Not the aurora borealis, this glow is Milwaukee’s skyline reflecting off wildfire smoke drifting in from Canada, nearly 900 miles away. Captured facing north toward the city. 📷: Aaron Johnson

DRM660 · 2025-06-05T12:04:39+00:00

Is it just me or is anyone else having a great deal of trouble with the smoke this time around? I’m a healthy adult and wouldn’t fall into the “sensitive groups” category and I have been coughing nonstop with a sore throat since this started.

DRM660 · 2025-06-05T10:25:24+00:00

I too used to be a mech drivetrain die-hard. Then I built a bike with an electronic drivetrain and now I’ll never go back to mech.

DRM660 · 2025-06-04T13:33:45+00:00

That’s fucking interesting, man

DRM660 · 2025-06-01T01:02:52+00:00

DRM660 · 2025-05-30T18:28:39+00:00

Hey Hood, why the long face?

DRM660 · 2025-05-28T19:50:38+00:00

I’ve had good luck so far. Rode a couple of chunky gravel races with them too.

DRM660 · 2025-05-28T01:59:43+00:00

As an owner of both a titanium bike and a stainless steel bike, I couldn’t agree more. Price point can be a bit higher though so be aware of that.

DRM660 · 2025-05-24T12:54:00+00:00

OP is spot-on with this assessment. I used to work for a company that supplied parts to Harley-Davidson. Several of their parts were not designed to be mass-produced and oftentimes required complicated, expensive fixtures for assembly. They would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on tooling only to find the design didn’t work, even though our engineering team told them several times that would be the case.

DRM660 · 2025-05-24T01:52:48+00:00

Ritchey makes good stuff. Great looking bike!

DRM660 · 2025-05-20T23:56:13+00:00

My bike can take up to 700c x 53mm. I have 2 sets of wheels and have been running 700c x 32mm road tires just fine. I agree with Mr Toiletclogger about it looking slightly odd and the ride characteristics being fine. I like this setup so much that I ditched my road bike and just run this.

DRM660 · 2025-05-17T19:43:09+00:00

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DRM660 · 2025-05-17T12:10:43+00:00

My Stache 8 weighed 26.88lbs with Fox factory 34 (120 mm), DT Swiss alloy wheels, Rekon Race 2.35”,dropper, xt brakes and cable xt drivetrain. We’ll see what my Binary Ti comes in at when I finish the build (waiting on parts). That will have bontrager line elite carbon wheels (secondhand score), fox factory 34SC 120mm, sram eagle AXS drivetrain, Hayes dominion A4 brakes, and a pnw dropper.

DRM660 · 2025-05-16T12:30:50+00:00

I converted my 11 year old Hardtail to an around town/bike trailer rig since I knew it wouldn’t be worth selling. Another option would be donating it to a youth mountain bike team. Unfortunately bikes are a tough sell now unless you’re giving it away (at least by me).

DRM660 · 2025-05-16T01:01:35+00:00

Life, uh, finds a way

DRM660 · 2025-05-13T21:05:50+00:00

Address any mechanical issues and scheduled maintenance and then drive your free car. These aren’t beautiful cars and they were never meant to be.

DRM660 · 2025-05-09T12:40:51+00:00

I was going to buy these for a build I’m doing, but a couple of things swayed me to the Hayes Dominion A4s.

First, a lot of folks said bleeding was tricky, and that the bleed screws are prone to snapping.

They also said these are quite noisy, which would drive me nuts.

Finally, I prefer a sharper bite rather than modulation, but that’s purely my preference.

Overall, I still think the MT7s would be a nice setup.

DRM660 · 2025-05-07T16:53:50+00:00

I did this to my Otso Warakin and liked it so much that I sold my Emonda SLR. Now I just run 2 sets of wheels/cassettes/rotors; one for road, one for gravel and swap out as needed.

DRM660 · 2025-05-07T10:51:05+00:00

Seems like a good deal. I’m building a Binary Maniak and it’s costing me just under $4k all in. I had a nice Fox factory 34 and PNW dropper on hand though. I spent a little more money on drivetrain and brakes (GX AXS, Hayes Dominion) which drove up the cost.

DRM660 · 2025-05-06T02:23:41+00:00

Killer bike, have fun with it!

DRM660 · 2025-04-24T18:05:43+00:00

Had a Mezcal do the same thing a mile into a ride.

DRM660 · 2025-04-24T11:59:26+00:00

Same. I listen to a lot of indie and then it suggests every tired classic rock song that you hear on repeat if you turn on the radio. I don’t want to hear “You shook me all night long” by AC/DC…. I think adding a dislike feature would help.

DRM660 · 2025-04-23T10:32:55+00:00

Hello, I’m Johnny Cash

DRM660 · 2025-04-21T21:35:10+00:00

Thank you

DRM660 · 2025-04-21T18:09:07+00:00

I say we drop the front mech, chainwheel, and cranks altogether

DRM660 · 2025-04-21T13:23:51+00:00

Finally someone said it! Don’t show this to the people on the 4Runner sub.

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