Did you just ShartQ?

[Andrew_Squirrel]

@igor

What battery operated lights do you all like? For seeing at night not just being seen. Plz no magneto.

We have a thread for that:

it's #lit

let’s talk bike lights! winter is cold and dark up here so i end up doing a lot of my training on trails and rail paths. current set up consists of a 650 lumen usb on the bar and another ~100 lumen helmet lamp. want to replace the helmet light with one of these. remarkable how much these things have come down in cost in just a few years. anyone else like to creep at night?

[iwillbe]

$5 says the thread is 90% pants chat. Not very …illuminating.

[Rent-to-own-Faxmachine]

Blackburn Countdown 1600

[Dr_Jart_Attack_PhD]

I dig the B&M Ixon Core. Not super bright but gets you that nice German beam pattern in a microUSB rechargeable waterproof light

[plutarck]

Seconding B&M stuff, Icon IQ premium is heavy but batteries are normal AA rechargeable which you can remove so you can carry more as spares and/or the light won’t die just because the batteries do.

[Andrew_Andeson]

I rando with one of the 4aa iq premiums as a backup for a cyo premiums. It’s as good as the cyo which makes it awesome for a backup light.

[BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS]

Did we ever figure out if there are usb-c bike lights?

[iwillbe]

just use a confusing mass of dongles

[Face]

I want a USB-c magneto hub.

[Orc]

It doesn’t look like it would be too difficult to open up a regular micro-usb connected light and graft on a usb-c connector. Bezosland has 5 packs of female connectors + tiny daughterboards, so the fiddly bit of soldering wires to the microscopically tidy connector leads isn’t a problem.

[Timarchylime]

Swapping pads on some TRP hylex brakes. Everything goes smoothly, but I can get the pistons to retract far enough with a tire lever. When the new pads go in, there’s not enough space for the rotor to fit between them.

Help!

I put the old pads back in, because I think I can get one more race out of them. Now the lever pulls to the bar. How badly have I fucked myself?

[Rusty_Piton]

Put the new pads in and go ride it around the block and do a bunch of stoppies and skidz.

[Timarchylime]

I can’t get the rotor between the new pads though. Not enough space.

[Rusty_Piton]

Take the pads out and use a big flat screwdriver to push the pistons back in and then reinstall the pads and then do what I said earlier.

[EndpointBraden]

@Rusty_Piton

Take the pads out and use a Pedro’s tire lever to push the pistons back in and then reinstall the pads and then do what I said earlier.

Fixed it.

[Timarchylime]

@EndpointBraden

@Rusty_Piton

Take the pads out and use a Pedro’s tire lever to push the pistons back in and then reinstall the pads and then do what I said earlier.

Fixed it.

This is exactly what I did though. Maybe my Pedro’s tire lever is defective?

[EndpointBraden]

Sand the pads until it works.

Are they TRP/Tektro pads? I’ve seem some aftermarket ones come with way more pad material.

[Timarchylime]

They’re trp pads. I lucked into them at REI when I was going to get the Shimano ones that are also supposed to fit. Seems like someone special ordered them and didn’t take them.

I don’t have anything to sand them with and I’d hoped to race with them tomorrow.

Any way to get the old pads to work again? How does the automatic pad adjustment work with hydros? Can I shortcut the process to get the pistons to go back to their old position?

[EndpointBraden]

Pump the brakes a bunch? If they worked before they should work again unless you have bigger problems.

Which you might have.

[Timarchylime]

Worked!

I’d pumped them a little before I asked, but not nearly enough. Did like 100 pumps and its back to feeling like it did before I fried to “fix” it.