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*sniff* far out guys! Doesn't anyone understand how hard it is for a balding middle aged guy to grow a man bun and stay on trend in a world obsessed with youth regardless of our ageing demographics???
I went direct with Manitou on a fork purchase from Wiggle. They were the ducks nuts! Having said that, I wouldn't have been surprised if they told me to go through Wiggle.
I thought as a well known world wide business that they can send him an email stating to go through the proper channels or of their intent of action.I'm with boomking. Hope would surely rather crc handle it.
USA retailers really know how to work. I recently emailed an Australian snowboard retailer through their website asking if they would price match a sale on another Australian retailer's site...first lot waited til the other guys sale was over before getting back to me, about 9 work days. I didn't need the stuff by then but how do these dickheads expect to survive? It.dodnt inspire me with confidence to buy from them!
Similar with bikes. Similar with everything.
Shame on you for riding past MTB trails on a road bike. What's the world coming to, huh?Another big day on the bike yesterday (even if it was the roadie) but have now completed my first 100mile excursion. Got sent over a traffic island into the gutter thanks to the bloke in front swerving late and not calling the obstacle but stayed upright and no damage or flat thankfully after hitting it hard. Was a bit if a struggle towards the end, as some bastard put most of the hills on the course at about the 125km mark....
Was actually pretty impressed to see people doing the 160km ride on full suspension mtbs! Doubt I could have done it on my enduro...Shame on you for riding past MTB trails on a road bike. What's the world coming to, huh?
I've done a couple of centuries on the MTB hard tail in the past, it's a lot slower process but not impossible and I'm old and worn out.:tongue1:Was actually pretty impressed to see people doing the 160km ride on full suspension mtbs! Doubt I could have done it on my enduro...
Just like yesterday! Dirt jumps and trails with one of my mates. Good times were had!Took the slope style bike out for a spin. Had an absolute blast! I was running the Schwalbe table tops at ~35psi and found them to be awesome. 1 minor slip in a big berm which was mostly my fault anyway. I wanted to really push the tyre, railing the berm reasonably quickly, leant the bike down as far as I could, slippppppppppp, managed to hold it and keep going. I came back to the berm and noticed I'd not been pressed up into the wall or it at all and was trying to lean over on flat dirt!
Good job, I've got a spare collection of steel for jobs like this.Good job Miguel - I'm due the same on a Recon on the hardtail/commuter - I can see some small cracks in the fork seals starting to appear so I don't know if I can put it off much longer!
I replaced a Shimano BB71 pressfit bottom bracket on the same bike this afternoon - the old one was about 3 years old and the NDS bearing always got noisy if I was riding in the wet - sort of a squelchy sound that was force dependent - the harder I rode, the noisier it got.
I'm what you'd call a selective tight-arse - I've been happily building a collection of expensive blue coloured tools recently to do more servicing myself, but for infrequent jobs like a bearing replacement, I'm too stingy to spend up on a proper bearing removal tool or press - even the cheaper brands.
Sooo... a trip to the big green shed and $6.62 later, I end up with this:
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The home made made bearing removal tool - a length of chrome towel rail - 900mm long x 19mm diameter, cut off about 250mm and 4 hacksaw cuts - $4.77 for the length, good for at least 3 tools, so call it a buck sixty for what is pictured. The PVC-U pressure pipe end cap cost me more at $1.85, and I used it to knock out the other bearing once the first one was removed with the towel rail tool. It was a perfect fit, and being plastic far less likely to score the inside of the frame. New BB was gently pressed in using the bolt and two bits of metal angle - I had all that shit just lying around so it cost me nothing. Worked a treat though - the pressfit BB bearings go in so much easier when they are pushed in evenly!
Next job will be the long overdue fork lowers - hopefully it won't be a story for the FW thread.