All Things Bikes and Tacos! (...and every vehicle imaginable)

Does anyone here live in Los Angeles and have any exerience with The Path bike shop there?

 

I'm in San Diego but have been to the Path many times. Bought a Transition Spur there a year ago in fact. Great shop with good employees.

 

I did not totally miss out on the North Georgia snow.

 

Humor break: All the bike parts you order online.

 

Before I order some does anyone have travel shims for a OneUp dropper they aren't using and would throw in an envelope and send them? Or willing to measure the diameter of them so I can try to source something locally?

 

Have you tried contacting oneup? They have great customer support and they might just be willing to send you some.

 

I just emailed them. I was going to order them but with $10 shipping it's $23 for the shims. Seems excessive and likely something many owners just have laying around.

 

V1 or V2 dropper?

 

Bike question. I am looking at buying a take off rockshox lyric ultimate 29” (2021). The person states the steerer tube length is 6.5”. I am not to sure what that means.

I have the original rockshox recon on it.


would it fit my 2020 stumpy st in large frame:

 

I don’t think it would. You would have zero room for your spacers

 

It looks like you’re around 7-7.5” of steerer tube. 6.5 looks like with the same spacer stack would not make it out of the top of your stem.

 

i did the math, to do 2,000 miles a year, thats a little over 166 miles a month. thats like 11 miles every other day at the minimum. thats around 45-60 min on my trainer. my normal outdoor ride to the trails by my house it 9.5 miles, so i'll have to add a loop to hit that mark.

similarly, 200,000 feet of elevation is just under 17k feet a month. this would be trickier. my normal mtb loop is just over 1k feet of elevation. my trainer rides are normally just under 1k feet.

at the end of the day, i need to ride like an hour every other day and i can hit this goal. this isn't hard set, since summer brings longer days.

physically shouldn't be too hard. the time management will really be the biggest obstacle for me.

 

Alternatively, you could just do a few long bikepacking loops throughout the year to bring those numbers up.

Example, here's a brand new 4-day route, 227 miles:
https://bikepacking.com/routes/queens-ransom/

 

yea ive been thinking of that too.

im doing 30 laps on a local trail loop for my 30th birthday in april. thats 70ish miles in a day.

later in the summer i havent decided if i want to do the pikes peak apex (4 day stage race, steeper xc style trails/fire roads up) or do a colorado trail week.

a group bikepacking trip would be way cool too. i've only done solo tours in the past

 

Absolute gem on Instagram today… I feel attacked

 

I think I have a set of V2 shims sitting unused in my bike box. I can check when I get home.

 

Looked at my Strava totals for 2021 and I def felt the effects of a much busier work schedule this past year.

Only made it 264 miles and 32,930 elev gain of riding. I normally hit 500ish in a year.

Def need to step my game up in 2022, and have some good stuff on my list for this year to support that.

 

V2 is what I'm looking for. Happy to pay actual cost of shipping plus a few bucks if anyone wants to part with them. Or if you can even get the diameter I'll see what the hardware store has.

 

gnarcouch called them 2013s in their IG story. lol

 

I'll take a peek when I get home and shoot you a message.