Water, Water Everywhere… – Bike Snob NYC

Staying hydrated:

[The AI’s take on “Ordinary schmuck enjoying a cool drink of water on a hot day.”]

Since time immemorial, man has slaked his thirst by placing a crude admixture consisting of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom inside him. At first, within the caveman days, he’d occur upon a stream, cup his fingers, and gulp, typically beneath the watchful gaze of a rooster:

[From here.]

Ultimately he discovered the consuming vessel:

After which the straw so he wouldn’t must put his lips on the vessel:

[From here.]

And from there we had been off to the races:

Actually:

Even so, as we speak the act of consuming stays frustratingly primitive, and should you’re like me you’ve usually thought to your self, “If solely there have been a cellphone app and an costly piece of apparatus to assist me accomplish this.” Properly lastly humanity has reached the subsequent lengthy overdue part in beverage consumption. Behold, the backpack that drinks for you!

I checked the date of this text at the least fifteen occasions, and each time I used to be astonished to seek out it was not April 1st:

Right here’s a better take a look at the system:

Pinkbike actually appears to love this factor, too:

So does this verify what many people have lengthy suspected, that mountain bikers are actually too dumb to drink?

It might definitely seem so:

I imply try the video, it actually squirts the water at your face:

So principally it’s the precise reverse of that factor on the dentist that sucks the saliva out of your mouth. What occurs should you’re in the midst of speaking to a pal or one thing when it’s time to your subsequent drink? Does it simply blow its load in your face? Is there some form of emergency cut-off, or are we about to see a spate of on-the-bike drowning deaths among the many helmet-visor-and-baggy-short set? No thought, however for beneath $500 you can also get in on the recent new water microdosing pattern:

Talking of mountain bikes, I rode a motorcycle with a suspension fork yesterday:

After spending a lot time on the Roadini which will get its clean experience the pure manner (lengthy wheelbase and large tires) the Y-Foil felt form of bizarre and disjointed, although pleasant nonetheless. By the way in which, the crown race and the headset aren’t an ideal match, and whereas they work collectively simply high quality there’s a tiny hole there that leaves the bearings barely uncovered. So to spare them from grit I put in this high-tech machine, which appeared applicable for a classic RockShox product:

It’s like a headscarf for the top tube, and it provides the bike just a little sporty late twentieth century aptitude:

In the meantime, again right here within the twenty first century, Mission 105 strikes incrementally ahead:

After all, the Milwaukee takes medium-reach brakes, and Shimano 105 solely is available in brief. I had simply deliberate to maintain utilizing the brakes that had been already on there, however I used to be pleasantly shocked to seek out that Ben’s Cycle included these:

I’ll after all be holding onto the originals although:

Not solely are they wonderful, however I don’t assume Shimano even makes this mannequin anymore, so now that medium-reach highway bikes are the brand new gravel bike it’s solely a matter of time earlier than their worth goes by the roof.

And should you assume the brand new components make for an excessive amount of black, I get it, however by no means query my dedication to silver. For that matter, by no means query my dedication to adequacy, as a result of other than the brakes this factor is 105 proper all the way down to the hubs!