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Honda wing logo makes me think it came from their motorcycle division, not from cars

Low end choices like the brakes, cranks and skinny fork on a $3500 bike is nonsense. Put full GX, TRP brakes, Marzocchi Z1 and sell for $2300 and you will get my attention.

I think there shouldn't be any limit, let me explain... Let's compare this to cheating in a video game. You can cheat offline or online. Why do people cheat in games? Normally in offline games to overcome their lack of ability in some area or to explore around. Either way it gets boring very quickly. People who cheat online do it mostly to piss off other people or just to show off. Once they get caught or they can't enrage other players it doesn't make any sense to keep on going, so they quit. E-bikes or assisted mountain bikes should be really called "mountain motorbike" and over time people who bought it to overcome their laziness will eventually get bored and quit (and move on to buy a proper motorcycle). People that bought it to cheat or show off (in strava for example) will also be caught and put to shame... and quit. Who do we have left? Riders that NEED that assistance to enjoy their hobby/sport. Self accomplishment is a very important factor in keeping riders riding, and no cheating will give you that. E-bikes are very useful for city transportation, that will catch on no doubt, but in mountain, road, bmx, or whatever competitive discipline you practice will stay clean of cheating electronic assisted bikes.

1:19 ¡Guapa!

I guess that rules out an app for my Ubuntu Phone :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW0xmT6ONus at about 9:58 mark you can see he preloads the bearings with the left crank cap. I haven't found a video where they actually use a torque wrench, but on my tool it specifies 0,7 - 1,5 Nm. That may not seem much, but 1.0Nm is way more than hand tight.

First thing I did when my new bike with pressfit came home was to remove the dust wipers from BB -shimano- bearings (among other inspection). They came bone dry. Packed them up with grease, assembled, torqued the left crank preload to spec and one year later they are running perfectly smooth and silent. Had a creak appear recently on out-of-the-saddle efforts and my first thought was the BB. Nope, traced the noise to stem and handlebar! I think that most of BB problems that appear have to do with not preloading the bearings properly. When properly torqued crank preload makes the cranks spin very hard! It frees up with time but leaving it with little preload gives the bearing the space to start working loose and creating noises. Just out of thought, I wonder why manufacturers haven't changed the pedal to crank interface, I think it's been a standard for too long, right?

Shimano relying on third party components to keep up while denying SRAM was on the right path all the time. It's easy, if your fit get X1/X01, if not, stay with 2x o even 3x. It's a no-brainer.

Nothing said about the new wheels freehub. Shimano designs them with the pawls facing inward which creates a weaker design. Had to replace my slx freehub every 6 months because they couldn't withstand the torque. Ok I'm a heavy guy at about 95kg, so I went to something better... Hope Pro 2, still running strong on my 26, but the new bike (with dt-swiss m spline) is failing at the freehub (sigh) and these new shimano wheels look tempting... Shimano hub + their 40x24 combination... will I have to pop 70€ a year on freehubs again?