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>>2065460
>I can access a place that's basically a charity(sort of) bike repair group that's run out of a small brick warehouse unit
And by the looks of it, they've closed down in the last month and a half. The last bike shop I even know of that isn't that one incredibly shitty chain store is now even further away and even harder to get to by public transportation. We're hitting levels of JUST that shouldn't even be possible.

>>2065539
turns out that there's no way to run a business when your aspiring customers regard replacing a ruined $20 wheel with a new $50 wheel as a hardship

>>2065541
>spokes loosen
>wheel ruined
nigga wtf

Who is responsible for making both 200mm rotors and 203mm rotors?
Why is every industry fucked with constant bullshit where you have to have special parts, there's nothing truly standard. Just a bunch of proprietary shit. 130mm skewers, 135mm skewers, different bell ends. Press fit BB, different size BBs with slight differences
It's all too much. I'm just gonna pay the extra $, fix my shit and ride my bike. Sorry not sorry

>>2065541
That same wheel cost me 50 back in September.

>>2065530
There is this I don't get, I have 622x32c tires with mechanical disk brakes and the rear wheel skid all the time, so I use the front one as gently as possible, that said, isnt hydraulic disk brakes overkill? at least for thin tires

>>2065555
well for one thing rims with a braking surface are objectively worse and wear out faster. for another hydraulics have much better modulation.

622mm rotors > 160mm rotors

>>2065541
Oy vey! He should be buying a whole new bike!

>>2065555
>, isnt hydraulic disk brakes overkill
yes, but you'll never convince anyone in that cult.

>>2065573
you don't ride anything but perfectly flat and paved surfaces I see

>>2065574
no, I ride all kinds of shit

I like how easy hydro brakes are to use.
I have a hydraulic brake bike and a rim brakes bike

Discs for dirt
Rim for road

Simple as

>>2065579
it's almost like some sort of 3rd party would like to provoke divisiveness... couldn't be any of the many global south actors of course

>>2065555
>isnt hydraulic disk brakes overkill
no they're awesome, even for brake feel, ease and modulation alone.
also always use both brakes.
>>2065559
yeah, until said big rotor gets covered in snow/ice/dirt/mud because of it's proximity to the ground