I got a stick in my dangler today, couldn’t use the big cog without horrible noises and chain derailment on back pedaling. I took everything apart, cleaned it and put it back together, seems fine?
I also cleaned my bike, shoes, and fanny pack. Feels good, man.
I loved the ones with the shallow drop and slight back sweep, were they Profile or something?
profile or syntace I think
Syntace seems right.
I had the Profiles. They had a drop, but no sweep.
Yup, syntace. I had a pair of the deep ones. The ones I have on my current hike (in storage) are ones that have the ends covered, welded on and smoothed over. Can’t remember who made them, but they also did flat bars like that too. Made wrapping them harder because you couldn’t lock the end of the tape under the bar plug. There had to be a lump there where you wrapped the tape over itself. Though I’m sure you were supposed to be running them naked or with keirin grips.
I had mavic ones like Sharky
I’ve got a set of Charge rizerz like that.
i had hung up the lowside in december after the freewheel locked up and decided i’ll deal with it later
went to go deal with it yesterday and it’s just totally fine now?
???
rode it around town, yolo.
Who among us…
I use canti pad hardware
I really must get a photo of how I had to setup a caliper to work on a Kona fork with out of spec IS mount. Definitely in the ‘i wouldn’t do this for someone else’s bike’ bucket
Got the little thumb hooks back on the e-cargo after taking off the pogies. Also replaced a cargo bag with pannier rail since the cargo bag doesn’t really work with a baby seat installed. However the pannier rail is comically low and even front lowriders are too tall? Weird, Xtracycle, weird.
Also my RD on the commuter got bashed or something parked outside a bar so I hit that thing hanger with the alignment tool. Shifting still isn’t perfect but less agitating (3x9 48/36/26 front and 11-34 rear so I’m asking a lot of it but it’s all in spec).
It’s bike maintenance time.
Checked over the mtb, no stanimals. Fork still needs rebuilt.
Fixed the wheels on the polo, sounds much better doing the drop test. There was a couple spokes that were finger tight and bearing adjustment was a mess.
Put a very loud freewheel and red leather seat on my mono cog.
Love a loud freewheel. I’ve got a very loud white industries ready to go on my 1x1.
Installed rear radar thing. One ride so far. To make the most of it I’ll need to re-train myself to look it my computer instead of checking behind me. But I don’t want to get to the point where I don’t check behind me and only rely on the radar.
Put this fairly mediocre, yet expensive, bash guard from BBG Bash Guards on my Xtracycle. Was a super tight fit, has some sharpish edges from the water jet, and doesn’t honestly seem like it’s going to have enough overlap to keepy pants clean. We will see.
The real winner of the day was the bulk chainring bolt kit I got on eBay. Three lengths of bolts with two lengths of spacers. Ended up with the longest female both, middle male bolt, and thinnest spacer as my combo. They are steel and the crappy slotted nut design instead of double hex but I got lucky and all 5 tightened without needing to use that sketchy park tool wrench thing.
at least two of them are now loose
