What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!

Quick trip to Mill Creek trails today. Haven't been in yonks and haven't been on a full susser before either.

Sessioned only Hit the Turps due to heat (see Confessions of a Fuckwit 😂) and it is an easy loop back up the fire road.

Managed to improve each run and clear a lot of the jumps but cannot hold enough speed for the sharkfin, didn't try the bigger gap though I think I can clear it and finally I cannot hold speed into the last step up which is really intimidating for me 😢

But had fun in between whinging to myself about the heat (yes I've become soft) 😂

If I find interesting trails to ride down at the National Park (have never been) I'll do a combined trip back here as well, as I really do like Hit the Turps.
 

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F G said:
Quick trip to Mill Creek trails today. Haven't been in yonks and haven't been on a full susser before either.

Sessioned only Hit the Turps due to heat (see Confessions of a Fuckwit 😂) and it is an easy loop back up the fire road.

Managed to improve each run and clear a lot of the jumps but cannot hold enough speed for the sharkfin, didn't try the bigger gap though I think I can clear it and finally I cannot hold speed into the last step up which is really intimidating for me 😢

But had fun in between whinging to myself about the heat (yes I've become soft) 😂

If I find interesting trails to ride down at the National Park (have never been) I'll do a combined trip back here as well, as I really do like Hit the Turps.
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Enter and exit the last corner wide and pedal into it. That step ups not as scary as it looks.

Also abit more psi in the tyres if that’s all your sessioning, the extra rolling speed helps.

Bet you loved the canyon out there, those trails are pretty rough on a HT.

And plenty of interesting trails in the natio, that bike will eat up the chunky descents. Get exploring!
 
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Ultra Lord said:
Enter and exit the last corner wide and pedal into it. That step ups scarier than it looks.

Also abit more psi in the tyres if that’s all your sessioning, the extra rolling speed helps.

Bet you loved the canyon out there, those trails are pretty rough on a HT.

And plenty of interesting trails in the natio, that bike will eat up the chunky descents. Get exploring!
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Thanks mate - will try that next time I'm there. Yeah the Torque felt awesome! I'm very over biked but it gives so much confidence 👍
 
Got on the bike early Sat (Couldn't sleep) and did 2.5 hours on the gravel byk before it got too hot. Plan was a MTB Sunday but rain was a lot heavier than I expected (didn't really look at the forecast). Just sat on the couch and did nothing for the first time in a very long time.

Got the Aust post update that (hopefully) a heap of parts has arrived from AliExpress to build up #2 lads new frame so hopefully get some time i the next week or so.
 
Things to do with 1 hand.

Picked up a blue trim SM Pro cheaper that the black stealth ones I usually buy. Thinking that I have 3 blue bikes, its bound to match one of them.

Arm therapist gave me a 30 min arm massage today which felt sensational and also gave me a bit of slack to use my hand, carefully. So I'll tackle the brake bleed this weekend.

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beeb said:
That happens when you're late to the party... @kten posted about that on Tuesday.
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I will note that I checked within a few minutes of that post, I've just decided to post about it!

Those Butchers are a bargain but I was looking at the S-Works Pathfinder tyres.
 
The Hallion is now at or has exceeded man child status and been making murmurs about doing some road riding again. Unfortunately despite having lots of now vintage-ish 10sp rim brake components in the shed a suitable frame could not be found 😔. Luckily after only three days browsing on Fakebook a suitable candidate showed up. A 2010s Avanti cadent in small, perfect size, picked up the Hallion after school and did the deal and made a start putting it together. Now we need to make a shopping list of extra bits and pieces to finish it off.
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Started building the Marin Rift zone last night with bit from AliExpress - the brakes came asre about, but I needed to cut the rear hose anyway to route through the frame.

Fiddled around trying to get the bloody hose through the frame and then fit the VERY annoying rubber grommets.... OK done, that took way longer than expected.

OK - now I only had BH59 olive and barbs but it's BH90 hose - FFS fine smash them on not ideal but it'll do (Remind myself to get the spare Barb and olives as I'm now out). Phew - bit of a bodge, hopefully the Barb and olive seal correctly - seems to be fine (Only squeezed the breaks once with no Pad block / disk rotor FFS).

OK Put the front disk on the wheel, start putting 180mm on the front, get all the bolts finger tight and realise my mistake, chuck the 203mm rotor on there instead. OK Put mount adapter on the fork..... OK the 203 adaptor is too big? OK I have a 20mm adaptor, add that and a couple of washers, OK that aligns now. Look at my son, 2 jobs in and two bodges... Great start......

Now to the Cranks. Put them on.... Hold on the cranks are slightly too wide. Look at the BB, it'll need a space on the drive side. OK no worries, I have the BB that came with the Cues drive-train, it has spacers. Go to take the BB off..... Fark!!! this was put on when MANY ugga dugga's. Put BB wrench in vice and yank on the frame..... It turns my entire workbench. OK another approach, frame on ground, large pipe on the end of the wrench various children standing on frame and give it a heave - that cracks it, phew again (hours whittling away).

Frame back in stand, screw the right BB on...... The fecking thing is cross threaded, FFS take about 1 hour to get it to thread correctly. Finally get the crank on!!

Look at expectant man-child towering over me. Lets call it a nigh mate, we shall sort the rest on the weekend.

I LOVE working on bikes some times......
 
ozzybmx said:
Chill Bobo :confused: thats the best view ever.

You have the whole day off, had an awesome ride, get to call in at the pub for cold beers after... Then get all upset by parked cars 😳
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Well I had a view of the beach but when in the city, it's crap.
 
DougalStrachan said:
I LOVE working on bikes some times......
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It's like that; love/hate. I simply had to change tyres on my gravel bike. Simple right? TPU tubes are a bit more slippery and difficult to get them to sit inside the tyre and not pinch on the rim. You have to partially inflate them otherwise I don't know how you'd get them to behave at all. One of them, for reasons beyond my understanding, the valve just decided to stop being a one way valve. Any time it got over 40psi the air would leak back out. So be it, new tube. Next I mounted the front tyre backwards. Off it goes and back on the right way. It always takes longer than you think!

I suppose I can say at the end of the day it was worth it.
 
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