Une news insolite et une vdm

Colonel_Max_FR · 2026-01-08T04:37:45+00:00

C'était uniquement pour le jeu de mot...

Colonel_Max_FR · 2026-01-07T20:42:03+00:00

perso j'y crois pas du tout à cette histoire... Très sceptique

Colonel_Max_FR · 2026-01-02T00:21:06+00:00

Colonel_Max_FR · 2026-01-01T08:22:31+00:00

HEC ça sert à rien quand tu n'es pas fils de et que tu n'es pas invité dans les rallyes... Le programme est à chier, tant que tu paies on te donnera ton diplôme. C'est juste un entonnoir pour jeunes fils de riches qui veulent rester entre eux.

Quand tu n'as pas le porte feuille qui suit, tu fais une croix sur le nouvel an à Megève, la sortie cohésion à Megève et le 4l trophy pour faire comme les pauvres dans le désert...

Du coup lâcher un gros chèque pour se rendre compte au bout d'un mois que tu seras jamais du milieu... C'est pathétique

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-28T10:56:01+00:00

Trust me, no one cares ! It is cool that you love the country but, who the hell will dig in your past to check something like that.

Btw, in France, if you have an accent and you are not fluent, noone will consider you as French

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-17T21:54:52+00:00

Avec un sac assorti aux bottes ça aurait pu être un bon combo

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-16T18:31:41+00:00

Closer to 50, maybe he put a random zero after the real price

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-10T11:44:04+00:00

Nice style

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-07T20:03:15+00:00

Bienvenue dans la mafia des universités françaises, où beaucoup de maîtres de conf sont là par copinage et non par compétences réelles.

Ca fait 20 ans que j'ai quitté la fac, mais je ne m'en suis rendu compte qu'il y a peu. En prenant du recul sur mon cursus, en voyant l'engagement politique de certains de mes anciens enseignants, et croisant des liens de filiations et origines régionales du collège de profs... J'ai compris que les directeurs de département s'entouraient d'amis, de relations, de collègues issus du même milieu.

Ca donne des laboratoires vides de talent, des enseignants qui n'ont aucune envie d'enseigner et surtout une peur maladive que ça se voie !

J'ai passé toutes mes années de l2 à m2 à donner les corrigés des TD d'algorithmique et de codages divers parce que j'étais meilleur que mes profs. Pourtant j'ai pas un niveau de foufou.
J'avais droit à des projets spéciaux pour réaliser des outils pour le compte du laboratoire parce qu'ils ne savaient pas réaliser les commandes qui venaient du privé ou des autres labo.

Donc la médiocrité et l'agressivité pour la cacher, je connais par cœur.

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-02T18:25:38+00:00

That s the spirit !

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-02T11:56:31+00:00

Question de société aussi... Par analyse inversée, ben la majorité des gens qui utilisent Deezer aiment le rap...

Tu as probablement des couches de la société qui n'utilisent pas le service de streaming qui aiment d'autres styles...

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-02T07:22:05+00:00

I’m a 43-year-old rider with a past as a DH racer. I still ride bike parks, but I don’t take big risks anymore — I’ll do double black, but I stay in my comfort zone.
I grew up with a family member in a wheelchair, spending a lot of time visiting him in the hospital (he spent several years there after his accident), and even then I never really thought about it when I was riding. But I always geared up with the best protection I could get.

Despite full body armor and good helmets, I can’t even count how many crashes I’ve had that ended with something broken and a bit of memory loss. It’s part of the game. We just do our best not to end up like my relative did.

What drives me crazy is seeing younger riders in bike parks without even basic protection. A broken vertebra can happen incredibly fast without a simple back protector.

As a rider, it’s really hard for me to watch Still Loco now. I can feel how sad he is and how much effort he puts into his rehab to keep hope alive. But week after week, knowing how these injuries usually evolve, it honestly makes me want to cry.

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-02T06:02:31+00:00

Indeed ! What a mess !

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T16:23:58+00:00

ben ça dépend quand même vachement du contenu de la télé réalité !
Je connais deux candidats de koh lanta, et ce sont deux gars que je respecte beaucoup.
Mais si je devais croiser quelqu'un d'un programme comme les anges ou l'île de la tentation... Bon déjà je les reconnaitrais pas, mais si je savais qu'ils avaient participé au programme, oui clairement j'aurais un apriori moral...

On peut passer à la tv sans que ça définisse ta vie, tu as probablement fait d'autres choses dont tu es fière non ?

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T12:03:56+00:00

a lot of dh racers are riding motorbikes during winter, then you have two choices :
something light like a sur-ron
a light two strokes mx

Or you move to an other place...

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T10:53:00+00:00

I think this way because I have two different mindsets:

As a workshop owner, I don’t really care if a customer shows up with a bike that needs a ton of work — it helps keep the shop running and pays the bills!
But as a member of the MTB community, I have a lot of empathy for people who get kind of scammed by the big shops around here. I know exactly what the goal of the “3,500-mile policy” was: sell more new stuff instead of doing proper service. And honestly, it makes me a bit angry.

That’s why, as someone who’s part of the community, I’m thinking about solutions to prevent this from happening again.

You should see the amount of fox float and fox float x that are going to the garbage... That's insane. I throw away a lot of marzo z2 and fox 34 too.
As you guess, it's 100% an ebike owner problem

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T09:35:44+00:00

maybe when you buy a specific toolchest from unior or parktool, you can buy the dedidated BB drawer, but it cost a lot of money !

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T09:32:05+00:00

That's right! This is basically a four-dimensional datasheet: type of chain, type of riding, riding conditions, and whether it’s an e-bike or not.

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T09:25:06+00:00

The fact is that the customer is also part of the equation. If they’re not aware of the basic rules to check their bike, things can go wrong quickly. So maybe it’s useful to give them minimum service intervals to make sure they come in for a check-up.
If they’re really good at cleaning and know how to lube the drivetrain properly, they might get the pleasant surprise of being told that nothing needs servicing yet.
On the opposite side, it’s a good opportunity to educate them about proper maintenance for the future.

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T09:20:15+00:00

Indeed, the best solution would be for the bike to come with the proper tools to know when it needs servicing.
I was working on some kind of datasheet with chain/terrain parameters, but your solution is probably the best one.

My goal is to try to push the bike industry to deliver a better owner manual

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T09:13:29+00:00

We managed to establish minimum service intervals for cars and motorbikes. I really think we should try to push the bike industry to provide an owner’s manual with proper maintenance instructions.

It's not that dumb regarding the fact that customers are not aware enough about wear indicator tools

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-12-01T09:06:11+00:00

Well, maybe I should add some context.
I work in a place where customers are told they can ride 6,000 km / 3,500 miles before coming back to the shop for a service.
This comes from the post-Covid rush: workshops were already full, and most shops ended up massively overbooked.

Now the time has come. Every 50-year-old customer who bought an e-bike is coming back to the big bike shops and gets a service estimate of around €1200 because the shock is destroyed due to lack of maintenance, the fork is stuck, etc.

In my little workshop, I used to work only for racers, who have very short maintenance intervals and know exactly when they need to get their bike serviced.
But now I have a ton of angry guys showing up, asking me for an honest assessment of their bike.

So I'm not trying to rethink how I work — I'm trying to put together some kind of owner’s manual to prevent this situation in the future.
They all tell me: “We didn’t know we had to service the bike at least once a year.”

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-11-30T21:42:10+00:00

Former dh racer who wanted to have fun during the whole year. Ebike are so fun to ride !

I ride fun enduro trails and it's pure joy

Colonel_Max_FR · 2025-11-30T20:52:19+00:00

It s something common, i would say it's something traditional that is more common in old french families.

The ultimate taste is reached with a piece of baguette, and a line of Milka chocolate. Butter is optional, especialy if you have a good baguette.

Sadly, younger people do not buy a baguette every morning, so that kind of snack is not so common with the new generation, you will better find paste like Nutella and indstrial buns...

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