The nature of RetroChat.

[Rebikecumbria]

C’mon FC it’s simple:

135, 142, 148, 150 - 100, 110 up front.
10mm QR, 10mm bolt, 10mm thru.15mm thru and the same plus 20mm up front.?
6 bolt or centre lock.
28H, 32H, 36H.
Plain, double, triple butted.
Alloy or brass nipples.
Silver or black spokes.
Hope, shimano old, shimano micro drive, sram.
Loud or quiet.
40 or a 140 points of engagement.
Eyeleted or not.
Alloy or carbon.
Widths 19 to 40.
Cushcore or not.

I make that 4 billion possible combinations.

I’m just going off to lie down for a bit.

u missed 5 bolt

 

[2manyoranges]

u missed 5 bolt

Damn!

 

[mk one]

I quite like the chat on PB.

On there just this morning and one of the Enduro threads had some great banter/disagreements going on

 

[MattiThundrrr]

This thread sucks.

Bruh! Do you even ride?

 

[MattiThundrrr]

IMO Pinkbike is very much the Facebook of the mtb world. Lots of angry keyboard warriors with too much time spent arguing and not enough doing the thing they (supposedly love) are arguing about.

I'll add to it that mtbr is the same, only more organized and legible.

 

[2manyoranges]

I'll add to it that mtbr is the same, only more organized and legible.

Indeed I am baffled by the hierarchy algorithm on PB.

 

[Woz]

C’mon FC it’s simple:

135, 142, 148, 150 - 100, 110 up front.
10mm QR, 10mm bolt, 10mm thru.15mm thru and the same plus 20mm up front.?
6 bolt or centre lock.
28H, 32H, 36H.
Plain, double, triple butted.
Alloy or brass nipples.
Silver or black spokes.
Hope, shimano old, shimano micro drive, sram.
Loud or quiet.
40 or a 140 points of engagement.
Eyeleted or not.
Alloy or carbon.
Widths 19 to 40.
Cushcore or not.

I make that 4 billion possible combinations.

I’m just going off to lie down for a bit.

Presta or Schrader valve hole drilling?

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Presta or Schrader valve hole drilling?

Don't forget that some bikes can have more than one standard! One bike I bought has Schrader front, presta rear. It's a tube-mullet

 

[2manyoranges]

Don't forget that some bikes can have more than one standard! One bike I bought has Schrader front, presta rear. It's a tube-mullet

Radical !!!!

Could improve my cutties hugely

My Grom’s gravel bike is mullet tubeless - tubeless on the front (which goes down A LOT) and tubed on the back (Which doesn’t).

 

[Woz]

Don't forget that some bikes can have more than one standard! One bike I bought has Schrader front, presta rear. It's a tube-mullet

How you can live with yourself with all that going on is beyond me I would have a mental block deciding which spare inner-tube to carry, get frustrated and give up cycling altogether. Perhaps a 8mm drill and little grommets are by far the finest modern day cycling invention ever. Maybe hydraulic disk brakes, full suspension, etc. are just worthless capitalist distractions which no one needs by comparison.