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The Lounge / Re: Fort MacMurray

« on: May 08, 2016, 07:43:50 PM »

If 50% of my facebook feed is to be believed, this is all Trudeaus fault.

I don't get the correlation even respectable people in my feed have somehow twisted their ideology and treat trudeau's actions as worse. What the fuck does helping refugees even have to do with wildland forest fires anyhow. Money isn't going to put the fire out, it's always the people in the ground that do.

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The Lounge / Fort MacMurray

« on: May 05, 2016, 10:23:28 AM »

A whole town of 88000 was evacuated and is burning in Northern Alberta.

I know there are people from Alberta on here so I hope those potentially affected are alright.

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The Lounge / Re: Alcohol.

« on: May 03, 2016, 03:10:29 PM »

how else would you get ugly girls pregnant

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The Lounge / Re: Anyone in Michigan/Ohio area, Danscomp Jam this Saturday

« on: April 14, 2016, 07:59:23 PM »

A/S/L?

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The Lounge / Re: Electric Bikes

« on: April 14, 2016, 07:57:58 PM »

You could listen to some techno while e-biking so hard

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The Bike Shop / Re: Sunday

« on: April 08, 2016, 10:05:47 AM »

I think the Aaron Ross frame is great now. There's something I just dont like about my forecaster. If I throw it off a bridge and it breaks can I warranty it?

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The Bike Shop / Re: 3/16 Chains

« on: April 07, 2016, 12:00:21 PM »

Keychain is all you need now.

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The Lounge / Re: BikeGuide

« on: April 06, 2016, 11:01:59 AM »

Fifty Cent grew up without his father, and that made him bitter.

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The Bike Shop / Sunday

« on: April 04, 2016, 12:17:21 PM »

Is Sunday boring as fuck without Jim Cielencki?

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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Clutch hubguard alternatives

« on: March 17, 2016, 08:42:01 AM »

I meant the ECLAT OVERGUARD

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The Lounge / Re: Last trick you learned?

« on: March 16, 2016, 02:58:02 PM »

learned backwards riding, nowhere near as good as they was.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Odyssey Clutch hubguard alternatives

« on: March 16, 2016, 01:40:56 PM »

I'd get the new Kink one for the drop out!

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The Bike Shop / Re: is anyone still making 7075 stems?

« on: March 16, 2016, 09:59:13 AM »

just wait for the eclat bars and stem with larger clamping area

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The Bike Shop / Re: UK guys, could you help me value these parts?

« on: March 15, 2016, 08:42:03 AM »

150

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The Bike Shop / Re: is anyone still making 7075 stems?

« on: March 14, 2016, 02:07:44 PM »

Stems are a pain.

With the high bars people run now it is asking a hell of a lot for any stem to clamp the bars properly without crushing the clamp area. If you use 7075 then the extra hardness (and its a lot) makes it harder for the knurling to bite in, so you need more pressure to get the same kind of grip... having said that, the extra strength means that a 7075 stem is less likely to slip IF you can get the tension just right so that it doesn't crush the bar and isn't too gentle so the bars slip and chew it out before you get that far. I think that 6061 is a "safer" bet for most riders and will get the necessary grip more easily without the rider going too far and crushing the bars.

Tree may do their collet stem in 7075 (if they still make it?)

SO WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON A LARGER CLAMPING ARE eg those guys from europe.


G.