P clamp + socket + vise = removable fender arch 2025
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Swapped zero-offset ring for a Boost jawn. Almost no tire clearance in the lowest gear, but much smoother running in the other ten cogs.
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I wasted a lot of time yesterday on this. A young lady tried to stiff me on dodgy dangler I bought from her while on holiday. Was in my letterbox when I got home. Sram gx 2.1 10 speed exact-actuation, so works with 11 speed. I got her to reimburse me when I pointed out to her that it had obviously been in a crash. The tab that the b-tension screw hits was bent, and cracked and somehow the main bolt that mounts to the Dropout had slop in it, and she also hadnāt sent the retaining clip for this bolt. Anyway, she said I could keep itā¦ So then I went through my stash trying about 3 different bolts but the combination of bolt length and b-tension tab thickness meant there was still too much slop at the mounting point. I gave up, and then noticed that the old dodgy dangler I was hoping to replace - X9 10 speed, had incredible galling on its mounting bolt. Maybe this was the cause of its dodginess. I cleaned the bolt and body up with some wet n dry and reinstalled. 1000% better but I still think the issue is in the clutch. Well see. I put this dangler on the roadie when I went to a 36 tooth on the back. Also that little copper washer turned up, and Im fricked if I can remember which of the many danglers I dismantled it came from. Its not on the exploded diagrams of any of them. My memory tells me that it sits behind the b-tension tab, but not in any of the diagrams I found. Maybe its from my 9 speed danglers.
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My neighbor printed a bunch of anti-ice whistles. I attached one to my stem bag with a bit of stretchy cord.
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is your stem caddy bolted on?
tethered bike whistle is a great idea
I thought this was a fatbike thing for a minute for riding on frozen lakes
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Yeah, the one on the right is a screw pouch from the hardware store. It had a metal belt clip bolted to it. I removed the clips and bolted it to a reflector bracket. Itās rock solid, my only complaint is that it doesnāt have a drain hole in the bottom.
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WATCH OUT BIKE BIKE BIKE. BICYCLE RIGHTS! CARS MAN, WHY? BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE LANE. BIKE LANE.
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I feel like that guy every single day.
I am him and he is me.
And I wish Iād put it there just to be annoying but unfortunately itās for this purpose:
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Yesterday I put a set of studded tires on a spare set of wheels for the Quick Haul this winter. Trying to get the rotors shimmed and caliper adjusted just on the rear for both wheels was such a pain in the ass it made me decide not to do any more bike projects for the day. It seemed like every part involved is just out of tolerance enough to make getting the caliper in just the right place almost impossible. Bonus is that the bike is q/r and probably means the rotors will misaligned on every wheel swap so why did I even bother.
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Injected a bunch of sealant in my old thunderbutts and they are holding air again!
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The Stanstanic ritual worked!
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Crashed on my commute home when this damn construction site fence netting blew up with a wind and caught my handlebars.
Two flat tires and a bent brifter. Go to take out my tool kit and itās not in my bike bag. Realize Iām less than 2 blocks from REI. Walk into REI, buy a tube to add to my single spare tube and borrow a box of tools. Sit in the comfort of REI (while bleeding from the elbow and knee) and replace two flats and realign my brifter and Iām out the door 25 min later.
Employee told me I had a cool bike too.
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Successfully installed a brake with a very long hose on the front of my Omnium. Got the rear brake set up and it leaked all over the placeā¦not sure what I did wrong but I guess I gotta start over. I think I can leave the barb in and just replace the olive?
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barb shouldnāt go bad - check the end of the hose is square and clean cut
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If youāre cutting the hose with anything other than a hose-cutter mini-guillotine, youāre really rolling the dice.
It was a mini guillotineā¦bike shop cut it to length so the cut should be clean. Iāll try a new olive.
check you donāt have two olives in the system sometimes there is one hiding in there and you add the other one from the bag without noticing it so it wonāt seat