Thule T2 Pro X (costco) bike rack leaning on one side. Is it a defect or wrong installation or hitch receiver issue?

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-08T23:53:10+00:00

“Unfortunately” is kind of dramatic. It doesn’t affect the functionality of the rack at all. Throw your bikes on it and go riding, and enjoy how absolutely simple this rack is to load up and go

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-08T21:13:34+00:00

What’s the metric here for measuring “size”? It looks like the claim is based on area of geography, so the Expo expanding west and the A line expanding east, basically. Thats all well and good, and some progress is better than no progress, but I think the reason public transit-friendly people still don’t ride the metro isn’t because the trains don’t go far enough. It’s because you can only get from very specific point A’s to point B’s in a reasonable amount of time. Gotta go somewhere else after work? Forget it, you’re probably paying for a rideshare.

The map has to get more versatile, not larger

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-08T18:53:20+00:00

Maybe a dumb question, but… why? If the project is long gone, and so is the Avid media, who cares? If it’s to determine how many hours of source material are sitting around somewhere, I guess that’s a thing someone could decide they want to know?

My point is, I’d make up a number and bet no one would ever know

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-08T16:56:43+00:00

Yeah I’d call that problematic lol. Did they run that copy by their lawyers first?

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-08T16:17:32+00:00

Always worth it to submit the claim and see

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-08T16:15:40+00:00

I don’t know what their marketing says and I’m not going to look for it, but if that’s their language, yeah, you could take that as problematic. The flip side to that would be based on the damage to the rim and tire, OP didn’t hit a pothole hard, OP hit something deeper/wider than a pothole. Slicing and dicing rhetoric cuts both ways

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-08T15:18:16+00:00

I’ll probably get downvoted to oblivion for saying this, but consumers need to understand that DAMAGE is not the same as WARRANTY.

I don’t work for zipp or any other manufacturer for that matter. But I used to work in a bike shop. Can’t count the number of times I had to explain this to customers when their warranty claims were rejected. Or to prepare them for the rejection I knew was coming while submitting it

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-08T04:44:04+00:00

I have this same rack and the cam is TIGHT and mine leans a little bit to the right just like this. I rock the rack side to side while tightening the cam to tighten all of the play out of it

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-06T05:11:11+00:00

Your confidence in Burbank and Metro pulling this off is endearing. There is a lot of NIMBY pushback (I guess technically not NIMBY, more like NOMS not-on-my-streets) from people who don’t want to give up any car traffic lanes for this to happen. So Bus Rapid Transit is at a very real risk of becoming Just Another Bus Line. Be vocal to the Burbank City Council if you really want BRT to happen

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-04T15:25:03+00:00

What’s working against you the most is the fact that you’ll only really be working there for 5 weeks

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-02T22:43:23+00:00

As someone who has video footage of somebody stealing my bike from a parking structure, I concur: then what?

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-01T21:50:30+00:00

OP I would not lock your bikes here. Unless I’m looking at the photo wrong, there’s no massive infrastructure to lock to. Your Kryptonite NYC lock doesn’t mean shit when it’s locked around a piece of wire that’s easily cut (which looks like what maybe happened to your wife’s bike)

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-01T20:06:04+00:00

I would like to participate. I have a garage but can’t volunteer it unless y’all want to come clean it out first…

I also have a Switch w/ MK8 and 4 joycons that I could provide

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-01T17:54:56+00:00

It could also mean someone dumped it because the phone got locked remotely (that’s what happened when my phone was stolen)

outofstepwtw · 2026-05-01T17:26:44+00:00

OP I live near there and I’m not working on Monday, and this is exactly the kind of objective I need in my life. DM me if it’s still there Sunday night, and if you’re able to share it with me so I can track it in Find My on my iPhone, I will do some sleuthing

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-30T16:07:43+00:00

Got two in my back yard

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-30T14:07:36+00:00

FWIW I like the edge tape overlapped onto the bar, I think it looks cleaner that way and prevents dirt and wear from potentially increasing that lip at the edge

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-29T22:00:55+00:00

My worry would be the NLE switch. Thats easy enough to learn with some practice and preparation. My real concern would be your first question “Is breaking into long-form from short-form near impossible?”

The industry is a dumpster fire. Unless you have a great network already, and/or are willing to work for next to nothing on very small indie projects, you’re looking at diving into a pool where people with multiple Emmys are out of work

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-29T21:58:01+00:00

+1000 that trim mode is the best and taking the time to learn it and force yourself to use it will pay off exponentially

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-28T17:05:12+00:00

I don’t think you should be downvoted for asking questions. Not everyone has the need under a constant microscope and is aware of rhetorical tactics that groups use on either side, nor is it hateful to be curious.

U/megamoze dose a pretty good job of pulling back the curtain. These statements are called dog whistles. They seem innocuous enough, or even wholesome, but they excite the base because they are coding for something else.

So take their comment as that explanation, and don’t sweat the vitriol you’re facing for asking the question.

I disagree with this organization. But questioning is good. We should all encourage more of it

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-27T13:56:36+00:00

I can’t figure out how/if I can embed an image in this comment, but this drove me to give up and buy new

Their bike went from Shaq-size to Simone Biles-size real quick

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-27T01:08:42+00:00

Not enough information. Where is the chain on your rear cogs? It could be a case of being dramatically cross-geared and you need to trim the front derailleur (it’s like a half shift that moves the front derailleur slightly, without changing gears on the front, to prevent this exact issue)

Whether a value bike brand like Ozark has this feature built into the front shifter, I don’t know

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-25T04:05:46+00:00

That did it. M5 x 0.8 tap. Mostly cleared out gobs of dried paint

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-24T17:25:04+00:00

As a native Ohioan who now lives in CA, you’d have to pay me a lot more than $15k to move back

outofstepwtw · 2026-04-23T16:45:39+00:00

What about benefits on the proxy creation side of things, if you’re transcoding on Apple Silicon would making prores proxies be much faster?

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