gtill9000
- Member since Dec 2, 2013 O+
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- Pensacola , Florida
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Been riding since the BMX days in elementary school. Never stopped.
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gtill9000 henryquinney's article
Mar 15, 2024 at 12:28
Mar 15, 2024
Henry's Waffle House: All-Mountain Bikes Are Back, and They're More Pointless Than Ever
@GTscoob: I replaced my truck with a Mazda3 hatchback about two years ago, and I love it. The Mazda gets better mileage, it's tons of fun to drive, and is a lousy truck. Aside from having much less utility, I scraped something in the ground at the trailhead at my home trails and did about $1500 damage that wouldn't have happened in a small truck with more clearance. A car with more clearance (aka a subaru crossover etc.) doesn't get much better mileage than a 4 cyl tacoma - it's basically the worst of both worlds to me, but for someone else it might be perfect. Everything is a trade-off and there is a legitimate use-case for a small truck to be a daily driver for a lot of people (especially the weekend warrior types that are well represented on this website.)
gtill9000 henryquinney's article
Mar 15, 2024 at 7:44
Mar 15, 2024
Henry's Waffle House: All-Mountain Bikes Are Back, and They're More Pointless Than Ever
there's a lot of truck-hate on here! A tacoma (or its equivalent) is a good daily if you can only have one vehicle. If you need a car, a truck will do fine, but if you need a truck (which most of us do at least every month or two) then a car is a poor substitute. I had an '02 Tacoma for 20 years, loved that thing and it never let me down.
gtill9000 SramMedia's article
Mar 13, 2024 at 9:46
Mar 13, 2024
Must Watch: Brandon Semenuk Is Incredible As Always for 'In The Know'
When relatives ask me about mountain biking, i show them stuff like this and say I do it too.
gtill9000 seb-stott's article
Mar 11, 2024 at 14:52
Mar 11, 2024
Review: Whyte Elyte 150 Works - 'One of the Best Handling E-Bikes'
Give it another 5 years or so more years of development and I think they'll get there. I'll start considering when they have: full power integrated motor & gearbox with a belt drive, dual crown fork, dropper post & about 20-21 Kilos/45ish lbs.
gtill9000 seb-stott's article
Mar 11, 2024 at 14:48
Mar 11, 2024
Review: Whyte Elyte 150 Works - 'One of the Best Handling E-Bikes'
They're making regular bikes heavier so Ebikes don't seem so heavy by comparison
gtill9000 ari-bikes's article
Mar 6, 2024 at 6:02
Mar 6, 2024
Fezzari Bicycles Rebrands to 'Ari’ & Announces New Lightweight All-Mountain eMTB
The Fezzari name was terrible, they had an opportunity to change it, and they changed it something slightly less terrible. I have no idea if the leadership of this company are "actual" mountain bikers or not, but Fezzari and Ari both sound like corpo-names generated by AI.
gtill9000 edspratt's article
Feb 26, 2024 at 9:53
Feb 26, 2024
Industry Digest: 30% Drop in Shimano Annual Bike Sales, Apple Vision Pro Shopping Apps, Brake Lever Lawsuits & More
There is no way litigation is 9% of GDP. That would be more than two TRILLION dollars.
gtill9000 edspratt's article
Feb 23, 2024 at 16:54
Feb 23, 2024
Bike Check: Sam Blenkinsop's Zerode G3 - Red Bull Hardline Tasmania
This looks like the only ebike I would ever buy.
gtill9000 mattbeer's article
Feb 23, 2024 at 11:03
Feb 23, 2024
Review: Lewis LHT Ultimate Brakes - Clones or Contenders?
The fact that they have two patents pending, and a genuinely different system for adjustments, undercuts the whole "this is just a trickstuff knockoff" argument.
gtill9000 seb-stott's article
Feb 23, 2024 at 6:11
Feb 23, 2024
First Look: Intend Hover Opt Shock
For a high end shock like this to not have independent hi and lo speed rebound adjustability seems like a miss to me. Having to send it to Germany (I guess?) for a retune seems dumb when those are adjustments I normally make depending on what kind of riding im planning to do that day.