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Definitely, those 2 year old 29er dual suspensions are not safe on the same roads and trails that were perfectly fine on 26 inch GT Zaskars with 71° head angles.

The blurb is actually restrained and to the point. Nothing like the stuff Specialized puts out which must take a piece of the authors dignity and soul with it.

Broker all the way.

The brain was a XC specific solution (and fair to say a proven one) that somehow found it's way onto the marathon scene. I imagine in a XC race it's helpfull not to deal with locking out or forgetting to unlock. For a marathon you can decide this is a long hill and have the smoother suspension going down.

This is 1000x better looking than the Diverge STR.

That is a very sensible decision made all the more sensible by not being boring. I had a rare limited edition Ford Sierra 3.0i RS as my uncle was a clay modeler working at the factory. Now none of the other students thought the car was special but every painter in town was in awe and wanted to buy it from me.

I sommer feel like taking a leave day at work today to go and test that bailing twine vacuum bag move. Sounds like a brilliant idea.

There was a guy in my first year who had a Ford Fairlane. Coolest car in res by a mile.

If somebody doesn't like that bike they can't be helped.

When so much power is currently coming from burning diesel, the daytime only isn't a drawback. Eskom can save the diesel for the evenings.

I don't really understand the appeal of the top of the range models. The ~R80k models also have carbon wheels, AXS, SID etc. It is really are getting into marginal gains territory that will make close to zero difference in the experience. And the bike industry will find a way to make both obsolete in 3 years.

A gravel bike is something I've looked at on and off as the thing to get me into cycle again after a few years off as my girls are moving into the toddler stage. I don't feel the road is safe anymore and technical MTB isn't really for me. A voice in the back of my head always said this isn't going to work for my area (Rural Karoo). Then I read the Rhino Run articles here and I realized what would work for me. Benkenstein was running 29 x 2.4s and Zeinab said: The main thing I would change would be to use wider tyres. I had never really ridden gravel before the event so I assumed 48mm tyres would be enough. If I could go back I would use the biggest tyre I could get my hands on. So if I ever get a gravel a bike I will skip the 'current' gravel tyres and go straight to something like the Curve Big Kev.

But as rightly pointed out you need to put the same tyres on both before you even know the difference. That is why Giant etc don't publish weights.

What I find interesting is how the Hub had me spending my time researching a tool with zero relevance to me. I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old keeping me busy, my chain will last longer than twitter.

This doesn't have to be personal. Measuring inside to inside is making assumptions about the roller diameter. With some 12 speed chains where the roller diameter jumps to 7.9mm from the usual 7.65mm it's a problem. Even Park Tool say you must use the CC-4 for chains with a larger roller.

Thanks, I'm going to test those. The solar panel would be a logical addition but it will get stolen before it get's a chance to prove itself. Makes me upset just typing that.

Is it a straight swap for the gate motor or did you need to change the gate motor charging circuit?

I think Jewbacca is 100% reasonable here. All my purchases I've made of point of telling the seller this is not urgent, they can courier when they have a chance.

Well the strategy of making the bikes longer and slacker every 2 years and telling you your current bike is actually unrideable couldn't go on forever.

The guy at the pointy end looking for marginal gains probably watches his scale as thought it's Netflix and rides a Crux. That makes the niche very small.

I suspect the Diesel Dust man's comments on this Specialized is going to make the social media treatment of Liz Truss seem kind. This just seems like a dud. All that complexity and weight for zero benefit when you are descending out the saddle. The issues in tuning the thing, did I mention it's ugly, the list goes on ... But that cyclingtips article you reference is excellent journalism, impressive stuff.

This is Specialized saying hold my beer when Bianchi thought they had the ugliest announcement for the week.

Be very careful of exceeding the safe pressure. One day my brain was switched off. Went to the local BP garage with a friend to seat a tyre and didn't check the regulator set pressure. Kept the inflator on the valve chatting away and the next moment the world went silent. We couldn't hear a thing for a while and ended up at hospital having our ears checked. The rim was pretzeled and a write-off.

I used to be an Apple user from the iPhone 3Gs through to the Face ID era. I lost patience with - how long it took for Apple pay to come to SA - the endless connection issues between my Garmin and my iPhone so I jumped ship to Samsung and I cannot see myself going back. For premium priced products they are just too cynically handicapped for me to feel like both Apple and myself are winning in this transaction. M series iPad is more than powerful enough to give a desktop experience when connected to an external monitor, but no because it might cannibalize Mac sales. Multi user accounts would be great for iPad but Apple would rather a family of four have four iPads. No high refresh rate screens on a R20k+ iPhone 14, 128GB storage on a R26k iPhone Pro. Apple are protecting their product lines from each other. Steve Jobs had a very clear handle on this when he said "If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will". I am not daft enough to say they cannot make profit but when a 64GB iPad Air exist for R13 199 and you need to pay R16 499 for the 256GB model which is actually useful it's bordering on ridiculous to point where I feel like Apple are laughing at their customers. With Samsung I feel like they are trying to give me the best possible product for the price and I haven't had a single issue.

I really believe this is not for ultra athletes at all, it's about creating another price point for the apple watch. Apple rightly believed that if Garmin users were happy to pay R18k for a watch allot of Apple uses will too. Then the question is how to differentiate this from the standard apple watch and this is a much better effort than a stainless case or a Hermes strap so well done there.