What have you done to your bicycle today ?

[Beancounter]

Mmmm indeed. I'll be curious to know the answer here.

I would like to find a wheel building course

I've got a wheel building book by Roger Musson which is very helpful - happy to email it over.

[Mr Moofo]

Mmmm indeed. I'll be curious to know the answer here.

I would like to find a wheel building course

I've got a wheel building book by Roger Musson which is very helpful - happy to email it over.

Yes please!
I will send you a PM

[Taff]

I rode my Ghost around Glastonbury & Wells yesterday and it didn't really feel great, so I've just pulled every bearing in the linkages to find nearly every one of them is seized
I swapped out the bottom bracket bearings while it's apart as well

[MingtheMerciless]

Opened up the Trek Madones BB. Rusty water following the crank spindle out told the story. NDS bearing is shot, still spins but very very rough, so I've flushed it out, repacked it and its off to the LBS for new bearings once the Evil comes back with serviced boingy bits.

[mboy]

Mmmm indeed. I'll be curious to know the answer here.

I would like to find a wheel building course

Where do you live?

Currently teaching a friend of mine... We built these wheels the other day for my full sus...



Got another pair to do with him later this week... This time I'll just be supervising.

[MingtheMerciless]

Serviced the Curtis' BB, rear wheel bearings, jockey wheels, put a bit more self amalgamation tape on the chain stay where it was wearing thin, serviced the One Up dropper which is really easy, its been properly designed to be service at home with no special tools. It's ready for another month or so's sodden Sarf Dahns riding now.

[MingtheMerciless]

Yesterday I did my partial commute to work from Scarfolk-on-Sea to Lewes along the new cycle path, about halfway along the 13 mile trip it turned into monsoon like conditions so this morning I dropped out the crank and dried out the seals and BB before popping the new bearing seals (that were fitted yesterday) and packing them with the special grease. Reset gears and tweaked the saddle height.

[weeksy]

Yesterday I did my partial commute to work from Scarfolk-on-Sea to Lewes along the new cycle path, about halfway along the 13 mile trip it turned into monsoon like conditions so this morning I dropped out the crank and dried out the seals and BB before popping the new bearing seals (that were fitted yesterday) and packing them with the special grease. Reset gears and tweaked the saddle height.

Funnily i re-did 2 of his pivot bearings with the magic grease yesterday and 2 new bearings

[MingtheMerciless]

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Riding home from the station this morning and one of my shoes wouldn’t clip in properly, thought I knew what it was so carefully pedalled home and on arrival my suspicions were confirmed, the spring pin had worked loose , nearly too loose as any further and the pedal explodes.

A bit of fiddling, pushing home and bodging with Sikaflex and hopefully good for a few more miles.

[weeksy]

It's not secured at the end? Or is it threaded on the other end?

[Mr Moofo]

Yesterday I did my partial commute to work from Scarfolk-on-Sea to Lewes along the new cycle path, about halfway along the 13 mile trip it turned into monsoon like conditions so this morning I dropped out the crank and dried out the seals and BB before popping the new bearing seals (that were fitted yesterday) and packing them with the special grease. Reset gears and tweaked the saddle height.

what new cycle path?

[MingtheMerciless]

Yesterday I did my partial commute to work from Scarfolk-on-Sea to Lewes along the new cycle path, about halfway along the 13 mile trip it turned into monsoon like conditions so this morning I dropped out the crank and dried out the seals and BB before popping the new bearing seals (that were fitted yesterday) and packing them with the special grease. Reset gears and tweaked the saddle height.

what new cycle path?

Polegate to Firle, it runs alongside the A27 but mostly your far enough away that it’s not too intrusive or feeling like your riding on a pavement next to a busy road

[MingtheMerciless]

It's not secured at the end? Or is it threaded on the other end?

Nope, it relies upon the knurling holding it too the plastic pedal body, it works OK but as they age it becomes a weak point and the pin can work loose, shame as they are brilliant pedals for me.

[MingtheMerciless]

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Fitted a new dropper post guard after I put the other one ina “safe” place last year and had to strip a rebuild the dropper the other day after a couple of months of muddy rides without it being fitted .

[weeksy]

A what now?

[MingtheMerciless]

One of these, helps keep the mud off the post.

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[Mr Moofo]

One of these, helps keep the mud off the post.

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Does it actually work?

[MingtheMerciless]

Yep stops the dropper stanchion becoming completely encrusted in tyre fling. It does get a bit dirty but nowhere near as bad as if you don’t run one.

[weeksy]

Mine is clean after every ride as half the time it's down, so it self wipes... I can see why keeping it clean even when up would be useful though.

[MingtheMerciless]

Broken it, my pedal "fix" lasted two rides before the pin and spring ejected itself 12 miles from home (I suspect at the top of Firle Beacon). FFS. Now no one has either XC6 or XC8's in stock at a sensible price.