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Sofiane is Coming Home! Imprisoned since Sept. 2 2025 for crossing the Russian border on a bicycle instead of taking the bus. He's being fined 50,000 Rubles and released for time served. Invading Russia is never a good idea. https://www.renehersecycles.com/journal/

Those Jalepenos will get you out of the saddle!

Garvin fork. Softride beam MTB

Have you tried a longer B screw? I'm running 11-40t routinely with old 8/9s derailleurs LX,XT,XTR.. I haven't run a 32/34t in years. My Zee is the DH version listed for 11-28t. runs 11-42t just fine with a longer screw. The FR 11-36t version runs 11-40 w/o the screw mod. Just didn't try the 42t...

Ducks are a bad sign. That meanss tadpoles, and that means algae.

You can go to 10s derailleur cable pull with SRAM shifter for 8,9s. The 10,11s SRAM and Shimano cable pull is the same. SRAM never changed. My bike is a lot different. But I've run up to 31t total capacity on an SS cage derailleur. Zee M640 in my case.

There's a sidewalk near here that goes under like that in the rainy season (which is about 9 months long). I would ride through like that. After about a week a layer of algae had formed on the concrete. No tire in the world would stick to it. Maybe snow spikes? Both tires slid out at once. It...

On an Ebike with 50 mile range-Priceless. Butt not the NRX, the Thudbuster.

SR Suntour NCX supension seatpost. I'm used to the Thudbuster LT which is no lightweight. I tried this because of the screw type adjuster. But the whole seat tube is filled with a steel spring and a metal plunger.. The Allen head adjuster plug is all the way at the bottom. Of course with a QR...

Shimano prefers to sell groupsets to bicycle manufacturers. The spare parts market really doesn't interest them very much. There are bicycle builders in the UK, and almost none in the US except for higher end boutique brands. So in the UK this would be spares for existing bikes. In the US it...

It should work with any Shimano 2:1 shifter. Revoshifters came in 8s. The drop bar brake/shifter is new for 8s. The one way clutch device makes it hard for slack to form in the chain over bumps. This coupled with a Narrow/Wide chain ring (1x only) keeps the chain from coming off. Most of these...

Zero Friction Cycling found that Shimano parts are softer than SRAmM. Shimano chains last better with Shimano cassettes, and Sram with SRAM. The say SRAM chains will wear Shimano cassettes. Some of the factory Ebikes have gone to drivers as small as 9 teeth. I run a 50t ring and spend most of...

The gear splits are similar in percentage as much as possible. Closer ones result in either double upshifts, or wasted time making extra shifts and cutting power to do so. The 3-8 gears are the same between to 11-40, and the 11-45t. With a 50t ring these are the road gears. Only the 2 lowest...

The US Shimano site says it's NEW. I did see it offered at Rivendell, Hogwarts, and other UK,EU, and CA vendors. I had no idea it had been out for over a year. Most US vendors seem to be unaware of it. I have experience with the 11-40t version of this cassette. I also have experience with the...

It's not available in the US yet. It seems we're actually more retro than you are. I'm trying to buy some for my Ebike.