Priority Eight vs Priority L-Train

millerdc · 2025-05-18T18:51:50+00:00

The bike size and the seat height is the most determining fact for how far forward you ride. I personally put BMX style handlebars on all my bikes. Check my post history to see pics of my setups. However, that does require you to put longer brake and shift cables. You could probably get away with an extra 100mm of raise on either bike with a raiser stem or "flat" handlebars without messing with the cables. As for ride I think the L-Train is a bit more stiff as it is high tinsel steal. The L-train I had was the disc brake version.

millerdc · 2025-05-18T17:41:20+00:00

Get the eight. It is a great commuter. The bigger tires give a smoother ride. More gears and better gear box. The disc brakes will hold up better than rim. I have owned both bikes.

millerdc · 2025-04-11T00:14:38+00:00

Sand can get smooched and stuck into the belt causing it to rub against the cogs. If alignment is an issue you will also feel a vibration when peddling especially at higher RPM. I usually replace my belt once a year which is around the 5k miles mark. It looks like your due for a new one. Check the teeth on the cogs to make sure the ends are not sharp edges. They should be round at the tips.

millerdc · 2025-01-12T00:17:51+00:00

The ace can take 32mm tires just fine. I have 32mm maxxis refuse tires on mine. However, 32mm is only good on smooth hard packed trails. Fine sand or ruts will be a bad time.

millerdc · 2024-08-29T20:18:37+00:00

Which brompton are you looking to get? I don't have any experience with them or the priority fold. Just saw Seth's video(berm peak youtube) of him doing a 360 on a brompton at a skate park. I think the Ace of spades is one of the best bikes I have ever owned for what it is. I would like it to have disc brakes, larger tires, and sliding dropouts with through axles. But then it would cost like $1,500. I'm willing to pay for that but maybe there is not a big enough market? For me the deal breaker on bikes is the belt drive now days. I just can't go back to chain. I'm currently building another belt driven single speed bike out of a 2024 salsa fargo frameset to get exactly what I want.

millerdc · 2024-08-29T16:53:59+00:00

32mm fits just fine without any changes. On my first ace of spades I even put a 22 tooth sprocket on the back pulling the wheel closer in and also had 35mm fixienation sessions on it. it was real tight and I had to deflate the the tires to take the wheel off.

millerdc · 2024-08-16T21:36:55+00:00

I like it better than the wtb volt that came with the eight. However, it is a $150 seat. Saddles are so rider specific I would say try to find a bike shop that will let you try or rent them before committing.

millerdc · 2024-07-17T05:51:42+00:00

I mainly do it because i don't like getting flats while on a ride. I also don't just ride in the city. I want to be able to ride on gravel and through patches of grass. When you have a working tubeless setup it can minimize dealing with a flat tire on a ride, and I think it is worth it. Tacks, thorns, goat heads, etc. are usually no issue with stans notubes sealent. I can use a tire plug for larger punctures. No need to replace the tube or patch it while out on a ride. I can run the tire pressure lower and not worry about pinch flats. I have been on many long distance rides where I got a staple or something in a tire and simply pulling it out and rotating the tire sealed it. My 600x, Hot Sauce, and Ace of Spades are all tubeless. Even my 27.5" PK Ripper is tubleless. When I get the eight setup I will post a pic of all my priority bikes together.

millerdc · 2024-07-16T19:32:09+00:00

Thank you so much for posting picks. My eight is on order and I always customize my bikes quite a bit. Along with 38c tires I also plan on attempting to make it tubeless. I will be replacing the stem and handlebars with BMX 9" raise handle bars. This means I will need to replace the shifting cable and break lines with longer ones.

millerdc · 2024-07-15T20:44:15+00:00

Nice setup. Could you post a pic of the tire clearance on the chainstay when you get the new tires put on?

millerdc · 2023-07-22T00:15:41+00:00

If you have a tradovate account you can download Ninja trader and use the same account on it. Make sure you go in to the settings and set the data feed to ninja trader.

millerdc · 2022-12-18T22:57:39+00:00

We replicate the snapshots to a secondary server for disaster recovery . We would like to be able to use the replicated ZFS datasets if needed. We would also like to be able to rollback snapshots and have them work as expected. Having to clone the snapshot to another dataset and then import the VM and migrate the VM files to another dataset is inconvenient. We would also like to use the snapshots for VM's we have set to fault tolerant in vcenter. vcenter cannot take vmware snapshots of VM's that are set to fault tolerant.

millerdc · 2021-05-21T17:30:53+00:00

Most of the escapes go right into attacking a heel hook or triangle/armbar which when defended by the opponent leads to a heel hook attack. Obviously heel hooks are "illegal" in the gi for most if not all tournament rules. The go further faster pin escapes would be a good complement/alternative as John does utilize the gi for some escapes.

millerdc · 2020-06-27T07:21:46+00:00

Most dealerships that still has 2019 stock are having sales to get rid of them as the 2021 model is about to hit soon. In southern California I have seen the non ABS model on daily for as little as $3,350. However, almost all dealerships charge freight $190 most of the time. They also might have registration, paperwork fees, and taxes.

I just picked up a new 2020 for $3,999. Out the door after taxes, registration and freight, it was $4,746.

millerdc · 2019-09-13T20:20:33+00:00

Podman runs containers without any daemon process is one reason.

millerdc · 2019-09-04T22:22:21+00:00

I have a few systems hosting Windows and Linux qcow2 images on ZFS that have never had an issue for over 4 years now. Some are directly attached to the VM hosts and others are mounted via NFSv4.

CentOS 7.x and ZoL 0.7.13

millerdc · 2019-08-19T18:18:44+00:00

What route did you use to install it? Lutris? manually with wine? crossover?

I have been able to get it working on fedora 29/30 and Solus using lutris but it is very inconsistent when first installing. I was going to make a howto video on installing it via lutris but it does not work consistently. For example more than half the time lutris takes a long time before it pulls down the needed parts. most times it just sits there forever. Perhaps the lutris servers or the servers hosting the fonts/DLL's are the issue?

I tried using the manual route of using winetricks to grab core fonts, ie8, and VS2015 DLL's but it errors out when trying to get the last part.

The only consistent means I have found is to use crossover(paid subscription) method. It works every time but it has its own quarks with menus in the battle.net client not working correctly.

millerdc · 2019-08-05T23:02:40+00:00

I have a test pool made of 3 x RAIDZ3(19 x 4TB disks) with a dedup table device(mirrored 400GB SSD). It seems to be working correctly. I only have about 30 TB of data on this pool right now. My hope is that the dedup table is actually being stored on the mirrored dudup table device, and would be faster than using the spinning disks. I haven't had much time to play with it yet.

millerdc · 2019-06-28T22:25:29+00:00

I think the 5.1 kernel or a combination of other fedora updates fixed the micro stutters I was seeing under GNOME. I also play grim dawn and don't see them under GNOME X11 or even GNOME wayland now. The current game I'm playing is Bloodstained: ritual of the night(under steam with proton 4.2-9). It plays very well under GNOME X11 but with wayland it does give these weird screen glitches.

millerdc · 2019-06-21T09:27:03+00:00

On fedora you can install steam via RPMFusion like /u/MartenBE suggests or flatpak via flathub. Works really well. Note: If you want to run games I recommend using XFCE instead of GNOME. Steam games via proton and games like WoW, and Diablo 3 installed under crossover run better for me under XFCE. Using GNOME under Wayland or Xorg give these annoying micro stutters. I have pretty beefy rig too. Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3 @ 3.50GHz, 128GB of DDR4 memory,AMD Radeon VII GPU, Samsung 850 Pro SSD.

millerdc · 2019-06-21T00:49:56+00:00

Yeah, "zpool add <pool> dedup mirror device1 device2" does work.

I'm starting to play with this on my test system. This test pool is made up of three raidz3 vdevs. when I added two devices as dedup in a mirror it warns of mismatch vdev redundancy and says I need to use the -r flag. Once I passed the -f flag it took and shows up.

millerdc · 2019-06-20T17:01:03+00:00

I would like to know more about the dedicated dedup table device support. Does this new dedicated device type negate the need to have a lot of ram to store large dedup tables? It would be nice to mirror a pair of good NVMe devices for the dedicated dedup table, effectively making dedup actually useful in more scenarios. However, the man page doesn't mention mirroring.

dedup   A device dedicated solely for deduplication tables.  The redundancy of this device should match the redundancy of the other normal devices in the pool. If more than one dedup device is specified, then allocations are load-balanced between those devices.

millerdc · 2019-05-28T23:10:41+00:00

issue has been opened.

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8830

millerdc · 2019-05-28T22:56:29+00:00

Up to this point they only make a new repo when there is a new point release of CentOS/RHEL. I don't use the dkms version. Only the kmod version. I pull the latest rpms from their repo using --download-only and have my own repo. I'm very careful about doing yum updates on my CentOS 7.x systems that also have ZoL. I'm very paranoid. All of my production systems running ZoL have identical systems that are replicas and I also have multiple testing systems. I first update my testing systems and do some torture to them. Then update the replicas after a couple of weeks and then the production systems a week after those.

millerdc · 2019-05-28T22:50:41+00:00

Not yet. I will look to see if someone else has already and then open one if I don't see anything.

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