The dithering siege continues
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im not sure whether that crank was machined out of an aluminum cookie sheet or taken out of a piece of heavy equipment but itâs one of those two things
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Last night i took off the front screeching V brake and stuck on a disc. Commuted well on it today. Should get the drops on it tonight. Not sure which ones Iâll use. Maybe the Beacons. Ive 5 sets to chose from.
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What a dick. My levers were the canti pull, not the V. Had a bb7 road pull brake that it worked well with but that means I need to put xtr cantis on the back. Not sure i can be arsed. Probably just change it back to v-brake spec with mtb levers. Sucko. Position with the Beacon bar felt good too.
Iâm convinced that 98% of all pedals ship with garbage bearings
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Built up my sram coaster auto hub into a 26 inch wheel last night. This morning I converted a friends SSer into 1x11 with sram GX I had refurbed and was just sitting in my parts bin. This arvo I bled the rear brake on my Tallboy and anothet rear brake I brought from a guy called John John a month or so ago. John John died while out riding with his son last week. Heart attack. I didnât know him well but have always known of him. One of many converts from motorbikes back in the early mtb days. Another guy I know also died in January, or feb, riding by himself. Havent heard the cause. Another ex petrol head. Imagine riding with your dad who you assume is bullet proof because hes so fit, and wham. Poor kid.
Anyway. Many riders in the Tour Te Waipounamu bikepacking event this year suffered rear brake failure, as I did in 2021. Shimano and Sram. As far as I know, no front brake failures. My theory is its to do with all the hikeabike and pushing your bike, then using the rear brake to anchor it again, then pushing it again, on repeat, up very very steep hills. Does anyone have another theory ? I know that most of these people pre-bled their brakes before the event.
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A fun game we always played at the shop was fixing bottom bracket creaks on bikes with Look pedals by first test riding them with platforms.
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Each bench has a set of high quality flat pedals for this reason.
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My mtb started creaking. God damn it, I had just been saying here how full suspension maintenance isnât that bad. These bearings are barely used! I checked to see if it might be the internal cables. Nope. Then I noticed that it only happened when I stepped on the pedal with the brake depressed. Found kind of a loose pivot bolt. Nope, not that. Oh god, my fork axle came loose again. But nope, not the creak. One rear caliper bolt was a bit loose. Nope, not that. I was about to resign myself to throwing it through a shop window when I noticed that the rear thru axle wasnât tight either. This seems to have done the trick. Whew!
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Oh. Look pedals creak? This could explain some things.
What kind of failure? I could see how constantly pulling the bike backwards over and over isnât something the mfrs test. Maybe after repeated events as the pads are slammed back they tweak the pistons a bit? Maybe something about lever orientation and where the internal ports are not made for so many repeat brake events while pointed uphill?
That might be why trials riders prefer Magura? There must be something with the piston bushings that help them hold up to repeated backwards motion.
maybe everyone is using undersized rotors and overheating the systems dragging their brakes while descending on overloaded bikes?
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These guys dont tend to skimp on rotors and I would think that if that were the case then it would be more prevalent in the front and not the rear? I was wondering about the fact that the rear lines have more volume and how that could be a thing, ive no idea how? Another theory was that because of the large amounts of bike carrying, if the bike being upended could be causal. Ive never heard anything like this from the US events tho, where there are extended bike carrying segments.
The levers just end up coming into the bars, but only on the rear. A fresh bleed and they are all good. Problem being that over 1300 km there is only one bike shop, about 3 days in.
Got these things that Jake sent me set up
And the Soma rack installed
I havenât chopped the basket handle bar attachment bits off yet but I should. Whatâs the easiest way to do that?
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Hung the first few parts on the xtra, started a list of all the things I need, which is really just the obvious;
xl cables, some housing, 2 chainz and/or see if I can figure out which chain I bought for this thing before and get the same one, oh and a v brake lever.
Would love a proper fat front 135mm dynamo wheel, maybe go disc in the back at some point, but just to get this thing running and getting groceries I donât need much.
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Itâs a Wald basket right? You should be able to pry them off with a flathead, at the point the arm wraps around the basket. Same with the legs. Thatâs what Iâve always done.
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Finally put the sram automatix coaster wheel on. I canât belive it built up so true. Not sure ive ever had a coaster brake. Maybe in the late 60âs. Feels damn weird. Realised if I have a puncture there are gonna be a few tools involved. As they say, seems to change up real quick. Will see what its like on the commute and see if its worth dicking with the tiny spring.
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do you have your dyno wires through nikon housing?