What did you do to your crosscheck today?

Rusty_Piton · May 26, 2020, 10:48pm

Lol sounds like all my bikes all the time.

iwillbe · May 27, 2020, 1:24pm

yeah, I am starting to swing back towards being a little more proactive with maintanence again. Most of my bikes are in the “works ok if you remember how each bike’s shifting is slightly weird or broken, and that not all brakes will stop the bike so much as discourage further acceleration” stage of things.

I put a new chain on my sport touring bike the other day, and then realized that in an act of radical genius, I didn’t check the cassette. Middle cogs totally shark toothed, spent a 4 hour ride remembering to stay out of them. Booooo.

Also, there are no spare parts for bikes! Everything is getting used to gussy up long-unridden bikes that have now been drafted into being corona chariots! Not convenient!

kmcdon · May 27, 2020, 1:47pm

Yeah but isn’t chitown wet all the time?

It’s pretty dry here so I was surprised by the rust. It’s all good, we framesaver now.

jimmythefly · May 27, 2020, 2:48pm

It me. Loaning bikes to visitors was good motivation to have at least one bike that just works as expected.

Emor_please · May 27, 2020, 3:12pm

Proper bike maintenance is for NERDS

On a related note, for the first time ever I hosed down my bike after a ride. Usually I consider a filthy bike a point of pride.

LASER_BEIGE · May 28, 2020, 5:06am

So it’s been approximately 12 years since I had a fixed gear so today I went to the park and practiced skidding in the gravel

yonderboy · May 29, 2020, 11:42pm

I had to pull and clean the Wheels Mfg PF30a BB out of the SuperSixTownie, today. It’s only been in there for about 18 months with relatively light use, but it started creaking. I guess I should plan on doing this fairly regularly, since the threads are right-handed. I’m not really sure how it would work any other way. Either the drive cup loosens with left-handed, or the nondrive cup loosens with right-handed.

The allroad bike got a new saddle from the fitter, new brake pads, and cleaned pistons.

I also accidentally knelt on my tube of carbon paste and squirted half the tube on the floor.

EndpointBraden · May 30, 2020, 12:57am

I’m not saying I put Eagle and a power meter on the Big Dummy today… ok… I am saying put Eagle and a power meter on the big dummy today.

Timarchylime · May 30, 2020, 3:28am

Partially installed a Box Two 11-46 11s group on my bikepacking bike. I thought I could reuse the derailleur housing, but it was cracked in a few places so I can wait a few days and replace it.

Got a pair of those swept back ritchey bars coming in tomorrow for the same bike. This bike is gonna feel totally different.

Master_Stabby · May 30, 2020, 5:03am

I may or may not have had a powermeter on the edgerunner while I worked for stages.

Elliott · May 30, 2020, 11:41am

That’s okay if it was a stages it probably didn’t even work.

dotMR · May 30, 2020, 11:55am

Oooh, Is this the “what Powermeter should I buy” thread?

Is there anything good that isn’t stupid ?

We have a Kickr on loan right now and I’m getting excited about the power data

EndpointBraden · May 30, 2020, 12:03pm

A used power2max is the thinking man’s SRM.

Master_Stabby · May 30, 2020, 2:03pm

Typically (since I worked there) all my stages powermeters work fine. I also never used a Garmin, which often was an exacerbating factor. I will say that the most recent models with updated electronics seem to be a lot better than the initial stages.

arlew · May 31, 2020, 1:16am

Are the pedal power meters any good? They’re far too expensive but I have considered the crazy (read: stupid) idea of having two sets on the tandem with a real-time comparative visualization so we could synchronize our power output and become maximally efficient. Maybe I need to smoke less weed tho smh

jimmythefly · May 31, 2020, 3:35am

My opinion is that directly measuring and comparing myself with my wife is not a good idea, in any context.

Master_Stabby · May 31, 2020, 3:38am

I guess if you already have too much money and you want to spend more of it that’s a good idea.

arlew · May 31, 2020, 5:09am

It’s mostly a thought experiment and not applicable to our level of riding, but like do they do this on race tandems to measure and optimize efficiency? We’ve both noticed that if we’re not putting in effort at the same times its way harder than a single bike, but that the opposite is also true, and I’m trying to chase the synchronicity.

JUGE_FREDD · May 31, 2020, 5:14am

if your powermeter was in the Stoker’s DS chainrings or the rear hub, the data would reflect only the team’s effort

cousinmosquito · May 31, 2020, 6:58am

That’s a bit stink. Did you need to buy a bunch of tools for the installation? I was wondering about one of those for my bike.