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    Don't use soap to get your tires to sit right.

    It's the age of very tight tires thanks to the tubeless revolution. I am not tubeless, and was told to use soap and then to over-inflate to get by ri-goddam-diculously tight Bontrager FR4's to seat properly. The other day on a ride I broke a spoke nipple. Went to the shop to get a...
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    Front wheel DHF vs. High Roller

    Since you don't have to accelerate with the front wheel, can anyone give me pointers as to the DHF's advantages over a high roller? thanks, [p
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    There is no allen key size on this planet for.....

    Avid Elixir brake pad retaining pins. I think they are supposed to be 2.5mm, but there's just so much slack it's BEGGING for trouble!
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    Pinch flats vs. fiddly tubeless - isn't there a better way?

    Maybe this topic has been breached, but for the life of me I can't understand why someone doesn't invent a tire which is like a tube in that it is a closed volume which can be inflated off the rim, but which still has hooks which can be hooked onto the rim. That way pinch flats are impossible...
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