I bought a 2012 year model during Covid with my stimulus check. It’s still running single speed and I swap between flat and drop bars. It was my first mountain bike and has since become my dedicated bike packing rig

I have a ebike and its true, ebikes make the body weak. I am now training to get up to the level I was at and even try to be faster than my friends I ride with. I will keep telling them that im still wark and then out pase them on the most difficult climb we ride weekly.

This isn't mount tam - it's tamarancho

Not one for disc brakes or "too much" anodized color matching but that's a nice balance and a nice bike.

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Out of curiosity, what do you add to your bottles other than water? What do you eat when you ride?

Food companies make food addicting you say. Think about this...Phillip Morris (largest Cigarette producer in the US) owns Kraft, General Foods, Nabisco, and others. You think they care about your health? Do you think they try and make foods addicting? I wouldn't be surprised if the cigarette companies are not linked to big pharma.

Larry Wheels, one of the strongest power lifters out there, did the same, no surgery and came back 100 %. Just fyi

Now that bike, Japhy is my ideal dream Hard Tail MTB. Looking forward to owning one like that one .

Looks like such a cool bike only path. Is easy to get around LA using those.

Totally agree with you on this. Go on any forum online and there's a lot of bragging about using big gears for singlespeed, i wonder if those people actually ride anything other than flat easy trails. The supposed default of 52" is way too high imo. I have gone as low as 36" with great success.(28t x 22t x 27.5" x2.8"). Able to manage long hilly rides in winter without problems other than i have to freewheel most descents and it can feel a bit silly spinning such a low gear to get to the trailhead. The real answer like most things is it depends and whatever works for you.

You're right, WI Torch Hubs do spin well, my wheel spins just like yours. But what I have come to realize is I like the silence of my ONYX Vesper hubs even more. The ONYX hubs have some drag though which I haven't been able to adjust out. But the silence is golden so I don't care too much about that little bit of drag. White Industries was suppose to release those chainrings in a silver finish from what the Rep at the Made Show booth said last year. They still have not done that. The bike they had on display had silver chainrings. I want one of those cranksets but I won't buy it if I have to go with black chainrings. I'm sick of the boring black look on nearly all components these days.

I'm currently using 26x2.5 tires and 34-19t ratio in my Evil Sovereign. A lil bit too high. But for some mild ascending (average 5-10 degree) and 20-25 km riding with 500-600m of elevation gain, i think it's good enough for me.

Great points! It is key to keep yourself sharp. I love the motivation and perspectives you offer about life and single speeding.

Love it, I push myself also

Nice. Cool you had that seven so long. Those early aluminum bikes kicked my ass.

very cool. I believe you have Hadley and Onyx hubs to! do yo prefer one for single speed?

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Great vid. I needed to know about these bars. The You-Tube commercials for boner pills were not so much appreciated...Time to search for another platform...

I recently bought a single speed mtb, but it takes too much effort while riding it, the disk rotor is not rubbing though. Have any suggestion???

Mai tai's?

True, expensive hobbies for Americans. Other countries have different perspectives and different expense hobbies. The most expensive international hobby is race cars or yachts, perhaps.

Same, hardly ever get TL flats. But this season I've had 2 pinch flats & yes the bead is toast. Damn it! Always ran the same tire pressure, I must be gaining weight, so I guess I need to add more psi.

Very expensive! Modern bikes are toys for the people with money! I can build me a tracklocross bike,for like 10% of the price of the reviewed bike here! Or even the so called gravel bike! That Seven is a beautiful bike though 😊 Greetings from Croatia 😎

Thanks for the video(s). My surgeon did a tenodesis after repairing a type IV SLAP tear on 9/1/23. After a ton of rehab, it ruptured on 4/17/24 (7.5 months later). Surgeon said it was rare to tear and only happens in 10% of patients, but he would repair again but my odds of it happening again would increase to 20%. Well, I had it done again on 5/17/24 and followed all the rehab and protocol until today, 10 weeks in when I did something stupid without thinking and it ruptured again. I'm seriously thinking of leaving it as is thanks to hearing of your journey. Like in your first video, vanity and the thought of not being 100% was a mental motivation for the first and second surgeries. But at some point, enough is enough. So thank you for sharing your journey. For anyone who does the surgery, I strongly recommend using a sling if you are ever attempting a suitcase lift or schlepping luggage through an airport. Your body feels like it's healed so you don't think until it's too late.

Anything more than 45c is a overkill for gravel bike. Don't do it. If people want bigger tires just buy a mountain bike.

Don't get some of your comments about Ti. There is very little weight difference between most Chinese titanium frames and a steel frame. Even your Seven, unless you go to the most expensive and multi-butted frame, is about 1600 grams - about the same weight as a high end steel build. That seven is about 5K for the frame and fork and the higher end Titanium can get you to the 1200 gram weight but that comes at a high cost - the seven is $7K. Rob English can do that with steel as well. And Seven does not make their own Titanium tubes, but butts and manipulates their tubes to their desire. Titanium is a great material. Great feel and really easy to take care of, but it is not nearly as light as Carbon or as Cheap as steel but offers a unique ride that is special.

Ur Garmin not being centered is triggering my OCD Just bought my first bike at the 10k$ USD price point I considered Ti but ended up going carbon fiber mostly because I wasn't patient enough to wait for it to get built 😅

That's a lot of spacers on the steerer. I hope that's not more than 40mm. If so you risk injury AND your warranty is invalid.

Yeah, let’s us know if the Berds make a real difference.

I like the set up , thank you sir

why dont you use a camelback in your backpack?

Looks great yes . Nice 😊

whats the difference between this and a big wheel BMX bike?

How long was your physical therapy?

I do like the rigid for for its efficiency & sharp steering.

How much time did you take off before you got back into lifting and Did you experience any nerve pain?

there are some 29x2.4 tires now that weigh the same as 29x2.6 in similar casing. 27.5x3.0 XR2 for life.

my favorite kind of bike, and pn a hardtail

Definitely a fair perspective! It makes sense to me to have a normal bike for days where you feel fresh/recovered and an e-bike for days where you still want to ride, but your body isn't recovered yet. Beats sitting around wishing you were out on the trails!

What gearing are you running on your SS?

I stick to my 29x2.20 and wider tires my widest so far are 29x2.40 tires i love swap tires when they are done for something that works better for me.

I have only ridden xc hardtails so far most with suspension fork some rigid

I agree with your sentiments. Don't know if you realised the wind noise makes it hard to hear on this.

Sorry I’m late. I don’t think it’s a black diamond trail. It’s more an intermediate trial. Solid Blue. Near my area: Oak Park suicide trail is a single black diamond. Simi: Hummingbird is single black. The other 2 are double black. The double black move the sphincter muscles. The single black you just get an adrenaline rush.

I have a 27.5+ ride it 2 or 3 times a week

I tried cushcore with a Rekon plus tire in the rear. Just made the bike unbalance and approx .5 pound heavy. I ended up bending the wheel. Ended up getting rid of that and putting some meatier tires XR4. I got them for 50$ at Trek. That trail looks like Brown mountain. I love going down El P.

Unfortunate how distribution on good 27.5+ tires has gone off a cliff where I'm from. One will have to order from overseas.

I own 2 plus bikes a Chameleon and a RSD middle child. I enjoy the handling of the smaller wheel setup and the comfort of using lower pressure tires. I never tried 29er but imagine with the bigger wheels and longer wheelbase it won’t handle like the smaller wheels but will be more efficient etc.

Maybe it’s a design update but my R45D CK hubs don’t require me to remove the preload clamp when removing rotors. Just using regular external toothed lockrings. From memory internal toothed lockrings wouldn’t work though.