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@gcrider: Bummer. Bryceland would have made for a beautiful commentator alongside Rob Warner.

I would have expected it to come with U-turn? Either way, I thought Yari already was the cheaper alternative to Lyrik, wasn't it?

@gcrider: Bryceland or Bender?

@alicialeggett: Glad to hear you're taking good care of yourself. Making the most of your best days sounds like an excellent plan! And of course, welcome to the other side of the internet now, where us keyboard warriors reside. It isn't too bad, trust me. Just wait for crank axle cable routing to arrive, grab your urban dictionary and fire away :). But the best bit of course to just be out there riding bikes in nature. Super impressed you fought your way back and reclaimed your patch of dirt where the magic happens. Cheers!

@PeterT: Seems scary! Every time you look into that inner rearview mirror, you see this: :levy:

@justinfoil: Have you ridden a cable actuated brake in recent history? No big deal if you haven't, but for some silly reason it has become the subject of discussion under an article about a rear hub. Either way, what happens when a strand snaps is that you hear and feel it snap and the bite point shifts a good bit as section where it snaps becomes untwisted a bit (hence becomes longer). This is the warning you get. None of this you would get were it a single thick strand. I'm not going to argue about the failure mode you're suggesting. If it fails due to an overload, this is what will happen. I however believe that these cables typically fail due to fatigue. If a fatigue crack starts in a single strand, it is going to propagate until there is so little left in the cross section that the local stress indeed exceeds the material ultimate stress and it will snap. But a fatigue crack doesn't jump from one strand to the other. So when one strand snaps due to fatigue, there will still be enough there completely unaffected. With all respect though, I suggest we'll pause this discussion until cable actuated brakes become wildly popular in mountainbiking again. If you insist I'm wrong regarding the concept of redundancy, I'm cool with that too. Cheers!

I like how you used to use maple leaves as kind of a gradient to go from one color to the other, like from raw alu to red. Personally I'm no fan of these sharp divisions (between green and black here) either but think it would be cool for customers to get a set of maple leaf shaped stickers in both colors used to kind of recreate that effect if they'd want that.

@lkubica: A buddy of mine used to ride an Element back in the days and I just looked up a picture of the frame, but to me it seems like the wheel axle is on the chainstay, which is mounted to the front triangle. So the axle path is circular with respect to the front triangle, so not the floating IC which FSR considers important. Or are you referring to a different frame?

Socky Crountaz

@erees: Ah you mean to say these streaming sites are paid and you pay with your debit/credit card? Now I see. Wouldn't these work with PayPal or similar then?