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

Upgrade time @Dammit

https://raawmtb.com/en-gb/pages/madonna-v3

I reckon the resident brand ambassador is prepping his socials for us guinea pigs as we speak.

I’m still slowly building my Yalla, yesterdays discovery was that my MRP chain guide doesn’t play well with the 36t chainring which is a little annoying.

How to index your brand new BB.

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Somebody seems to have painted bitumen on your nice new carbon cranks

Recommendations for an upper chain guide that will clear a 36t ring?

Nukeproof, RSP, eThirteen. Pretty much anything DH spec

Have you used any of those?

I’m a little bit cautious as there is no way in hell my existing one will clear a 38t ring- but:

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Ah, hang on there’s a 30-34 also which I must have.

Do you have the triangle cutout or the longer triangle cutout? Looks like you can order just the backplate: https://mrpbike.com/collections/drivetrain/products/sxg-carbon-backplate?variant=14621738729514

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Ordered- thanks. $143 with delivery certainly beats $295 for a whole assembly.

What MTB long pants are not shit?

I like Hummvee shorts - should I just get them in full length leg?

These are fine:
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/men-s-water-repellent-mountain-bike-cycling-trousers/_/R-p-309674

Poc dungarees

Hahaaa, I suspect you're not wrong.

I'm not going fishing.

(after L2P I tend to avoid bodies of water)

I never think of Decathlon. I should give them more credit. Cheers. Might have a poke around and see if anything fits. Oh, they don't need to be waterproof. I have waterproofs already.

They're not really waterproof. The arse and shin areas are water repellent (at best).

I've got the Singletrack II ones and they're ok, water resistant for about 8 seconds but they dry quite quick.
If it's definitely not going to be wet, I much prefer the 50to01 ones I have though, they're a nicer cut, fabric feels nicer. I suspect, however, that I'm not really cool enough to wear them. Like a centrist Dad dressed in Palace.

I had a lot of good experiences in the MT500 waterproof trousers, but I understand my experience wasn’t universally shared.

I loved them though.

Like a centrist Dad dressed in Palace.

I don't even know what most of these words mean so I'm even less cool. The cool thing about being 'not cool' is you don't have to care because you're not cool.

Never heard of the brand but that seems to be the case these days with my MTB interest and gravel noobs taking over all the marketing.

You're asking for just trousers to wear? Not waterproof right, as everyone seems to be reading.
I just wear some hiking trousers a lot, as long as they're flexible it's ok. Most MTB trousers are pretty strudy so riding long in them isn't great. I did heave some endura ones, they were good, if heavy and bulky. But for proper MTB they were solid.

I also use these decathlon ones; bought one pair to try out, liked so bought more.