Recent content by 81forest

Haha! Jeepers I didn’t realize how freaked out I needed to be. It freaks me out how little I was freaked out!

Just my $.02, but don’t give up on the dd front hub too soon. I am having a great time with mine, and I’ve never had an issue with traction (yet). Front wheel motor has a few advantages and I’m super glad I chose it. It is a 1500w 9C kit from Grin. It is simple, reliable, silent, and easy to...

I have built probably a few hundred wheels using the park tool. Totally agree with everything -dg posted, its limitation is that it needs quite a bit of exposed spoke. The “pinging” for tune/sound of each spoke is not a viable technique, imo. I am often using a super thin gauge butted spoke...

Sounds like a cool feature. Personally I’m only interested in the torque assist, but I can see how the TA could be nicely dialed in using the sliding scale you described. Really looking forward to hearing about Lingbei’s responses and the next firmware batch.

Same here, waiting for an update! Probably should just buy one so lingbei knows I’m serious :idea:

My vote would be DH all the way. You won’t really get the weight benefit of the lighter rim on your ebike, and xc rims usually have a narrower width as well. For my hub motor, I wanted as fat a tire as possible because of all the beneifits of more air volume. Sun rhyno lite xl is a great and...

The updates are very appreciated. Really looking forward to more testing, thanks for sharing the details :)

Well, you did say "the ONLY reason they're so expensive..." is because of gullible suckers. I don't know enough about the nature of human desire to say if its right or wrong, and I don't know enough about "classical free market economics" to say whether or not a thing's ability to fetch a...

Agree with a lot of this. I can't find any objective testing either, but Global Cycling Network made what I consider a really good attempt at a test, with results that certainly surprised me. Granted, they are roadies, and the results only apply to road bikes on pavement. But at the end of the...

But boy have we seen some really good efforts in this thread! :lol:

Yeah, just a bunch of suckers! You nailed it! The ONLY reason that some bikes are expensive is because people are stupid! It must be nice to have such an authoritative knowledge of not just bike tech, but cyclists in general. A lot of people might think that your statement just sounds cynical...

I don’t doubt that you could. Cheers Chalo, you are a tenacious fellow. :P

Hmmm. I mentioned way back in one of my earlier posts that 20 years ago, “big players in the tandem industry made the same arguments against disc brakes that you’re making.” I’ve actually read the article above many years ago, it was an interesting test. I currently ride a Santana Noventa with...

Dude. 2003??? I will admit that I’ve tried to find some “objective evidence” for what I know to be true from my own experience, plus every single person I know who rides mtb. Turns out, the ONLY group of cyclists who even debates this issue, besides the quixotic hold-outs in endless sphere, is...

Haha, true. Pretty messed up incident though!