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I'm not a goretex fan. It has quite a narrow ideal usage - and I'm rarely in that range. I've only used it walking. Great for rain coats, jackets etc, not footwear. Where I walk it is either really wet or really dry. When it's really wet goretex holds the water in. When it's really dry your feet...

It sounds as though it could end up vertical? o_O :oops: :unsure:

I don't know how you guys do it. If I lived there it would be a seasonal thing for me.

he might hold another account here - he could be arguing with himself :unsure: :oops:

yes, people have been complaining of these things for years. I modify my own windows systems and andr01d phones - they think they have a right to all our personal data too. In a way, we don't own these things - they are almost like a lease; they maintain some control over what they sell us. It...

I wonder if a lot of them are stolen? Bike theft has been rife in Australia. What happens to stolen bikes? There must be money in it at some point.

Re what you found on the roots, I have a theory. The problem with roots is that they are usually square to the tyre, and the tyre slides along them sideways. The dhf has longer knobs in the middle compared to the assegai.

if they're breaking, they're breaking. Industry does this sort of thing all the time - cost cutting for bigger profit margins. Something that used to be well made with good materials doesn't mean it will be forever. It's almost a cliche.

You're right to ride it exclusively during the warranty period - I'm the same. That's a lot of k's in a short time

there is a good reason for skinny pants no matter what discipline of cycling you're into.

I did a similar think; screaming down a dirt road of a new development - big ditch at the bottom for something. I ended up in the ditch :ROFLMAO:. I used to try and take my dragster over jumps - didn't know anything. Those bars are just a huge lever - they'd end up horizontal forward or back...

I don't think the problem is what will work with that firmware - I see the problem now as losing your warranty with this firmware and all future firmware. This seems to be where shimano firmware, especially the latest version, is headed. It seems that 4.9 does exactly that - with previous...

They're all basic bikes :ROFLMAO:. I had a malvern star dragster, 2nd hand, with a 3 speed sturmey archer. I saw one kid in that film shove his thonged (aka flip flops in some parts) foot onto the front wheel for braking - no one would know that now :LOL:. Lots of bikes didn't have brakes - or...

Yes, I was aware of that. I would never have followed through with anything :rolleyes:; my days are too full :ROFLMAO:

Not really emtb related, but it's just too good :LOL:

That's strange, they state: "The UDH works with all commercially available MTB and E-MTB drivetrains from Shimano to Box to Sunrace." I would not have thought that was possible. The spiel about it looks good.

I did have an idea for front suspension. It is kind of a dynamic head angle - the more weight on the front, the slacker the head angle. I thought it could be an elastomer setup with some rigid guide to keep everything inline. Pivot point at the top of the head tube, elastomer at the bottom. 1 or...

Geez, you ride road too! Not for me - too many people driving cars that aren't drivers. I do scuttle about the back roads, paths etc when cutting through suburbia like a rabbit running from cover to cover :LOL:. I assume all drivers are out to get me :oops:

Woohoo! :ROFLMAO: A few of us here seem to have motorcycling backgrounds and are in the age group to probably remember this. I remember being inspired by this film as a kid - first time I'd seen trials. And looking at it now, it looks like dragster bikes were pre bmx! Geez, they were shitful...

I cracked 79km/h on an ancient mtb with rim brakes once. And it was down this long gravel downhill road running above a creek - I called it the wallaby descent - there were always wallabies crossing to the creek or back from it :oops:. I get anxious thinking about it now :LOL: