Mattyp
Cows go boing
How often are you retaping your rims and why? I Think I've only retaped 2 rims ever, both times from being over zealous with a tyre lever. I use the spank rim tape. Once it's on it stays on...
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fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
Gaffa tape finished off with painters tape to be my kindred spirit...@fjohn860 - meet your kindred spirit.
Confessions from the fuckwits
Do you not? I do my tyre wanking in a private place. Whenever I do it for a crowd I can't get it to stay up.
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beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Retaped? Because of tape failure - Only twice* after that 3M stuff everyone is now frothing over above literally just fell apart after about a year/year and a half. Luckily I’d double-wrapped the rim and the lower layer was still (mostly) holding air. I had another rim that had the same tape that had no issues though, so those two might’ve reacted with the soap I used when seating the bead back then. The old Bear stuff has been flawless on many wheels, but I’ve swapped a lot of tyres around different wheels so have damaged the tape a few times during doing that.
*I’m excluding the Spank rims with the “OohBar” rim bed, because (A) I was using “genuine Fratelli” (Spank) tape which was hard, non-conforming, and extremely low tack (ie: complete shit), and (B) because that lump in the middle of the bead profile is a mongrel for pulling the tape from under the bead down into the parallel valleys during tyre install and lifting the tape.
Mattyp
Cows go boing
Excellent, so that 100, metres of bear tape should last you till about 3027.
safreek
*******
Unless you put it into crypto a month ago
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
When COVID shortages hit, I stocked up on what I couldn’t risk going without.
Mattyp
Cows go boing
Does it work ok as a TP substitute? Also scrunch or fold?When COVID shortages hit, I stocked up on what I couldn’t risk going without.
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
Quick bit of fuckwittery this afternoon! Needed to bleed the brakes on the nuke proof. No worries, they are shimano xt. I get everything set up and proceed to make I happen. Get the rear done fairly issue free. Move to the front and discover a very powerful ai blockage. I cant get the oil moving in or out...I squeeze and I suck and I push and I pull and I puuuuuuuuuuuussssssh...and fucking boom! There she BLOWS!!!! A huge whale spurt of oil flies up in the air and all over me and the bike and the floor and the table and a bunch of other shit. Brake now bled and feeling fucking good too. Damn I was glad to be using mineral oil not dot fluid. Particularly as I watched a lot of oil rn down my fork leg into the seal...I got most of that with the emergency rag. Fork feels a little extra smooth now! Will see how it goes on the next off road adventure.
Minlak
custom titis
Fairly sure I have seen this video on porn Hub and that wasn't "Brakes" you were bleeding
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
There wasn't a hobo on sight! I live in a posh part of town...
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Brilliant way to reduce pad wear though.
ashes_mtb
Has preferences
Based on how hard these pads are and how little friction they offer in the dry, I don’t think pad wear is actually a thing. The rear brake offered about the same stopping power as the front, just with improved feel at the lever.
rangersac
Medically diagnosed OMS
As the resident bike mechanic at work I had a similar situation last week, where one of the staff came to me complaining that their brakes weren't working well. They hadn't gone full retard with disconnected cables, but both quick releases were open on the calipers.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Fit a new cable and not connect it ?
Save on cables, pad wear and brake track wear. Great idea !
Labcanary
One potato, two potato, click
Steel rims with hard rubber brake pads.
I found that one out the hard way when I rode my mother in law's old Ricardo touring bike. It was almost acceptable in the dry, but a hint of rain and I was figuring out the best way to bail riding down the ramp of a road overpass without dying.
ashes_mtb
Has preferences
I have literally have zero recollection of touching it since last ride. Can’t think of any reason why I would have touched it. Suffice to say, it came as quite a shock when I got to the bottom of the hill and the lever pulled right into the bars with zero stopping on offer.
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Reckon you have little magical elves that come and work on your bikes at night, you must have disturbed them before they got to connect that cable. It hasn't even a kink or flat spot from clamping
ashes_mtb
Has preferences
Must be as I definitely haven’t had a spare brake cable to put in there.Reckon you have little magical elves that come and work on your bikes at night, you must have disturbed them before they got to connect that cable. It hasn't even a kink or flat spot from clamping
DougalStrachan
Likes Dirt
Firstly - look at the state of the mineral oil that came out of the breaks - FW #1 yes I should have bleed these ages ago.
My nephew dropped off the permanent donor bike I gave him to give it a quick spruce up. Rear break lever was pulling to the bar so chucked some new pads and gave it a bleed. Cool, give it a test.....
Lever still pulls to the bar, these are very entry level Tektros that clearly had seen better days judging by the oil - so I thought to myself, maybe they are stuffed, but give it another bleed, pull everything apart and spend the next hour or so checking just to make sure.
Nope still pull to the bar - no worries they may just have had their last hurrah. So spruce up the rest will sort something out another time. That night something is pissing me off, OK they weren't actually leaking and they still provide some stopping power what's going on?
Go out the next day see the adjustment screw for the lever - it's wound right out - 2 secs later the lever is working fine (for an entry level tektro) could have been a nice easy quick bleed and saved myself an hour or so of stuffing around.
My nephew dropped off the permanent donor bike I gave him to give it a quick spruce up. Rear break lever was pulling to the bar so chucked some new pads and gave it a bleed. Cool, give it a test.....
Lever still pulls to the bar, these are very entry level Tektros that clearly had seen better days judging by the oil - so I thought to myself, maybe they are stuffed, but give it another bleed, pull everything apart and spend the next hour or so checking just to make sure.
Nope still pull to the bar - no worries they may just have had their last hurrah. So spruce up the rest will sort something out another time. That night something is pissing me off, OK they weren't actually leaking and they still provide some stopping power what's going on?
Go out the next day see the adjustment screw for the lever - it's wound right out - 2 secs later the lever is working fine (for an entry level tektro) could have been a nice easy quick bleed and saved myself an hour or so of stuffing around.