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The Lounge / Re: The Music Thread

« on: October 14, 2017, 11:24:58 AM »

Blood Incantation are the best DM band I've heard recently, Starspawn is a tremendous album.

Quite a coincidence: I saw them by on a gig last sunday and never heard them before.. I wasn't overly impressed, but had a feeling it might have been due to the sound not being all that and the show was fairly short so I put them on my 'to check' list anyway.

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The Lounge / Re: The Music Thread

« on: October 11, 2017, 02:35:46 PM »

Sarpanitum - Blessed be my brothers.
This is about 9/10 for me. Never heard of them, but it ended up to be the first death metal album I've bought in years.
Not the most technical nor best produced ever, takes a while to really get into, but then, ah, bliss.

https://sarpanitum.bandcamp.com/

If anyone knows other stuff like this, please post.


And now for something completely different. This guy does acidcore they way it's supposed to be.
A continuous train of non-stop hard kicks combined with dark soundscapes and enough variation to not make it boring.
This stuff gets me into trance even when sober.

https://soundcloud.com/tricks_rave/acid-division-tricks-21-janvier-2017?in=acid_division/sets/livesets

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The Lounge / Re: 15 Years on the forum

« on: August 06, 2017, 03:18:21 AM »

'much' is a big word maybe but they do perform better on all fronts which matter to me (except price): power (index finger braking ftw), modulation, engagement, durability.

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The Lounge / Re: 15 Years on the forum

« on: August 05, 2017, 05:44:20 AM »

In that case, here's a picture. It's actually not a canti mount but a U mount (at least I assume that's the official name).



Hand cut/filed from a plate of 6061 I think.
I don't recall why exactly I went nuts with my drill, might have been affected by the weight weenie hype.
The caliper isn't cracked, that's a hair from our white cat.

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The Lounge / Re: 15 Years on the forum

« on: August 04, 2017, 01:51:55 PM »

Anyone still doing custom shit to their brakes?

Made an alu adapter to fit Magura HS33 on canti mounts years ago and still use it. Not sure that is the type of customization you mean?
From the recent videos I see there's more people without brakes than with brakes though.

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The Lounge / Re: 15 Years on the forum

« on: July 30, 2017, 09:43:54 AM »

Member since 2008 only but have been lurking around much longer (and on a related note found out my RideMonkey profile is from 2002).
Actually I just came here today after not having visited for years with the vague intent of maybe starting a thread just for old 35+ people and about how they experience riding now vs when being younger. And then this was like the first thread. Loving the coincidence.

After years of not really doing any proper riding at all this is finally the year I'm sort of back on the streets regularly. And it I'm enjoying it more than ever despite riding worse than ever. Even simple grinds and manuals and small gaps feel like actual tricks these days and leave behind that good feeling we're all doing it for. I almost reached ultimate bliss when I did a manual to double peg on a one foot ledge yesterday. Maybe it's just because I now really do it *just* for the fun, while 10yrs ago ther were still too much hormones ditcating the brain it's never good enough and stronger/harder/faster are proper life goals. Meh. Anyone else feel like that or am I just crazy?

Yeah, f**k that.  Grind everything.

I even remember this being the quote in a signature and always loved it. Not going to say I lived by it as well, but still close though.

Btw since all forums seem to be slowly dying, where do all the youngsters hang out these days? Where do they hold their pointless discussions about which color for your grips gives you the most grip?