My plan is to basically pour some hot set polyurethane into it.
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I thought my Cambium was bad but it only split the cover behind that nosepiece
I still can’t decide if I want to put it back on a bike. I actually started riding my old Selle Anatomica again and have been having good luck lately
I clamped two seatposts to my bent to hell selle rails yesterday and levered them back to straight. Tension screw has maybe a half dozen threads in the cradle. Definitely not smart to be riding it but its comfy and I don’t wanna accept that its dead.
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Heavily used 5 year old cambium showing a little bit of a line there, nothing I would call a split.
Same on my bike
Mine definitely started to split there. I stopped riding it because it made me nervous
There’s really nothing so refreshing as the popping sound of a failing saddle in just the right situation. Turn 4 at Dick Lane Velodrome, for example.
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I replace my saddles out of vanity and cleanliness so they never break. They just get nasty so I toss them.
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Several nipples on my winterbike are heavily corroded. I knew it was probably an issue but ignored it and now two spokes are broken. Winter is real tough on bikes.
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If it’s just nipples though, it’s pretty easy to fix and the wheel should be fine, as long as you don’t ride it with the broken spokes.
Fortunately I finally finished my new front wheel on the nordaviden so I can ride that bike again. It’s a lot more fun to ride.
How should I measure for replacement spokes? Just eyeball it from the bend to the rim and be good?
Don’t eyeball. Measure borken spoke. Or use an online calculator. Or if the original wheelbuilder was cool it may be written on the rim tape.
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I bought it off the internet and the rim make is not known. My plan was to remove current spoke and then add the amount that is stuck in the corroded nipple.
I’d just remove a healthy spoke if there is doubt.
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So how bad is the explody 6800 crank situation. New to me bike has them. They’re not going to see a ton of hard miles or maybe easy miles. Should be fine right?
mine haven’t exploded. lots of miles until the past few years, where they still haven’t fallen apart in my basement. i’ve seen a lot of reports of it though…
Maybe it’s a condition of where I worked, but I’ve only ever seen that particular failure in photos, as far as I can recall
I’ve got about 20k miles on one set, at least 10-15k on another. 6800 may have a failure mode that’s not awesome, but it’s not at all the case that every set is doomed to it.
…I boldly pronounce, absolutely jinxing myself
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Considering the absolute ubiquity of those cranks and the very small number of failures, I’d ride em.
Anecdotally I’ve only seen DA9K failures that weren’t a result of going full ham on the pinch bolts.
I’ve seen 3 first hand.
One Cat 2 sprinty boi
One 140lb casual tri lady
One super sweaty roadie
I’ve always been convinced it’s started by a void in the epoxy that then allows moisture to get to the non-anodized interior.
If I’m correct ones that are glued correctly should not fail.