Shortened the hoses on and bled the Hayes Dominion brakes I bought last Thanksgiving. Went to put them on and noticed that they don’t clear standard +20mm post mount adapters. So now I’m waiting on some Hayes post mount adapters (apparently a few other brands work as well).
Faffed around with the ATB. Swapped the regular PNW grips for some of the XLs and added some more sealant to the front in the hopes that it’ll finally stop leaking air.
rode it around on some mixed surfaces in the neighborhood including getting sent on a little rooty section when I forgot I wasn’t riding a 29er with 150mm of travel and wearing Chacos!
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not my cross check, but neighbors cross check.
chopped 2" of steerer, removed metropolis bars, installed new noir igor siene bars.
removed front mini-v and rear canti (both clapped) for set of avid single digit 3s with kool stops.
removed 2x10 stuff, installed 1x10 deore with clutch and 10-42 cassette. might need longer chain but its fine for now.
threw away old bell, applied spurcycle that doesnt constantly make noise while riding.
removed spd two-siders, installed big fat easton flat pedals.
applied jandd frame bag.
how would YOU go about mounting a rechargeable light to this mount on his surly rack?
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I would probably just ziptie a cylindrical handlebar light to the rack platform (it look like maybe you could mount it under the platform without the frontmost bar blocking the light). But I am lazy.
If you want to be fancier you could do one of these:
Or a light that uses a gopro mount and a 90° gopro mount that may or may not exist?
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i also found this fella on the pnw site.
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That single bolt isn’t gonna be fun without some extra turn stopper
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- For my own use, I would take whatever bracket the light comes with and cut/drill it for a flathead screw that will go into that boss.
- For someone else, I would add this Problem Solvers dongle then use whatever mount the light came with.
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couldn’t believe it – the little 27.2 under-the-saddle dropper I put on my derelict Litespeed stopped staying up and the lever wasn’t doing anything. I was feeling forlorn as there were no service docs on the Tranzx website and I couldn’t figure out what spares it needed. I figured what the hell and took it apart and put it back together and wtf now it works again!!
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after fucking with the brakes on the wifebiek for too long, took it into the shop
dude at the counter asked “what can we do for you today”
i said “these brakes are squeaking. they’re not contaminated as best as i can tell, and they stop great. they just squeak”
he looked at the calipers for 1 second and replied: “ah, hope rx4 mineral oil. you’re going to have to deal with it. they all squeak and we have never been able to fix it”
i… guess i’m glad i didn’t do something wrong? i’m just not ready to believe it though
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at least the shop was up front about it too, that sucks though
yeah. i mean there is a LOT of dithering on the internet about these brakes being squeaky but there are people who claim to have perfectly silent setups.
it’s just really annoying, i’ve spent so much time and money on this shit
I had a similar experience except it was with a shimano caliper that was indeed leaking.
that is the whole reason for the hopes, we went through 2 leaky GRX calipers.
the first one was perfect out of the box for the first 2 years and then it started leaking out of the piston. replaced it with a brand new GRX which was leaky out of the box
At least the hopes don’t leak, it’s just some kind of harmonic fuckery. it’ll throw you over the handlebars if you let it so we really don’t think there’s any oil contamination involved. we have tried a few different rotors as well and it’s always the same.
Are there different pads available? Maybe it’s the compound?
it came with 2 different sets of pads and i tried em both (red and blue)
same result both times
cannot get a caliper that fits on this kid bike right.
bought the correct lever for caliper brakes.
also bought a dual pivot caliper.
Drilled the fucken brake bridge to fit a recessed bolt mount caliper on a kids bike… but the medium reach length does reach far enough…
I put the single pivot caliper back on… and it kind of works… not much better with the correct lever pull… but the brake pads are not fully contacting the rim… because they are too long.
AHH I dont want to buy another kids bike.. this one is nice… I think I need to just take it to Recycled Cycles and ask them to make it work from their parts bins..
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Braze a disc tab for 140s
A kids bike is a great use case for 140 rotors
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came here to say ‘get a torch’
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Swapped out the Jones bars on the disc trucker a week or so ago, thinking I wanted to try the Oxfords again. Rode those until yesterday and swapped back to Jones bars last night and they’re so much better. I’m fully Jones bar pilled for that bike.
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Fixed some noises on the polo bike. I’m sure they’ll return