Hey Burners.
Pulled my pretty mint 2015 Trek Fuel Ex 9.8 out of the shed and been for a couple of rides. The bike is in really good nick as I sort of checked out of riding mtb for various reasons.
Anyways, giving it a wash after a solid 4 hour ride through the Dandenongs yesterday and it looks...
Super suprised to notice this just now.
I've been using Thomson stems for 18 years. I fell in love with the Elite when I discovered the non-knee gouging design on the back of the stem. None of them have ever given me any issues. Always carefully torqued to the correct levels. Even more so with...
Item: XO 9 speed grips for grip shift - left and right
Location: Ringo East
Item Condition: Good to excellent
Reason for wanting:
Time to get back out on the bike. As an intro I am keeping it short and real tame, cycle paths - hopefully at ever increasing distances.
The XO shifting gear on the...
Due to a couple of reasons I haven’t commuted in into work for about 3 months, the ride has been ride home only.
That changed last week and in pitch darkness, shortly after getting on the bike path I’m passed by a clown with no front light but with a back light. His gear looked like he should...
Item: 5-10 Freeriders, US size 3
Location: Ringwood East
Item Condition: excellent. The suede looks a bit worn in the pics but they got very little use. Only 1 shoelace included. No idea what happened to the other one.
Reason for selling: no longer fit
Price and price conditions: a six pack...
Humans behaviour is strange at times. Bjork was onto it years ago.
Wednesday night in the city, cars blocking intersections all over the place. Way more than usual. I think it was because it was raining. But all of these humans were sitting safe and dry inside a steel box.
What is up with...
I tried some new routing of the rear brake hose of my Aurum. It ships with it routed underneath the bottom of the chain stay. I’ve changed it to along the top.
Here’s how it looks fully extended and fully compressed. Looks like a significant chage to the amount the hose length changes through...
Hi Y'all,
Not an MTB request but I value the opinion of you lot, in this case especially those with a bit of park experience.
I took my young bloke to the park yesterday and was just standing around waiting. The young punks ripping around the bowl looked like they were having an excellent...
Jesus fucking Christ, how fucking hard can it be to get a single camera to talk to a single phone! I've been fucking with this useless fucking software for a large proportion of the day. It worked for a short period towards the end of the day and is back into the non working state.
Anyone got...
The ban on single use plastic bags is awesome. Great to finally see some action.
I come from a time when no one wrapped their rubbish in plastic. Bins were simply hosed out when they got a bit stinky. Does the public have the gumption to stop wrapping their rubbish in plastic?
Wanting to get a gauge on what percentage of the population understands the concept of passive solar housing. Been looking to buy a passive solar house (or something resembling one) for the past ten years. It appears about 1 in 30 houses in my neighbourhood are built to take advantage of the...
Back in the good old days of 9 speed I managed to use the same quick link across multiple chains. Never caused an issue.
Took me a while to get to 10 and 11 speed bikes. I find with these rigs all the quick links request that you bin them after every single use.
Do you follow this rule?
Has...
I’ve bent a cassette in the past. Once I’d worked out what I was looking for it became easy to see. One of the cogs did not have a uniform distance to the cog above it all the way around. This cog was bent. I couldn’t tune the gears properly. Derailer hanger was straight. Once I changed the...
I’ve avoided any issues with pf bottom brackets until now. The pf 105 bottom bracket on my roady has just started to creak. Thought I’d just pull the bb out, have a look at it, regrease, and wack it back in and see how it went. I’m reading on the park website that these types of bb’s are only...
24mm boxxer top cap removal. What’s the correct tool? Do I need to grind down a socket myself? Can I buy one that is fit for purpose? Will a ratcheting ring spanner do the trick? Will a normal ring spanner work?
Hi. I’m after some performance increase over the stock boxxers on my Aurum c7.3. Really liked the change from World Cups to 40s on my old Sunday. Over 2k is way out of my league for a new fork. Second hand downhill market has almost completely dried up.
So...
For the first time ever it seemed like a good idea to use my umbrella to keep the sun off me, at 8:30 in the morning!
It is going to be fucking hot here today.
My new rig has Guide Rs. Front is nowhere near as crisp after first trip to Buller. Feels spongy, like it’s in need of a bleed. I also felt like I was on them more than my old bike. I put this down to the bike being quicker but now I’m thinking it was the Guides weren’t as powerful. My old...
Item: 175mm SLX crankset
Location: Ringwood East
Item Condition: new and unused.
Reason for selling: Need 170mm
Price and price conditions: $70
Extra Info: brand new and unused. Chainring not included, have removed. Replacement is on its way. Inclusion of chain ring bolts is dependent on...
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