What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!
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Lazmo
Old and hopeless
Rode a Red Hill roadside trail today, not a big ride. About an hour. Nice though.
Had to swerve a bit to miss a tiger snake, about an inch to spare. I wasn’t going fast but no way I could’ve stopped, so I hippy shaked around it. Definitely a tiger, but it may have been dead, as it didn’t move at all and it was sort of matte coloured, just didn’t look alive, but I wasn’t stopping to find out.
Had to swerve a bit to miss a tiger snake, about an inch to spare. I wasn’t going fast but no way I could’ve stopped, so I hippy shaked around it. Definitely a tiger, but it may have been dead, as it didn’t move at all and it was sort of matte coloured, just didn’t look alive, but I wasn’t stopping to find out.
Chriso_29er
Eats Squid
Took my rear wheel off to check out a slow leak I have at the moment.
Went downhill from there when my cluster fell off!
Seems I might have broken the axle lol. Shit
Now the race is on to find something in time for a Bright trip this weekend.
Went downhill from there when my cluster fell off!
Seems I might have broken the axle lol. Shit
Now the race is on to find something in time for a Bright trip this weekend.
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
Giant hub?
CHEWY
Eats Squid
Sure that's not how its supposed to be?
Either way put it back together and pretend you never saw it.
pink poodle
ここには見るべきものは何もありません
I snapped a dt axle like that a few years ago. I definitely noticed a lot of flex, but it was a QR hub.
leitch
Feelin' a bit rrranty
@Chriso_29er just put it back on and pretend you never saw it! It'll get you through to Monday.
Chriso_29er
Eats Squid
Nah, can feel the final burr were it was just hanging on, otherwise a very clean break
That is my secondary plan, I had noticed a bit of movement of the last ride or two thought the bearings were just on their way out, this must have been it haha.
Yep
slowmick
38-39"
Went for a pedal yesterday - I'm almost fit enough to go for a training ride with Moorey.
Actually - went for a lap of Lysterfield with some mates and was close to death at the end. I did enjoy a 2 hour nap when I got home. An my bike gear came off the line pre-ironed when I got up.
Actually - went for a lap of Lysterfield with some mates and was close to death at the end. I did enjoy a 2 hour nap when I got home. An my bike gear came off the line pre-ironed when I got up.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
DMan
shawly the least hangeriest guy on rotorburn
Wow. That top line is till a big drop. Is the regular to the left with that looks like a ledge to come off?
Litenbror
Eats Squid
Yeah the main line has a rock ledge and you can practically fall of it and make the lander. It's all psychological your riding and just seeing sky till you hit the lip, I'm happy to hit dodgy drops and trails but not blue sky for some reason. Brains are funny things when they are trying to protect themselves.
Rode the top bit of Lake Mountain's Cascades track again yesterday with my boys. Was hoping to make it all the way down but it was a touch hotter than expected and had to call it at the ticket booth. Still a great day out, good trail that one, though the abundance of March flies wasn't awesome.
Scotty T
Walks the walk
Yeah the ledge also slightly obscures the lander too, totally a mind game, before hitting this I'd never dropped something that blind. On the day I didn't even roll up to the edge as I'd seen it before, instead I focussed on watching the guy who was giving me some guidance land it a few times and then just decided I could land it and went.
Rorschach
Didnt pay $250 for this custom title
Given up riding around the river, too many people who either take up too much space or hoon around.
Only shared path I'll ride at the minute is the freeway bike path and (if its super busy), between the Narrows and UWA.
Labcanary
One potato, two potato, click
Nah, can feel the final burr were it was just hanging on, otherwise a very clean break
That is my secondary plan, I had noticed a bit of movement of the last ride or two thought the bearings were just on their way out, this must have been it haha.
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Yep
Some Giant hubs are OEM DT Swiss, aren't they? I'll see if I can find a link.
Edit: link to list of freehubs.
Squidfayce
Eats Squid
k3n!f
leaking out the other end
I don't understand how that can happen without also snapping the through axle?
Chriso_29er
Eats Squid
No idea either! Seems like a fatigue failure as it's a clean break most of the way though. But not sure how it would have been moving around enough to do this with a through axle through the middle of it. Checking the DT diagrams it does seem to be a kind of notched axle that runs all the way through.
Either way, I slapped it back together and seems no less solid than it did last few rides lol, so will take the punt on it this weekend while I decide what to do for a new wheelset. I can't get anything in time anyway.
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