tarcklebee 2024 early contender for homebrew bike paint
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Hoping for a miracle, I washed the squeaky pads and rotor from the rear wheel on my cargo bike with Rock n Roll Miracle Red and though they look brand new, they still squeaky
Replaced both the baby hauling bikes with narrow width saddles from wide width saddles after my recent bike fit
I’m not going to say cleaning never works, but cleaning never works.
It worked for me, kinda, at least for some
Insane judders I was experiencing for most of last summer. Until I cleaned them
Snowed so the roads were a mix of packed in tire tracks and powder. Took the fixed out and almost crashed for a half hour.
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That looks epic. I cant imagine those kinds of conditions. My youngest daughter has just been on holiday in Canada and it has more attraction to me than the hot places we usually travel to.
Doesn’t stay like that, have to enjoy it before it’s plowed or becomes slush.
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I kluged this shit together so I could ride my winter bike in a winter storm. I’ll fix it when I get the right piece in the mail, but it got me to work!
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yin yang
Just ran out of daylight to push up the hill. Supposed to rain tonight and snow on Tuesday. Not sure if I’ll get to ride this between now and May.
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Put 10s drivetrain and bobo Paul thumbies on. Shifts nice. Had to swap the spacer mount guys to get the cables to exit at the right height, and then that necessitated a 30mm M5 bolt, rather than the 25mm ones it came with. Not sure if this is normal for these or what length bolt the real ones come with.
Finish is probably sub-Paul quality, and I feel kind of bad about buying knockoffs, but I wish someone just sold the mounts without the fake branding.
Also put some brake lever prophylactics on so my fingers stay slightly less cold.
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My 7-sp/friction XT thumbies remain a top-five used bike shop score. Love those things.
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I love brake lever condoms. I use them year round.
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Got my air can back together.
Never paying someone $$$ to do basic suspension services again.
The 50 hour maintenance really is easy. The hardest part is getting the old seals out
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Finally got around to rebuilding my suspension fork and it wasn’t as bad as I thought. Just a bit messy and I only mangled one o-ring.
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Forks can be scary but its a great feeling when it comes together !
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Did some federal holiday dithering yesterday on the dorkiest Riv. Swapped out the cheap Tektro brake levers for the XTR 950s that have been in the parts bin for like 11-12 years. Swapped out the DXR v-brakes for some XTR M960s with some new Kool Stop dual-compound pads. Swapped out the New Albion Sugino crank for a Riv Silver. Tried swapping out the pusher for a new discounted XT only to discover it’s top-pull only which is useless for all of my bikes, whoops. Used a Microshift mtn pusher that was also in the bin instead. Looks neat, roads were still too wet to test ride tho. 
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I tried setting up some thumbies on riv mounts on a 1990s trek a few months back and just couldn’t figure out the right way to adjust them. Never used them before but it seemed I had to use my whole hand to shift, not just my thumb. The range of motion was too far for just my thumb as was the reverse shift motion.
What dangler and how many cogs?