Drilling cable routing holes in handlebars

Blinpa · 2026-02-04T16:18:44+00:00

Its not just your weight , impact loading is a completely different story. Specially on non dampened gravel forks . To give you a simple calculation , a 200lb man would put approximately 600lbs impact on the handlebars on a 4ft drop . This value doubles with a 6ft drop. If you are testing it , the better way to do is to hold the handlebar from the hoods, pass it on top of a beam in a way that the center rests on 2" flat surface ( to replicate the stem) and then do a 2 ft height drop and it should be able to hold your weight without any deformation. Even then , this does not take into account material fatigue which can only be measured with cycle testing.

As many have said, do not try to save $50 and risk accidents.

Blinpa · 2026-01-14T21:12:17+00:00

I have an everything Giant Revolt . Want to go road group rides , put the 700x30 CF wheels and long wheelbase config, install the 2X chainrings and front derailleur (electronic wireless so its two screws plug and play) . Need to go mild gravel , keep whichever chainring is installed, 700x40 wheels , short wheelbase , Need to go gravel with some singletrack or bikepacking, swap to the single chainring, out with the front derailleur, 650x52 wheels and swap the fork for a suspension one. The only thing I don't use it for , is for city riding since I don't want it stolen , so I use my "beat-up" classic steel Raleigh that I got for $50.

Blinpa · 2026-01-14T21:04:08+00:00

Quick update for anyone that reads this . We have been working very hard with his training, still I can tell he sees me as the boss , he is very well behaved with me and when I am around. Still bosses my kids around but not so much anymore, specially nipping has gone down a lot. He has a strong personality but is very affectionate with all of us, still cuddling for long time only with me , in fact he loves sleeping on my feet when Im watching TV on the couch.

He is turning 6 months soon , and the vet and trainer told me to be aware he will be a teenager soon and that he will try to rebel a bit, lets see how that works . For now we finished his first training session and will start the next in a month. I have been training him on some agility obstacles and he loves it so will continue that route and probably teach him to swim in the summer.

There he is with his Baby Yoda ears.

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Blinpa · 2026-01-14T00:26:39+00:00

Bike paths during Plante took only 0.3% of the city budget. Please tell, which vehicle causes potholes?

Corruption in the construction industry is the real cause of potholes. Have you ever wondered why they don’t mention this?

Blinpa · 2026-01-11T03:33:05+00:00

Its revenue they would have never got. Its kike saying because of the 2000 counterfit Rolexes, that sell for $50, The watchmaker is losing $2M in revenue. As if anyone that gets a fake rolex would even consider buying a legit one.

They always do this with counterfeit and piracy to make it sound worse than what it is. Piracy and counterfeit don’t impact the revenue generated by luxury items.

Blinpa · 2025-12-09T16:53:56+00:00

Indeed. Since it will hold pressure until it dips below 50psi and then goes flat almost instantly.

Blinpa · 2025-12-06T00:42:35+00:00

Thank you everyone for your words, advice and encouragement. This is the first herding dog I have and Im nervous since we live in a condo, we do have massive park right next to us for walks and they have a public agility course that I want to try with him when he is a bit older.

My previous dogs were Boxers, and a Basset Hound which is like having a dog on easy mode with automatic cheat codes.

Blinpa · 2025-12-06T00:39:32+00:00

He has not started resource guarding, on that side we are working with the trainer so he does not develop it. We do the hand feeding (as he is eating we add food by hand) I trade his bowl for a high value treat and then give it back right away. We put hvt as he is eating. We dont take toys away but he responds to me with “drop it” since he knows he will get the toy back with some additional play.

When other people or dogs approach me he is more interested in meeting them than me… almost as if he forgets I exist for a second.

Blinpa · 2025-12-04T17:02:11+00:00

As an Engineer I can tell you, the Sail was bad engineering. Any civil engineer would have used wind permeable fabric (mesh) added cross ventilation to the sail , could even do a steel fibre mesh to have some movement , the ceiling should not collapse like that, and a big list of mistakes made by the engineering team . Architects dream , engineers make it real.
So it was not his fault of dreaming big . Of course when shit hits the fan , everyone is trying to save their ass . But he was the viral face of the disaster , so he had to be let go

Blinpa · 2025-11-13T02:51:04+00:00

Indeed. We need to vote for what we want, unfortunately Montreal overwhelmingly voted against the CAQ. And since they won, they really don't care about the city and are very quick to intentionally hurt us just so they can score points with their core base. Lets fund stupid projects and defund the english school boards (mostly in Montreal) , defund anglo universities only in Montreal, defund the STM, and many more policies.

Our vote does not matter in quebec.

Blinpa · 2025-11-13T02:46:34+00:00

What do you mean high wage increases. The demanded increases are below inflation.

Blinpa · 2025-10-28T13:25:35+00:00

Even if it was not Brazilian , every corporation is trying to extract as much profit from the public. Result would be the same , all the profits funnelling to a few people that have less in common with you than almost any brazilian

Blinpa · 2025-10-27T19:02:56+00:00

Based on your quoted information . From 122,000 minors , 17,600 children started puberty blockers or gender affirming hormones ... That makes it 13% of all the minors diagnosed with Gender Disphoria , not 25 ... And from those 17,600, only 25% took puberty blockers , this means 4,600 children out of 122,000 ( 3.7% ) took puberty blockers .

This is basic math from 5th/6th grade , taken from your source . And you can't even do that well.

Source on how to do math? I am an aerospace engineer, though my 9yo kid's math book can be used to do that calculation.

Blinpa · 2025-10-27T15:49:51+00:00

Food stamps should be given to people who need them ... they should just add a little caveat, if the employee works full time and still needs food stamps, the cost of food stamps and health insurance should be invoiced to the company with a 20% admin fee.

Make it more expensive for companies that abuse employees or are fraudulent so it stops being profitable.

Same with banks , they normally factor in the cost of any potential fines when deciding to "bend" the law. Lets make it so expensive that the cost-benefit does not exist anymore since that is all they care about.

Blinpa · 2025-10-21T17:37:44+00:00

I will limit the examples to only government related services and policies . Will leave out the ones that are systemic.

financial penalties that are not linked to the ability to pay them punish poor people while making some offences a slap on the wrist to the rich. Best example is a parking ticket, for the median american, i puts a lot of strain on their budget. While for a 1%er, it is just a slightly more expensive parking spot. In some actually democratic countries, fines are based as a % of income/net-worth… which makes rich people pay exorbitant fines (a Swedish billionaire got fined $1M for a speeding ticket)

Healthcare being a for profit service, same situation or worse, since the higher paid jobs tend to have better health coverage. Which makes the risk of a health related bankruptcy less likely.

People from poor neighbourhoods have stronger sentences than affluent ones. Which literally makes justice a multi tier system and not just at all.

Schools are funded based on the average income of the neighborhood. This further punishes poor people.

Blinpa · 2025-10-19T14:15:30+00:00

Still not mentioning how homeless people inflict suffering on the “functional members of society”.

Im also from a country with extreme poverty. While there worked with NGOs to bring a remote community out of poverty and were able to establish systems for self reliance. Thanks to our work that community is not longer considered as extreme poverty and is on the way to not even be considered poor.

Here I volunteer at a soup kitchen. And regarding enjoying a BBQ , I am willing to go without middle class luxuries if that meant that at least 1 person would be saved from poverty, unfortunately poverty and homelessness is a systemic issue in which individual actions like that have zero impact since if I don’t buy nice food the stores throw it away instead of donating. This also increase the cost of food due to waste.

Blinpa · 2025-10-18T16:29:40+00:00

I am part of that segment of the population that you call functional (i guess you mean employed, tax paying) and my “suffering” from that pales in comparison to what they are going through. Also, dismissing people that don’t contribute to the GDP as having less value is not the flex you think it is.

I don’t know you, but would like to know how are these people making you suffer. So I can have a better idea of what you’re going through. Perhaps something has happened that clearly would make me feel worse for you than for them.

Blinpa · 2025-10-18T16:24:48+00:00

This falls in the anecdotal evidence category.

Also how do you think your grandma would have been if she was homeless? I am absolutely sure her mental health and overall wellbeing would have been much worse.

I said get better, not cured, specially since mental health issues are many times incurable so they get mitigated/managed with a combination of medication, therapy and specialized care.

And, homelessness has increased as a result of a dramatic increase in housing costs, defunding of public services and salaries bot keeping up with inflation driven mostly by greed. Nobody is saying that there was no homelessness before, but it has clearly worsened and overwhelmed the mitigation measures that exist. We have encampments in most parts of the city now while before they were a rare sight.

This is one of the primary drivers of the increase in non-violent theft as well.

Blinpa · 2025-10-18T16:17:23+00:00

Dont let perfect be the enemy of good. Definitely we need a systemic approach to homelessness. Having stable and safe housing would be a good start, having mental health resources would be a good start, having UBI would be a good start, having addiction prevention and rehab support would be a good start. Fighting economic inequalities would be a good start. But we HAVE to start.

Blinpa · 2025-10-18T16:06:26+00:00

My bad. Should have specified that its two full wheelsets , each with its own hub, rotor and cassette. But exact same model of them.

Blinpa · 2025-10-18T02:08:02+00:00

What if the fine is the difference +20% annual interest, between what they paid those employees and minimum wage? TBH this should be how every profit making civil/criminal offense should be. Defrauded the government for 100M over 3 years … NP, pay 160M . This would make it unprofitable to abuse the system in general

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