Last night I finally got around to replacing the rear tire on my endpoint. Then this morning I rode it to work. I love that bike.
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Do GX have bearings or bushings in their pullies?
The 12s Eagle GX pulleys are cartridge bearings. They must not use labyrinth seals, because they donât play well with mud.
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The Pooprad is a little more rad with a Zeroing narrow-wide crank and a 12s GX dangler.
The kiddo doesnât using the double, anyway. Now sheâs got a lower climbing gear.
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do those take a 24mm spindle? might be a good move for short-crank dithering
Yeah, 24 mm. It fit right in the Shimano BB that was in the frame already.
I needed to use the wider BB that came with the crankset, though. I donât know if I ordered the spindle length for a 73 mm shell or what.
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HY: Got the Ice Cream Truck built before snow tomorrow. Fatty stripper tubelessed the wheels, put some Giant dropper I bought off one of you guys forever ago on there, had all the right cables and adapters and whatever.
WTH: Too dark to bless you fools with pics today.
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Fork swipers n sealsâŚ. Tried to do air can but bought the wrong seal kit⌠had already tore the old seals so bike is in piecesâŚâŚ meant to do BB too but kiddo was overtired and wrecking havoc in buddies house.
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Swapped out my 38/26 crank for a 36/22. Tested today. Awesome climbing capability with an 11-40 on the back.
Ive been weighing my cranks as I dither them about. I think Ive just about got one of everything From shimano.
Not weighed my 5 bolt combos.
XTR 3x 734 grams
XT 1x 700 grams - asymmetric
Deore 2x 795 grams 36/22
XT 2x 761 grams 38/26
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Took a chance on a $15 Deore side-swing pusher for the day ruiner, hoping it would work out for this weird setup and mission accomplished other than the unusual cable run (full housing from the shifter, ziptied to the down tube). It even shifts fine with an old Deore thumbie. I had tried a low-mount top/btm pull version of the same pusher a while back and there wasnât enough room between the seat tube and the fender for the mechanical parts.
With that done, and a 139 basket installed, itâs all ready for winter commutering now, just in time for a bunch of snow that will probably prevent it from being ridden for a bit.
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I absolutely LOVE the side swing Shimano pushers. We built a HG and a couple of Gorilla Monsoon bikes up this way. SOOOO GOOD. Itâs like the direct mount rim brake. Shimano utterly perfects something completely irrelevant to 99.9% of riders.
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I remember Fred describing it as shifting like Jesus making one set of footprints in the sand.
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Iâm honestly surprised Shimano hasnât tried to figure out a way to do this with 12 speed road stuff. A side swing E-type pusher for road/gravel would be super cool.
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I hadnât even considered using one until seeing a video or two on the BikeFarmer YouTube channel. He was setting them up using a Problem Solver cable stop on the lower part of the down tube and thatâs when the lightbulb went on for me.
Itâs really tempting to buy another one while theyâre still on sale.
DQ: does the der cage swing forward as well as moving outboard when you shift to the big ring?
A bunch of the 2x jawns have relatively short cages, where Shimano is conservatively listing them as only supporting a 10T jump
@adem do you know if anyoneâs spreadsheeted out the cable pull ratios?
Even if itâs off in its own compatibility zone, it would still likely be cool combined with either the new Growtac brifters or Campy Ergoshift
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Sideswing to stoker 2x (who can actually see/hear the FD) is quite good and pairs well with a budget drive side timing chain setup.
Yes a 42x11 is low for a tandem in kinetic kill mode but my stoker kicks in her speed limiter any higher.
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Wanted more steer tube on my road bike so I got a Whisky No7 fork. Ended up raising the stem about 20mm.
Cleaned and waxed the frame and chain, and installed new cables and housing. Also reinstalled a Salsa Guide carbon post to replace a silver Ritchey Classic.
Rode it for 2 hours today and everything feels great. Fork feels maybe a bit more compliant than the stock one but not in a bad way at all.
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The whatâs this now?!
they look like theyâd be worth using their mechanical disc calipers for
could be especially grand shifting a triple, with bonus actuator levers for a dropper post and bell
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