Here’s this week’s edition of Some Bicycle Things I’m Stoked About On A Friday: https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/the-bear-necessities-some-bicycle-things-im-stoked-about-on-a-friday-oct-7th-26/
I know it’s not radial… but with a swap-out it could be?
The first proper SBTISAOAF of MEATmag V2 is a fairly big one. Enjoy?!?
With a colossal THANK YOU to Geof, and a large sigh of relief, MEATmag is now certified 100% GoDaddy free with added functionality to boot. Take that you GD piratical assclowns!
Look for fresh content tomorrow, perhaps the most unique About a Single Speed entry yet come Tuesday AM, and regular updates for the rest of the month.
Thank you ad infinitum, Geof!
I know it’s been a bit of a grind the last couple of weeks, but there’ll be a lot more MEATmag coming up. In the meantime, here’s SBTISAOAF for Sept 11th:
Falling Forward & A Bad Case Of Mood Poisoning.
Relatively short SBTISAOAF this week:
Marc’s entry into the haikuniverse is Gary Fisher Rig that’s gone from Edmontonian single-track machine to one-speed full-dad ATB life in Japan.
https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/about-a-single-speed-marcs-gary-fisher-rig
Thanks for the quick heads up. Sorry you had to see that. MEATmag has a strict no A.I. Policy but apparently that doesn’t apply to the circus at GoDaddy support that’s trying to resolve an issue they fixed days ago.
See something, say something. I appreciate everyone helping keep our new robot overlords in check at least in this one spot on the internet.
AM
Oof. So the CMS is working-ish again and I’m back limping MEATengines along like it’s a 2003 Giant AC and I’ve spent the last 23 years trying to decide what to replace it with.
Sorry it’s late. Sorry it’s short. Here’s SBTISAOAF, on a Saturday:
I punched a pin through my GF8 shoes at Cumberlandworx this year and finally came around to finish a little exit review for them. My preference is still for laces so, overdue for a pair of shoes, I decided to go GF600/GF6 again. Still, plenty of good things to say about the GF800.
As an aside, I’m not sure when the next MEATmag post will be live after this. Could be tomorrow; could be next week; could be? It’s a saga, but for now I’ll just say I have a ticket.
Cheerios!
https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/shimano-sh-gf800-flat-pedal-shoes-an-end-of-life-review
I would like to take a moment to highly recommend Tawny, from the GoDaddy customer service team, to her future employers. She is friendly, helpful, considerate, clear spoken, concise, empathetic, patient, and thorough. I’m positive she will be an excellent fit for any brand and/or manufacturer who cares about the quality of their product and the longterm relationships with their customers.
Here I will also briefly shout out GoDaddy for its ever evolving product suite and cost structure that provides such a perfect illustration of the ongoing enshitification of all things that’s it’s practically art.
In related news. Will there be more MEAT? Yes. Will it be this week? WTFK.
A day late {sorry} but still fresh, here’s a bunch of bicycle stuff I’m stoked about on a Friday and… well… some words on our unavoidable life and times:
So, I put in one single ride - pedal, plunge, pedal some more, plunge again - on the interesting new removable-chin-bar Targon helmet from ABUS and wrote a little review based on that single on-trail experience.
Hardly a varied and variable set of experiences, and it’s been years since I used a helmet with a removable chin bar (or rode trails in an open lid) so please salt the review to flavour.
That said, here’s a link if you’re interested:
https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/my-one-ride-abus-targon-full-face-review
Adrian’s contribution - photos and writing - went live this morning. Thank you, Adrian!
It’s a teardown and review update on the prepro P321 G3 hub I’ve been {ab}using since October ‘23.
https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/a-hub-re--re-on-my-canadian-made-project-321-g3
Here’s this week’s SBTISAOAF!
Lucy was a greyhound; Lucy is a Stooge. Here’s Joan’s entry into the haikuniverse: https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/about-a-single-speed-joans-stooge-lucy
Meet Yourself, Don’t Defeat Yourself.
I’ve dropped my #1FGearing to 28x22t, the tire setup I was just praising on Friday {29x2.5 radial-ish on i40} sh*t the bed quite early {IMHO}, and that’s all an aside to some changes to MEATmag content:
https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/meet-yourself-dont-defeat-yourself
Went back to the old title format. Better? Worse? Indifferent? Either way, here’s SBTISAOAF: https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/some-bicycle-things-im-stoked-about-on-a-friday---aug-7th-26
Creeper in Gnarnaimo is one of the coolest trails I’ve ever ridden, on my Will’s 2019ish Truelove-built Chromag Arcturian Voyager, or otherwise:
https://meatengines.com/meatengines-1/f/about-a-solo-single-speed-adventure-andrews-arcturian