g-42
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g-42 leatt's article
May 13, 2024 at 12:01
2 days
Leatt Announces New Apparel Collection with Cargo Carrying Features
With a hip pack, it's easy to stash the chin piece (loosen belt, put chin piece through it, position just off center on the back). For short tides without the hip.pack, a gear tie (looks like a bog twist toe) keeps it strapped to the bars.
g-42 mikekazimer's article
May 13, 2024 at 9:01
2 days
Review: Commencal's Meta Power SX Signature Packs a Punch for the Price
Is that a problem with Commencal frames? I keep eying them because they seem like solid value, would love to hear some real life feedback on reliability.
g-42 mikekazimer's article
May 13, 2024 at 8:58
2 days
Review: Commencal's Meta Power SX Signature Packs a Punch for the Price
You mean like a Transition Relay? The PNW version of that is a full-on enduro bike with 170mm of travel.
g-42 mikekazimer's article
May 9, 2024 at 12:22
May 9, 2024
Ari Releases Updated Cascade Peak Aluminum Trail Bike
I'm surprised how hard they're pushing DVO. Are they getting a hell of an OEM deal, or are they on to something? I've never tried any DVO suspension, and I'd be a little leery compared to the Fox/RS duopoly.
g-42 seb-stott's article
May 9, 2024 at 12:19
May 9, 2024
Now THAT Was a Bike: 2016 Pole Evolink
They're not old or outdated as much as out of business. Which is a shame in the sense that small brands doing quirky things stirs things up and benefits us all. But which is also not all that surprising, given the turbulent times the bike business is going through. The number of sharks they jumped, and the rather hyperbolic rhetoric and defensiveness they reacted with when called out on stuff, probably didn't help insulate them from those factors...
g-42 edspratt's article
May 3, 2024 at 10:25
May 3, 2024
Bike Check: Oisin O'Callaghan's New YT Tues Race Bike - Fort William World Cup DH 2024
All that gold gives me 90s pimped out Camry vibes...
g-42 pinkbikeaudience's article
May 2, 2024 at 13:22
May 2, 2024
More Tech Randoms - Fort William World Cup 2024
That We Are One proto looks wicked fast and sci fi. Yep, it's not a finished product and what not, but man, it just somehow gets me more excited than any of the polished stuff.
g-42 dariodigiulio's article
May 2, 2024 at 11:57
May 2, 2024
Martin Maes is Racing a Modified E-Bike in the Fort William World Cup Downhill
Whoa, that's wild...
g-42 jessiemaymorgan's article
Apr 25, 2024 at 8:05
Apr 25, 2024
First Ride: Canyon Neuron:ONfly - a Lighter 140mm eMTB
@jessiemaymorgan: that's a nicely done cliff hanger there.
I was surprised to read you were blowing through travel and hitting bottom at your weight. I always think of that as a heavy rider problem (at near 100kg, it very much limits what brands I can consider, since some linkages can't be made to feel good no matter how many spacers I put in a shock). Is thay unusual for you, and do you think it's a problem with shock tune, leverage curve, or both?
g-42 cyclesdevinci's article
Apr 24, 2024 at 10:09
Apr 24, 2024
Devinci Announces All-New E-Troy Lite & Yoann Barelli Shreds It
@JustinVP: That last one makes absolute sense. I outweigh my wife by about 80#, and on a few rides when we were demoing ebikes, we found that perceived exertion levels on the climbs as well as overall range were pretty similar for us with me on a full-fat and her on a light/mid-assist bike. Given how cumbersome I find the full-fat e-bike on the downs compared to my Sentinel, I can't imagine what it would be like for her to try to push one of those around.
