Thanks for the info! The current model seems to come with 38c tires. I saw there’s very little variety in the 451 diameter and most are 28c. I’m thinking that if I end up needing wider tires and there’s nothing available, I could replace the wheelset with 406. Since it’s using disc brakes that should work fine. I was considering converting the front of a Link D8 to disc but it seems like 20" disc forks are much harder to find than 406 disc wheels. Have you looked into a front rack? Is it Taiwan-made or PRC-made?
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My XT is quiet with original pads on a Mavic rim, currently operating at the rear of another bike, but I think Rim Wrangler (Avid) is better. Those pads have always been fire no matter the brake or rim.
As for disc, ironically the metal pads from Shimano are silent for me while the mixed/resin howled.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•'An Act of Retaliation': EPA Suspends 140+ Employees for Signing 'Declaration of Dissent' | Common Dreams4·8 hours agoThat’s not good because they should be a major speed bump on the road to fascism.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Usenet@lemmy.world•Drunken slug is currently in open registrationEnglish3·10 hours agoYes, DS is an indexer. I recall looking at some wiki for a provider. I’m using Frugal news for provider.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•China tells EU it can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine, official saysEnglish2·15 hours agoThe US has been the biggest long term enemy to the working populations of the world since the end of the WWII, including its own. Throw a pin on the map, and you’re likely to hit a place that’s been affected by a war started or fought by the US, or a place where the US has had a hand in destroying worker power in order to for American business to extract resources and labour for cheap, or a sanctioned place where working people are made to suffer in order to overthrow their government, or a combination thereof.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•China tells EU it can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine, official saysEnglish9·15 hours agoIf this information is true and the Chinese officials weren’t bullshitting, then leaking this doesn’t sound like a good move on the European official end.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato World News@lemmy.world•China tells EU it can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine, official saysEnglish4·15 hours agoDoesn’t their economy have a way bigger production capacity than Russia’s? Why would they want to replicate Russia’s? China seems much more successful at manufacturing at scale.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Usenet@lemmy.world•Drunken slug is currently in open registrationEnglish31·15 hours agoIt’s good. I hadn’t used Usenet until last year. You need a provider and an indexer. The provider is like an ISP that gives you access to Usenet. The indexer is like a search engine that tells you where in Usenet you can find this or that.
It works very well for new content with the arr stack. They do take things down via DMCA, but by the time things are taken down, your arr stack has grabbed what it needed. And it even though things are taken down, most of the content is still available.
You can use Usenet and torrent together in your arr stack as redundant sources.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•'An Act of Retaliation': EPA Suspends 140+ Employees for Signing 'Declaration of Dissent' | Common Dreams38·1 day agoIsn’t some of this an indictment of the federal worker unions? Shouldn’t the federal gov’t been ground to a halt by cross-agency strikes by now? What’s the unions’ strategy here?
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•‘It Was Horrific’: Radar Festival Speaks Out on Bob Vylan Cancellation16·1 day agoI see Live Nation is expanding in Europe. Get ready for ticket prices to skyrocket.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Your smart bulbs record 78% of conversations even when you think they're offEnglish8·1 day agoUse low power radio like ZigBee or Z-Wave, exclusively, unless you have a good reason to trust the device.
*It fell in the ocean a week after I bought it. Because I’m an idiot.
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Thanks for the musings!
I looked at Bike Friday and they look really nice for travelling, fold-travel-unfold-ride. They only one that looks appropriate for frequent folding on the train during daily commute seems to be the pakIT. I’d definitely go for that instead of a Brompton for a 16" bike in that price range. Seems like they don’t make the Tikit anymore. It looks like the best commuter folder they’ve had.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Young Europeans losing faith in democracy, poll finds1·1 day agoThat would make the situation even worse by reducing the pool the rich have to buy to get the majority to contribute to their wealth even more. The problems we face with democracy aren’t driven by poor education. Poor education is a component but it’s a consequence of the main driver which is accumulation of wealth in few hands. Those use that wealth to keep it and accumulate more by buying elected officials, buying campaigns, running their own people, buying the media, defunding the education system that educates the majority, etc. Reducing the voting power of the majority would make this cheaper to do for the owner class, which would lead to increased exploitation and decrease in the living standards of the majority. Eventually leading to social unrest of some sort. Instead you want to introduce more democratic power for the majority, especially where the generated wealth is separated from them - in the workplace. If you get democracy in the work place, the workers would likely vote to keep more of the value they produce, leaving less to accumulate as wealth in the owner class. Leaving less money to buy elected representatives with the owners and more money with workers to buy political representation of their own.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Linux@lemmy.ml•Linux distro/setup best at not crashing from sleep/wake?3·2 days agoNo issues with Debian / Ubuntu on many laptops since early 2010s, mostly with Intel graphics. I had a Vostro 1400 with Nvidia and it also resumed fine, but that was 2009-11 so the experience with the Nvidia driver from that time is likely irrelevant.
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Bob Dylan sang about the death of the Masters of War in Glastonbury in 19982·2 days agoI think if Vylan also said death to Hamas in the same sentence, they’d have defused the backlash. Zionists would have had really hard time untangling that one to make a big deal out of it. 😂
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•71% of Americans say the US should spend more on "assistance to the poor". But if you use the word "welfare" that number drops to 30%4·2 days agoWhich is to say that the lesson is that most people are idiots and have no idea what’s going on in the world.
Not that the information channels that inform them blast high-octane corporate-friendly propaganda since childhood, leaving no attention for any other perspectives?
Got it and fully agree on the state of V-brakes. I used a pair of XTs on a cyclocross frame until a few years, with compressionless housing and all that and they were brilliant, apart from the modulation.
Funnily I’m looking at the D9 specifically instead of the higher end models, because it comes with a steel fork, which isn’t subject to fatigue cracks. Forks tend to bend a lot when braking, which happens often, and I’m afraid might accelerate the ageing of the aluminum.
Any other recommendations for folders, or thoughts?
There’s nothing that could possibly go wrong with this strategy. 😂
Avid Amoeba@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•MAGA mom was taken by ICE, but her husband refuses to stop flying Trump flag: ‘We understand what he’s doing’3·2 days agoOoh, so Iran is also involved in this one.
What’s the country of origin on it?