Another Whyte - the G170s

[weeksy]

You'll need teeny tiny circlip pliers

I don’t bother. Threadlock works
And doesn’t involve tiny pliers

I think you've got something wrong... this is on the internal piston which holds the piston on the master cylinder in place.

p5pb14535393 by Steve Weeks, on Flickr

Lower right hand circlip....

[Mr Moofo]

Okay - lever end .
I avoid lever ends.
I was talking callipers
I can do callipers

That said that circlip look doable

[weeksy]

Okay - lever end .
I avoid lever ends.
I was talking callipers
I can do callipers

That said that circlip look doable

it's just quite a way inside the master, so needs quite pointy circlip pliers. I bought the Park Tools ones for the job, they snapped first try.. I wasn't impressed.

[Numnut]

Hmmm... I think my circlip pliers will do it.

They're similiar to these - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374253972569 ... 4ef5626f45

Seems a good opportunity to get a sneaky upgrade though!

Here's some bits of the trails we managed at the weekend. The ramp doesn't look much - but I was sure it'd end in complete death. The landing goes straight in to 4 berms before a big drop at the end. There's a video of me doing this, and riding it felt so fast. Watching the video, I'm barely moving!

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If you stand on the edge to sus it out, it puts you off. If you just ride off it, it's a really nice landing!


The jump on to the whale tail - the guy I ride with just didn't get high enough and his front wheel hit the top of the ramp...

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[weeksy]

Hmmm... I think my circlip pliers will do it.

They're similiar to these - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/374253972569 ... 4ef5626f45

Yeah, no.... lol... they won't... they're the same as mine potentially

I bought a teeny set.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133175814733 ... R6Drm7uWYg

I'd probably go for these.

[weeksy]

Here's some bits of the trails we managed at the weekend. The ramp doesn't look much - but I was sure it'd end in complete death. The landing goes straight in to 4 berms before a big drop at the end. There's a video of me doing this, and riding it felt so fast. Watching the video, I'm barely moving!
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If you stand on the edge to sus it out, it puts you off. If you just ride off it, it's a really nice landing!


The jump on to the whale tail - the guy I ride with just didn't get high enough and his front wheel hit the top of the ramp...
IMG_5473.JPG

BLoody nice job... i don't know why but these days that stuff has completely become my nemesis... I may be able to ride 'trails' OK, but features, meh.. i'm rubbish.

[Numnut]

Cheers for the pliers link.

And cheers! You run out of stuff to do at Twisted if you don't try the features - we've wasted lots of time just staring at things instead of riding them. Doing the ramp meant that we had a bit of confidence to try the start of the growler trail which we looked at when we first went and figured we'd never try. Turned out it was pretty easy in the end.

At that enduro mashup in december, you were a lot happier trying things than I was, and a fair chunk faster so I reckon you'd be fine!

This is me, going slowly but feeling like its super fast. I think I need to get myself lower on the berms. But really, I'm just happy not to have crashed!