Blog
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Start Haus Backshop: How to be a Bike Trail Fairy | a PSA from Gregg
Wish that early season trail was a bit more cleaned up? Well, get to foot raking!
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Start Haus Backshop: MTB Hanger Alignment
You can twist your barrel adjuster and fiddle with your limit screws all you want, but you'll never fix your shifting with a bent hanger! Tool used: Park DAG-2.2 https://www.parktool.com/en-us/product/derailleur-hanger-alignment-gauge-dag-2-2
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Start Haus Backshop: P-Tex + Air Welding a Ski Base Repair
Repairing gouges, scrapes and a core shot with both p-tex and air welding. -
Start Haus Backshop: 15 Minute Dropper Service!
It really is that easy- 15 minutes and that sticky-icky-clunky MTB dropper works like new!
00:00 Intro
00:17 What Are We Doing with Our Lives?
01:00 Removing Dropper
04:14 Taking That 'lil Bugger Apart
08:55 Cleaned Up, Now We Reassemble
14:27 Insert Dropper Here
16:27 Cheap And Easy Trail-side Version -
Start Haus Backshop: Bike Tuning! Rebuilding a Fox Float X2
Join us as we follow Gregg and his misadventures rebuilding a Fox Float X2 shock.
Witness the highs, the lows, and maybe even learn something too.
Too much to handle for a DIY? Check out suspension services page here.
Wondering about that vacuum machine? Check it out here
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Start Haus Backshop: STORAGE WAX and Other Important Details for Storing Your Gear in the Summer
Keep those bases fast and prevent oxidized surface wax with a simple end of season tune you can do at home.
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Start Haus Backshop: Bootfitting! Building Custom Orthotic Footbed Inserts
Whether its ski boots or bike shoes, stock inserts are garbage! Come with us as we walk through the assessment and construction of a pair of custom footbeds, here at Start Haus in Truckee, CA.
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Start Haus Backshop: Ski Boots! How to Properly Store Gear for the Summer
Don't just throw your gear in the closet! Give your boots (and your feet) some love by properly tucking your gear away until next fall. -
Start Haus Backshop: Turn for Speed Clinic with Travis Ganong
A CLINIC FOR SPEED!
Join us at the shop for our last winter event of the season on Thursday, March 21 at 6pm!
Learn the different techniques for making fast Super-G and downhill turns from world-renowned ski racer Travis Ganong. Hear how Ganong went from ranking 250th to 29th in the world in just half a season by mastering this concept. Watch slow-motion videos of his performances for critique.
The event, hosted at Start Haus, is free and open to the public. For those unable to attend in person, see below to watch the recording.
Did you miss the other events this winter? No worries! Watch the recordings via the links below.
Watch: Tune for Speed on Saturday, November 25, 2023, at 6pm
Watch: Ski Bootfitting Q&A on Monday, December 18, 2023, at 6pm
