u/Embarrassed_Tie_9029

I've been watching some videos of people building bikes with the Marzocchi 300mm fork with modern geometry. It seems to me that a fork with more travel means you can run it softer, which would be able to suck up trail features, (I.E) rocks, roots, drops. Stuff like that, which in my head might make you faster on a trail. So why don't world cup downhill racers race with longer travel forks? And why is the average mountain bike suspension travel around 130-170mm

16 m i was coerced into send a explicit picture of myself to what i thought was a girl my age. the guy made a picture including a partial picture of my face my instagram profile and my followers and following and my tiktok. the guy asked for 100$ and i said i could send him 50$ which i did and he said 50 would be enough to delete the pictures. i woke up this morning to a message from him demanding more money and screen shots of the pictures sent to a few of my friends. i want to press charges and get this guy arrested. what should i do to stop the spread of my pictures and to get this guy arrested?

are the only concerts fakemink is performing at the ones on his spotify and ticket master. I was looking on there and it was fakemink with a bunch of other people i didn’t know. so are those the only shows he’s preforming at totally?

can i use dawn to degrease my chain then follow up with a good chain lube

Went to mud island yesterday and i was able to get up to the abandoned trams that crossed the river. Is there any other cool stuff to explore there?

I picked up a pair of Vans Rowleys last summer, super sick looking. i mountain biked in them for the summer. At the begging of this summer there destroyed from that summer and wear over winter, the sole and the side of the shoe separated and the waffle cup was destroyed. Mountain bikers like the waffle cup design of vans because it locks your feet onto the pedals. Most mountian bike pedals have sharp spikes for grip. would a shoe like Half cabs or Half cabs waffle cups hold up better?

Has anybody on multiday river trips noticed that a lot of groups have similar furniture and camp gear. For example last week I was on a stretch of the green river called Desolation Canyon and as my group passed other camps, I noticed that a lot of people had very similar setups. I thought it was interesting and cool that that’s how that works. Ive not really seen anyone talk about it, so I just think it’s a unspoken thing where people decided that something works well then everyone uses it.

here are the links to several items of commonality I saw: https://www.nrs.com/nrs-campsite-counter/phhp https://www.nrs.com/down-river-dish-drying-bags/php8 https://www.camptime.com/collections/roll-a-table/products/standard-roll-a-chair https://partnersteel.com/official-cook-partner/

also curious if people also groovers with the NRS plastic insert.