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For me I want something that makes me smile when I haul it out of the garage and I have certain nitpicks and things I prefer on a bike - vertically mounted shocks for instance. Some bike just don't do it for me for whatever reason and I don't know enough about design language or art to articulate what exactly that is.

They've improved since the early days or the Haibike horror shows that I used to see around, but the full power especially look proportionally weird to me a lot of the time.

@albert03: the v1 carbon is what i have at the moment. I had a bike come with the race face 35mm carbon and they were awful for me - way too stiff. Vibrocores were quite a lot better and i honestly wouldn't say the oneups offer a night and day improvement over them.

I think it's one of those things with a lot of causes (because your wrist is a complicated thing). I've got a friend who's never has an issue in the 15 years we've ridden together. We've both got reasonably sedentary office jobs, but in the last five years I've made a lot more effort on the fitness front. It's certainly helpful for other aspects of riding, but hasn't really helped the arm pump. I think there's probably something in what Joe Breeden says about elbow position and then there's limb length and riding style and positioning and a bunch of other things that might impact this. Hence why it doesn't work for everyone. Interesting topic though

Really interesting video. On a slight tangent - Joe Breeden is a natural in front of the camera. I have horrible hand an arm issues and what's got me to a decent place is brakes with light pull, thin grips, flat lever angle and fancy bars (was spank vibrocore, now one-up). I'm definitely willing to give this a go to see if it makes a difference for me or if it suits the particular kinematics of where my elbows and wrists sit

Stepping aside from the avinox part of this for a moment, can someone explain to me the trail access thing in the States? I've ridden in Phoenix and Flagstaff years ago and I think I saw signs saying it was a trail system, so I'm guessing that a lot of the rideable trail is designated/controlled in some way and mixed use in a lot of cases? Also, would it vary state by state? For context, I'm in the UK and most of the trails here in my little corner of it are completely unsanctioned, possibly illegal and at best in some sort of legal/tolerated state depending on the owner of the land - ie natural resources Wales own it, know that the trails are there and won't work too actively destroy them so long as no new ones are built etc. This obviously varies and getting trails done sorry of proper legal state is a good thing, but i think even then access isn't monitored and they tend to be single use in the middle of a forest somewhere, so managed access isn't really a thing and the debate around ebikes us more around erosion/damage due to the increase in use. I'm trying to understand the concerns I'm seeing because it's confusing from my perspective (especially given the relative population densities). Now i need to go haul my banshee to the top of a bunch of hills while dreaming of motor assisting me.

The On-One inbred called from from twenty years ago. Wants to know if its time yet.

Yeah, same. My hands aren't the biggest and my wrists are pretty mangled and for that reason the light lever feel had been a real game changer for me. Hate riding rentals or demo bikes as a result because it's so much harder on my wrists and I end up stopping loads.

I use magura floating rotors and they seem to work well. I feel like the hayes ones are a lot easier to warp or knock out of true

Knackered wrists from a break that didn't heal properly and too much computer time over many decades means that this is something I've really struggled with over the years. Its now mostly a non issue, but took some time getting here. Grips - super important. Thinner is better for me. Peatys or DMR deathgrips thin. Anything else caues issues. Brakes - Light lever pull and plenty of power. Tried all the shmanos, guides and various others. Didn't gel with any of them. Hayes dominions seem to work nicely for me (really light lever pull, early bite, can put them close to bars) Messed around with position over the years. Flatter seems to work better. Bars - Race face 35mm carbon were genuinely horrific. Renthanls didn't love. Spank vibrocore really helped. Oneup carbon were every so slightly better (geo maybe?) Forks - Stick a smashpot in it every time. Does wonders. Needless to say, I do not like rental bikes. As with a lot of things bike - this is all hugely suibjective based on you physiology, riding style, strength to weight ratio and all sorts of other faactors. Heaviest I've been is 65kg (currently 58kg) so what works for me won't work for a lot of other people. Its good that we have options these days though.