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    Help with chain compatibility, what is the least number of chains to be in the tool box!

    I feel like this is a bad standardized test question.... but here goes I am a head coach of our local NICA team (go blue devils!), and I am putting together a race day/team parts box to keep our riders on the trail. I just found a bunch of clearance water bottle cages at Trek Stirling, and...
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    Well, I only hate my current rack when I use it.... velocirax? One Up? What am I missing.

    I have a saris super clamp 4 plugged into a yakima back swing, and that gives me the clearance to swing bikes away, but now that the family is on 29ers, and mid fat 27.5 with wide bars, loading the bikes is like a bad game of jenga. I am a little frustrated with the customer service too...
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    Yes, I am a clydesdale, but the brakes should still be better

    Good morning all! Yesterday, I went for a ride at Dickerson Mine, and I spent far too much time feeling like I was in an overloaded truck and could not scrub speed as fast as I wanted too, I have a new ibis ripley af with the deore 6100 brakes (4 piston) The brake levers do not bottom out...
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    What should be in the toolbox that is headed to the trails, on a size, weight and price budget...

    I am bringing the whole family to the trails now, and with 4 or 5 bikes depending on the number of mammals going with me that day the odds of me needing more than a multitool, tirelevers, and a spare tube are definitely going up. I keep a cheap(er) track pump in the truck, and was thinking...
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    How big of a deal breaker is a front QR axle instead of a Thru axle?

    My grom grew. and, right now, the only thing harder to find than face masks is reasonably priced small hardtails. Rumph. I have found a few in my price range, but, I also know that my kid is going to be riding this for only2-4 years max, and then jumping up a size. I know that I...
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    xd driver puked its pawls... better choices?

    My son went out for some socially distancing responsible riding at Lewis morris park this am, and at about 1030 I got a video of him being able to spin the pedals both ways and not get any wheel movement. Lucky for him, he parked at the bottom and so he rode a very expensive scooter down...
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    Help with knee pads

    I am getting back into mountain biking after a good long while off of the bike (hint my last bike had a triple ring up front and v-brakes) and I have been having a blast. A family member did a number on her knee on a bike, and I decided knee pads are pretty cheap insurance. I have been...
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