The Just Riding Along Show – Details, episodes & analysis

Host Nuggets:

• Matt: "Last Gravel Bike" 
• Andrea: Elk prep, Chicken Nugget
• Kenny: Golf, Oktoberfest, Sold some motos

Listener Questions:

• Who are you people?!?
• What's up with the Low Speed Compression adjustment on my RockShox Lyrik?
• How should I lighten my REEB SST for a 200+ mile race?
• Does Esker stop making full suspension bikes?

New Shit:

• Partington $6,400 R31 Climbing Road Wheels
• Greg Minnar to retire from DH racing

Host News:

• Rover Rally
• Bed Success (mostly)

New Shit:

• RedSide Fork Seal Remover
• Pademelon Steering Damper
• Forager Cycles Adam's H.A.T. trailside Derailleur Hanger Alignment Tool
• Full On Lighting MBG 6000 lumen bike light
• Merit Jumbo 750d Gravel Bike
• Fox Transfer Neo Wireless Dropper Post

Listener Questions:

• Clipless vs. Flats- When is one better than the other?
• Strength Training along with other sports

This week, Matt and Kenny dropped money on new motos, Matt rode in another trials competition, and Andrea finally made it out on her bike. 

New Shit:

• Senator Mike Lee makes a 4th try at restoring bike access to Wilderness Areas
• GT Bikes starts online revenue share program for IBDs
• DT Swiss releases new wheels that make Kenny angry

Specialized Chisel Full Suspension

Listener Questions:

• Wool jersey suggestion
• Should I upgrade to remote lockout suspension? 

Andrea is in the field, Kenny and Matt are on the microphones. Kenny has been riding bikes, Matt has been riding motorcycles (what the wut), there is a ton of rumor mill stuff buzzing about so the dudes do a deep dive on speculating some new stuff that is coming out.

New Shit that may or may not be hated:

• Hed Jet 180mm Deep Wheel
• Raceface Turbine Cranks Updated
• Saris Trainers Updated
• Mongoose MotoMag Wheels Re-released
• Shand Ioma super slack hardtail is dropped.

Listener Questions:

• Yeah nah not really this week.

Just the boys again this week while Andrea is still in the field. Matt and Kenny talk new rims, saddles, trail angle, and a bit of rambling and ranting as usual

New Shit that may or may not be hated:

• Cervelo Soloist
• Blacksheep Bars
• Bontrager Verse Short Saddle
• AbsoluteBlack Graphene brake pads
• iPhone 14 SOS Feature

Listener Questions:

• Stumpy bash gaurd mounting question

This week is just the boyz, Andrea is out hunting. Matt and Kenny talk their disdain for folks with huge vans and no room for toys inside, discuss some trail use and listener question stuff, and get into a long discussion about how kit in a box just isn't the right fit most of the time.

New Shit that isn't hated:

• SRAM Eagle AXS SL
• SRAM Rival Wants
• Zwift Trainer

Listener Questions:

• AXS Battery Tricks
• Salida Trail Advice

This week has everything, yes yes yes yes. We have hot boi summer attire to file away for 2023, Kenny's story of the expensive smash and grab at a store, and Andrea's hot shock season closer on Greens Creek.

New Shit that isn't hated:

• NOBL TR35 wheels

Listener Questions:

• How to get kids outside (with a huge derailment)
• How to pack your bike to bikepack (say that 5 times fast)
• Can we photo gnarly terrain

This week, Matt goes KOM hunting on the world's best (worst?) singlespeed, Andrea rides a new trail and gets shit out by rock chucks, and Kenny got rained on while doing his moto thing. 

New Shit: 

• New SRAM drivetrain "spy shots" (with emphasis on the " ") 
• EMRG Fork offset adjusting headset
• Matt tries oval chainrings

Listener Questions:

• A listener with a broken wheel needs to borrow something
• What's the deal with Shimano parts availability? 
• How to prevent frame bag rub
• How to prevent hand rub at the bike park

This week, Matt talks about the long and thick ESI XXL grips, Andrea sold some chickens, and Kenny has been doing the usual moto stuff. Andrea finally rode a scary part of a trail that's eluded her for over a year, and had another sucessful deer & elk scouting trip. 

Literally the most interesting new shit this week was a new Quad Lock mount. That's it. 

Listener Questions:

• The best follow-up ever (spoiler- it involves buttholes)
• Hammocks? 
• Why does Matt need a cross country bike?
• How do you figure out handlebar height/stem length/seat angle
• Could you make a Dirty Sixer into a full suspension mountian bike?

This week, enjoy the sweet background noises of our hosts- crickets for Andrea & Matt, and some dude lapping Kenny's neighborhood on a Harley. 

The crew begins this episode with a discussion about the best frozen pizza. Matt played helper and hiked a 14er, Andrea discusses chicken processing, and Kenny did moto stuff. Find out what made Andrea cry on Wednesday. She also gives an update on her adventures in riding the low bottom bracket setting on the new Mayhem. There's some good tire talk as well, as Andrea has a new rear tire to install, and Kenny gives his co-hosts the one tire challenge. 

New Shit: 

• Bryton S800 GPS Computer
• Bontrager crazy light wheels

Listener Questions and Conversations:

• History of G2 Geometry
• Advice on purchasing a new bike
• How to fix brakes that got all fucky after the bike park