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

After months of abuse on dusty dirt trails I decided to pull apart my ARC and clean, grease, lube etc. Well a few beers later and on the home stretch to get lubed up and greasy. Did not allow inner thoughts to come forth and say "why is the grease tube grey?" whilst packing hubs with anti seize. Fwit doh :frusty:

Still, now no longer noisy and an excuse to pull it apart again...
 
Nerdbox said:
Took it for a ride at Lysty - a stick flicked up and snapped my tubeless valve clean in half.....honestly what are the chances???
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Happened to a mate last week too
Stock Shimano valve snapped in half


The wire bead Maxxis monorails in the missus bike wouldn't seal up properly on the XT's.... So on went the UST crossmarks which sealed up with 2 strokes of the floor pump!!!
 
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mtb1611 said:
Interesting.....mate was over form Ireland recently and as a loaner had a Commencal (unsure of model). I remarked that it was curious to see Schrader valves on a high-end bike, his response being that there was a growing school of thought amongst manufacturers given their strength, and resistance to damage from trailside obstacles. bah I said, what are the chances of that........?!

As to what I did with my bike this weekend....made sure it was good-to-go on Friday night in readiness for Saturday's aborted ride (time management) and today's aborted ride (smoke).... :-(
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Don't think a Schrader would have survived either. It was one of the Stans 35mm valves and they're chunky buggers, at first sight I thought the removable core had torn out but nope, snapped through just above the nut holding it to the rim. Surely it's a one in a million scenario??
 
Nerdbox said:
Don't think a Schrader would have survived either. It was one of the Stans 35mm valves and they're chunky buggers, at first sight I thought the removable core had torn out but nope, snapped through just above the nut holding it to the rim. Surely it's a one in a million scenario??
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Mate I'm interested as to what hit it, in order to cause that kinda damage!
 
mtb1611 said:
Mate I'm interested as to what hit it, in order to cause that kinda damage!
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Just a small-ish stick at low speed on a fire road climb

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Nerdbox said:
Just a small-ish stick at low speed on a fire road climb

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Luckily didn't take out a spoke!

What I did (yesterday): Road (the roadie) 250kms in around the bay in a day. Spending today looking at the MTB and can't wait to take it out this weekend :D
 
Berm VonCrashen said:
After months of abuse on dusty dirt trails I decided to pull apart my ARC and clean, grease, lube etc. Well a few beers later and on the home stretch to get lubed up and greasy. Did not allow inner thoughts to come forth and say "why is the grease tube grey?" whilst packing hubs with anti seize. Fwit doh :frusty:

Still, now no longer noisy and an excuse to pull it apart again...
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Needs to be in fuckwits confession thread :first:
 
Spotty said:
I say go for it! I'm doing the exact thing with mine, and reviews on the internet say that the extra travel will make it heaps more forgiving but will also slacken out the HA to smash the downhill sections!
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it does also void the warranty
 
new 38T absoluteblack narrow-wide ring, new ultegra 11-28 cassette and new KMC X10L chain for one bike... total $240

new 44T ring, new 18T freewheel and new 1/8" chain for the other bike... total $47
 
I'm building up 2010 Giant trance frame from scratch. I found an awesome deal on a set of revelation RL's on here and I thought there perfect, tapered steerer they'll go straight on.

Turns out the giant trance frame does NOT have a tapered headset like the website suggests :pout: New frame I think!
 
Yeah found that one out haha. Not to worry I think I'd like a little more travel anyway. Anyone selling a reign WITH a tapered steerer? :p
 
Spotty said:
I'm building up 2010 Giant trance frame from scratch. I found an awesome deal on a set of revelation RL's on here and I thought there perfect, tapered steerer they'll go straight on.

Turns out the giant trance frame does NOT have a tapered headset like the website suggests :pout: New frame I think!
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does the trance have a 44mm headtube? you can use a Hope H cup to fit a tapered steerer fork.
like this...

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Hmmm that could work, however I think it'd raise the front end to much as it already will be higher then normal with a 150mm fork and I'm unsure the OD IS 50mm . Thanks for that Mitchy, I think I'll try and sell this and buy a reign haha

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Organised a meet up with my Strava nemesis.... Had a fun social cruise around my local trail, top bloke and what a rider!
 
I went for a ride after fitting 2 High Roller super tacky tyres to the Sanction.
15kms with 1X10. I rode The Hack, Bandy Bandy, Ridgey Didge then back down The Hack to home.
After not riding a lot recently that hurt. I almost had a massive high speed off too, over jumping on The Hack and landing on a steep downwards slope on my fron wheel.
Pucker up!
 
Finally got the nickel feeling something like I want it to:
ditched crossmax for arch hoops
ditched 120 rlc and 140 talas ctd for 150mm revelations (thanks stinky)
ditched clutched slx for zee
ditched red works NW ring for gold works NW ring
15mm of spacers under stem

time to test properly on 60km trail ride tomorrow. :hungry:
 
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