replaced a spoke wrench, a tire lever, a chain tool, and a multitool with a single tool: the Park IBT-3. My saddlebag is about a pound lighter, a third as stuffed, and no longer is heavy and unbalanced enough to clonk on my seatpost while I’m riding.
Hopefully this means I get another decade out of the Inside Line saddlebag.
Next up: overhauled CK r45 rear hub has developed some lateral play, need to tighten up the collar. This is what led to the creaking that led to the factory refurb a couple years ago. I’m hoping that they just set it a little slack when they sent it back (and I subsequently left it in a box for 18 months), and not that it’s just going to do this over and over.
All of the above is done to avoid getting a stuck seatpost out of my sport touring bike, which has thus far resisted my best efforts (Liquid Wrench and twisting the saddle really hard). Going to try tossing boiling water on it next.
Installed new home laced wheels and Rival 22 on wifebike.
Yaw pusher hits the old DA cranks i was trying to use A LOT. So I locked her in the small ring for now. Apparently I can put a 10sp SRAM pusher and that’ll work?
Everything else works.
Got everything she needs to ride it done in time for a bike camping trip tomorrow.
Ive used the following technique on two seized posts. Do the soaky bit, I think I used 50/50 acetone and some oil… thought it was fork oil (edit), but cant recall exactly… (I read about it on tarck somewhere) but the thing that did it, was wedging the saddle between two up-rights, under our house, and using the whole frame as a lever. Put a shitter saddle on the post, as it will get really munged by the forces. Do it like this and there is every chance that your post will still be usable at the end. Ive done it on steel and a carbon on carbon scenario.
also are you sure it’s not a loose spoke or something going on with the saddle? most of the weird noises from my bike come from the rear wheel or the pedals.
Installed new Enve stem at -6d vs. 0d Thomson.
New seatpost, Fizik cyrano
New Saddle, new saddle, Fizik Argo R1.
Had hella anxiety about fucking with my fit. Tried seatpost and saddle first. Got the angle mostly dialed in. Slammed the saddle all the way back and rode it a bit. Hip angle was a bit too closed and I was uncertain about the saddle angle. Fucked with that a bit.
Threw the stem on there and pushed the saddle forward 1cm and took it for a spin. Fit is better than before. I’m a little bit lower and more comfortable.
The Argo is weird in the sense that I’m not sure how to get it dialed in. Being so short, there’s little fore/aft latitude in which to plant one’s ass. I gather it also needs to be angled slightly nose down. That all said, I’m sure I had the wrong fore/aft and it wasn’t so bad, and I’m still not sure I have the right angle, and it’s definitely an improvement over the Arione. Specifically, canting my pelvis forward is way more comfortable.
