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09-05-2022, 12:49 PM #3926
Smoke is here. I guess I have to set up the trainer again? Drive to north idaho? Not ride a bike for a few days? So many bad options.
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09-05-2022, 02:02 PM #3927
Goddammit, I’m an idiot. Was fixing my wife’s stuck caliper piston. Bled it, closed the bleed port, fine. Got the piston moving, pressed it in…and BLAMMO, huge oil leak out of the reservoir bladder at the lever. Whoops, forgot to crack the bleed port! Overfilled, game over.
The bitch is that I did this EXACT same thing four years ago when I got my new XTR stuff.
Memory ain’t what it used to be.
Thank god I found a brand new lever for $35.00, hopefully it’s not vaporware…Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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09-05-2022, 02:17 PM #3928
I've been riding bikes for 3 decades and when installing a new chain on my bike it still takes me at least 3 tries to route it correctly.
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09-05-2022, 07:21 PM #3929Not a skibum
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Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?
Too many beers deep I ran chain on wrong side of the pulley bridge(? Dunno what it’s called little tab between top and bottom pulley), then took me 3-4 rides to figure out wtf was wrong. It wasn’t making nearly as much noise as I thought it would have, but did feel like I was pedaling through concrete.
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09-05-2022, 11:32 PM #3930
I wouldn’t call it a ‘rant’, but check out THIS bullshit.
https://www.nashbar.com/fox-suspensi...01-510/p668182
“Next item on sale: one half of an ice cream sandwich, $1.99
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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09-06-2022, 07:54 AM #3931mental projection
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Don't get me started on that. I've built miles of trail with SWIMBA and for some reason they decided long ago that they were going to piss off all of the other trail managers in the area with new ideas for freeride trails back when those were popular. I think the thing that pisses me off the most about SWIMBA is that they COULD work with other land managers, but due to the reason above, SWIMBA has been stamped with a DO NOT WORK WITH.
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09-06-2022, 09:45 AM #3932
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09-06-2022, 09:52 AM #3933
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09-11-2022, 10:37 AM #3934
Could be a blessing in disguise. The only thing worse than having a mini ex and not using it is having one and using the shit out of it but having no clue how to build good trail with it. Local group seems to be on a mission to turn every inch of trail into a dirt sidewalk.
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09-12-2022, 05:17 PM #3935Registered User
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Follow up on this one!
Got a call from this shop while they were working on it and they said my chain is gone, need a new derailleur, cassette, maybe chainring, and both brake rotors are below minimum. I told them kindly to do the free tuneup and give it back to me.
Got home and checked the bike out. Both rotors are at 1.75mm (1.8 is new, 1.5 is min). Chain is barely at .5 so ok, I put a new one on. After their “tuneup” the damn shifting wouldn’t even index so I retuned it, with the new chain on, the cassette indexes perfectly and nothing skips or is hung up (cassette has 1400km but has been regularly cleaned as has chain). Cassette and chainring look fine.
What a shit show. I’m not usually one to leave bad google reviews but man, I’m certainly not buying anything from them again.
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09-13-2022, 10:21 AM #3936Not a skibum
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F'ing Karens ruining fun for everyone. Bitch about kids not getting outside, but then block the attempt for multiple years running.
Cliff notes; uppity neighbors built upscale houses that back up to woods, town nearby has had a pump track in the planning since ~2015 (before houses came in I believe), unleash NIMBY/Karens. In the meantime there are already very short trails through these woods that allowed(?) or at least tolerated bikes, some kids built some tiny jumps and then they start ticketing people for riding bikes back there. Finally after years the pumptrack made it into the town master plan and folks aren't giving it up.
Creating petitions and the like, but now they're using the "natural habitat" as their rationale. Love the random stock pictures and you can clearly see someone's house (likely one of the creators of this petition/site). Meanwhile this is in a fairly densely populated town already and there are something like 30-40 acres across the street from this 1 acre wooded plot. Ridiculous
https://savemalvernshabitat.com/malv...t-bicycle-park
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09-13-2022, 10:26 AM #3937
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09-13-2022, 12:24 PM #3938User
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09-13-2022, 12:38 PM #3939yelgatgab
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Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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09-13-2022, 01:11 PM #3940Registered User
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Thats BS...
they say a free tuneup includes a complete tear down & rebuild. I'd probably be skeptical based on that.
A few springs ago I was swamped w/ life, so I dropped the bikes off for service, and to get some parts replaced. Ended up being a complete PITA and a reminder to wrench on my stuff as much as possible.
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09-13-2022, 01:28 PM #3941Not a skibum
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Actually missed that on the initial viewing. Also in a very unsurprising revelation, the person commenting on the article that lead me to that site also happens to live adjacent to the soon to be toxic waste zo... err I mean public park.
Bag of dicks isn't enough, think we need to bring in a truckload.
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09-14-2022, 01:42 PM #3942Nothing happens now
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Tapered steerer tube clamped in bike stand on the idiot spot.
Kind of like not putting the cap back on the toothpaste tube. Instead of a little mess on one’s razer, I got a good old direct hit of concreate on the air shaft valve when it squeezed out a few minutes later.So the world is filled with tubular entities. Food goes in one end and shit comes out the other. Sperm goes in and babies come out.
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09-14-2022, 03:22 PM #3943
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09-14-2022, 04:06 PM #3944
I actually have a working lever or two that I can poach, what I am not seeing is a step by step video of just how to remove them and replace them…
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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09-14-2022, 06:08 PM #3945
Anyone have anything they'd like to rant about?
Bleed the fluid out of the reservoir. Pull the brake lever to better access a 2mm reservoir screw under the lever body. Unthread it so it only shows 1 or 2 threads, do not unthread it completely. Once the 2mm reservoir diaphragm fixing screw is backed out, use your 2mm through top bleed screw to gently pry the diaphragm loose.
When placing the new diaphragm in the lever body, make sure the keyed notch is lined up.
If you really need a video I can send you one.
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09-14-2022, 08:43 PM #3946Registered User
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Dee, thank you. I don't even need any futzing with my Shimanos, but I'm compelled to say "you're awesome!" Thanks for your generous contributions to this island of misfit toys. My turn needing your expertise will surely come one of these days.
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09-14-2022, 09:04 PM #3947
I’ll give it a go tomorrow, actually sounds fairly easy.
Thanks!Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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09-15-2022, 02:21 PM #3948
Dee, do you have a picture of the "2mm reservoir screw under the lever body"? I can't find it anywhere.
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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09-15-2022, 02:22 PM #3949
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09-15-2022, 02:32 PM #3950
I'm sick of mountain bikers misusing the word loam. Loam is a specific percentage mixture of sand, silt and clay. Most of the time what is called loam is really organic humus or maybe topsoil. Words have meaning people!
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