sfarnum

Go ride your bike.

@Darknut: Minaar was visibly and audibly frustrated with various aspects of his team several times during interviews this season. It’s not outrageous to think he may have been fed up and left. Again, we always find out in the end, let’s not jump to conclusion because we love to bash the teams.

You don’t know that this wasn’t GM’s decision. Let’s withhold judgment until we have the facts.

@f00bar: …or suppliers demanded they place huge advance orders to get any stock at all during the shortage.

@sofarider1: He wouldn’t be interested as bicycles aren’t a good way to spread antisemitism or bust unions.

@Sluni: Rich guys don’t get to be rich guys by investing money without expecting a return.

@Marquis: You’ve got the right idea. Home Depot sells D3O “demolition” gloves for less than $20 that look like riding gloves and have armored fingers and knuckles. I wear them at the bike park.

@BarneyStinson: Do you feel like the use-cases for the Rootdown and enduro bike overlap quite a bit?

@BarneyStinson: Solve this by making the “trail” option a hardtail.

I have a Rootdown with a 150mm fork on it as my only bike rn. I’m stumped as what second bike would compliment it. Seems crazy to go with a lower travel option and have a full-squish XC/downcountry bike and an enduro HT. Also seems crazy to add slightly more travel and have a 150mm hardtail and a 160-170mm FS with similar geometry. A full on DH bike is appealing but I’d use it less than 10 times a year, hard to justify the cost. I’ll just keep being the “rides his steel hardtail everywhere” guy and save my $$$ I guess.