What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!

SummitFever

Eats Squid
Made a Reba-lation frankenfork the other day. Rev lowers, Reba uppers with Rev internals. All because I wanted a straight steerer and 15x100mm axle.
What's the lower bushing overlap like? Last time I compared Reba and Rev uppers the Rebas had much shorter stanchions. Original Reba/Revs might be the same though. Any details on which versions?
 

Mr Crudley

Glock in your sock
Very nice. Just needs a hole drilled for an internally routed dropper.
Thank you sir. Can't say I've heard of such things.

I wanted a simple bunch of fun with decent and known working bits plus must be lightweight. Came out close to what I was aiming for.

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SummitFever

Eats Squid
I've been continuing to fine tune the Spitty. My Crest wheels use a Specialized 142+ rear hub which in typical Specialized "lets just be different for the hell of it" has the cassette on the drive side spaced 2mm further out, in theory to give a better spoke bracing angle on the drive side. I suppose it gets you 2/3 of the way to Boost without needing a new frame, but it does have the side effect that on certain frames/dropouts the cassette lockring can rub or foul the frame/dropout.

Long and the short of it, on the Spitty it only clears by a bees dick which is not ideal. As a result, today I took the dropout off, stuck it* (literally) in my CNC machining center and machined a 1mm deep recess 32mm in diameter centered around the axle. This won't affect the strength of the dropout and there's still plenty of meat left to provide a positive stop on the endcap when inserting the wheel. (* for little machining jobs like this where the workpiece is hard to clamp but has a suitable flat surface, I will stick it down to the table using blue 3M masking tape and superglue - works a treat).

 

foxpuppet

Eats Squid
Quick check of tyre pressure before riding with the family to the shops resulted in 20 min strip and clean of a tubeless valve core. Couldn’t for the life of me get the valve tip to release without it coming out of the stem.


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Mr Crudley

Glock in your sock
Those scales are a bit 'how ya going' :).
Indeed they are pretty average and is usually kept for luggage only. I think optimistically it is a bit lighter :)
Digital scales would be a great addition but I'll bet the batteries would go flat by the time I use it...Doh...
 

Flow-Rider

Burner
Indeed they are pretty average and is usually kept for luggage only. I think optimistically it is a bit lighter :)
Digital scales would be a great addition but I'll bet the batteries would go flat by the time I use it...Doh...
I've got those exact scales too, got to bounce the load around and get a median measurement.

Get an external routed dropper, I prefer not to drill holes in good frames either.
 
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