RideEverything said:
Why the steepest head angle adjustment for riding in the Bike Park?
I went back to Whistler again this weekend. I think that makes 5 trips and 8 days riding. Still loving the DT.
I went to the slackest HA, despite worries about manueverability issues. I would say it is even more manueverable than before with the lower CG. Much better than extending the fork (probably since the long travel setting lengthens the WB without lowering the CG) . Even in the tight stuff it did fine. I did back to back tests on Angry Pirate, and it felt so nice in both settings. On the jumps it was just as nice as before, and on the berms it was much better in the slack setting. To test the manuverability even more I tried my hand at Crack Addict and only bounced off one tree!
The Alfine hub is still holding up. I have noticed a bit of creep on the shifter. If it gets out of whack (the yellow tabs need to line up in 4th gear) it will skip on you under power. I had to adjust it twice this weekend (just a twist of the cable adjust). I don't remember this happening before, and it may be a result of the crash. The 4th gear position is now off center on the gear window, even though its 4 clicks up from 1.
For the first time I had a problem with one of the bike shops up at Whistler. I had a stripped bolt on the caliper, so couldn't change my front brake pads without having someone drill it out. They said it would 'just take a few minutes' and he could get to it between other work, it would be about 30 min, and he wondered if I wanted him to 'throw in' the pads while he was at it, I said sure and said he could charge me a few bucks for his time. I got a bite at Cittas and returned to find disaster. They replaced the
rear pads (which were only 3 weeks old), threw away the perfectly good bolt on the rear caliper, and did nothing to fix the front. 3 hours later, I had used pads on the front, and air leak (no bleed), and crappy spilt spring things, instead of bolts in both my calipers. And as a bonus, they charged me 50 bucks, cash only, and that included the 15% discount. They tried to say the 15% discount was for the bother they caused me, but there were 15% discount signs posted all over the shop. After I returned from the ATM, it became a 20% discount. Gee thanks guys, so I am supposed to thank you for messing up the repair, spending 6 times as long as promised and costing 3 times as much, and lieing about my own personal 15% discount for my troubles?
I am going to stick to Fanatiko and Summit from here on. So much for trying to give business to a newer shop.