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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Tire dependent. I run specialized grid trail tires on my mtb, at 18psi front, 24 rear. Never had a pinch in thousands of miles.

    However - for one cycle, I switched to a set of bontrager tires - I think they were SE5s - at the recommendation of the shop when they were out of what I normally buy. I was running a bit higher, more like 22/28, and I pinched a tire within 50 miles. They replaced it for free without me even asking which makes me suspect it wasn’t uncommon. I ran them at 30/35 after that, but that much pressure on my local trails, loose desert gravel, and they weren’t great for traction at all.

    Replaced them way before they were worn out, back to the specialized, and I have an extra 2-4 tires in my parts pile for the next time. The casing is just a lot tougher. I know bontrager has heavier casings in other tires, but I’m sticking with what has worked.

    And now that I’ve said all that, I’m gonna get a pinch the next time I go out and it’s gonna be your fault ;)












  • Don’t see my issue in the comments, hopefully this isn’t a duplicate. I’m on iOS, 18.3, this problem has been ongoing for a while tho. When I open a linked page, it opens correctly but then after a short time, perhaps a second or two, the in-app browser locks up. I can open in safari and that works fine.

    Aside from that, Apollo refugee here. 👋



  • Seems fairly straightforward. The car is ahead of the motorcycle, so the bike should give way. Of course, he won’t, and he’s in the car’s blind spot, so he’ll get angry and break the car’s passenger side mirror in passing. The car driver having no clue, will get angry in turn, and swerve into the biker, and they’ll both crash. The car behind them will catch the whole thing on dashcam and post it on Facebook, asking, “who’s at fault here?”

    People will blame the guy on the bicycle.