What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!
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fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
Undoubtedly this shock would benefit from some more HSC but that will have to wait until I service it.
What it does need is a frame with an optimal leverage ratio for a coil (or a CC link).
No stickers on wrong (yet). C-c-c-coil installed though.
Oversprung ever so slightly and still blows through the travel with a 2.4 leverage ratio.
The test ride this week should be interesting.
Chriso_29er
Eats Squid
Rode into the office today.
2nd commute in two weeks
Bike commute to the office
2nd commute in two weeks
Bike commute to the office
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Been in a bit of a funk the last couple of weeks, to the point of not even wanting to post here. Kinda still am, but working my way back up.
Started with a thoroughly shit race where a 60+ guy who hasn't beaten me since my third ever race 6 years ago, did just that by a good few minutes.
Anyway, took the Not So Little Sender to Adelaide to try his hand at actual mountains and neither us of were disgraced. NSLS was lapped by a skinny little whippet on a carbon exotica race weapon, but wasn't last, and I was much the same in C Grade.
This week was bit lack-lustre in that I made it halfway around the Beechworth XC Loop when my light told me it needed charging, so I called it early, and then the universe conspired against me to keep me in a tractor until after dark while I was in Shepparton.
Tried making a new friend in Beechworth. It wasn't interested.
Started with a thoroughly shit race where a 60+ guy who hasn't beaten me since my third ever race 6 years ago, did just that by a good few minutes.
Anyway, took the Not So Little Sender to Adelaide to try his hand at actual mountains and neither us of were disgraced. NSLS was lapped by a skinny little whippet on a carbon exotica race weapon, but wasn't last, and I was much the same in C Grade.
This week was bit lack-lustre in that I made it halfway around the Beechworth XC Loop when my light told me it needed charging, so I called it early, and then the universe conspired against me to keep me in a tractor until after dark while I was in Shepparton.
Tried making a new friend in Beechworth. It wasn't interested.
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
I'd be OTB into that bin.Rode into the office today.
2nd commute in two weeks
Bike commute to the office
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
That couldn't have been John. So I'm guessing Sarge. Have you thought of throwing him in the river?
I used to get the shits being beaten by teenagers...
Let me guess...609.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
No, Rohan. Sarge lapped me, he's riding out of his skin at the moment.
Teenagers being faster than me I can cope with. NSLS being only a few minutes behind me is actually a bit awesome. But 5 out of the 6 in front of me are have also completed more laps around the sun. Not keeping up with my peers for no other reason than a lack of time to train is what's crawling up my arse.
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
I never got within cooee of Rohan. And that was a decade ago. You'll get used to it.
I'm currently being comprehensively out ridden by a bloke with not enough fingers, limited flexibility and not enough hearing whose got more than a decade on my late 50's bones. Fortunately, he's just a roadie.
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Chriso_29er
Eats Squid
One of my colleagues tried their hardest to do the same haha
Not sure this was a HR approved activity.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Here's an alternate narrative @Cardy George - despite taking the gamble and making the sacrifice to work long hours, large distances from home and missing out on seeing your family days at a time, all to help put said family in a better position that will create more opportunities for your kids and yourselves in the future, and only getting infrequent and greatly reduced time free to ride - you still managed to show up, participate in an activity that you shared time (and the passion of) with your kid and were only beaten by a few minutes. Sounds like a win to me.
Unless you were doing the 100m sprint, in which case you suck dude.
Unless you were doing the 100m sprint, in which case you suck dude.
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Hambo
"I did a lot of very fat people"
My rotors rub badly, changed pads because they were close to worn, pushed pistons in with a tyre lever (very gently!).
They still fucking rub!
Reset the callipers.
Still rub.
Try to straighten the rotor.
Still rub.
Fuck it, put an offer in on some lightly used SLX brakes
They still fucking rub!
Reset the callipers.
Still rub.
Try to straighten the rotor.
Still rub.
Fuck it, put an offer in on some lightly used SLX brakes
Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
Sounds like you need to clean the pistons with iso alcohol and a cotton bud. Then lube with the other end of the cotton bud and some mineral oil. Then push them in and out till they move smoothly.My rotors rub badly, changed pads because they were close to worn, pushed pistons in with a tyre lever (very gently!).
They still fucking rub!
Reset the callipers.
Still rub.
Try to straighten the rotor.
Still rub.
Fuck it, put an offer in on some lightly used SLX brakes
Plenty of YT videos showing the process.
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Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Careful, you're starting to sound like my wife.......Here's an alternate narrative @Cardy George - despite taking the gamble and making the sacrifice to work long hours, large distances from home and missing out on seeing your family days at a time, all to help put said family in a better position that will create more opportunities for your kids and yourselves in the future, and only getting infrequent and greatly reduced time free to ride - you still managed to show up, participate in an activity that you shared time (and the passion of) with your kid and were only beaten by a few minutes. Sounds like a win to me.
Unless you were doing the 100m sprint, in which case you suck dude.
Hambo
"I did a lot of very fat people"
So I have sticky pistons?
Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
Sounds like it. If you have centred the caliper and the rotor isn't warped, then that's all that's left.
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