Do you have the other air spring to change the travel?
I wonder if you bought it from them, they’d maybe do it for free. It really isn’t that much more time for a proficient mechanic.
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I don’t, I’ll be buying it from them along with the service kit.
I would think they shouldn’t really charge you more. it is literally 5 minutes more to remove the c-clip, pull the air spring, clean it out, grease new one, put c clip back in.
Maybe an air can service for the shock.
Basically the same as the fork of changing seals and wipers, though you generally don’t need any special tools. Only need seal drivers for the most part on fork service.
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Can any of you explain to me how a single wire telegraph worked?
without googling? guessing the ground is the ground
that’s what the google says but that makes no sense, how does that create a circuit?
just measuring voltage on the wire compared to the physical earth(?)
I think the telegraph lines were positively charged by either end by huge batteries .The “earth” was to provide a path for the remote signal. Current needs a voltage difference to flow. It’s typically high to low, but there are negative battery systems that get used in communications a lot.
If you really want to get weird, IEEE Std 80 gets into grounding for AC systems. I have a buddy that is on the committee that understands it way better than I do.
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So it’s not completing a circuit through wet dirt it’s moving from high state to low state? I can deal with that
There’s a guy going around posting very competitive marathon finish time in jeans. I think we need a high FTP shit disturber to document their qualifying for Kona Ironman whilst riding a gangrene Crosscheck…if only to flip the bird to k-shaped economy.
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OK I think this is genuinely a DQ but I feel like this is a safe space.
I’m starting to set up these old Suntour XC Expert canti brakes and you need one of these PER ARM right?
I took these brakes off a ~93 RockHopper and I assumed they were fully intact, but I only have two of these total. No idea if there were only two to begin with, or 4 and I lost two of them or what, but I’ve never set up cantis from scratch before and it’s pretty straightforward but I still have no idea what I"m doing.
(Arm for context)
I’m tempted to just buy some old Avid Shorty 6s or fun color Dia-Compe 980s and cal it a day rather than messing with this old Suntour stuff.
I believe so, but it’s not a nut (obviously)
Mine are set up more like this, but still not these exact brakes:
And for this one I’m just now noticing that there’s only one, which is just weird to me, so I wanted to check with the team of experts.
I can likely follow those directions though…
yeah I see that tech doc has only 1 spring tension balancing sleeve nut.
which I have seen on bikes before, like I wouldn’t necessarily assume you need 4 per bike
Very good … they were intact and “working” when still on the donor bike, as in they didn’t feel weird when I manually compressed them with my hand before taking it all apart.
The only thing that was making me doubt it was this eBay listing for similar brakes I came across when looking for parts:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/327137966677
They call out that “One set is missing the adjuster blocks from the back of the springs” so I’m like wait, are mine missing some?
Easier to adjust if you only have them on one side
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