I need some decent trail tyres. How are those lovely chunky Michelins going? And I need to replace my rear shock and ask Santa for bigger balls.
The stupid questions thread.
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steve jobs' pancreas
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well if anyone is the right person to ask for bigger balls its gotta be the man with the big sack
stirk
Burner
But he empties his sack only once a year and the contents are mostly for kids!!
Litenbror
Eats Squid
Im rating my Michelin wild grip r replaced a maxxis aggresor on the front and Im really happy
The Duckmeister
Has a juicy midrange
The issue and potential for problems with jacking up the front end isn't so much the BB height, it's the slackening of the head angle beyond its designed parameter. As the head angle is slackened, the stress path becomes more across the head tube and - crucially - the welds rather than along the tube axis, so the head tube area needs to be beefed up. If you slacken the front too far beyond its intended angle, you increase the risk of breaking the front end off your frame.
The Duckmeister
Has a juicy midrange
Although if you think realistically, the lines between categories are a lot blurrier than the mucketing people would like you to believe. Aside from full-blown DH sleds, most bikes are ridden as "trail" bikes 98% of the time......
I’m running 15w in a Pike, Lyrik and a mates Pike and it seems to do the right thing.
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Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Where do you find aftermarket low friction fork seals for 2018 SIDs
They weren't in my Santa Sack
They weren't in my Santa Sack
pink poodle
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I'd say DIYMTB for the win.
Calvin27
Eats Squid
Ok this one is going to be pretty stupid, but hey, 2018 is almost behond me might as well this year than a fresh one haha.
I have 160mm and 180mm Avid G2CS rotors that are brand new. Trying to cut a few costs and use these with SLX brakes that are already on the bike (new wheelset). Should work (let me know otherwise) but the stupid question is:
Will the turkeys come out if I do this or is turkey gobbling more to do with avid brake calipers/levers?
I have 160mm and 180mm Avid G2CS rotors that are brand new. Trying to cut a few costs and use these with SLX brakes that are already on the bike (new wheelset). Should work (let me know otherwise) but the stupid question is:
Will the turkeys come out if I do this or is turkey gobbling more to do with avid brake calipers/levers?
pink poodle
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Mixing rotor and brake brands has never been an issue for me. Well except the time I tried to use shimano XT floating rotors with hope brakes. That didn't work.
pink poodle
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200mm rotors...the black "Web" part was fouling against the calliper.
Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
Which means that you had 203mm rotors and needed some shims or a 203mm adapter.
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I have had to shim calipers out and across to centre them perfectly. I put it down to shit quality control during frame manufacture. Anyway no issue if you have the bits.
I just made up some brackets for the plastic kayak so I can fit an electric trolling motor. The M6 rivnuts pulled through the plastic so I was going to make up a long M8/M6 bolt to hold the brackets down and also hold the motor mount. M8 at the bottom obviously and mostly for giggles but I just tapped the bracket M8 and screwed into those to hold the bits on. Might still turn up the speshul bolt later for fun.
I just made up some brackets for the plastic kayak so I can fit an electric trolling motor. The M6 rivnuts pulled through the plastic so I was going to make up a long M8/M6 bolt to hold the brackets down and also hold the motor mount. M8 at the bottom obviously and mostly for giggles but I just tapped the bracket M8 and screwed into those to hold the bits on. Might still turn up the speshul bolt later for fun.
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pink poodle
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Probably. Says 203mm (edit here - just checked rotor because i got curious) on the rotor and the forks are Marzocchi 66, so 200 is their default rotor size. I probably could've messed around with some shims looking for the sweet spot (I've got more than enough of them in the small parts organiser), but I had some conventional rotors in the collection that have worked out just fine.
I've got the 203mm rotor on the same forks now with XT brakes and it's all running sweet. But I changed frames, so I'm pretty sure that was probably the problem.
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slider_phil
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Just been dealing with this. Used a combination of different centerlock adapters but it's working.
the drizzle
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Anyone know where to buy rear boost adapter's locally? Preferably the ones that don't require the rear wheel to be re-dished.
I ordered some from China but fark knows when they will arrive and I am too pumped to ride the new frame.
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I ordered some from China but fark knows when they will arrive and I am too pumped to ride the new frame.
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