singletrackslayer

Honda ditched Sony and hooked up with Gibson (Guitar).

Is it true you have to size down two whole shoe sizes to avoid toe overlap?

What hairstyle will we call a 32/29? 32/26? 32/27.5?

They should downsize to like 20 dudes (19 sales reps, 1 engineer who handles downloading catalog bike designs off Temu); couple of tatted chicks who run marketing, HR, and front desk; and a 3-legged shop dog.

The bike industry: Where kumbayas and bro deals are the currency of choice. Real money is only lusted after by sellouts, poseurs, and corporate types.

Remember your Econ 101 professor's favorite word: fungible. A house is fungible; you can build the same one anywhere. The land under it is not. There's exactly one of each lot, and most of its value is what's around it. If land were fungible, a lot would be a lot, and Podunk, Nebraska would be as packed (and expensive) as Santa Cruz. It isn't, because a Santa Cruz lot comes bundled with things you can't relocate: the jobs, the weather, the ocean, the trails. So I laugh when "just move" gets offered as the fix for crowded trails. "Just move" only works if the place you're leaving is interchangeable with the place you're going, and the whole reason it's crowded is that it isn't. Density isn't a bug; it's the price tag on land that can't be copied. Trust me, I'd love to import Moab's land availability to Santa Cruz. It's the one thing that doesn't ship.

I thought I would get three Forefront helmets for $180. False advertising.

I mix brands to ensure there’s a healthy mix of 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 mm Allen bolts; T20, T25, T27, and T30 Torx bolts; and one T40 Security Torx on my bike.