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John_V

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Industry_Hack said:
A new head.
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My best friend and nature photographer just bought a new tripod head that set him back around $600-700. It's for his $1,500.00, carbon fiber tripod. He spends money on photography stuff like I do on cycling stuff. Only difference is you can't get any exercise standing behind a camera lens. :D
 
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Picked up a second ISM Prologue from my buddy, Frank. He bought it for his Trek 5.2 but could never get the left side seat bolt to tighten properly, causing the left prong to always drop below the right one. Not the way you want to ride on one of these saddles. I'll mount it when my current one starts wearing out.
 
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My girlfriend funded a kickstarter for one of these and we used it for the first time today.


It was interesting watching the day's ride in reverse. The image & audio quality are very good, image capture is fisheye with about 170 degrees of view. The red light isn't bright enough for conspicuity at distance in daylight, but it's plenty noticeable at night.
 
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HillDancer said:
My girlfriend funded a kickstarter for one of these and we used it for the first time today.


It was interesting watching the day's ride in reverse. The image & audio quality are very good, image capture is fisheye with about 170 degrees of view. The red light isn't bright enough for conspicuity at distance in daylight, but it's plenty noticeable at night.
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Yay for Crowdfunding!
 
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Didn't buy anything but made me a crud guard half fender thing out of a piece of ABS a buddy gave me. Wanted something to keep all the gak off all the frame pivots and front derailleur on the AnthemX. Fits in the rear triangle kinda subtle like. Won't keep it completely crap free but should offer good amount of protection................


http://www.tacomaworld.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/412138/cat/500
 
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OK, facepalm moment......Test fitting the Monarch RL on the NRS Saturday. There are 2 positions for the upper shock mount. I have it in the long travel (rear) position closest to seat post. So I put the Monarch in same position. I notice that the air valve sleeve off the top of air can is close to pivot bracket so I want to test travel to make sure it doesn't hit it but when I leaned on the bike a little it moved more than I expected and long story short, It messed up the sleeve. So now I have rendered a brand new $200 shock useless for the moment. I found a swivel mount air valve sleeve where you could point it where it needed to be but those are discontinued so SOL on that. But I found a rebuild kit for a Pearl rr shock that came with the same air valve sleeve as part of the kit. So I have removed the stub from the Monarch and ordered the Pearl rebuild kit to fix the Monarch with. I will be using the shorter travel mounting position for the top when parts come in. Here is the kit..............luckily only a $20 fix.

 
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