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  • I recently switched off of click valves.

    They’re are incredible for everyday cycling AND if you use a floor pump.

    They are terrible with hand pumps. Here’s why: with presta valve the pump head usually grips onto the valve stem (not the valve core). With a click valve, you only use the exposed click core.

    It can break off when you’re trying to hand pump a tire in the field. If you use a battery powered pump (as is all the rage these days) click valves are great. If you use an hand pump, it’s very easy to break the clik valve in half. A ruined ride is how I discovered this.

    If it happens to you, you can rip out the spring and pin and use a t-10 driver, tapped into the remain part of the clik valve core to remove it from the valve stem.

    I went back to presta.

    While the problems clik fixes are real, and it’s a joy most of the time, in my opinion the failure mode is so much worse.

    I was about to outfit 12 bikes with clik when this happened to me. Saved me some money and possibly a lot of pain. Long rides with hand pumps are my jam.

    Clik is still a great option for a lot of cyclists.


  • I have the same kit and it’s pretty great for all Shimano-style bleeding (shimano, tektro, TRP and more).

    OP if you have a modern SRAM brakes with a bleeding edge port, their bleeding edge tool is a godsend and you can buy it independently of their full bleed kits (and use it with this ez-MTB kit).

    I don’t have experience with Hayes, Hope or Magura brakes.





  • Even just getting to a serial console (the limit of current functionality after this merge) is a huge step to making sure Apple’s hardware can be yours well after they stop supporting it.

    I’ve tried Asahi on my M1 and it’s excellent as long as you go into it knowing the limitations and how they might affect your personal use cases/requirements.

    My daily driver is a Linux workstation which was borne out of needing a multi-monitor setup and my MacBook Air only supporting a single external display. I repurposed my Linux gaming rig into a work machine two years ago and haven’t looked back.

    It’s been such a positive experience my next work laptop will likely be a linux laptop, even if I have to give up some battery life to get there.

    The gap on user experience is closing fast with all the fumbles Apple’s been making in their increasingly iOS-like experience across all their OSes. Not to mentioned the incredible improvements in a number of popular desktop environments.

    Currently the only applications that are MacOS-only for me are Logic Pro (I do use bigwig and Ardour on Linux but 25 years of muscle memory, project files, and sunk costs in hardware and software are hard to overlook) and Fusion 360 (I can’t get the very detailed and well-built Wine path to work for me).

    And if I can get a few of my key VST plugins to work on Linux, I can probably say goodbye to Apple forever.


  • I was a paying customer for over 10 years and it just got worse and worse. I quit several years ago and haven’t looked back.

    As it turns out, I love and I have always loved cycling and don’t need anyone else to see that.

    I’m not saying that anyone else should behave the same way, you do you, but it was so freeing to just ride for the love of riding. No more “600m of circles” to make it to 200k, no more kudos to every workday commute, just the open road (or trails) and the freedom it provides.

    Yes, I no longer race, but I do privately keep a record of my efforts and rides, but they’re now a side effect of the thing I love - not part of the focus.