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@dennis72: I'll recycle this by nailing it up in my garage once it someday wears out.

@Dogl0rd: Trek's 2023 Fuel EX-e Is Light & Nearly Completely Silent in bed.

Someday a young man will take over supercross and he will credit his bike gymnastics background.

@Narro2: They'll just buy Switzerland.

@RayDolor: Danny! I want half Danny!

[Trek:] It’s a great pleasure, thank you. [Mike Levy:] This bike that was involved in the incident in Squamish this week… [Trek:] Yeah, the one the chain fell off? [Mike Levy:] Yeah [Trek:] That’s not very typical, I’d like to make that point. [Mike Levy:] Well, how is it untypical? [Trek:] Well, there are a lot of these bikes going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen … I just don’t want people thinking that bikes aren’t safe. [Mike Levy:] Was this bike safe? [Trek:] Well I was thinking more about the other ones… [Mike Levy:] The ones that are safe. [Trek:] Yeah, the ones the chain doesn’t fall off. [Mike Levy:] Well, if this wasn’t safe, why did it cost $20,000? [Trek:] Well, I’m not saying it wasn’t safe, it’s just perhaps not quite as safe as some of the other ones. [Mike Levy:] Why? [Trek:] Well, some of them are built so the chain doesn’t fall off at all. [Mike Levy:] Wasn’t this built so the chain wouldn’t fall off? [Trek:] Well, obviously not. [Mike Levy:] How do you know? [Trek:] Well, ‘cause the chain fell off, and it caught fire. It’s a bit of a give-away.” I would just like to make the point that that is not normal. [Mike Levy:] Well, what sort of standards are these bikes built to? [Trek:] Oh, very rigorous … manufacturing engineering standards. [Mike Levy:] What sort of things? [Trek:] Well the chain's not supposed to fall off, for a start. [Mike Levy:] And what other things? [Trek:] Well, there are … regulations governing the materials they can be made of [Mike Levy:] What materials? [Trek:] Well, Cardboard’s out [Mike Levy:] And? [Trek:] …No cardboard derivatives… [Mike Levy:] Like paper? [Trek:]. … No paper, no string, no cellotape. … [Mike Levy:] Rubber? [Trek:] No, rubber’s out .. Um, They’ve got to have a handlebar. There’s a minimum crew requirement.” [Mike Levy:] What’s the minimum crew? [Trek:] Oh,… one, I suppose. [Mike Levy:] So, the allegations that they are just designed to cost as much as possible and to hell with the consequences, I mean that’s ludicrous… [Trek:] Ludicrous, absolutely ludicrous. These are very, very strong bikes. [Mike Levy:] So what happened in this case? [Trek:] Well, the chain fell off in this case by all means, but that’s very unusual. [Mike Levy:] But Trek, why did the front bit fall off? [Trek:] Well, a rock hit it. [Mike Levy:] A rock hit it? [Trek:] A rock hit the bike. [Mike Levy:] Is that unusual? [Trek:] Oh, yeah… In the forest? …Chance in a million. [Mike Levy:] So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this? [Trek:] Well, the bike was towed outside the environment. [Mike Levy:] Into another environment…. [Trek:] No, no, no. it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment [Mike Levy:] Yeah, but from one environment to another environment. [Trek:] No, it’s beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment. It has been towed beyond the environment. [Mike Levy:] Well, what’s out there? [Trek:] Nothing’s out there… [Mike Levy:] Well there must be something out there [Trek:] There is nothing out there… all there is …. is dirt …and rocks ….and bears [Mike Levy:] And? [Trek:] And a fire [Mike Levy:] And anything else? [Trek:] And the part of the bike that the chain fell off, but there’s nothing else out there. [Mike Levy:] Trek thanks for joining us. [Trek:] It’s a complete void [Mike Levy:] Yeah, We’re out time [Trek:] The environment’s perfectly safe. …. We’re out of time?.. Can you book me an Uber? [Mike Levy:] But didn’t you come in a Slash? [Trek:] Yes, I did, but [Mike Levy:] What happened? [Trek:] The chain fell off

@CSharp: Drilling a hole all the same through sounds like a good idea. I kept having problems with valves clogging. Tried different valves and finally solved by cutting a notch above the valve on the insert. Now if someone could tell me what to do to avoid wobbly tires with inserts. Most of it can be avoided by carefully seating everything. But its seems like you get the wobble eventually no matter what with inserts.

@BarryWalstead: I tried those. They still would get blocked. Cutting a little bit out didn't affect performance and seemed to fix the issue.

I just cut a little chunk out of the insert to solve this.

I fear not 500 chainrings tested for 4km but the chainring tested for thousands