I had a slow leak on the back tire of the partybike, so I pulled the tube, found the leak, and using the puncture location as a guide I pulled the teeny, tiniest wire out of the tread. I think it was actually underneath the layer of orange seal from when it was set up tubeless on a different bike.
This is my only tube’d bike at the moment and I think the world is telling me that I made the right decision yesterday, when I ordered some VO Voyager rims to replace the non-tubeless mismatched rims that are currently on the bike.
Lorry got four more links of chain and a completed SLX drivetrain install.
Katu got a pair of Big Apples, fenders also got taken off recently.
Small Sam got a kickstand, a longer threadless stem adapter, and a longer stem for further stem dithering until I’m ready to set my wallet on fire buying a quill stem.
Bad pic cuz I forget to take pics but got the bullitt running after half a year of sitting. It got a front rotor, rear brake cable + compressionless housing.
Then rode it to the beer store down the big hill. Then rode up the big hill and delivered a chelada to @karl_dandleton
Lorry got the C19 and a 34t NW eBay ring, those chainring bolts were installed dry by an Olympian. put them back to a reasonable tightness with a dab of blue Loctite.
Don’t think I posted these bmx improvements. Odyssey R32 fork that just barely clears my 2.4 tire, Profile stem that I’m “borrowing”, and some alloy Odyssey Grandstand pedals. Next steps are 28t sprocket and new wheels.
WOW. I should not be riding bikes in the shit and putting them away wet. Surface rust under the steer tube spacers, missing chainring bolts I didn’t know about, totally dry headset bearings, broken rear derder, probably some other shit too.
Gonna deep clean it and framesaver it and… it’s gonna be a little more spendy of a rebuild than I was planning on. Better to get it done and done right than to just bandaid it I suppose.
