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Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:18 pm
by Beancounter
Mr Moofo wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 8:27 pm
weeksy wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:56 pm
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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:12 pm
by Mr Moofo
Beancounter wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2023 9:18 pm
Mr Moofo wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 8:27 pm
weeksy wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:56 pm
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
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 7:07 pm
by 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
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 12:30 pm
by 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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:17 pm
by mboy
Mr Moofo wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 8:27 pm
weeksy wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:56 pm
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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2023 4:29 pm
by 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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:16 am
by 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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:18 am
by weeksy
MingtheMerciless wrote: Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:16 am
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
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:04 pm
by 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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:34 pm
by weeksy
It's not secured at the end? Or is it threaded on the other end?
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:02 pm
by Mr Moofo
MingtheMerciless wrote: Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:16 am
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?
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:58 pm
by MingtheMerciless
Mr Moofo wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:02 pm
MingtheMerciless wrote: Wed Nov 01, 2023 10:16 am
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
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:00 pm
by MingtheMerciless
weeksy wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 6:34 pm
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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 2:36 pm
by 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 .
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:16 pm
by weeksy
A what now?
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:30 pm
by MingtheMerciless
One of these, helps keep the mud off the post.
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Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:35 pm
by Mr Moofo
MingtheMerciless wrote: Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:30 pm
One of these, helps keep the mud off the post.
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Does it actually work?
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:41 pm
by 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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 7:36 am
by 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.
Re: What have you done to your bicycle today ?
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:32 pm
by 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.