re: tOfficial Cycling Thread

It’s hard to beat a Garmin for integration and mapping, but when I was looking Wahoo and Hammerhead had their perks, as well.

My 32mm's are still within the Rule of 105% for the Roval front wheel since they measure about 33mm and the rim profile is 35mm at widest. But I can't help but think running a 30mm that balloons to 31mm wouldn't give a little aero gain because the widest part of the rim is halfway down it so the air would flow smoother across a 31mm wide tire and on across the rim. I'll need to get the calipers out and measure the outside rim width at the bead.

Bro science incoming.

Hell yeah. Thats an awesome color, too.

hell yea nice ride.

make the shop install some better than stock headset bearings when it gets built up. i just had to do the long overdue headset service on my SL7 and it took about 2.5 hours longer than a headset bearing install should (you have to take the entire cockpit apart and bleed the brakes). water gets in the headtube of these bikes and sits on top of the bottom bearings and the garbage stock bearings disintegrate eventually. i put the cane creek hellbender kit in it and you can see how they designed them to attempt to address this some. the bearings are not "open" on both sides

well, i do rinse my bikes down after every ride because i sweat acid... if your bikes dont get wet much it's less of an issue obviously

I just asked if that problem was fixed on the SL8 or if we should just do it before i take delivery.

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Have you gotten the new ride in?

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Supposed to be tomorrow. I’m going to call in the morning to confirm and see what time he wants me to go by and get fit.

ETA not today. Should be in friday but i'll be out of town so looking like next week now. sads

Wrapping up a strong August with 20 days on the bike, will be 21 after tomorrow's ride.

Also recently converted my 2x GRX to a 1x with a wolf tooth chainring. Happy with the results for my riding style.

Lots of trainer and mountain bike this past week. 80mi on the road this morning. Twas hard

This weekend the boy returned to enduro racing for the first time in nearly a year after concentrating on downhill this last season. We weren't confident that he'd still have speed after his AC separation earlier in the summer and lack of the long-stage pedaling fitnes required for enduro vs. downhill. On top of that, it was a stacked Pro class, with a lot of regional "heavy hitters" who he's struggled to beat in the past.

He dropped his chain on the first stage, costing him what bystanders said was probably 30 seconds when he had to stop and put his chain back on in a pdealing section of the stage. Not a good way to start the day, but he just pushed on and hoped to stay clean the rest of the day. When timing chips got turned in, he ended up in p2, winning four out of the seven stages, and less than 3 seconds off the winner's time. So yeah... question answered. The downhill racing all over the country during the last year paid off when he came back to enduro. Now he's torn on whether he wants to keep focusing on downhill or come back to enduro... probably just going to do a mix. Next year, he'll cat up to a full pro instead of junior in Downhill, so that competition is just going to get stiffer.

Here's the edit one of the race videographers put together for him of his race day:
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