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

[rextheute]

Ooooooo what bike you getting?

Okay ...
i was in a bike shop yesterday - ready to purchase .
but the level of service and GAF was low - and with out sounding like a cock head .
I walked .
This is after spending enough money to buy a nice small car in this shop in the last 3 yrs .
Soo, I'm reinvesting my moneys in some upgrades - new forks , new front wheel .

And will follow up on a motor reasonable priced bike - I'm leaning heavily towards the Giant Trance X .

Will continue to save tho coz 2022 should be a new bike year also .....according to my calendar hahahaha

 

[Ultra Lord]

And will follow up on a motor reasonably prices bike

WR450F’s $15.5k ride away.
Pretty bloody hard to beat that atm. Theres even a phone app to change engine mapping!
AND they come in blue.

 

[Plankosaurus]

Ran into a snag changing some parts over to the NS Soda. I thought it was 135x12 and I have axles and caps for that, but turns out it's 135x10 I dont have caps or axles for 135x10

I found that the soda has these little tabs you can turn around to shorten the wheelbase, and under that that the hole in the frame is 12mm. So I measured and designed and printed some new tabs with a 12mm countersunk hole in one side and a 12mm threaded hole in the other. 135x12 now without wrecking anything on the frame, take that NS!

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[Isaakk]

Threaded directly into PLA? Neat solution but i'd be surprised if it holds up. Everything i've printed for my bikes has broken eventually, and that's not in load bearing or critical areas. Might be worth making it or getting someone to make it out of alu? Looks like it should be straight forward - cut, file, drill, tap?

 

[Plankosaurus]

Threaded directly into PLA? Neat solution but i'd be surprised if it holds up. Everything i've printed for my bikes has broken eventually, and that's not in load bearing or critical areas. Might be worth making it or getting someone to make it out of alu? Looks like it should be straight forward - cut, file, drill, tap?

I missed that in my description. If you look closely, theres a couple of screws in the frame where there used to be grub screws holding the chips in place. They now go through the pla and lock the axle in place so the thread is only pulling it all together initially.

It's not a permanent solution, but it got an axle in a place that had no axle

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[Plankosaurus]

Threaded directly into PLA? Neat solution but i'd be surprised if it holds up. Everything i've printed for my bikes has broken eventually, and that's not in load bearing or critical areas. Might be worth making it or getting someone to make it out of alu? Looks like it should be straight forward - cut, file, drill, tap?

Apparently I need to get proficient with using petg. Pla+ is ok, but you're right about it's strength. I've made up cable clips in pla and petg, the pla ones break pretty easy but the petg ones havn't broken yet. Problem is the bloody stuff won't stick to my print bed in bigger prints, always seems to curl up at the edges and then come loose

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[HamboCairns]

Cleaned the wife's bike today and noticed oil sludge around the bottom of the lower fork leg. It's a shitty SR Suntour XCM so no surprises but yet again, the bike industry fucks us over with a dopey straight steerer tube so good luck finding a decent replacement.

 

[fjohn860]

Cleaned the wife's bike today and noticed oil sludge around the bottom of the lower fork leg. It's a shitty SR Suntour XCM so no surprises but yet again, the bike industry fucks us over with a dopey straight steerer tube so good luck finding a decent replacement.

Don't manitou still make some decent forks with a straight steerer

 

[rextheute]

yes , @fjohn860 !
@HamboCairns - check out cycling deal - they were having a sale last week .

Buy Manitou Markhor Mountain Bike Bicycle Cycling Fork 100mm Travel 1-1/8" Black 9mm | CD

Looking for Manitou Markhor Mountain Bike Bicycle Cycling Fork 100mm Travel 1-1/8" Black 9mm? Cycling Deal is Australia's leading supplier of bike products online - view our extensive product range today!

www.cyclingdeal.com.au

More reasonably priced ..

Bike Forks – Durable Bike Suspension Forks for Your Ride

We carry a large selection of suspension fork for different bike types, depending on your riding style. Buy the right front fork for your ride without the high costs at Cycling Deal.

www.cyclingdeal.com.au

Manitou .

Bike Forks – Durable Bike Suspension Forks for Your Ride

We carry a large selection of suspension fork for different bike types, depending on your riding style. Buy the right front fork for your ride without the high costs at Cycling Deal.

www.cyclingdeal.com.au

 

[fjohn860]

yes , @fjohn860 !
@HamboCairns - check out cycling deal - they were having a sale last week .

Buy Manitou Markhor Mountain Bike Bicycle Cycling Fork 100mm Travel 1-1/8" Black 9mm | CD

Looking for Manitou Markhor Mountain Bike Bicycle Cycling Fork 100mm Travel 1-1/8" Black 9mm? Cycling Deal is Australia's leading supplier of bike products online - view our extensive product range today!

www.cyclingdeal.com.au

More reasonably priced ..

Bike Forks – Durable Bike Suspension Forks for Your Ride

We carry a large selection of suspension fork for different bike types, depending on your riding style. Buy the right front fork for your ride without the high costs at Cycling Deal.

www.cyclingdeal.com.au

Manitou .

Bike Forks – Durable Bike Suspension Forks for Your Ride

We carry a large selection of suspension fork for different bike types, depending on your riding style. Buy the right front fork for your ride without the high costs at Cycling Deal.

www.cyclingdeal.com.au

I was pretty sure, as I've been lurking on cyclingdeal looking at them to replace the srsuntour xcm on my wife's bike too

 

[slowmick]

I wish
My wife wanted to back on her bike so I was looking for replacements for the ancient and almost rigid Darts. As soon as she got on she asked how to lock out the forks as it's harder to ride when they move. I stopped looking.

 

[k3n!f]

Solid day out.

 

[Cardy George]

Solid day out.

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It's only 5 weeks away...... not that in counting.......

 

[The Reverend]

Solid day out.

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Conditions must have been nice today too, not too hot / cold, wet or dry. Good work!

 

[Fred Nurk]

Cleaned the wife's bike today and noticed oil sludge around the bottom of the lower fork leg. It's a shitty SR Suntour XCM so no surprises but yet again, the bike industry fucks us over with a dopey straight steerer tube so good luck finding a decent replacement.

 

[Litenbror]

New brake day

 

[HamboCairns]

No

 

[Cardy George]

New brake day
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Show me the rotors, please?

 

[Litenbror]

Show me the rotors, please?

Didn't get rotors going to reuse the hopes that are on the bike. I also blame you (at least I think it was you) for this, after seeing your tyres from Ride Sport I went to their site to have a look and the rest is brake history.

 

[Cardy George]

Didn't get rotors going to reuse the hopes that are on the bike. I also blame you (at least I think it was you) for this, after seeing your tyres from Ride Sport I went to their site to have a look and the rest is brake history.