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Palmer’s Peeves are too great to be bound by any one theme. Today, he revisits a classic complaint about lock-on grips, laments the arrival of 35-millimeter bars, whines about our industry’s poorly designed websites, and assures us that wheelbuilding is not an art. If you just don’t have enough squeaky wheels in your life, check Read More

In this installment of Palmer’s Peeves, our favorite malcontent takes aim at some of aggressive mountain biking’s most treasured tools. The practice of “overforking,” or installing longer-travel front suspension than a bike is intended for, is a practice that took hold long before we knew what we know about geometry. In simpler times when bikes Read More

It’s the little things, you know? Especially when we’re talking about Palmer’s Peeves. In this installment, Ryan Palmer takes aim at a few small grievances he has with Shimano and SRAM. In each case, the components themselves are actually marvelous feats of engineering. They represent the quest for perfection that drives the mountain bike industry. Read More

We’ve made the ill-advised decision to give Ryan Palmer, Bike Magazine’s complainer-in-chief, an even fancier platform to tell the bike industry what it’s doing wrong. This is the first video edition of Palmer’s Peeves, in which he tells us why the trendy practice of bike brands making clever bottle openers isn’t just unnecessary, the bottle opener Read More

Welcome to another installment of Palmer's Peeves, our Senior Editors' place to bitch about things that he doesn't like, understand, or just doesn't feel like being open-minded about.

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