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Thanks. 9:10 - if you run on carbs then you probably do need breakfast but those of us eating in a ketogenic or carnivore way don't necessarily eat breakfast - many of us eat just one meal a day as we run on fat. I've recently toured with just a steak in the evening and eggs and bacon for breakfast. There are alternatives beyond what we have been taught to believe. Cheers

this has been very validating to the type of biking i really try to do but find myself not able to b/c I feel intimidated by big mountain bike. Had someone laugh at me riding my surly straggler atb flat bar build in the woods once w/ his $4k mtb telling me my 42 tires were too skinny for the downhill coming up. It was such an easy downhill once I got to it, but he basically ruined my ride making me think I had gotten myself too deep into a "technical area." GOLLY! Thanks for this.

I like his approach but I don’t want to be rummaging. Around for 30 year old parts that are worn to an unknown degree and often overpriced

Really enjoyed this. It’s quite tongue in cheek, it’s all about cool bikes and the aesthetic - sometimes form over function not taking it too seriously as exam affied by the fact that he laughs a lot and keeps it light spirited. Yes he could’ve been a little more organised but so what, a man after my own heart!

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man this guy is insufferable.

This guy is not the most efficient speaker. A bit of an arrogant blowhard too. Stories a bit pointless as-well. Design to the riders weakness,sound deep but is just dumb; the reason the rider is good at what they are good at is because thats what they like. I have a hard time believing his info on the Specialized example without some engineer from Specialized explaining. I’m not saying Specialized are not lying pieces of shit but I don’t think this guy is smarter than their engineers. So he bought the wrong size bike for his wife and had to correct the fit? Why did you not just have your wife go for a ride on the bike; Specialized has demos you can take for the whole day. Mountain bike fit is really just preference at this point..

Hipster biking 101. Maybe they can offer a course at Berkeley this fall.

I've been baptized by the high priest of crust.

This all sounds great until I remember that I ride a full suspension bike because I have a back injury.

home girl built like a barrel

Tells an unfunny joke. Tells everyone it was a funny joke. Tells everyone that they should laugh. Rinse & repeat! How embarrassing.

Short cranks are the way!

This was awesome

This was cool. Loved the BMX connection. That was my gateway.

Cool bike everyone I've been living off grid and urban city living for 10 years now and I have not yet had a bike that you don't have to pedal or even have an option. I've built my own trailers put together my own bikes and it's been a lot of fun it's something I love to do my only problem is I'm getting tired a little more but still I'm doing it, ya know... I think your bike is very cool and looks tough but how does it match up to 12 months everyday use pulling a trailer that weighs average weight of any bike trailer so 30 pounds to 60 pounds and then load it with whatever material you may come across that is useful for outdoor living...I pull loads up to 300 pounds and that's with legs pedaling but sometimes walking the bike, still the bike is being used so ya anyways throw that at you guys run the bike all year around I'm sure it will do it np..... nice job to your team. TesTTechi out

Love the idea of a silent hub. Many of my simple single free screw on sprockets for MTB single speed were super quiet... Just a great way to ride. Well done Onyx. I hear they are popular for BMX over here in the UK too. How do you rate them for MTB use?

I went cross country with a tarp and sleeping bag. 45 days and nights.

I cook with fire in the PNW but it’s small. Too many white people don’t know there’s such a thing as a small fire, but they pack in gas stoves that have more potential to start an unmanageable fire that’s supposed to keep a fire manageable. The other thing people forget is we can live forever on processed food like bread cheese peanut butter and oats that don’t need heat. Just spend 5 days without cooked food at home a few times a year. Doing it in the woods isn’t hard. I do like hot coffee, but room temperature instant will get you the experience and you can just move on and enjoy the space.

Really enjoyed this Daniel, have shared widely with my network. Keep up the good work!

It’s unfortunate this is the talk i wanted to learn the most from, and it a bummer I learned nothing

Go canti bro. Flexible and if tuned right awesome

100% agree with flat mount standards, and I’m believer standards stifle innovation.

Big fan of size/stiffness idea

You’re not talking about casting main tubes right? At this point of the presentation I’m a bit concerned

Heat treating cast 4130 blew your mind? Seriously please hit me up. I can expose you to processes and technology’s that will explode your mind

Thx4sharing fam...#RideOn

Such great analysis, great stories, super entertaining and educational! I'd kill to get the slide deck from this...

Bike size and fit is something most of the manufacturers don't seem to care about when it comes to shorter folks. Why 700mm wheels when we have 650b or 27.5? XXS bikes look out of sync when you put 700mm wheels on them. I think smaller people should only go with a custom builder when buying a new bike. I have also gone with shorter cranks but not to the extreme. I'm almost 6ft tall and I use 170mm cranks. That seems to feel pretty good.

cornerstone foundational deep dive BRAVO

Angle grinder……………..

When looking at the geometry of a full suspension frame, doesn't it all change once you weight it with a rider? Presuming the answer is "yes," are the geometries presented accounting for this (like, they assume the average rider of an S4 frame is 180 lbs)? In my mind, I picture a weighted rider on that Specialized frame lowering the BB, slackening both the HA and the STA, and lowering the COM of everything.

You’re all going to hate me but I’ve ridden the same SRAM Force group for nearly a decade, hundreds of miles a year on that bike, many of them offroad. No issues.

So .. I am not alone :-) 🙂

My first mountain bike was a 1991 Bridgestone MB-3 that I bought used at a yard sale for peanuts in 1996 (parents selling sons bike he never rode) and that lasted me until 2023. It orig had those green Michelin WildGrippers mounted that I replaced with the same until they disappeared. Just finally upgraded to a rigid fork Karate Monkey. I resisted all urges to upgrade and “get with the program” and I heard that 1000 times over the years and just kept replacing parts forever. The KM came up as yet another almost brand new and sick deal and here we are (and still missing the cantis 😅). But yeah, I love the explore culture of cycling, plus, not “keeping up with the bike Jones”always (and still does) bring the benefit of QUALITY top notch used parts that are considered out of date. Anyways, I really dug this talk/vid and the “do your own thing and enjoy” discipline that I am feeling here, and I am always a sucker for talking about New England cycling. Lastly, RIP to Sheldon, I was lucky to have met him at the shop before I knew who he “was”, (and he ordered me my replacement WildGrippers) ✌️

the gold standard

Urethral stricture, urethroplasty is STD territory.

give us back Love park and Muni spots

What is Franks last name? I too am from Michigan.

GARY!!!! I took his frame building course in 1995. Hell of a guy & great welder too.

Nice how you describe MTB people. To me personally, is ever since the 80ties, and being able to pick a bike of my liking, after riding a few kinds of models, even a road bike my father and grandfather wanted me to like road race bikes. But my goodness, all the things on them those days, they where outfitted like touring bikes at some point, and after a while they rattled, and made too much noises, things falling of, the tires way too thin and unbalanced, than the weird steering tube, and the weird way it had to break, while going superfast, with rim breaks...was waiting on issues to appear. And accidents to happen... Well lead to several accidents with me and the road. And than the next bike, it had to be destroy proof, easy to fix, and not too much hassle on them, not needing any mud guards...it was there and jumped to my eye, the mountainbike. TADAAAHH Send from heaven! After needing several stitches to my head, and body, I sat down one day after. And my dad was like, your bike is repaired again and ready to ride. I said, that race thing I never wanted. I am sorry dad, but it is too difficult to ride for me. I need something easy, lightweight, fast, and something that can stand a beating. I want a simply thing, not a rocket for the road. And when it goes fast, it needs to go over things, and not take me down. And we laughed a bit. It damned hurt my body still. So we went to change it into a new bike that day. I was searching the tank I needed. Now I could go take my cycle in the forest, and to my girl friend, and I could simply take it anywhere. So I stuck to it. Still doing it, it takes me everywhere I want and need to go. I love rides out, nice, Earthing lol. So my MTB is my freedom, while efficiently saving my time. And it looks robust. I like robust stuff. I love my MTBs. So why this bike my dad said when I pointed it out. Cuz it's cheap, it has no things that start to rattle in a few days. And it looks fast, easy to ride. No BS bikes. So I would love to get that bike. And the store owner a friend of ours. Laughed it out loud, his son is like 5 years older than me, and they bet on it. Son said he takes the MTB. Dad said he takes a normal bike with gears... Since I just described the very thing a MTBer needs, and no more no less. :D I understand the soul need the MTB people wanted. It was funny. I was 9 at the time. And I never wanted another bike. :) I am 50 now this year in a few months. And I still ride MTB hardtails. I rode double suspension as well, but feel I am getting older, and the stunts, well...I don't want to break things anymore. I just can't picture nor want to ride other bikes. :) The only other bike I rode in between was a tandem, and it was on holiday, rented it, to try it with my lady. Which was quite a funny experience. My MTB is my freedom still. And it get's me there rocking, through mud, wind, rain, and tough terrain, and easy roads. It helps me over small ridges and bigger ones. So why change it. It takes me in nature, and in the city, it would even serve me on the moon? Our experience way of this world, needs us to experience it out there. To Earth and to City, and much in between. My life is my life, and my MTB made it easier, safer, faster, more efficient, it's fun to pimp them. And that is also it. It is simple lol. It needed a way to transport, to get a little farther. And they made a bike for it. It simply, as many described, came to be a bike, by evolution of a generation and generations of people, using bikes. And it needed to be simple. It became the MTB. Simple as that, things fell of our bikes, we needed a robust type way of travel. It needed to be always there for us. We depended on it, our freedom did. This is the MTB. If you got few bucks, or a lot, MTB people are MTB people. :D 2x11 hardtail, and I pimped it my way. I love it, and it loves me. What can I say more. I don't mind the people on electric bikes, because, they all have good reasons, those ai met, to say the least. Have all good reasons to choose such a bike. Because their knees don't work or whatever other bodily structure that gave way lol. They come with battery calculations and schedules, and learn their ways as well. I never had one coming up to me to ask for a battery or a socket to plug in. I guess satellite depending bikes, also work lol. But are not my thing, yet. It it would take me there, without too much hassle and pain, why not right? They got to have it their way. As long as MTBs stay. They are awesome bikes. Mechanical, dependable, easy to get and to maintain. Simple.

Remember Magura hydraulic rim brakes? Those were hot for a lil bit

26" rules for MTB.

When you actually named the Flite Titanium....🥰....THATS my baby right there I think they are discontinued

This has to be top 5 expo videos ive seen. Good knowledge in here

Thanks for posting this history lesson, I enjoyed it from start to finish and learned a lot, always do with presentations such as these. But i would respectfully recommend that a few minutes be given to the Schwinn Sting-Ray, the bike upon which early BMX racing was based. The Sting-Ray was definitely the toughest of the bunch when it came to 20" bikes and it inspired a huge crop of other 20" bikes. I rode my Sting-Ray from my birthday in '67 until my thumbnail photo in '75 when I was a 15-year-old California kid who was suddenly a 'military dependent' in Frankfurt, West Germany because my Dad got a job over there as a civilian. And all of that was great, I truly embraced the overseas living experience and later returned on my own. I digress but the Sting-Ray was my foundation, my one and only bike, until the start of '75 when I commuted to and from school on a German-made 10-speed and imported a CYC Stormer BMX bike from the States and even bought three used motorcycles, including a '73 250cc Maico with an unpainted coffin tank, a beautiful beast of a dirt bike.

It’s always a treat to see very early Ritcheys, salsas, fat city etc. bikes as townies here in Moab

Bring back Schwalbe guy!

God save us from the woke hipsters