GrizzlyBear67

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• Posted in thread: Calling all wheel building experts! on 02/22/2010 at 9:11PM
  girls in bikinis. What more could you ask for on a morning ride?Oh where we could go with that question!

• Posted in thread: Calling all wheel building experts! on 02/21/2010 at 7:39PM
  I'm about to have a 36 spoke XT hub built into a RhynoLite rim. Completely irrelevant to your question
  but great minds think [build?] alike.Hub is sitting on the floor next to me, rim should be delive...

• Posted in thread: Calling all wheel building experts! on 02/21/2010 at 7:28PM
  Building Bicycle Wheels by Sheldon BrownMy advice if you are going to transfer spokes from an existing
  wheel to your new wheel is to have the same number of threads exposed from your nipples before yo...

• Posted in thread: Calling all wheel building experts! on 02/15/2010 at 1:50PM
  I've been doing most of my own wrenching for a long time now. I just don't have the patience and I'm too
  picky to leave my bike in the shop for several days. The exception is wheel building...even I k...

• Posted in thread: Bike Magazines on 01/02/2010 at 8:05PM
  I really like the first twelve issues of "Bike" magazine way back when. For me , they really caught the
  essence of mountain biking. They changed their format and thus lost my interest. Mountain Bike A...

• Posted in thread: Disc or V Brakes? on 12/06/2009 at 12:52PM
  Were you riding mechanical or hydraulic disc brakes on the bicycle?All of the poorly performing discs I
  rode were mechanical; even as recently as this year. I certainly respect the other member's expe...

• Posted in thread: Disc or V Brakes? on 11/17/2009 at 7:12PM
  All disc brakes require a break in for proper performance. For your car and your motorcycle, optimum
  braking performance is achieved after following specific procedures, which usually involved slow st...

• Posted in thread: What kind of trail did you ride today? on 11/17/2009 at 11:01AM
  From the looks of your bike you could probably clear those hikers also...They were what you were
  referring to when you said "bad section of trail" right?;)

• Posted in thread: Riding difficulties as you get older on 11/17/2009 at 1:15AM
  Didn't they have a good stationary bicycle? I rode one once that had a screen out in front that had
  little guys trying to kick my azz. Boy was that tough. It sounds like you were more disciplined than...

• Posted in thread: What kind of trail did you ride today? on 11/17/2009 at 1:06AM
  Nice pictures, thanks for posting. It looks like you have to watch your line or lose a rear derailleur.
  Can you PM me with the location?