My answer would be no. I did that one time, to an entry level full suspension bike. Absolutely ate crow when it came time to sell, at the end of it all I was out a pile of money and the bike was still pretty mediocre. Save your money for a more complete package. This bike will still do you just fine for quite a while yet I imagine too.
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GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Alberta@lemmy.ca•Alberta independence group received highest individual donations in 20241·6 days agoHopefully enough of them!
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Your Rock Concerts RecommendationsEnglish1·10 days agoHeck all of the MTV Unplugged shows were great. This one especially though
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•skate. from EA coming soon on Steam in EA [Early Access]English6·14 days agoShe said see you later boi
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Alberta@lemmy.ca•Advanced technology leads to fewer traffic jams in Calgary4·14 days agoThis is a joke. The light situation in this city is abysmal, down in the SE we have intersections that are jammed because left turn lanes are so backed up thanks to four second long advanced lefts.
The bottom paragraph especially. It’s a terrible idea honestly. It’s better to learn how the bike should run, and what to watch for, before you need to actually watch for it and wrestle with it.
This is kind of screaming Honda CRF300LS. Low seat, it’s super easy to ride, great learners bike. Throw a set of wrap around handguards on there when you buy it, and you can drop it all day without really much consequence. They aren’t all that expensive, and pretty low maintenance. Dual sports make great learning bikes too, they are super approachable, let you make all the mistakes with lower consequences, and you can literally take that bike just about anywhere. It’ll do 55mph no prob, I’m pretty sure you can get those things going 70-80mph. They ain’t built for highway comfort, but they make a great around town bike. You can even get a little rack for the back.
Take a course, it’s invaluable, especially when you are learning. Otherwise you’ll spend the first year struggling.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090English22·17 days agoSo is AMD with their availability of literally three video cards in stock for all of North America at launch. Which in turn just fuels the scalpers. Downvote this all you want guys, AMD is just as complicit in all of this, they’ve fuelled this bullshit just as much.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Toronto Maple Leafs@lemmy.ca•Legendary Maple Leafs broadcaster Joe Bowen announces he will retire following 2025-26 seasonEnglish3·17 days agoHey this would be the year to do it. Get it done. Holy frickin mackinawwwww
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Alberta@lemmy.ca•Alberta to Explore Injecting Oilsands Tailings Underground4·17 days agoNah shit we’ll use it for our COVID vaccines for next year. Why not? I mean science and facts are totally out the window anyways
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Alberta@lemmy.ca•Albertans to start paying for COVID-19 vaccines after province changes immunization program3·17 days agoI love how they are suddenly quoting the CDC, now that their apostle Robert Kennedy Jr and his brain worm run the show.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Alberta@lemmy.ca•Albertans to start paying for COVID-19 vaccines after province changes immunization program3·17 days agoYou’ll find low rent trailer trash breed like spider monkeys. There’s lots of decent folks in Alberta, just massively outnumbered by hillbilly, Dodge Ram driving, grade 6 dropouts. Won’t somebuddah just THINK about mah oil, etc. etc.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Alberta@lemmy.ca•Albertans to start paying for COVID-19 vaccines after province changes immunization program1·17 days agoIt’ll be like the Turkish tylenol, all Bayer or whoever makes Moderna will need to do is buy the UCP a Game 7 suite, and it’ll be monnnneey in the bank. And we’ll be paying 110 to probably shoot saline into our arms, knowing the accountability track record this government has.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Hockey@lemmy.ca•[Strickland] Can confirm Mitch Marner will not be returning to Toronto. Will be playing for a new team come next season.3·17 days agoGood luck Mitchy! A fresh start is in everyone’s best interests here. It’s going to light a fire under his ass too.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca•Today I learned that the "KNIGHTS" scene from Shrek 2, the scene parodying the 'COPS' TV show, was based off of the car chase with OJ Simpson in 1994, where he fled the scene in a white Ford Bronco.5·17 days agoI showed my son that chase the other day, and lol he was like why is everyone driving so slow, is that because they are old cars?
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•AMD quietly launches a budget gaming beast — AM4 is alive and kicking with the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, but it has limited availabilityEnglish1·17 days agoIf you could happen to fall into a 5800x or a 5800x3d for a decent price (getting harder to find I’m sure), I’d skip the upgrades and AM5. It doesn’t look like it’s going to go the distance like AM4 did, there’s already AM6 talk going on for 2027. There’s very little real world actual advantage to AM5 vs 4, it’s just largely more anti-consumer behaviour and marketing from PC chipmakers.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•AMD quietly launches a budget gaming beast — AM4 is alive and kicking with the Ryzen 5 5500X3D, but it has limited availabilityEnglish2·17 days agoMaybe to their inventory department too, because let’s be frank, that’s what AMDs downfall really will be. Every product launch for them is now a faux launch, because no one can get their hands on the hardware. It’s not quite as bad for the processors, but their GPUs? Forgeddaboutit.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090English4·17 days agoThat last one is especially horrifying. You don’t own games when you cloud game, you simply lease them. We all know what that’s done for the preservation of games. Not to mention encouraging the massive amounts of shovel ware that we get flooded with.
GrindingGears@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Gamers Are Reportedly Skipping GPU Upgrades Due to Soaring Prices — Paying Bills Takes Priority Over Chasing NVIDIA’s RTX 5090English9·17 days agoProblem is preordering has been normalized, as has releasing games in pre-alpha state.
I’m so over this AI nonsense. I use AI as a barometer at work, in that the more they talk about AI, the more I know they are adding fuck all to the organization and aren’t actually doing any work.