Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

wow i feel betrayed that you arent recommending Shimano

The bontrager one I got for free is good, and actually doesn't cost very much to buy, but they're just little levers, anything that's not a flexy plastic thing is fine.

But he's recommending Trek, of which you're also a fanboy

Nice to see the bike up and running. Looks like you had a cracking day for a first ride!

Just get a matching LH shifter and remove the 2nd lever and internal ratchet. Easy to do. Guides on you tube etc Quality is as good as any of the dropper levers if not better and matchy matchy with RH.

How do you clamp the cable?

Depends if your dropper cable clamps at dropper or lever end. My Raceface (Fox) and Spesh dropper cable inners are fed through the lever just like a shifter lever and use a little barrel clamped on the cable at the dropper end.

Riddle me this, we're told that we have to burn in brake rotors, and therefore I always do so.

But! Would just tearing off into the woods with fresh rotors eventually end up in the same place, burn-in wise, as long as I didn't get the pad material deposited unevenly?

Or is there something about the 30-50 stops from 20mph thing that Magura specify that can't be replicated by normal riding?

Would just tearing off into the woods with fresh rotors eventually end up in the same place

In my experience just riding does the job, but takes longer, and you'll crash into stuff because your brakes don't work at first

Or maybe get KOMs on all the local segments

is there something about the 30-50 stops from 20mph thing that Magura specify that can't be replicated by normal riding?

That sounds very German

I'd suspect the bedding in period is so people don't sue Magura if they head out with new rotors and crash into a tree because of compromised (-10%?) braking.

I didn't bed in my rotors and survived.

Or is there something about the 30-50 stops from 20mph thing that Magura specify that can't be replicated by normal riding?

At what rate of retardation? It's an overkill. A few hard stops in the carpark/outside the house has been fine on every pad and rotor combo I've ever used.

30-50 stops from 20mph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waEC-8GFTP4

Or maybe get KOMs on all the local segments

unless you ride in the same area as me.

Didn't know you'd bought an e-bike

Maguras would have shit themselves before 20 stops anyway

I’m heading to Swinley today if anyone fancies it?

Xc World Cup short track coming on red bull tv (free app) in 20 mins. Coverage is usually ok.
I understand pidders won’t be racing in men’s as he’s not ranked high enough, so he needs to finish top 16 on Sunday to move up the rankings enough to get in the next short track, and therefore get gridded better for the long race

Predictable winner maybe but good race, with a terrifying practise attack followed by the real attack with a lap left. Re watch on red bull app, good turbo fodder

He said the move on the 2nd lap was to break up the big group into a smaller one but nobody could go with him so he ended up on his own, ha

Read a race preview yesterday that didn't have him as a top favourite beacuse he has been road racing. HA!

I was there! I honestly don’t know how I didn’t spot you.

Ships in the night I guess.

Yeh riding off the front of world tour races is no indicator of form!

New Bird steel hardtail looks good - £595 for a flip paint 853 frame seems great value.

Curious as a bit of a noob to modern bike tech. How would Pidcock get a flat tyre yesterday? Presumably can’t pinch flat? Unlikely to be glass or thorns on that course? So must be a cut in the tyre that didn’t seal from a rock or the wire on the boardwalks?