We use Slack as our workplace communication tool at Pinkbike and we have a #randoms channel that we use to share an assortment of videos and stories from all corners of the cycling world and beyond... We thought a couple of the moments from the past week were too good not to share with a wider audience, so here are some of the highlights.
A Bike Made from 147 Nuts
How nuts do you need to be to create a fully working bicycle out of 147 nuts?— The Q
Canyon's Trampoline Bike
Fabio and Gabriel Wibmer have received the exclusive trampoline bike from Canyon. It will probably never be released to the public but it does look like a pretty cool solution to the normal DIY attempts.
Specialized's Roblox Bike Experience
Specialized has launched its own Roblox experience, you can play the experience for yourself here.
Trying 24” Wheels on a 300mm Bike
I have never tried 24" wheels before, but I wanted to try them on my Boostmonster! So I tried this out in Whistler! I have to say it took a bit to get used to and I really wasn't sure what use they may have. But as I was riding some of my favourite flow trails the wheels really started to work a lot better!— Jordan Boostmaster
Aaron Gwin's Windham 2015 Race Run Review
See what it takes to win a World Cup in the good ol US of A!
Thanks to Red Bull for providing the footage!— Aaron Gwin
Neko Mulally's Reserve Wheel Test
Reserve wanted to do some wheel testing on a track that was known to break wheels, so we too them to Massanutten! We ended up with some really good feedback to build a better product moving forward!— Neko Mulally
One Take Snowboard Trickshot Run
Watch Seb Toots' creativity on full display as he takes his signature obstacle courses and trick shots from the indoors to the mountain.— Red Bull
How Long Will DIY Tyres Last?
Santa Clause and his rocket sleigh!
Rufford Ford Carnage
Top Snowboarders Attempt The Highest Hand Plant Wall
The Empire state building of wall rides has finally met its match.
Peace Park has a beastly combined feature challenge for its competitors: Highest Handplant Wall and Highest Hip Air. It would all be considered fun if the 24-foot wall wasn’t 40-feet off the flats and the hip feature wasn’t a gigantic 70-feet long. Regardless, the men and women of Woodward Peace Park simply take it in stride as yet another mind-melter from snowboarding icon, Danny Davis. In the end, one wild-card rider will reign supreme on the wall while endless boosts off the hip redefine the gravitational pull of the Northwest snowboarding scene. Commentary by snowboarding royalty, Todd Richards and Chris Grenier (The Bomb Hole), is not to be missed.— OutsideWatch
@Explodo: Let's hope he dipped them into a hydrochloric bath first. Talk about modularity, though. You can thread in any sort of mount, accessory, or even pegs and seats for extra riders. Maybe this is the future?
@JVance: I figured it would help to: A-keep you from getting the seat in the nuts. B- Help you get used to the tricks while having to keep your feet on the pedals. C- make sure you learn the tricks mimicking the leg position you will actually be in on a real bike.
BTW, you can take the pins out of some roundish plastic pedals, file off plastic pins, or just wrap em in tape. I had a friend with a couple tramp bikes...
Wow- the Rufford ford videos are YouTube crack. I think I'll watch 1, then an hour later I'm like what am I doing...........
But then I think what are half the drivers thinking.
Been on them hard too. Shoutout the OG Ben, death to the copycats! (I watch them all, but prefer no commentary—the chill these strange people regularly exhibit when drowning their car in front of an audience is fascinating. We’d be losing it over here, looking for someone to yell at.)
I just love how the old school land rovers drive straight through it without a care in the world.
And how some of the soft roaders don't... Poor technique doesn't exactly help either...
It's surprisingly watchable, I laugh that roads like that are a thing still over there, especially when they had the foresight to build a stout pedestrian bridge.
What use they may have? Come on, youngin’… sit down and let me tell you why 24” was so great back in my day… Seriously I feel old, but they were great for slacking out bikes that were too steep, adding squish to a 26” bike that couldn’t take a larger 26” tire but could take a huge 24” tire… and… umm… like just so many other reasons… like, umm….
@sheepsfootchoilbelly: I read the word nut and thought of edible nuts. (Didn't see the photo, obviously.) I mean, we've seen bamboo and other organic bikes here so not even that much of a leap.
they do sell the carbon trial bike. wabio even made a pool on instagram, about if people are interested of getting one and what would they be ready to pay for it.
At last! All we need now is for someone to bring out a tramp-bike-specific trampoline at 4x the cost of a normal trampoline. I'm not sure how to make it tramp bike specific though. Perhaps we could paint a target on it to help you stay centered or something. We can leave that one to the marketing guys.
@gabriel-mission9: easy, they put a shock at all 4 corners on the supports, then they can rotate through "improvements" list every three years.
Add 10mm of travel Change support angle by .5⁰ Upgrade shock to something "more supple"
Alloy and carbon versions available, limited edition titanium and walnut released at arbitrary "anniversaries". Everyone is going to claim they want a steel framed tramp because it feels better though, but nobody is going to buy any, so they will be built to order and way overpriced.
Give a couple for free to some YouTubers and watch the rabid fan boys do the rest.
@hellanorcal: im dealing with it okay so far. Just have to remember the comment game is a marathon, not a sprint. Kind of like investing in index funds, or waiting for the revolution of the proletariat
@gabriel-mission9: I think the sentiment is the increase length of contact patch along the circumference of the tire, not so much the width. Given the same tire pressure/tire width/casing, a larger radius wheel should have a "longer" contact patch.
@gabriel-mission9: The tire with the longer contact patch, given the same width of tire, will have more surface area contacting the ground. Here's a diagram showing my mental model of what I think is going on (i.imgur.com/ooXkDIn.png). While increasing tire width may increase grip more than a larger wheel, obviously that comes with some drawbacks when it comes to how the tire acts, hence why mid-fat didn't really become a thing.
@Superbikeboy: No. Contact patch size is determined by tyre pressure. If you make the patch longer, it will get narrower to compensate. The size of the patch will not get bigger.
BTW, you can take the pins out of some roundish plastic pedals, file off plastic pins, or just wrap em in tape. I had a friend with a couple tramp bikes...
(I watch them all, but prefer no commentary—the chill these strange people regularly exhibit when drowning their car in front of an audience is fascinating. We’d be losing it over here, looking for someone to yell at.)
thanks in advance
Seriously I feel old, but they were great for slacking out bikes that were too steep, adding squish to a 26” bike that couldn’t take a larger 26” tire but could take a huge 24” tire… and… umm… like just so many other reasons… like, umm….
Actually it has 147 bottle mounts! :-)
Add 10mm of travel
Change support angle by .5⁰
Upgrade shock to something "more supple"
Alloy and carbon versions available, limited edition titanium and walnut released at arbitrary "anniversaries". Everyone is going to claim they want a steel framed tramp because it feels better though, but nobody is going to buy any, so they will be built to order and way overpriced.
Give a couple for free to some YouTubers and watch the rabid fan boys do the rest.
Always that one downvote from Richard.