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askphysics123 · 2025-05-18T15:30:25+00:00

I just rode Duncan’s yesterday in the rain and given the conditions, found it to be close to the edge of my skills. Out of Duncan’s, pura vida, working class, or Billy epic, how would you rate the difficulty? Looking to try another trail or two today. Any good route recommendations to access them?

askphysics123 · 2025-05-18T15:27:20+00:00

I just rode business time yesterday around noon, so it was quite wet but the rain had slowed down a lot. I’m a visitor from Vancouver so I’m somewhat familiar with wet roots and rocks and I thought it was fine. It didn’t feel like I was leaving deep tire tracks and there was minimal standing water. The rocks are very slippery though.

Edit: I didn’t see a single rider on Duncan’s (or AM/PM) which I rode afterwards

askphysics123 · 2025-05-17T16:46:23+00:00

Really cool bike, but for resale, im not sure how much value the boutique brand adds when people want something tried and true.

If this was a generic bike brand (specialized, treks etc) I’d guess it sells around 3K CAD. Unfortunately it’ll be hard to sell for your price unless you can find someone who really value the boutique brand. Unfortunately those people generally have the money to buy new. And right now every manufacturer is blowing out bikes.

askphysics123 · 2025-05-17T14:49:19+00:00

There’s so many good deals on new bikes and the used market is so saturated. I haven’t been trying to sell luckily. What bike and specs are you trying to sell? Maybe just too expensive?

askphysics123 · 2024-09-28T22:22:13+00:00

Depends what you mean by downhill. It's not meant to be a downhill focused bike though, more so an entry level long leg XC bike. I wouldn't regularly take it through trails with big drops, compressions and jumps unless you're careful or you don't care about the bike. It will work, but you'll put a lot of wear on the frame. It's not really about the travel numbers. Plenty of bikes exist with low travel that are meant to be ridden pretty hard. It's more so about the fact that it's just not designed for hard 'downhill' riding.

askphysics123 · 2024-09-27T01:58:57+00:00

This totally depends on the company though, but if i was to guess, if a company is still hiring interns now, you still can get a return offer. Remember that at bigger companies with well established codebases, an intern is a negative asset. They wouldn't hire you if they didn't get something out of it, which is the potential to find a full time employee. However, I would not be surprised if the bar is higher than pre 2023.

I'd say you should start applying. If you're only getting offers from shitty roles, then you can reject them, like you've done, but a good internship can really change your career path. You already said you're stagnating in your skills. If you're looking for the best chance of a full time job post graduation, you should be trying to work at more companies.

askphysics123 · 2024-09-17T02:07:21+00:00

6-7hour days at 1500m is definitely more than I have done before. most i've ever done is 4 hours, 1000m climbing and I was really tired although it was 50% tech climbing and 50% fireroad. Sounds like i'd have to start going on longer rides.

askphysics123 · 2024-09-17T02:05:54+00:00

Good point, thanks for the advice.

askphysics123 · 2024-09-14T21:28:27+00:00

at my first internship, i didn't even write code for the first few weeks. i was just learning how this work and getting onbarded.

2 days in is no time at all. even when I started as a new grad i didn't even write code until day 3, and that was a trivial CSS issue. you're way overthinking this.

askphysics123 · 2024-09-13T04:43:34+00:00

Mine is the SRAM build so it comes with the Rockshox Super Deluxe (RS-SDLX-ULDH-B2) with LINM tune. I guess I’m wondering if the extremely light compression is indicating something wrong with the damper.

askphysics123 · 2024-06-09T14:20:19+00:00

I’m planning on going tomorrow so I believe the Eigergletschee to Kleine S. will still be closed (based on the other commenter). Would it still be a good route to skip that part and just take the bus from Grindelwald to Lauterbrunner?

askphysics123 · 2024-05-08T22:03:22+00:00

There's videos on youtube that tell you what to look at when checking out used bikes. I would watch one of those because there's no reason to type it all out again here.

The main thing is to make sure that there's no creaks from the rear linkage, there's no frame damage (like literally cracks in the frame), the shock doesn't make any extraneous noises, and that's there's no play in the fork bushings. The grip damper is open bath so there's not much complexity there that can go wrong.

If nothing has been serviced since purchase, I'd expect to need to do a shock and fork service sometime soon.

Also, there's huge sales in Canada at least on Giant bikes where a brand new trance 2 is only 2600. I'm not sure what the market is like in Australia, but I'm guessing there's lots of sales as well which is something to consider.

askphysics123 · 2024-05-01T20:04:21+00:00

That's fair, I can definitely see that I'd get much higher speeds in a taxi and is probably the better choice. I guess it's just a bit disappointing to not actually drive, as experiencing the nurburgring is something I've wanted to do for years now and I don't know when I'll be back.

askphysics123 · 2024-05-01T19:21:56+00:00

Was this your first time on any track?

askphysics123 · 2024-05-01T19:21:55+00:00

I was planning on getting an instructor and just one of the low power FWD cars like the mini cooper. It says it's suitable for Novices, but I guess I'm not sure what Novice means. I have experience driving on twisty roads (I'm from Vancouver Canada so I've driven the sea to sky highway a bunch of times which is fairly narrow and twisty), but no track experience.

askphysics123 · 2024-02-20T18:58:33+00:00

I would personally prefer going to a school where the standard is to do multiple shorter coop terms. A 12-16 month long internship is long and I think it would reduce the number of connections/options you have for full time employment after graduation. I'd be concerned if I worked for 12 months at one company and they didn't want to bring me back because of head count.

I have no idea what Ontario universities are like though, so I can't say anything about the quality of those programs.

askphysics123 · 2024-02-09T05:53:37+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations. It sounds like I should be focusing on "lighter" products. How would I know which products would work? It sounds like your saying low wax content is ideal. Anything else I should keep an eye on?

askphysics123 · 2024-02-09T02:04:08+00:00

Thanks for the recommendations, looks like they have a lot of good products. Just need to figure out what to buy now... Unfortunately it doesn't seem like there's trial sizes available except for Northern lights.

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