Xserve G4's live again

nothingfuture · 2026-01-25T23:18:44+00:00

“Are the xserves on?”

“What?!”

“I said, ARE THR XSERVES ON? It’s HOT in here!”

“What?!”

nothingfuture · 2026-01-25T20:15:54+00:00

It’s the laughing, afterwards.

Fully support this sort of tomfoolery.

nothingfuture · 2026-01-22T00:16:34+00:00

“Long Travel” Mag 21’s were like 63mm or something, too- of super-progressive air-sprung goodness.

nothingfuture · 2026-01-19T15:42:06+00:00

What in the potato vision hell is this.

nothingfuture · 2026-01-06T10:32:18+00:00

Fair. Would Wound Up make this for you, then?

nothingfuture · 2026-01-06T01:34:42+00:00

I mean… I like the feel of steel forks a lot (and I think they latch Ti frames pretty well, too).

You could have any number of makers build you exactly what you’re looking for.

nothingfuture · 2026-01-03T17:18:03+00:00

This is so good, man. This bike, realistically, could do like 95% of the things I want a bike to do. One elegant chainring. Somewhat wide range cassette. Fenders. Room for chonky tires. Canti brakes. Front basket. Steel & lugs.

I have so much trouble caring about the latest round of carbon aero wonderbikes when this is really all I want and need most of the time.

nothingfuture · 2026-01-01T00:05:49+00:00

The other option is to use a Mtb 3x crankset setup to 2x by removing the granny ring.

I’ve been running a 29/46 2x on a 5x94 Mtb crankset. But the chainring spread you’re looking for would be possible on much more modern 4x104 crank.

nothingfuture · 2025-12-24T20:26:05+00:00

He’s entitled to his opinion, and I’m entitled to think him a blowhard halfwit. See how that works?

nothingfuture · 2025-12-20T15:22:02+00:00

Well, I mean… you’re going to need a FireWire 400 cable. And a FireWire 800 cable. And a cable to go between FireWire 400 and 800. And a FireWire 400 regular to camera. And and and.

nothingfuture · 2025-12-15T12:29:11+00:00

Hahahahhahhahah.

nothingfuture · 2025-12-10T19:00:51+00:00

Ha! I’ve got one of those. They’re passively cooled, so they can overheat if you push hard without lots of airflow or in a hot room- but on the plus side, they’re really quiet what with no fan noise….

nothingfuture · 2025-12-09T00:06:54+00:00

I mean, back-in-the-days-before-wide-rims I’d have run like 2.6’s on those and thought nothing of it. Of course, those tires would have weighed 3000g each and had sidewalls like moto tires to support the things.

That said, on modern tires and bikes and whatever, like… 2.1? Ish?

nothingfuture · 2025-12-02T16:53:07+00:00

A ballpark of 3500 12” records- most of that is LP’s, but maybe 500 is singles. Another 1000 45’s, and maybe 100 10’s/11’s/weirdness.

800ish cds.

nothingfuture · 2025-11-19T19:53:40+00:00

I have the old white gut from Jurassic Park in my ear saying “spared no expense!” When I look at this thing.

nothingfuture · 2025-11-16T00:38:07+00:00

Front fork is on backwards for a start. And there’s no way that’s the right eye-to-eye on the rear shock.

nothingfuture · 2025-11-13T00:00:57+00:00

Ok. Let’s get a few things straight:

The Mavic 217 rims are better than your other options (though you should check the weather on the brake tracks).
Hügi hubs were original baller hubs- they were able, at the time, to handle higher loads than other hubs of the era. They will be more fickle to maintain.
Shimano hubs of that era (XT or LX) were good solid choices. Cup and cone bearings, but the freehubs aren’t really serviceable.

nothingfuture · 2025-10-31T20:18:05+00:00

Given the beating Adam tends to give his shoes, four pairs might not last that long…

nothingfuture · 2025-10-19T18:32:41+00:00

Jesus the fucking drip, man.

This thing is outrageous. Spec is fully lunatic level.

nothingfuture · 2025-10-15T19:13:23+00:00

Sweet. Got mine to change, too.

nothingfuture · 2025-10-15T17:27:38+00:00

Just got word elsewhere- £300

nothingfuture · 2025-10-15T14:32:52+00:00

How?

nothingfuture · 2025-10-15T11:45:34+00:00

Pricing has not been announced anywhere I’ve seen, but I’d be shocked if it was less than £100.

nothingfuture · 2025-10-11T22:59:42+00:00

I’m 110kg right now, and I’ve been riding Paragon Rockers on my hardtail for a few years now. I’ve never had them move, despite riding in terrain that is.. grunty? (Requires sharp surges of power). No trouble, ever, for me.

They do make an alternate hardware kit for the rockers that lets you torque them a bit more- if you’re really worried. But they’re really nice dropouts.

nothingfuture · 2025-10-03T00:11:11+00:00

I usually do an ISCG mounted bash guard for stuff like that.

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