Recent content by DeRailled7

You can tell from his voice that it still scares him just retelling his story. A big knife! Cougars are also a concern around here. I encountered one only once winter riding, he crossed in front of me, made me pause for a second.

Scary! Your heart must have skipped a beat, they are so impressive… and big… I see you’re on the Wet coast, have a listen of this podcast. It is the story of some guy from Quadra island who met a grizzly while riding. Listen preferably on a moonless night while camping...

The have names too, one is called Split Lips, another one it The Boss. Interestingly, The Boss lives around Banff and is knowing to have attacked and eaten black bears!

Hi everyone, one thing i really like about the pictures posted in this tread is it allows me to see sceneries of where people live and play, places I’m very unlikely to ever visit unfortunately. It always amazes me to see some of the places people go to and how spectacularly and remote some of...

A moment of reflection before going down

Welcome to the forum and congrats on the new bike. Looks mean. I’ll bet your ‘old enduro’ will be collecting dust from now on. There is no turning back.

Thanks for taking the time to describe your experience. I’m just about to do the 200hrs service as well and had noticed the discrepancies in the instructions. I had also noticed the ‘missing’ parts of the kit, I’ll be sure to talk to RS about it as well, thanks for the kit number.

Happy you’re finding this post useful. Another question i had about my XT derailleur was how much tension should there be on the pulley’s arm with the clutch on. That is how much tension to keep the chain tight and the shifting working smoothly. Turns out to be 4.4-5.4 Nm on my M8100. The...

The other day i noticed my chain was sagging, it was not tensioned by the derailleur anymore. The derailleur is a Shimano XT, my bike is a Trek Rail 7 with about 3400km on it. Engaging/ disengaging the clutch didn’t make any difference. My first thought then was that the clutch needed to be...

Beautiful painting and beautiful area. It’s becoming a very popular biking area. I’ve hiked both these peaks many times, spectacular views.

On old mining road along the Sheep river, Alberta. One thing i really like about my ebike is that it allows me to ride to areas that would be hard (for an old man) to get to on my analog bike. It was a 55km, 1250m elevation gain, loop to go to the Sheep river. Beautiful area.

Didn’t have much to say until today, but now yes, I just had all my bearings replaced in my rear hub and freehub on my Bontrager Line Comp 30. That’s 4 bearings and that’s after 3600 km. I didn’t think it was that many km but the mech. said for the way i ride it’s a good number. One hub bearing...

Old fire lookout at Skogan pass (Aberta) yesterday It’s an easy 9 km, 650m climb on the Rail. It wasn’t such an easy climb on my analog bike though, the gradient is more than 15% on more than 6 km of the trail…. I love my Rail!

Interesting tread, I’ve been having the same thoughts and worries about the potential degradation of my battery, especially that I’m also riding during winter, down to about -15 C. So this spring i took my bike to my LBS where i bought it for them to do a full diagnosis of the system. My bike is...

Today west of town. Snowed earlier this week, almost all gone now. Summer will come … one day.