Can you describe this more?
Mountain Bike Bro Secret:
When snipping zip-ties, use a lighter to soften the remaining protrusion then use the butt of the lighter to smush / round the shape into something that won’t leave you wounded.
I usually chop with nippers and grind flush with Dremel.
Dremel with cutoff wheel also makes an awzm housing cutter
Toe-nail clipper works perfectly. I also use end cutters. They make the cut flush.
Fuck yeah it does. Plus sparks!
forgot about this one until I recabled, housinged, and taped today, but different color housing for stoppers vs. danglers is great for helping remember which inline adjuster does what.
Or you can use the 4mm linear housing for shitters and the 5mm coil for braks.
well yeah. my eyes aren’t as well calibrated as some.
didn’t really know where else to post this, but I noticed a super loud creak/squeak last night when downshifting the rear on my road bike, and couldn’t for the life of me find out what is was during my ride.
Flipped 'er over when I got home and squirted some chain lube in the plastic bottom bracket cable guide groove for the rear shift cable, and creak gone. Didn’t even know that could be a thing.
oh yeah definitely a thing.
Definitely a thing. I often apply a thin coat of Shimano special grease when I’m recabling a bike. I also have like 5,000 plastic cable guides, and I switch them out often on really nasty bikes. New one, and lubed ones, definitely improve shifting.
I either do that or run a little bit of like nokon or some other liner through the guide and use a syringe to inject some lube in before I put the cable through. Helps to keep some gunk outta there.
Would doing things like that help prevent the auto-shifting gentleman of substance experience while riding hard out of the saddle?
Asking for a friend.
[quote=imoscardotcom]didn’t really know where else to post this, but I noticed a super loud creak/squeak last night when downshifting the rear on my road bike, and couldn’t for the life of me find out what is was during my ride.
Flipped 'er over when I got home and squirted some chain lube in the plastic bottom bracket cable guide groove for the rear shift cable, and creak gone. Didn’t even know that could be a thing.[/quote]
MY FUCKING SAVIOR! BEEN GOING CRAZY FOR TWO WEEKS.
lolol, awesome!
A rubber mallet is a great thing to have around, not only for bikes but generally.
Yep. Never had one, never thought I needed one. Then my friend moved in and he had one. Shit is so damn useful.
Per the under BB cable guide; It is plastic and durable but being plastic it is a petroleum product. Not all lubes are beneficial to a knocked up sawed through surface that has lots of little cracks for it hide in. Environment and the type of weather you ride the bike in make a big difference. In my case lots of salt and road chemicals acting as drying agents.
So two objectives, not collecting abrasive particles and restoring the plastics low friction state. I start by removing the cables to fully degrease it. Followed by flushing the chemicals off and burnishing the cable paths. Then let a light lube soak in for a hour before being wiped dry. Finally I take a piece of clean cable with SP-41 and floss away under pressure fast enough to heat it up a little.
Excessive but effective.
Million$$idea: Cable guides made from Delrin?