@allballz: I completely agree with you but if you read around the Marin isnt amazing anyway. Compare it to a hightower LT its less pretty and less functional than the hightower.
I gotta be honest, if I'm out in the woods, riding my bike, enjoying nature.... and then some dipshit comes whizzing down with a speaker blaring,I'm following said dipshit and beating the snot out of him. We sell these in my shop, and I hate them. Pump tracks, urban parks, other things like that I get. But in the woods, he'll no! It's like putting a stereo in a Harley, WTF is point other than to be obnoxious?!
I'd rather hear some decent music than listen to the grating sound of some I9's with their stupid loud hubs rackaclacking up the woods like a Harley rider with loud pipes.
@RedRedRe: If an animal is still on the trail by the time your smelly, heavy breathing self has arrived on your tire rumbling, freehub screaming bike, it either deserves to be crushed or it's a bear waiting to deliver the smack down on you. Either way a speaker won't change the situation, except you might get mauled to death with dubstep playing in the background
@JohanG: That was such a retarded ass statement. The U.S military protects only ONE thing. Profits for Lockheed, Boeing, Exxon, etc. Turn that brainwash box off and go ride your bike.
@Fix-the-Spade: I sometimes have to shout at the deer on night rides as they don't seem to react fast enough? I guess they just see bright lights and have no idea what's coming. I hate clicking hubs though. Dubstep might be the soloution, or perhaps I could just play some recording of a loud clicky freehub?
If you are hanging out at the bottom of a descent and waiting for your friends it is incredible how much noise bikes make when they make their way down hills. But no matter how loud it is a loud hub makes a big difference and for me I'd rather make a deafening buzz all day then surprise a bike
Those coloured Uberbike rotors look completely unnecessary, but, damn I want some ,!
Also that Marin is ugly !
That said with Martha Gill on it, could take the win
It’s the design language of the cranks themselves, not shoe rub. The cranks are polished on the convex bulge where you would experience rubbing instead of anodized. Not sure why they did this because it makes a brand new crank look worn from day one.
Why should it? The bike is in the heaviest gearing without any weight on it. The chain should be long enough to be able to bottom out in the lightest gearing (you know, on those very rough climbs). Agreed, not a common scenario but this is how long a chain should be. And the cage spring should be strong enough to keep the chain in place through this full range (until the lower chain meets the guide pulley, as we see here). So yeah, this should be just good enough.
I don't have that bike, but back when I was riding with two rings in front, I also used the shortest cage rear mech and made sure that the chain was long enough so that if I'd shift big-big there'd be no damage. Obviously it would be too slack when I'd accidentally shift small-small but there would be no damage so no big deal. I'd rather run it like that than get a rear mech with a longer chain.
@vinay: true idk how much chain growth that Enduro has. And it has a top guide. Bummer how a RD's spring tension is weakest when you're in the go-fast gears and most likely to be bombing through chain-throwing chunder.
@WoodenCrow: Not sure. Indeed the heavier gear (on a 1x type drivetrain), the more the spring is deformed and the harder it pulls back. But it is actually when the cage is vertical where the chain has most leverage. Especially with these huge cages required for wide-ratio cassettes, I'd say this is not to be neglected.
@poah: what do you mean? The hope bike has a completely different design philosophy to any other bike. It is designed from the top down. As supposed to the bottom up design of most bikes. Other bikes conform to standards, the hope has a narrow rear axle (instead of the increasing wide rear axles these days) to get even spoke tension (the holy grail of strong wheel builds). The brake mounts are radial to the axle so that adapters aren't needed, the rear triangle is entirely CNC machined (unusual again). It is also one of the only carbon fibre production bikes made in the uk instead of designed in the UK and made in Asia. The list goes on. The suspension design is fairly standard but it is one of the most revolutionary bikes of the modern age! To the untrained eye it looks pretty normal but if you know anything about the bike, you will know how different it is.
so it had a different hub spacing which isn’t anything new. My two bikes have different hub spacing. Spike tension has never been much of an issue in reality plus you have to use their hub and cassette. I don’t care where my bike is designed or indeed made. The same goes for either the rear end is welded or CNC’d. It isn’t going to make a blind bit of difference to pretty much most people. That bike gets attention purely down to the name.
"It's now how you stand by your car, it's how you race your car"
But yeah, that Marin is filthy.
Now that's an interesting scheme.
SPLOOSH
also, what speaker is that on the specialized?
One of these pal
Thanks for the info.
What Michelin tyre is on the front of the Intense?
I don't have that bike, but back when I was riding with two rings in front, I also used the shortest cage rear mech and made sure that the chain was long enough so that if I'd shift big-big there'd be no damage. Obviously it would be too slack when I'd accidentally shift small-small but there would be no damage so no big deal. I'd rather run it like that than get a rear mech with a longer chain.
To the untrained eye it looks pretty normal but if you know anything about the bike, you will know how different it is.