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Don’t worry Crag the Brewer Crag the Brewer , by the time I’d finished putting my groceries away the numbness and pain in my fingers was gone. But I tell ya for a few minutes they throbbed with easily a four on the out of ten pain scale. It totally sucks. But I got used to it over years and years of winter cycle commuting.
 
David Mary said:
Don’t worry Crag the Brewer Crag the Brewer , by the time I’d finished putting my groceries away the numbness and pain in my fingers was gone. But I tell ya for a few minutes they throbbed with easily a four on the out of ten pain scale. It totally sucks. But I got used to it over years and years of winter cycle commuting.
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I was Oogling your disk brakes!
I wish I had some, a few years ago I updated my bike. Bought a bunch of add on's
....New brake levers and shifters too. Only to see that my brakes suck.
It was dumb of me. Should of just kept it original
 
I have to take my bike for a tune up this spring. I skipped it last spring. The guys at Fontaine source for sports in Peterborough did a great job on it and it lasted two years. My rear brake pad is trashed though. So I’ve been all front brakes for the past few months. I’m not stunt riding so it’s fine. Front brakes are the most impoetant ones anyway.
 
I used to use my brakes both at the same time. Kept me from going over the front wheel 🛞 under the older geometry/brakes.
 
Hydraulic disks?? They seem to be about the standard for "good" bikes anymore. What the kids and I have. But! To me there is something to be said for the manual Avid disks...dead simple!! 🤩
 
Crag the Brewer said:
My caliper brakes just squeeze my rim....
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That used to work just fine before somebody decided that bicycles needed automotive technology. For what it’s worth, my wife and I bought a couple of ‘hybrid’ bikes a few years ago (ok, maybe more than a few, and at least that’s what they called the class that isn’t exactly a mountain bike or a road bike back then) which haven’t seen very many miles. But they have the those old fashioned rim brakes that, as I recall, were perfectly adequate. Unfortunately our bike rack mounts in a tow hitch receiver, which we haven’t had on a car in quite a few years; hence the bikes have been sitting in the shed with very flat tires for quite a few years. Now that I'm retired, I’m hoping to put a few miles on mine here around home when the weather gets a little more accommodating. Then maybe I’ll get around to installing a hitch on the car.
 
David Mary said:
Don’t worry Crag the Brewer Crag the Brewer , by the time I’d finished putting my groceries away the numbness and pain in my fingers was gone. But I tell ya for a few minutes they throbbed with easily a four on the out of ten pain scale. It totally sucks. But I got used to it over years and years of winter cycle commuting.
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Ever tried pogies? Made riding my fatbike a lot more comfy vs using ski gloves when I used to ride my cx bike for winter commuting and traing.
 
Disc brake pads are a pretty easy swab, especially if they're mechanical disc. Hydro aren't hard either asong as the fluid wasn't overfilled at some point.

Just make sure you get sintered pads. Organic/plastic foul up faster in the weather you ride in, in my experience. Sintered just work better too.

And I agree, for all weather riding, disc is really nice. Brake systems stays out of the slop the rims can get into. I still rock cantilever brakes on my winter road bike (sscx), but usually I use the fatbike when the chance to go actually arises.
 
Monday consisted of mostly unpacking all the MagnaCut blades and the AEB-L loose ends run blades. I got a "Bird & Shark" blade shape profiled on one of the EDC Universal 1 blanks, started some custom scales for an ROFR order that belongs to a gentleman who also has two MagnaCut deposits in, and got all the handle slabs of black Grip-Tec™ cut for the 16 knives from this batch going to Empire Outfitters. The plan at this time is to work on that order, while also mixing in onesies and twosies for other orders as well, such as the ones mentioned.
 
Gentleman is an honorable title.
 
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