop and trying some fixes on the Altamira, I ended up with a Trek Emonda SL 6!



It's a lot more bike than I need for sure, but I got a really good deal on a 2016 model and it has completely solved all my back problems. I have to say it's pretty attractive in all its murdered-out glory. It's maybe a bit more relaxed in character than the Altamira, but it is supremely comfortable. We did the ride that always gave me problems before on Monday and I ended up riding a few extra miles just because I could do so without any pain. It's maybe a bit slower than the Altamira due to its compact crankset, but I hit 39.6 mph on the biggest downhill according to Strava, which is pretty fast for me, and I was still pedaling.

As for the fiancee, she got a Diamondback Airen Sport as a Christmas present from my parents last year which, and even after upgrading to a full Tiagra groupset from the mix of Claris, Sora, FSA and Tekro parts that was on it, she wasn't really happy with it while trying to keep up with everyone else on the rides. The DB was pretty heavy even for an aluminum bike and I think the last straw was seeing my mom, who has typically been pretty slow on the rides, improve greatly by moving to a racy carbon bike (a Giant TCR Advanced Pro Team; also an amazing bike.) Luckily, the shop we bought the Altamira and her Airen from offers a 100% trade-in within one year of purchase, so we were able to trade in both of those bikes on a Fuji Supreme 2.0 and basically break even.


(Don't pay any attention to the seat height; we hadn't set it for her yet.)

It's a really nice bike from what I could tell pedaling it up and down the street this afternoon. Supposedly it's basically an Altamira with a cut down head tube, which sounds great to me. She hates the way-too-squishy seat, but we're going to be heading out to the Silver Comet Trail this weekend to attempt a 67 mile jaunt, so we'll see how everything goes!
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Emonda's are hotness. But your seat is super nose up?

And stand over height on a compact frame means nothing. Hell, stand over height means almost nothing on a traditional frame either... Glad you got it sorted.

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You realize that for when you're actually pedaling, the difference between a compact crank and a traditional crank is like... being up one gear on the back, right? The only time you notice any disadvantage from a compact crank is spinning down hills, so just spin faster. Unless you're a racer or can keep up with the racer crowd, I see no point for a recreational rider to have a 52T chain ring. Seriously. The terrible uphill riding I've seen from old chubby men on $5000 bicycles with big chain rings and 11-28 cassettes because they're too proud to get the lower gearing is sad. I'm rocking a compact crank and 12-30 chain ring. I can still spin to 40 on the descents and make it up hills on the bad days after I've bonked; I'm good with that.
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Saddle with nose up is normal if you want to compensate for shorter distance between saddle and b/b as you more forward on the seat. Having saddle levelled seems more cosmetic unless you are pushing forward with your pedalstrokes. Since majority of forward power generation is on the downstroke, saddle nose up is just keeping the pedaling distance more consistent as you shift atop your saddle forward and back to find different positions when you ride.
Having slightly different seating positions within your saddle can make longer distance rides much more tolerable.
When it comes to gearing, more has good with the terrain within your local riding area and traffic pattern. If the terrain and traffic allows you to spin a 52t chainring without much difficulty and concern over safety, sure.
Personally, spinning a 52t chainring is rarely the reason I ride my bicycle, effort to keep alive without incident at high speed is that much more on a bicycle vs moto or auto. Enjoy the ride, scenery and company of the ride is more important.
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Emonda's are hotness. But your seat is super nose up?
It's probably just the angle of the picture or the shape of the saddle. We leveled the saddle before we left the shop. That saddle is going away, anyhow, as soon as I can find something I really like.

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And stand over height on a compact frame means nothing. Hell, stand over height means almost nothing on a traditional frame either... Glad you got it sorted.
Oh, I know that for sure now. I looked at a Fuji Transonic very briefly in a size small and had two different sales reps tell me, "Oh, that thing's way too small for you," even after I had a pretty detailed idea of the size bike that works for me. They wanted to put my fiancee on a small Supreme when she really needed to be on an XS/S or even just an XS. She rode the small around the parking lot for a lap or two just to prove she would be really stretched out before we got her on the right size bike.


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You realize that for when you're actually pedaling, the difference between a compact crank and a traditional crank is like... being up one gear on the back, right?
Yeah, I think the actual speed difference ends up being around 1.5 mph at the same cadence when spinning 50/11 vs 52/11. It's only noticeable when my dad can actually pass me on descents despite me pushing it as hard as it will go. I wish I had the 11-32 cassette out back that my mom's TCR does. I could climb Mount Everest with that thing; it would just take me a year.
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Man.. kinda sounds like a bum shop.

There's a decent fitting widget on Competitive Cyclists website that's good for a sanity check when getting ballpart on sizing.
http://www.competitivecyclist.com/St...ulatorBike.jsp

And if you're curious on the nuances of various bike gearing, here's a useful gear inch calculator. Fun to play around with, useful for justifying/referencing gear changes on the bikes. This is what I was using when I went fromm 2x10 to 1x10 on the MTB.
http://www.bikecalc.com/gear_inches
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Man.. kinda sounds like a bum shop.

There's a decent fitting widget on Competitive Cyclists website that's good for a sanity check when getting ballpart on sizing.
http://www.competitivecyclist.com/St...ulatorBike.jsp
Yeah, it's just a Performance Bicycle, but I didn't really know any better when I first started out. We actually used the Competitive Cyclist tool for both me and my fiancee to get an idea of where to start this time. For the Eddy fit, both of us are technically between sizes on our bike. We both ended up taking the larger size for the more relaxed fit and I think that was the right choice.

I just got back from an attempt at doing one of the harder group ride routes we take to test out a new saddle, but the tilt kept slipping and I think I ended up over-tightening the screw on the seatmast cap. It's one of the designs where it's a single screw to adjust the tilt and fore-aft position of the saddle. I've got to run it back over to the shop sometime later today to see if I can fix it or need to replace it already.
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It's one of the designs where it's a single screw to adjust the tilt and fore-aft position of the saddle.
I dislike those. Common method for tightening them is to grease the threads of the bolt so it can take more torque, then torque the crap out of it. Maybe not the right way, buuuuuut the shop should be able to help.
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I took it by the shop I bought the bike from (they're an awesome bunch) and it turns out that this is sort of a common issue and nothing to really worry about. I can just knock the metal plates out that fit into the carbon seat mast cap and do everything up again. The screw states it should take 16 Nm max, but the carbon at the top of the cap is incredibly thick. I took the torque wrench to it when I got home and torqued it down to 16, but I'd be comfortable going quite a bit higher should I need to.

I'm not sure if I really like the design or not. The issue I had today is entirely down to my own ignorance and I do like how easy it is to make adjustments and swap saddles, but it's not like I'm going to be doing either very often.
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Old September 7th, 2016, 05:36 PM   #1798
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Oh hey, got this still frame off my gopro earlier this week. Not bad, I think.



Dropper posts are great. I have more travel in my saddle than my wheels.
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I usually don't put the roller between the door frame for more than 2 sessions.
10-20 minutes after I get on the rollers I feel comfortable enough to get on/off the bike on rollers in open space.

Usually I do my spin work on rollers, 140 rpm for 2 min in every gear from the lowest to highest I can mange... with 2 min easy cruise between gear shift, fixed gear need not apply.

If I do manage to watch a football game on the rollers, sprint with each snap, cruise between each play, 45 min is a good workout.
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