Recent content by Jim Junkie

They definitely do last. I finally wrote my last pair off on a commute crash, but they'd done the distance before that. Sendy might be worth a try. I've got their stuff for my kids (just jerseys so far) & seems like pretty decent gear. Might give it a go. But Dharco also sounds good...

So the collapse of CRC & Wiggle was a while back now, but it's still only just dawning on me that I several other brands have disappeared along with it, Nukeproof among them. I've tried many shorts over the years - Fox, TLD, Ground Effect, Enduro, Crane (Aldi :D), but nothing has compared to...

That the numbers don't include any relation to participation rates makes this more clickbait than actual useful data IMO. Am I supposed to conclude that cliff diving is much less dangerous than mountain biking? Recreational walking more likely to result in injury than hockey? What's the...

So glad they made another thing to justify their standard. These were XT cranks, nothing in the box for me ☹️. I’m sure there’s some other reasons for going this way, but it just seems to be an ever diverging mess of new standard fittings at the moment. I prefer the Banshee / Santa Cruz / Hope...

Similar approach on my manitou’s. Thin wall 8mm socket? Take a file to one of the normal ones I already have. Special half cut manitou fork tool? Hello angle grinder and $10 cassette tool. Not the tidiest of solutions but it works and I don’t have to buy their super specific overpriced stuff:

LTIH: New "standard" (Shimano DirectMount), leading to me replacing a chainring that didn't need replacing, leading to me having to buy a new bloody tool just to tighten the damn thing on. A tool that of course will be used for nothing other than tightening a chainring. I swear the lowlives...

That would defeat the purpose of owning an EV. I only have the thing so I can lounge provocatively over the bonnet and wink at people suggestively.

There's a new version of this for EV's. Turns out that Tesla superchargers (at least all the V2 ones currently in the country) work on banks of 2 for the power capacity. The car will charge at 130kW, unless there's a car parked in the paired / neighbouring spot, in which case it splits the...

I can't figure how they came up with this and thought it was OK. I legitimately thought it was 6.1Nm for the first month and only corrected myself when the cranks kept coming loose. I had to break out the auto torque wrench to get it up there. And on a bloody 8mm allen key. I had one instance...

My 5yr old is currently on a Polygon Relic 20", previously his brothers. Moved over to that between 4 1/2 and 5. I had to cut the post down a little initially I think, but he loved the jump from a 16". Previous bike was just a basic 16" Merida, which was ridden to death. The 20" lasted until...

LTIH: 61Nm required tightening torque on a 8mm hex bolt Raceface Aeffect). Of course I'm going to strip that head eventually being the kludge I am.

Sigh.. stupid question time: I am replacing my Raceface Aeffect Cinch cranks with Shimano FC-M8100-1 DirectMount cranks. Do I need a new chainring? Or can I mount the Cinch chainring on the Shimano DirectMount? I've seen the names used interchangeably in many places, but can't quite confirm...

+1 to that. I do enjoy seeing others rides, and keep track of my totals. After a ride I do sometimes like to sit back and look at the high level view of where it went with a beer sometimes too. I did find some of the fitness and effort stuff interesting, but none of that was really assisting...

I only found out about this price rise through the furor around how it was communicated. I actually had to go digging to find out what my old my old price was compared to the new. Pretty sure I've not been hit with such a poorly communicated price rise before. That said, all this stink about...

I'm sure there are plenty around here that would let you work on their Nutt's, but that's probably more about their pleasure than yours. That's a nice first bike, reminds me of mine. I had a great time tinkering, upgrading and learning how to work on bikes with that one. Sure, putting...