MTB Podcast – Episode 29 – Making SRAM brakes better, cornering on loose over hard & more

MTB Podcast

Worldwide Cyclery

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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan is back from Canada (again)with some battle stories and embarrassing admissions, and Steven goes deep into how to make your SRAM brakes work better. Topics covered in this episode: • New Devinci Spartan • How to defend a trail from nerfing • Is it bad to clamp a work stand on a dropper post? • How much recovery is needed? • How to make your suspension smoother over roots • Ideal bike for Singletrack 6 or technical XC • What's the big deal with wide bars? • How to stop a thru axle from unthreading • What is Topical EDGE lotion? www.topicaledge.com • What should your first gear upgrade be? • How to corner in loose over hard conditions • Is training on an MTB on the trainer better than using a road bike? • Jonathan's Singletrack 6 experience • Are women's and men's shoes any different? • How to make your SRAM brakes feel better • Jonathan eats major crow :)

Transcript

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0:00.0	And the Hey everybody. Welcome to episode 29 of the Mountain Bike Podcast. I'm your host
0:19.6	Jonathan Lee with my co-host Stephen Lewis. What's man how are you doing well a little slow yeah both of us yeah yeah
0:26.8	kind of like what Jim Carey said about senior citizens in dumb and dumber if you've ever watched that one.
0:34.3	What is it?
0:35.3	I forget the line.
0:37.3	Senior Citizens, although slow and dangerous behind the wheel, do serve a purpose. That's me right now.
0:44.0	I'm concussed, I'm all messed up.
0:45.0	We'll talk about that later.
0:47.0	You get your jelly bean holder.
0:48.0	I did indeed.
0:50.0	Yes, the beans have been just splattered all over inside there.
0:53.2	So bear with us if this one's a little slow,
0:56.6	but we'll make it through.
0:58.8	This is the Mountain Bike Podcast, where we talk about mountain bikes.
1:01.2	You've been riding mountain bikes lately Stephen.
1:03.0	Yeah, here and there. A little bit.
1:05.0	How's the knee doing? It's doing better.
1:07.0	I took the cross bike out on a mountain bike ride.
1:10.0	Did some jagged bouldering and it was not good as one does of course yeah yeah so but it's good the
1:17.2	knees it's when I do stress it and stretch things out and wear it in do hard ride.
1:24.0	It was about two days of inflammation and two days of it just being sore
1:28.3	and now it's down to less than a day.
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