BikesBoatsNJeeps

Don’t forget the freehub bushing expanding and creating so much drag that it throws the chain.

@R-trailking-S: or just use the little clear dots that come with a carbon frame to prevent damage from rub.

@KingPooPing: Get a Status, same factory, similar price and no cable tourism.

To add to this, why go through the trouble of routing the cables through the headset and then add an opening in the frame to service it... Seems like some external cable bosses would have been a lot less fussy.

@BrambleLee: more of a “what’s it like to be a war criminal?” He just turned a walked away.

@BrambleLee: Paul Bremmer used to come into the shop I’m at now. I think he’s given up riding at this point, but up until a couple years ago he was a regular. I guy I worked with there used to call him a war criminal, he didn’t appreciate that. He was one of those guys that bitched about everything. Came in once demanding to speak to a specific mechanic about a creak his bike had, the mechanic was busy running check-ins and there was a line of about five customers, I told him he’d have to wait in line. He got all up in a tizzy about it, I told him I could look at his bike, but that wouldn’t work. He was trying to make a group ride and started to raise his voice, ranting that we had replaced his bottom bracket and screwed it up, I again offered to check his bike, he finally accepted, I grab the bike, twist it around a bit realize it was the front skewer (Mavic road wheels had shit skewers) tighten the skewer a bit, creak goes away. I told him if he was still having an issue to drop by after his group ride. He sort of slinked it of the shop.

@manofmanymilkcrates: Trek. The shop is no longer there but the rest of the stores are now owned by Trek.

@RLindsay24: Not trying to make this a political discussion... just about bikes.

@FULL-SEND-ER: A guy I used to sail with was on his MTB security detail, he wasn't Secret Service, but NPS police. Apparently the secret service didn't have many riders that could keep up with him on a bike, and asked other agencies if they had any MTB riders. This guy had to try out to ride with Bush by riding with some Secret Service guy who was pretty fast according to him. He after he rode with Bush a handful of times, he was put on his MTB detail and also did back country horse back riding with him too. He said ol' GW was fast and reckless on a bike, and would ride anything. I guess he would bomb the trails at Quantico and half the guys riding with him would have to walk the stuff GW wouldn't think twice to bomb down. A shop I worked at years ago had several stores and one was DC not too far from the White House, they had pictures of the owners with Bush, they got to service his bikes and sell him new ones. They also sold the Obama's bikes but never got to meet Barry.

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