too good to be true, perhaps. always a roll of the dice
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Iāve been following some of the cheap ebikes on AliX and some people seem very happy with them
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Iāve been curious about the bullit style e-bikes for like $1500 with free shipping. Almost seems worth rolling the dice but probably not.
link? i might lose my trek ep soon but their bakfiets is still about $5k at EP
Not actually free shipping tho
I did not heed Tarckās warning about QR thru axles and had one fail on me during some bike cleaning. Neither end had a place to insert an Allen wrench.
Resorted to vice grips but the ānutā was only a cover for the gubbins inside the axle.
Blasted both ends with PB blaster and attacked the threaded hollow end of the axle with a thread tap tool. Success!
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Finally found the creak thatās been driving me mad for 3 weeks. Need to remember that itās always the BB, always.
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except when itās the seat post, saddle, pedal, or loose QR, orā¦
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Price was wrong. Order cancelled. Womp womp.
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Dang well at least I donāt have to be tempted any more
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Finally got my rear wheel on my MTB tubeless again. New derailleur housing too. Also knocked out the toasted bottom biscuit. Now gotta buy a new one.
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Took my hunter gatherer out of the basement, cleaned it up and put more sealant in the tires. I literally put it away wet after a tour almost a year ago. Threw it on the roof rack and drove to the beach for the weekend. Half way there I noticed the bike was flopping around the rack. Both tires went flat and itās a 1up rack so Iām glad I didnāt lose my bike on the highway.
Didnāt bring any tubes or a pump. Think itās the valves but doubt the rental shop here will have tubeless valves. Guess I just wonāt ride it while we are here.
buy tubes from rental shop and use their floor pump?
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Would rather not ride than deal with putting tubes in tbh
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Another option would be to cannibalize the tubes for their valves. That is, if the tubes are that type.
yonderboy means cores and heās right
Took the Answer 2020 carbon bars off the DoubleCross, and put the Tumbleweed bars that came on the used Karate Monkey on. These things are crazy wide and crazy heavy.
2020 bars will go on the Endpoint that I still havenāt sent to Braden to powdercoat because the Angel refuses to own a printer again and my work is still in these ridiculous temporary office spaces and I canāt print a shipping label.
Also started building up a kidās Gary Fisher Tassajara like a 26" disc brake Alumalith. Itās going to be pretty cool.
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see if your library has a print portal! or some independent shipping stores will print for you, my local one does
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USPS lets you print at the kiosk now, too. The scanner never reads my QR code, but I can key in the number.
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