[06:36] <Scary_Guy> Late to the party, but I did spend all weekend at City Club.
[06:36] <Scary_Guy> Well, every night at least, except tonight.
[13:15] <cmaloney> sheee
[13:15] <cmaloney> wheeee
[13:18] <rick_h> party
[13:26] <cmaloney> wheeee!!!!
[14:14] <jrwren> ah, to be 20yo again. I did a lot of all weekend at city club when I was young
[14:16] <rick_h> jrwren:  lol
[14:25] <wolfger> Is City Club still around?
[14:25] <jrwren> yes, a shadow of what it once was.
[14:59] <cmaloney> Did they forget to pay the light bill?
[14:59] <cmaloney> (something something shadow)
[15:00] <jrwren> it was always pretty dark
[18:13] <mrgoodcat> rick_h: you ever use ergo grips on your mtb?
[18:16] <rick_h> mrgoodcat:  ergon?
[18:16] <rick_h> mrgoodcat:  yea, I tried a bunch. I've ended up going revgrips
[18:20] <mrgoodcat> i didn't mean ergon specifically, but ergonomic in general
[18:21] <mrgoodcat> although the pair i'm looking at is ergon
[18:21] <mrgoodcat> i'm having some issues with numbness in my right pinky, so i'm looking into what i can do to help that. also switching up my kb at work
[18:21] <rick_h> yea, the ge1 are really popular
[18:21] <mrgoodcat> ge1 is what i'm looking at
[18:22] <rick_h> I might have a set in the garage, have to check
[18:22] <mrgoodcat> why did you switch?
[18:23] <rick_h> the ergon were better than the ones I had before but I found I still had some wrist issues
[18:23] <rick_h> at that point it was like my 4th grip and I went all in on revgrips and haven't looked back
[18:23] <mrgoodcat> interesting the revgrips aren't shaped. "suspension" grips...
[18:23] <mrgoodcat> i've never seen anything like that
[18:23] <rick_h> but folks really have a big preference, small/firm, bigger, softer, etc
[18:24] <rick_h> sucks to just have to try and see what you like/works for you
[18:24] <mrgoodcat> wew i thought ergon was expensive
[18:26] <rick_h> yea, it's why it was put off a bit. Hard to test drive them
[18:26] <mrgoodcat> this looks like a very interesting idea
[18:26] <rick_h> anyway, feel free to swing by sometime and try out the ergon and see how the revgrips feel
[18:27] <mrgoodcat> where is "swing by"? i assume since you do royal oak chc it must be decently close?
[18:27] <rick_h> meh, exit 89 off I75
[18:27] <mrgoodcat> clarkston iirc?
[18:27] <rick_h> yea
[18:28] <rick_h> go ride pontiac lake sometime :)
[18:28] <mrgoodcat> PL is great this year
[18:28] <mrgoodcat> the cycletherapy folks have been putting in a ton of trail days
[18:28] <rick_h> nice
[18:30] <mrgoodcat> well i might have to drop by and at least feel those revgrips if i'm in that area sometime. my lbs is an ergon dealer so thats a little easier for me haha
[18:38]  * cmaloney mumbles a joke about dropping by to give a drip a squeeze.
[19:20]  * mrgoodcat chuckles quietly
[20:10] <mrgoodcat> rick_h: do i remember correctly that at one point you were selling a santa cruz? if so did it ever sell?
[20:11] <rick_h> mrgoodcat:  I was looking into it. Never did sell it. My wife rides it now.
[20:11] <rick_h> mrgoodcat:  she's looking at getting a full squish this fall when the deals kick in hopefully
[20:11] <mrgoodcat> so am i actually
[20:12] <rick_h> nice
[20:12] <mrgoodcat> i have a trek stache right now which i love, but its still a hardtail despite the oversize tires
[20:13] <rick_h> yea, she's been renting a bike at places we go while I ride mine and she's sold on the idea of a bike to do it all
[20:13] <mrgoodcat> how squishy is she going? i'm looking in the 130 range probably
[20:14] <rick_h> yea, probably the same. Mine is 130 rear with overforked 150 front and we just got back from Blue Mountain bike park in Ontario
[20:14] <rick_h> that 130 I've had from North Carolina, black mountain trail, to oregon alpine trail, and down to south africa and it's gotten me up and down it all
[20:14] <mrgoodcat> i've been renting DH bikes at the parks. I'm not going to get anything that travels that far though
[20:15] <rick_h> oh yea, for sure. my next bike might be in the 140-145 range but part of that is my size/heft and I want to go coil in the rear
[20:15] <mrgoodcat> too hard to get uphill for anything over 140
[20:15] <rick_h> maybe 130-140 if I go 29er
[20:15] <mrgoodcat> why coil?
[20:15] <rick_h> Yea, definitely pay a price.
[20:16] <rick_h> so with my size coil provides a better starting point. I don't have to jack air pressure up so hard
[20:16] <rick_h> I have to run my dpx2 around 230+ psi
[20:16] <rick_h> which is just too far outside the normal range. It can be a bit too much of a rock on smaller stuff
[20:16] <rick_h> coil you can adapt the spring and get to a good starting point. I put a coil up front and love it
[20:17] <mrgoodcat> only coil i've ridden is DH bikes in CO
[20:17] <rick_h> but if I did a coil in the rear I'd have to go the mrp progressive coil and the 2" of actual travel just isn't much for it to work with in the shock
[20:17] <mrgoodcat> a giant something-or-other with a coil last year
[20:17] <rick_h> Yea, giant bikes aren't great though. My wife's now rented 3 and she'd rather ride mine all day long
[20:18] <mrgoodcat> i just ordered an mrp ramp control cart for my fork
[20:18] <rick_h> it's a nice setup