MORNE

This. a MTB is a road bike too, albeit a slower one, but a way more comfy one. But it’s a bike that can ride any road. A road bike is a road bike. And on some roads a road bike is pretty crap😁. OP, the answer is clearly then to buy a gravel bike…

This one too😁

Wrong thread i think?

One of my go to’s. Owner is a standup guy, i have him on WA and he’s always willing to go the extra mile. And i guess you are looking at his store because his pricing is great. Use with confidence. Edit: He’s on here too, not too active though, but don’t let that worry you: @Shredshed.co.za

Yes. Same thing, different length air spring SID 100-120 / Pike 130-140 / Lyrik 150-160/ Zeb 160-180

I used to have a 120mm carbon one circa 2016. Even back then they were super nice compared to other things. And stiff like a fresh banana!

TT bikes always remind me of this:

Maybe if it had another leg it would feel nicer?😅 (obligatory Lefty ragging)

Yet stil as stiff as a 2-week old banana when you ride over anything bigger than a pebble or weigh more than 80kg. Those things have more flex in them than a politician’s moral compass😅

I think in just two posts you have a picture of why there are a few SIDs floating around…and i guess its the opposite to what i might have thought initially. People obviously swopping or looking to swop 120mm SIDs for 130mm Pikes😉

Ps: if you ask me you see them on sale because they are mostly specced on marathon / modern XC bikes…maybe the od downcountry bike. XC guys have this thing in their head that more travel on modern bikes = worse. They basically just want rigid forks with some squish, so i think they either get something lighter or with less travel.I don't know, hard to say. Maybe someone with experience can chime in. I do know though that you would rather want a Pike on something like a SC tallboy and there are plenty of dentists around… I have a Pike ultimate (140mm), it adorns my banshee hardtail or my wife’s hyrax depending on my mood. Its such a good fork for what it is. It ls obviously not as stiff as the 36 and 38mm monsters we use on enduro bikes but it doesn't mind to go as hard .

If your bike can take it, Id just get a Pike ultimate in 130mm unless you are concerned by the slight increase in weight. Its a far superior and way more versatile all round trail fork imo. If you do a spread of different riding that is. Those xc forks are all noodles because they prioritise weight over stiffness. Its very noticeable. Especially if you aren't a featherweight. Pike has a better damper too with all the dails and knobs to get you confused on fork settings lol. Do you use or need lockout? Even consider the fox 34 (non sc). Performance Elite gets you all the factory goodness without the overrated, flakey Kashima. I think the 34 can do 120mm. A Performance version will basically get you what the Sid offers in terms of adjustability. i think for you to feel a noticeable difference you’d have to jump to a stiffer chassis. Maybe the Sid will offer a slight increase in stiffness over the 32…but it still wont be that stiff. More stiff = holding lines beter through rough sections, corners etc, also more direct feel. 2c: consider the riding you do first and foremost i’d say. Ive met you on the od occasion and you aren't a 60kg racing snake. You might extract noticeable benefits from something a bit stiffer bolted to the front of your bike.

“Teach a man to fish…and you’ll feed him for a lifetime. Give a man a bicycle and he’ll realise that fishing is dumb” - or something like that. I remember these. now i’ll pay them R300 to stay away from my bike😁

I’d rather walk😅

The FOMO is becoming real now. Will be the first time in 10 years i’m not doing it😒 PS: I hope its the worst day ever.

A trick i picked up from a Santa Cruz Syndicate post on another platform: sintered brake pads are a bit more of a mission to bed in as you know. They take about double the amount of time than organics. Plus, if you screw it up…they WILL sound like sram brakes all the time - squealy piggies. So, get a bowl of water, take the pads out the package. Probably wear some latex gloves. Take the two pads, dip them in the water and rub them together like two coins between you fingers in a circular motion. I guess you can use both hand if you want. You’ll see the water going black as the releasing agent gets pulled and removed from the pad material’s surface. Rinse repeat until the water on the pads runs clear. Thats when they are clean. It takes all of about 3min. You aren't applying any real pressure other than needed to keep them together between your fingers. Use either brand new rotors or resurface your current ones by deep cleaning and scuffing up with 150 grit sand paper. You aren't sanding…just keying! Braking compounds don't mix and need new material on there that matches the pad…otherwise the performance will always suck. Using this process the pads bed in super quick and they are noise free.

Sounds like you have a dud too. You guys are going to make me make a video of it arent you?😅 Mine seats and inflates a 2.5 mtb tyre halfway on a charge. 2 x charges gets you up to 30psi no issue.

no jokes....it has only happened to me once but one lonely night before an event i was busy changing tyres and in the process of inflating the tyre (with my old floor pump and its wonky gauge) to seat the bead...got to what i thought was 40 psi. Thought to myself, i'll let it sit tonight and just adjust pressure with the digital gauge in the morning. Later in bed...woke up to the sound of a 'gunshot' - Tyre popped off rim 😆. Sealant everywhere.

it wont rain....thats all i'm willing to bet🙃 PS: there goes the rest of your friday. Have a play with the layers. enjoy: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=29.24,0.03,751

yea all good, but good luck seating a tyre with your compressor out in the bush or late at night when everyone is sleeping? i jsut throw my pump in the car when i go on trips 😄 I used to own a 100L compressor....and got rid of it purely in consideration of how noisy the thing was for the people around me. I work on my stuff at night or in the early hours of the morning. So just didnt make sense as i 'couldn't' use it anyway. The smaller ones are even worse because they are ALWAYS busy topping up. Yes i'm the guy who frowns at you for starting up you generator for a mere 2h loadshedding window. I wonder how many people know that once you get a noise complaint submitted to counsil for operating a generator...it's not as simple anymore as just opening your garage and switching the thing on....it involves spending money on noise dampening, measuring dB levels etc etc. The airtank 2.0 is as good a floor pump as you can buy. I got mine for R1300 ish using some google foo and haggling skills at CWC.

I can get mine to 240…my wife cant. Make of that what you must 😅 i almost always use it in air tank mode because its so much faster to fully inflate a tyre. Sounds like yours is defective or has a leak. Does it work as a normal pump? But yea, just go swop it dor a new one.

Go exchange it? It’s brand new. If you tinker with it you’re screwed. Mine has been one of the best bike related purchases i’ve made in 2024. I change tyres often. It’s a no brainer for tubeless if you don't own a compressor.

Once bought a SIM in dubai since i was going to spend 6 weeks there…. Same thing, recycled number and a Pakistani family frantically trying to get hold of the previous owner of the number. It got so bad that i ended up chucking it and roaming instead. on a related note and targeted marketing calls: try this. https://dmasa.org Mine have significantly decreased since i registered my number here. Some still slip through, but i just manually block anything and everything as far as i can.

Hey! Both ferrari and lambo make actual tractors too😅

even still, he’s probably asking double what he’ll get. But hey, who am I to judge…somewhere someone is drooling over it…i guess thats why he has one.