Little Things You Hate
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fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
Just cut a cheap ring spanner in half and grind the chamfer off. Then you can swap out tokens on the trail.That would be 4 sockets out of a nice set with rusty ground off lips - 26, 28, 30 and 32mm
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Hmmm... got some nightshift researching to do. You never know how long the wait for the Onyx might be
$125 is a good price.
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@kten the installation looks pretty straight forward but what is the 12mm Crow's Foot for, cant find it on the Fox disassembly or Vorsprung fit up.
Anything I should know about the install ?
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Got it, step 16, reinstall base stud.
Which I have done with a spanner on a Fox 32 before without a crows foot.
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Which I have done with a spanner on a Fox 32 before without a crows foot.
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Jim Junkie
Used to sell drugs, now he just takes them
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:
Jim Junkie
Used to sell drugs, now he just takes them
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 approach of old, if there’s no significant benefit, then stick with the old way and let the customer choose. Threaded BB’s instead of just jumping on the latest standard, pick your wheel size based on dropouts in case you still want 26”, pick your hub spacing in case you don’t want to be forced into boost. That was clever engineering.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
MRP Ramp Control can give you the bling option of spending more money without having to touch a spanner.
They come up cheap from time to time when someone does a fork upgrade. I have been lucky to snag one for the 5010 and Nickel. Only comes into play when you are reaching the end of the fork travel anyhow.
fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
I can't even do that with a coil conversion (hence why I'm testing out a medium coil). If it wasn't for the fact I'm shortening the coil it would be way under sprung
Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
Drive for over an hour in sunny sunshine to go for a ride, get here and just as I put my helmet on it starts chucking it down. Wait for a gap and try for a pedal, slippery slow going and first run I get approx. 1kg of shit in my eyes because of course I didn't bring my fucking goggles.
0-1mm rain today my arse fuck you BOM you carry less predictive weight than a fucking astrologist.
0-1mm rain today my arse fuck you BOM you carry less predictive weight than a fucking astrologist.
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Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
Oh, the coil would kill at option right up front.
ausdb
Being who he is
Needs way moar drillium to be trail friendly
fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
Good idea. Didn't even think about that
ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
Strange, after a bit of Hamboing it looks like if you buy the crankset, so crank arms and chainring as a package, you get the FC41 tool.These were XT cranks, nothing in the box for me
Looks like crank arms alone do not come with the tool... though Pushys have advised someone on the crank arm listing 'questions' that the arms do come with a tool, which might be a mistake.
Faaak knows, very inconsistent if it is like this as its a lotto if you have to buy a $25 FC41 tool after the fact, waiting another *week before riding.
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mike14
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Mice - little fuckers got into the garage and found their way into my riding bag, which just happened to have a few energy gels stashed in a pocket. The interior of the bag is now a lovely sticky mess.
They somehow managed to have a little nibble on my water bladder as well, which now leaks.
They somehow managed to have a little nibble on my water bladder as well, which now leaks.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
I picked up one of these when I got my XT direct mount crankset. It is a PITA that these sort of things are rarely included anymore.Strange, after a bit of Hamboing it looks like if you buy the crankset, so crank arms and chainring as a package, you get the FC41 tool.
Looks like crank arms alone do not come with the tool... though Pushys have advised someone on the crank arm listing 'questions' that the arms do come with a tool, which might be a mistake.
Faaak knows, very inconsistent if it is like this as its a lotto if you have to buy a $25 FC41 tool after the fact, waiting another *week before riding.
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ozzybmx
taking a shit with my boobs out
It is but at least if you know its not included you can make arrangements to have the crank and tool arrive around about the same time.
I reckon the Pushys employee has made a mistake on the crank arm only option having a tool.
Also for people working out that buying the complete crankset might be marginally more expensive than buying the arms and ring separate... not factoring in a $15-$25 tool with a 1-3 week wait.
A quick panicked visit to a LBS when you realise there is no FC41 could be a $40 experience.
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
The AliExpress crankset sure didn't have one, as you would expect. I totally missed it at the time.
Waiting for the chainring tool to arrive was good enough for me to fix a first world problem
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
I've bought a couple of cranksets (without chainring) in the past and received the tool, but just bought another set a few weeks back and didn't get the tool with them (to the point that I just did an 'unboxing' to check as I hadn't even opened the postal bag to check the cranks until just now...). Bit shit that they've started leaving it out.
ausdb
Being who he is
I think this is more a $himano thing trying to maintain profit margins as much as anything. I bought an XT bottom bracket recently and saw a lot of references to it being supplied with an adapter to use the larger BB tool on the net. I purchased from 99 bikes in retail packaging and their website made it expliciitly clear the adapter was not supplied. It wasn't an issue for me as my BB spanner does multiple sizes but would make you less inclined to buy if you knew you had to add the cost of the adapter or another BB tool..