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

I loaded up the electric pack mule up the trails and blew down the Iron Tor climb because "winter is coming".
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Still amazed how dry is was up there!
 
Bloody dry down south as well. My water tanks are getting seriously low, and the thought of having to order water in at the beginning of winter seems friggin ridiculous. On the subject of local trails Parks put a control burn through one of the major trail areas in Coningham which has resulted in several big trees down, so a bit of trail re-routing happened over the weekend. A good opportunity for some new feature building and new line scouting as well

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To answer your question, less than my time is worth right now. I have a shit load to get on with and I just want it done.

I had a go and I don't have the time to faff about any more as he needs the bike for school and just wants to ride the trails.
 
ozzybmx said:
I find it hard to believe anyone who is a regular member here needs a LBS.

Rear shocks, 100%, they need some super specific shite. Fork dampers, completely understand, also needing a little bit of magic. Maybe building wheels for some... ok. Gears and shit shifting, we have the BEST heads here ever to sort that shit out.

The knowledge around here with the 20 regular dickheads posters would fix and diagnose that shit quicker than 99% of local bike shops, in 30 minutes rather than a 4 day experience, just listen and do it, the long timers here actually know some great stuff you wont find anywhere on the internet.
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Oh I don't know I find getting 12spd shifting right quite difficult and time consuming plus you need that alignment tool that ain't cheap.

On my sram GX a branch went through the rear wheel a couple of times and after many hours I think the derailler cage (which I spent an hour or so straightening was not quite straight or the right angle. It's still not 100% right. Be good if you could just buy those 2 derailler cage arms.
 
Stredda said:
About 10 minutes to ride up from the Monty car park, 3hrs to blow down the trail and walk back to my bike, and 5 minutes to ride back down.
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How many km roughly. I am thinking about going and clearing the track on the lower half of Juggernaught which is about 5km. But that will be wiper snipping and some light cutting at first.
 
pink poodle said:
That meme is bang on. Fuck I hate useless shop staff trying to help me. It is one of the reasons I prefer to shop online. But it is also fun to give them a bum steer or really bullshit "information".
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Wasn't 'Get a bigger hammer' discussed here last week as a MTB problem fixer? Not that it might make that many things worse :cool:
Bigger hammers FTW!
 
bigdamo said:
How many km roughly. I am thinking about going and clearing the track on the lower half of Juggernaught which is about 5km. But that will be wiper snipping and some light cutting at first.
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About 2.5km roughly. It was a 4km walk but I came back down the walking track which is way more direct.
 
ozzybmx said:
I find it hard to believe anyone who is a regular member here needs a LBS.

Rear shocks, 100%, they need some super specific shite. Fork dampers, completely understand, also needing a little bit of magic. Maybe building wheels for some... ok. Gears and shit shifting, we have the BEST heads here ever to sort that shit out.

The knowledge around here with the 20 regular dickheads posters would fix and diagnose that shit quicker than 99% of local bike shops, in 30 minutes rather than a 4 day experience, just listen and do it, the long timers here actually know some great stuff you wont find anywhere on the internet.

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But I really do appreciate the help I get on here.

I had more time when I worked for myself but now I'm more time poor and so I'd rather tackle jobs I know I can accomplish without complications (like changing cassettes, chains, bottom brackets etc).
 
bigdamo said:
Oh I don't know I find getting 12spd shifting right quite difficult and time consuming plus you need that alignment tool that ain't cheap.
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Get one, an invaluable tool to have.

My park tool that I bought many years ago has shiny threads where it used to be black, when my boys rode, that thing was used twice a week. Been screwed into a hanger on hundreds of occasions.

Cheap rip offs on AliEx for $30.
 
rangersac said:
Bloody dry down south as well. My water tanks are getting seriously low, and the though of having to order water in at the beginning of winter seems friggin ridiculous. On the subject of local trails Parks put a control burn through one of the major trail areas in Coningham which has resulted in several big trees down, so a bit of trail re-routing happened over the weekend. A good opportunity for some new feature building and new line scouting as well

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You would think that they would come and clear any fallen trees for you, but It is Parks that we are talking about.
 
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So lately the bb in my NS Eccentric I built up in 2015 or 16 has been feeling a bit graunchy. It and the cranks have been on there since I built it up. Checked Strava and the frame has just ticked over 10k km. So pulling the cranks and bb off to replace it I notice a rust hole. Not surprising as this poor old thing gets used, abused and put away dirty and rarely checked.
No biggie. I’ll clean it up and pull the mig out and give it a zap and it’ll be good to go. The beauty of steel.

So ordered a few ZTTO bb’s. One GXP for this.
24mm for the kids bike and a 30mm for some cinch cranks. Can’t imagine the ZTTO bb is any worse than the absolute POS RF BB currently on there.
 
Stredda said:
You would think that they would come and clear any fallen trees for you, but It is Parks that we are talking about.
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I could count on one hand the number of times Parks has visited Coningham in the past five years aside from control burns. You'd think as reserves go it would get a bit of attention. It's 30 minutes from the centre of Tasmania's capital, borders one of the more popular Hobart area beaches and has a crew of fit and able blokes who are willing to volunteer time and effort to tackle weed and erosion issues. I guess I should be thankful we were even able to get the trail network up and running that we did in hindsight...
 
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beeb said:
It's just like panel beating - "Just one more tap!", "Almost there...", "Maybe just one more...". Nek minnit...

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It’ll even be a better confession when I mention I sold my mig a while ago but still have my old stick welder with stale old 4mm gp rods so will just end up filling the hole with slag inclusion. Hmmm. Might get @fjohn860 onto the job. I’ve heard he’s pretty handy with a welder. 🤔
 
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