Tech Briefing: Diverse Hardtails, Stem Storage, Jorts, & More - August 2020

 Yeah for that price you could buy a Yeti Limited Edition ARC Hardtail.

 @acali: Oops! Pricing updated

 now i really want it

 We've now passed dentist bike and gone full blown Hollywood plastic surgeon groupset.

 gonna guess that specialized already did this with their butchers for ebikes. Apparently some people actually like them on regular rigs (I've ridden only dhf's dhr's and marys for the last decade or so have no experience on them), but the ones that come on levos and kenevos are so terrible they have to be swapped out immediately. squirrelly in wet or dry conditions. guessing they modified the regular butchers to make for less rolling resistance, but that comes at a $180 tax since you have to throw them in the trash. Weird that they'd risk the reputation of a tire name that some riders seem to really like.

 @ranke: I can attest to that. Maybe it's the 2.8 size, but I ended up with a loaner back wheel while mine got warrantied, the shop has a spesh demo fleet so it was a roval wheel with a butcher tyre, they offered to swap my dhr2 onto it but I said be reet ill manage.


I wish I'd got them to swap it. It was horrible, to the degree the 2.5 aggressor I've got on a second wheel set is far gripper on practically every surface. The only bonus was it took them 9 weeks to sort it, in which time I'd done over 300 miles on their tyre not mine lol

 Throw in some temporary tattoos and a stick-on handlebar mustache

 I don't think it should be allowed. If you want to look like a jerry on a bike, you should have to be uncomfortable while you do it, and it should cost you 2 dollars and 10 horibble minutes of scrounging at Goodwill. It has to be a COMMITMENT, DAMN IT

 Chromag has great shorts. Ambits are basic and high quality.

 Yes. Zipped pockets are the best.

 Bib shorts with knee pads would be better?
As could turn into flasher shorts when you crash?

 @aljoburr: I was thinking more 3/4 length shorts but the bottom third of the short being made out of G Forms pad material or something

 7Mesh makes nice shorts w/ zippered pockets, but they’re not short because it turns out that short shorts are not a good idea for MTB.

 @erikkellison: I was just wanting something casual, but I'll probably just make my own eventually

 Too funny... That reference gets thrown around my house all the time.

 www.pinkbike.com/news/mondraker-releases-grommy-e-balance-mtbs.html

Plenty of comments here

 @justinsp: missed that, thanks!