This reminds me, a dumb question - the schrader vale on my joe blow pump doesn’t seem to fasten. Never really used it but it can’t hold a basketball needle or this thing. Can this be replaced? Can I replace the whole head?
Is it a head that you have to flip the inside insert for using on a header valves? Gotta unscrew the outside piece then flip the rubber gasket thing on some heads.
No rubber gasket on either side. It’s this:
The cover caps unscrew, and the whole head comes off. Maybe I can put a silca head on or something.
I have this exact pump, must be 20y old! (My Silca is even older, c1996) Still works fine for presta and schrader but I have probably just jinxed myself.
Something I did for a worn Silca insert was to tape the outside with electrical tape which made it clamp down to a smaller ID and tighter valve fit.
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Yes, topeak sell the heads as replacements.
If going not oem i’d look at prestacycle over silca or hiro if money no object.
Topeak Morph G gang rise up
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There are rubber gaskets and some o-rings inside of the head. If you take off the lever first you can slide the rest out. I ran into some problems with the o-rings that are inside of that head a while back and when I took them out and cleaned everything up and regreased the o-rings everything worked great again.
Thinking about some wider 29er rims/wheels for my Gryphon to run 2.8-3" tires on. Anything off the shelf that’s got 15x100/12x142 hubs or do I need to build my own? I dont want to spend $850ish on BTLOS but…I could
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Interesting, I’ll give this a try. I’d tried unscrewing the caps but there were no seals there
Have these brakes. Is it possible to change the lever out for a 1 finger? Just the lever blade
A big flat head screwdriver works to loosen and free the yellow lever. Then you can push the inner part out once you have removed the screw on covers. I’ll look at mine when I get home but I think I remember there being some rubber gasket in there to help clamp down on the valves.
I don’t believe the lever blade is removeable on those brakes.
Just move them 1.5 cm closer to the stem. Now they are one finger brakes.
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There definitely is a rubber part that fits around the valve stem.
Never used a dropper post before, but I get the concept. Are there any posts that can be set to a predefined height? Or are most of them “press lever until you like it” each time
Since getting a leg over the TT/saddle is hard I may need one to keep riding until I get a hip replacement
Man I love dropper posts, but I still haven’t got over the disappointment I felt upon realizing that they don’t just drop when you press the lever, ya gotta push it down with your butt. They really should be called poppers atmo. But reguarding your q, you set them up to your regular seat height when raised and yeah just hold the lever and push it down with your butt until you like it.
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Some of y’all might have seen that I have this fork listed in the marketplace. It’s just a tad too long for this frame and that’s been hard for me to admit but here I am.
Shart Q: I’ve really dug this bike as a full ridgid for country bike stuff, my first instinct is to just replace it with the shorter version of this whisky fork. OTOH their are a few nice suspension fork options that ost a bit less. I’ve got a rad trail bike, and a rad gravel race bike. I guess I’d rather have a rowdy rough road flat bar gravel bike than an xc hardtail but they are really the same bike at the end of the day?
Nevermind. Megadeal at worldwide cyclery, RS gold 35 inbound, correct offset and everything.
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I picked up a rigid fork for my bikepacking bike, and while I’ve only commuted on it, it feels really harsh. Its an Ali-express fork, I assume, as it was a freebie. I dont recall this kind of harshness from my OPEN UP fork. Are Ali forks horrible in peoples experience or what ?
these days most are infinite adjust within the travel. fully up is where you want it to be and you size for the absolute most travel you can fit with your frame. fox and a few others used to have indexed stops but i don’t think anyone is alleged to want that anymore
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Time to update the tarck lexicon!
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