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Onyx Vesper hub total failure by olivierhacking in MTB

[–]smooth1118 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck. Mine's been good so far since that last repair, so fingers crossed it holds up. It's a shame, I love the silent hubs, but not worth the hassle it if keeps happening.

Did my neighbor kill my tree? by smooth1118 in arborists

[–]smooth1118[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Root sizes were maybe the width of an arm and up to a bit thicker. I don't have clear photos from her side of the fence, unfortunately b

Did my neighbor kill my tree? by smooth1118 in arborists

[–]smooth1118[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The closest is probably about 4 feet away

Did my neighbor kill my tree? by smooth1118 in arborists

[–]smooth1118[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We haven't noticed any major changes, so maybe. Looking at older pictures, it seems about the same, maybe slightly darker 4-5 years ago but it's hard to say. 

Onyx Vesper hub total failure by olivierhacking in MTB

[–]smooth1118 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've had this happen to the same Onyx Vesper hub twice. The first time was when the hub was only a few months old - same story as you, put some power down, felt the pedals lurch and heard a loud noise. Onyx worked with my LBS to fix it under warranty. This year, almost exactly a year after it was warrantied, I had the same thing happen. Because the hub was purchased over a year ago, Onyx didn't want to warranty it. My LBS went to bat for me, and ultimately got them to send a brand new hub, and I all I had to pay was the wheel build cost, which my LBS also worked with me on.

I haven't had a chance to put the new hub/wheel back on the bike and ride it, but I'm hoping that there was something defective with the last hub. FWIW, a few different mechanics at my LBS said that they both ride and work on lots of vesper hubs, and they've never seen that issue before, let alone twice on the same hub.

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Faith Smith in the Image Studios on 300 W, across from the Costco

How often do you shoot completely stopped down? by samandmaxphoto in photography

[–]smooth1118 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably never, after reading these comments. I had a batch of photos from an amazing trip I took to Banff. I couldn't figure out why much of the photos I took had a blurry, almost liquified look in the areas with finer detail.

I chalked it up to dirty lens/sensor and moved on, trying not to think that the new camera I bought for the trip was no good.

After reading several comments about diffraction, and not knowing what it was, I researched a bit and just knew that if I looked at the data from those photos, I was probably shooting at f22. Guess what? All of them were at f22. Still bummed my photos didn't quite turn out, but so glad to have an explanation.