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05-12-2022, 02:49 PM #26Registered User
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I don't want to go to my bike shop and ask them to put cable caps on for me though. I go there plenty for other dumb shit already.
yeah, i've fallen for that before too! Just watched one two days ago. Step 3 of 12: "Then it just slides off!"
OK, it does not slide off for me. WTF. I'm not even at a step that is suppose to be hard.
it sure did break off though. Ordered a new part. I hope it "Just slides on!"
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05-12-2022, 03:14 PM #27
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05-12-2022, 04:34 PM #29Registered User
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05-12-2022, 04:38 PM #30Registered User
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05-12-2022, 04:40 PM #31Registered User
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05-12-2022, 05:24 PM #32
Recently I used a metal Pedro’s tire lever to try and push in a stuck piston (brake pads removed) while waiting for a friend in Colorado Springs. JFC, what in the doo-diddly was I thinking?
Cracked piston, oil everywhere, no ride that day that I had driven a day to do.
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05-12-2022, 05:27 PM #33
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05-12-2022, 06:16 PM #34
Recently I spent 20 min meticulously pushing and pulling mineral oil through a set of maguras. Finally getting every last air bubble out….. ….Then I proceed to put a greasy ass thumb print on one of the pads….
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05-12-2022, 07:24 PM #35
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05-12-2022, 07:25 PM #36Registered User
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I am, yes. But I've put on end caps dozens of times and it's easy - but not this time and I have no clue why. I wouldn't be shocked if the bike industry came up with new standards of cable housing sizes recently and each brand uses a different circumference housing and now you need specialized cable housing ends to work. Fack me.
Just put on a new grip shift (the thing I broke trying to 'slide off' in an above post) and new cable on my kids bike. It now shifts to 5 out of 6 gears. I'm calling that a win.
Let me know if anyone needs instructions on how to do this as shitty as I did.
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05-12-2022, 07:58 PM #37one of those sickos
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05-12-2022, 07:59 PM #38one of those sickos
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05-12-2022, 08:06 PM #39
If you were talking just bikes I could forgive...
Thank you Mr Chup, you know your wrenching. Working on automotive vehicles that are spec’s to imperial measurements means you are using Society of Automotive Engineers spec wrenches in the US.
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05-12-2022, 08:30 PM #40
"What kind of fasteners should we use on this car"
"Imperial?"
"Yeah, but let's rename imperial after ourselves for no apparent reason"
"Sounds good. I'm in."
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05-12-2022, 08:53 PM #41
Close to my argument when the crusty US draft dodger kootenay hippy corrected me as I was wrenching on my truck in his shop for a rate a young broke buck could afford. He lectured me for several minutes and then laid down the law - next time I mentioned ‘imperial’ to describe SAE tools, I would be banned from his shop.
I valued keeping my wheels turning more than my pride at the time.
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05-12-2022, 08:57 PM #42
Some cretin may have sold you 5mm shift housing
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05-12-2022, 09:31 PM #43
I recently was excited to get a new build together so (late at night) while shortening the hose length down on my brand new code RSCs I remounted the hose with the olive in the wrong direction. Fully assembled the bike before noticing brake fluid dripping from the lever. Damn olive stuck in the lever when I removed the hose. Still trying to figure a way to get that little fucker out. Might be out two new levers. But the little rainbow bits look so good on my workbench.
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05-12-2022, 09:38 PM #44
Anybody else play “how loose can you let your hub cones get and have the wheel still not quite blow up”?
Me neither.
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05-12-2022, 09:50 PM #45
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05-12-2022, 10:09 PM #46
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05-12-2022, 10:42 PM #47
That’s what I was planning on trying next. But given my track record we’ll see how it turns out…
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05-12-2022, 11:38 PM #48
Anyone have advice for what other kind of shit to litter the floor with so that any little bolt you drop in is more perfectly camouflaged? I've gotten the basics down pretty well. Floor hasn't been swept in a year, lots of open bins of parts it could potentially fall in and plenty of gaps underneath the workbench for it to roll under. Also open to thoughts on maximizing the number of stupid surfaces to set my 4mm allen key on.
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05-13-2022, 12:44 AM #49
After battling for a long time to mount a moto ice tire on the wrong direction.... faaack remount.
Ice tires have super stiff casings with a road carcass inside.
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05-13-2022, 06:14 AM #50yelgatgab
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I don’t think I’ve ever mounted a set of Race Face cranks without forgetting the drive-side bushing.
After reading multiple warnings about how easy it is to strip the bleed plug on MT-7 levers, I promptly stripped the bleed plug on a brand new MT-7 lever. This was after trying to do a no-bleed line shortening. I got the compression nut finger tight against the olive then walked away to do something. Came back an hour later and grabbed a handful of brake, making it a must-bleed line shortening, which sucked because it didn’t have a Magura bleed kit.Remind me. We'll send him a red cap and a Speedo.
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