u/Un_Violo_violaceo

Mi sono mosso in città da quasi un anno, mi ha raggiunto anche una bella mountain bike che vorrei tenere per bene.

Qualcuno mi sa consigliare negozi/meccanici di bici affidabili, attrezzati e preparati?

Insomma qualche professionista a cui possa chiedere consigli, da cui possa trovare pezzi e pezzettini che non siano campanelli e cestini, a cui possa lasciare la bici per una revisione fidandomi e così via?

Per ora ho trovato solo negozi orientati alla bici da città e "basso gamma" (parole loro).

The geometries and sizes of the frames have changed a lot in the last 10 years. Among other things they have become longer.

Would it make sense to buy a model from, let's say 10 years ago, in an oversized size, like you are 5cm shorter than the adviced height? Or the geometry of the old frames would make the bike out of size anyway?

Looking for new pedals in purple, stamp1 and Chester are my favourite. Is there somebody that have one of those and want to share some photos with real light environment? Especially for the crackbrother, I can't get the purple shade very well.

Advice are also welcome! 🦥

Hello hardtailers, I'm looking for new pedals, and I was wandering: how the fuck is possible that a pair of pedals can cost easily 180 euros?! Easily! Cause you can go even hieghr. Is a fucking piece of aluminum with nails and little metal balls inside, I'm not even talking about the click ones, that have a mechanism, springs etc. that should be reliable over thousand and thousand of click-on and off. I really can't get those prices, a slightly used 140mm marzocchi bomber z2 is cheaper, there are complete city bike for those money out there. And the only other option is going for plastic one? What? We are talking about aluminum not titanium or crab on fire. Also plastic one are 60 euros? I mean, that price is to justify the alluminum at over 100 or what? It's fuckin plastic. Pls explain to me pls cause I'm ignorant and I need to know.

My other problem is that I want them in fking purple, why there are so few options for purple? Is not a strange color, is pretty average, you can found the craziest shade of colors but not a normal purple? Is a fucking secondary color mannn... Sorry for the venting and thank u for hearing me out :)

Edit: I currently have a set of composite wag pedals that on the official website are at €33, they're fine to me. Is there something wrong with them? A part from the weight why they are so cheap compared to other options?

Good morning psychonauts 🦥

We're growing b+ on a kit and after 4 flushes the output has decrease exponentially and we've noticed that the mycelium is very weak, the shrooms are very easy to pick compared to the first flush and they are much less. I can imagine is pretty normal but I was wandering if there is something that I can do to help my cake stay strong, any advice?

Maybe I can tune something about the different stages or add some kind of nutrients.

I recently bought a new mtb with a tubless setup, I was really excited cause I've been away from mtbiking for a lot and never had tubless in the past.

BUT, for now it's only pain in the ass and I think I'm missing something...

I had to buy and buy sealant, ok, I also decide to clean the tyre, not easy, and for one there was no way, but still ok, maybe I just need a sealant remover, maybe I just don't have the hardware so I think that's normal.

The real problems is that:

Presta valve is not working, air doesn't come trhu, so inflating is a pain.

Even when the presta work, inflating is so fucking complicate when putting the tyre back on cause the air just leak from the sides.

Yesterday I hit a curb a bit hard and hit the rim a bit, air started to leak and the sealant start to come out to block the air loss, that should be normal right? But in a few hours, the tyre was almost flat...now I have a flat tyre and a valve that doesn't let me inflate the tyre normally.

What I have to do, why it's so complicate? I was thinking about buying a click valve, is that a good idea?

Pls don't tell me that I've bend the rim someway and now it doesn't work with tubless anymore due to air leakage problems, cause in that case I'll come back to tube instantly.

Ps: valve may be a bit clogged up but a stick can pass trhu easily, may also be a bit bend but I'm not managing to straighten it enough (I guess). Still I've never had those problem and I've always used presta...

I know it's a lot of text, so thank u for you're time 🫂

For what I've understand to save weight the best thing to look at is changing rims and tyres to lighter ones, they not only can be kinda cheaper compared to other components, but you're also removing rotational mass.

That said, I don't know if I should be scared of lighter components due to braking issue. I mean, I'm not a downhiller, I don't hit drops and ramps, I just do sigle tracks, technical descent and little jumps with my trail bike. Should I be afraid of braking a light set of rims? Weighting 75kg should I avoid light xc tyres?

I have my new mtb and now I want to personalize/improve it a bit. I was looking for lock on grips, and a bash Guard, and I found some really cheap one, now I'm wondering if some of you have experience with those kind of products.

We are talking about €4.30 grips from a brand called rider ace and 13 euros bash Guard.

I mean, a grip is just silicone and two aluminum ring, I don't get why I should pay 40 euros for that, silicon is just silicon and the patterns of the grip are usually identical... But still less that 5 euros man, is really low. Let me know 🦥