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Get the Zircus. Short to medium travel DJ frame. Could be fun as an AM bike too with a longer fork. Sliding dropouts, threaded bb, tapered head.

Me too. Well 2 builds actually. A giant stp and a commencal meta 5.5. Just been busy lazy to get them sorted

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Sjoe! Congrats my bru. Also what do you want for the red stem?

Highlight reel from my favourite streamer. https://youtu.be/8fE89fBuhuE Apex Legends has managed to beat Fortnite’s record for single day Twitch viewing. On the 12th of February, the tracker found that there were about 8.4 million hours of matches being watched. This is versus Fortnite in which Season 5’s launch managed to clock 7.2 million hours. For some context I included the clip above. There are many pro game streamers. Some more popular than others. They broadcast their games live via twitch or youtube and thousands of people tune in just to watch. One of the major effects of live streaming is something called 'stream snipers' Where viewers are able to pinpoint streamers playing. Which servers they are on with insight into where they are on the map and what they see since they're being watched live. As a result these guys know exactly where to find pros streaming and streamers end up being rushed by players trying to kill them. Who are probably watching them live on a seperate screen. So they know exactly where they are and what they doing. It makes for great action though because streamers have to defend themselves against waves of other players. The skill that some of these streamers have however is just inhuman. And more often than not just end up killing everyone that come at them. On this fateful night we ended up having a streamer as our third teammate. Our friends were already squaded up and we were the only two left looking for a random third. And man did we get a good one. The game was intense as people knew where we were and just kept coming at us. He carried us like you wouldn't believe. This guys skill was off the charts. I mean. 14 kills! jeez...We ended up winning what was probably the most exciting round I had so far.

I've always been on the slow side of rebound. Just a few clicks from slowest. I always felt like your rebound should be as fast as you are comfortable with. Right now I feel better with a slightly faster rebound on the rear than I have on the fork. Only because I need to manage a greater degree of control on the front of my bike while riding. Especially on jumps where the launch has a bit of a kick. I also generally prefer the slower rebound on the fork over rough stuff. I'm not a fan of a high stack cockpit either. Generally prefer bars as flat as I can get them. Especially with a longer fork. It just feels like I have more control. More receptive to what the dirt is doing under me. I guess its more a case of how comfortable I feel with the way my bike handles as apposed to how well it performs. Trance with Mattoc pro 2 and an evol kashima.

This is the bike you mentioned These are some of the others I found Then there was also this nifty little ebike from Eurobike 2016 https://youtu.be/UTe3g1X2Ccw So its not complete rubbish. Some gravel grinding, commuting or occasional recreational rides should be fine. Also anything you got for free is worth keeping. In this case its probably not worth selling either. But, if its your gateway drug to the wonderful bottomless pit of spending that is mountain biking then welcome! Ride the bike and let us know.

It does suit the pace of the game quite nicely. You're also able to climb a vertical surface by holding the jump button. There is also zip lining and no fall damage at all. But there are things I feel the game should implement which should feel right at home in the way characters move. Quake or Unreal style agility like rocket jumping, platform boosting and wall running. Double tapping the movement keys for quick dodging would also be nice.

I don't think it will dethrone Fortnite. Not anytime soon anyways. I've seen some pretty crazy gameplay in Fortnite especially the way players build on the fly during combat. But I feel like the game has already plateaued in terms of what remains to be seen in terms of player creativity. Apex has a different angle though. It's kinda like Overwatch or Destiny mashed up with PUBG or Fortnite. Once you learn the characters and each of their abilities it gets pretty interesting. These character abilities allow for a much larger scale of randomness, unpredictability and player creativity. So suddenly your impulses during battle have way more options to consider. Throw in team work chemistry and it gets really hard to assume what happens next.

So who's tried Apex Legends? If you haven't you really should. Its free to play on pc, xbox and ps. https://youtu.be/UMJb_mkqynU

Always liked young Ozzy's voice over Plant. That unmistakable tone in his range was made for vinyl. https://youtu.be/0qanF-91aJo

Much of mehness if you ask me. Its nice. But then again so are many others. Besides GG. Its been a while since I've seen something really interesting. I'd personally like to see some 29er super enduros. Not too many of those around.

The head tube must be one of my favorite design elements about this bike. I don't think so. We're talking about actual wheel travel here. A mere 45mm to be exact. Which really isn't that much clearance in the grand scheme of things. Easily achieved with the right wheel path. The only thing I'm kinda curious about is how much of a difference full compression will have to the bb drop in different settings. In an industry where so many manufacturers try an sell you so many different bikes with small differences between them. (Not that small differences don't translate into a completely different bike but still) The differences to achieve something completely different is often just a few mm here and a degree or 2 there. Its refreshing to see such versatility being maximized upon with clever design implementation. Its always been possible. GG is just showing us how they went about achieving that versatility.

Remember when the spark came out with those twinlocs on 2x10 bikes? If you fitted a dropper your cockpit would look something like this

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This had me in stitches. But it is sound advice.

Arrived at our base of operations. Our company currently has 150 members (including 20 South Africans). We are also allied with other companies on the same and surrounding islands but not everyone in our vicinity has agreed to play nice. But that's what makes the game fun anyways. Considering our company size (company is Atlas's name for your tribe, clan, family, guild or whatever) We're pretty well organised with different roles to play. Our Port. Some of our tames. Elephants are very usefull. They carry tons of weight and you can ride them to farm or move heavy parts for building boats and structures. At this point I had learned a few things as I progressed with the help of company players. I levelled up enough to craft some good armour and weapons Not sure what lions are good for besides riding hunting for meat etc. Aboard our first Brigantine (A ship second in size only to the Galleon) This boat sunk in combat out at sea with evemies. We were outnumberd and reinforcements were too far away. Those Russians took everything. Our second Brig. We called her The X Wife. She's been good to us so far. We had an extensive battle at sea with one of the top ten globally ranked companies. We survived the fight and when they retreated we too fell back. Deciding that repairing the ship was more important. It was too risky to chase them. I jumped when I spotted a treasure map in the water. Here I am swimming back to it.

Now when I refer to scale I don't just mean the geographical size of the map itself itself. The game developers covered just about every aspect of every object contained within the game. And when you consider all these things you realise the enormity of it all. The amount of work that was put in from a developer standpoint and just how hard it is to find a balance with so many game elements in a single title. Enemy boat spotted. Well anyone that is not highlighted in green (my company) or blue (allies) would be red. So these players saw me at sea and decided I wasn't worth the trouble. They didn't help me either though. Exploring the wildlands looking for resources and food. Fell off the raft to be greeted by two sharks I didnt have the resources nor learned the skill to tame a wild horse at this point but I sure could use him. Everything in this game is ranked according to levels. Each player levels up as they progress through the game. Gaining experience by farming and mining various resources and raw materials. Discovering new lands. Slaying other players or destroying their structures or ships etc. Farmed resources are used to craft tools, weapons, clothing, armour and more. Tools are used to build structures ports and vessels. All which come in various materials. Whether you're a low level solo player with a thatch hut stranded on a small island. Or wheather you're part of a company of 150 other players who build a massive fortified base of operations out of steel, stone and wood. Every structure, tool, weapon, and random items come with its own criteria. Its durability, how well it stands up to damage from either enemy attacks or simply extensive use, how much it weighs (which is another topic altogether because you have to manage your own weight, the weight of your ship etc and every item in the game has a different amount of weight. Then there are the animals in game. Both wild and tamed (more on that later) They too vary in levels. There are to my knowledge 150 wild animals in Atlas. Most of which can be tamed for various uses like farming, riding, or combat. Of course it wouldn't be a pirate game if you couldn't tame a wild parrot and have it on your shoulder. But you could also opt for a vulture or monkey like I did. Having a pet monkey gives you a health regen buff as a perk. Other than that cows give you milk, you can ride horses, bears, tigers, lions and even ancient and mythical creatures which can fly like dinosaurs, dragons and the infamous Hydra. Here I am with my pet monkey. Who was eaten by a shark last night. RIP King Julian.

Welcome to Atlas. After 40 hours of endless frustration regarding connection issues, game crashes, bugs and broken mechanics. I keep returning to this game and so do thousands of other players. It suffered from one of the worst launches in gaming history with most user reviews being overwhelmingly negative. Yet, thousands upon thousands of people continue to play it more and more. Ironically, considering the games reviews. Having people continuously playing it is testament to just how enormous its potential is. It comes with the promise of a superb and unique to each player adventure. And if you want an authentic pirate pvp experience it doesn't get any better than this. In what must be the most ambitious venture from a gaming developer to date. Atlas is a massive open world pirate themed survival mmo game. For some perspective if you've played Ark. Which in its own right is huge. The Atlas map as it stands now is 1,200 times the size of Ark's island. If you had the fastest ship, assuming that you could sail in a straight line and the winds were in your favour. It would take 30 hours in real time, to sail from one side of the map to the other. The map is so huge that it is split up into a grid of a hundred odd squares, where each square on the grid has its own server filled a few hundred players. A few screenshots of my first venture out. I'll follow the next couple posts with more about my experience in this game.

I debated this tech with friends since playstation now. Which incorporates something very similar. And the more I think about it. The more it makes sense. And I believe that its developing tech like this that will bring hi end gaming to the masses. The value prospect of going this route is a no brainer. At today's exchange rate we talking about R320 per month to have access to a rig that will crap on the system requirements of any AAA title. Not to mention that it inculdes hardware upgrades to stay with the times. On top of that it also includes blistering fast internet. Assuming we ever have the type of infrastructure locally to support this working seamlessly. I don't think I'll every buy another gaming rig again.

A must watch https://youtu.be/0BQ4bXNdEQI