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TheRan24 mikekazimer's article

Oct 12, 2017 at 20:33

Oct 12, 2017

The Mountain Bike Technology Wishlist - Opinion

For the dropper post you could use a mechanism similar to that in an auto OTF knife. The downsides would be it would only lock at either end of the travel, it would move quickly (nut slapper), anything blocking its path (nuts for example) would prevent it from locking, and it may not have good long term reliability. Another idea would be using compressed air to lower the saddle and that way it would function very similarly to current posts, but I have no idea if that's feasible.

TheRan24 pinkbikeaudience's article

Sep 29, 2017 at 15:18

Sep 29, 2017

GoPro Release Hero6 and Fusion, 360-Degree Spherical Camera

@hamncheez: My apologies, it appears you are right. I knew they did that ages ago, back when resolutions were really low, but I thought they went to stating the actual resolution and stopped interpolating when resolutions started to get higher.

TheRan24 pinkbikeaudience's article

Sep 29, 2017 at 12:59

Sep 29, 2017

GoPro Release Hero6 and Fusion, 360-Degree Spherical Camera

@hamncheez: That's completely irrelevant to the point you were first making. You were saying that manufacturers count each sub pixel, so a 12mp sensor would actually only be 4mp, which is completely false. You don't need a 25mp sensor to shoot 4k, as long as it has an 8.3mp+ sensor it can do it (which would be about 25m sub pixels).

TheRan24 pinkbikeaudience's article

Sep 29, 2017 at 5:10

Sep 29, 2017

GoPro Release Hero6 and Fusion, 360-Degree Spherical Camera

@hamncheez: No I'm not. A pixel on an image sensor is the combination of the three sub pixels, same goes for the screen you're looking at. Dots have nothing to do with sensors or displays, that's the term you use when talking about printed images.

TheRan24 pinkbikeaudience's article

Sep 28, 2017 at 17:19

Sep 28, 2017

GoPro Release Hero6 and Fusion, 360-Degree Spherical Camera

When talking about sensor resolution each pixel is the combination of the 3/4 sub pixels, I haven't heard of anyone counting each sub pixel except I think Sigma with their Foveon stuff (both of those names could be completely wrong, basically it was a non-Bayer sensor). So that 12MP sensor has ~36M sub pixels.

TheRan24 brianpark's article

Aug 23, 2017 at 20:58

Aug 23, 2017

Why Pinkbike is Covering eMTBs This Week

@Stinky-Dee: You don't need to be fit to have decent handling skills now does being fit mean you automatically have decent handling skills (take most roadies for example). Also e-bikes are only really faster on the climbs and that's only up to 15.5mph (if it's even powerful enough to do that), that's not really a challenging speed nor will an uphill bail at that speed cause much harm. If anything it would end up making it safer for other riders as you wouldn't have the unfit ones getting off their bikes and pushing them plus they'd be more likely to do some slower climbing instead of just sticking to the faster descents.

TheRan24 brianpark's article

Aug 22, 2017 at 9:17

Aug 22, 2017

Why Pinkbike is Covering eMTBs This Week

@t-stoff: What is your opinion? That e-bikes aren't fun? That's irrelevant when you're not the one riding them. Is it your opinion that you need to suffer on the climbs to have fun? That's fine, but don't expect everyone else to feel the same way.

TheRan24 brianpark's article

Aug 22, 2017 at 9:14

Aug 22, 2017

Why Pinkbike is Covering eMTBs This Week

@FuzzyL: I have never seen an actual petrol powered motorbike in a bike store. Go ahead and name some parts that you could take off your KTM and slap on a mountain bike. At most it'll be the handlebars and grips, although I'm fairly sure most aren't a standard pedal bike size (25.6/31.8mm for the bar and I think about 22mm at the grip). However on an e-bike everything other than the cranks, chainring, and the frame will be the same as an unassisted bike (perhaps a bit burlier but still interchangeable).

TheRan24 brianpark's article

Aug 22, 2017 at 9:08

Aug 22, 2017

Why Pinkbike is Covering eMTBs This Week

@Losvar: We're not talking about riding a track for hours at a time, we're talking about riding a motocross bike on a mountain bike trail. Yes I get that it can be quite a workout to chuck a MX bike about round turns and off jumps but there won't be much of that happening on a MTB trail.

TheRan24 brianpark's article

Aug 21, 2017 at 19:09

Aug 21, 2017

Why Pinkbike is Covering eMTBs This Week

Why shouldn't they be allowed on the same trails as unassisted bikes? Are you one of those people that believes an extra 250w is going to tear up trails like a motorcross bike would? Or is it because you don't like the higher powered bikes being on them (which is fair enough and I agree with) but where you live doesn't make any distinction between them and lower powered bikes? I only know the law here in Europe, which is that that anything over 250w is classed as a motorbike so would actually be illegal on a trail.

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