oxnop en-US Wed, 30 May 2012 01:05:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://singletrackworld.com/forum/search.php http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1610194 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:08:08 +0000 Crag 1610194@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Love him or loath him, Kaesae was the best thing to happen to this forum for some time. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1610052 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:30:04 +0000 wheeliejim 1610052@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I saw a kaesae youtube video about removing a pro 2 freehub using 2 pence pieces, which I did myself once. I thought it was quite a cunning trick! </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1610034 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:26:01 +0000 mr_mills 1610034@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Who put those stars there? And there are only 3 letters in T1T. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1610031 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:25:19 +0000 mr_mills 1610031@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Kaesae was THE all-knowing bearing master but he got banned for also being a complete mentalist and a tit.</p> <p>He&#39;ll be reading this from bike thief heaven and wishing he could impart his bearing wisdom. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1610013 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:21:39 +0000 wheeliejim 1610013@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>To clarify what I mean by &quot;smooth&quot;, I mean turning the bearing in my fingers, feeling for graunchiness/lumpyness.. I&#39;m not referring to the effort required to turn the bearing.</p> <p>What happened to kaesae then, he was some kind of bearing master so I gather? </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1609998 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:19:30 +0000 PeterPoddy 1609998@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Genaral rule of thumb -</p> <p>If it moves (Or might seize), grease it. If it doesn&#39;t, don&#39;t. <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":)" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1609984 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:17:47 +0000 mr_mills 1609984@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Kaesae would know the answer.</p> <p>RIP Kaesae <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":-)" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1609977 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:15:09 +0000 Dibbs 1609977@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>The small sealed bearings used for bicyle applications are designed to run at thousands (if not tens of thousands) of RPM, at those sort of RPM&#39;s overpacking with grease would cause overheating, not really that likely in cycling applications <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_rolleyes.gif" title=":roll:" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1609941 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:06:48 +0000 uplink 1609941@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>There&#39;s a good reason why the bearings aren&#39;t packed with grease.<br /> Unfortunately I can&#39;t remember it</blockquote></p> <p>It can cause enough pressure to pop bearing seals but I wouldn&#39;t have thought they run fast enough on a bike to do that<br /> I pack as much as I can into headsets </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1609936 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:05:37 +0000 wwaswas 1609936@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>depends what you mean by &#39;smooth&#39; - if you mean &#39;free turning&#39; then, yes, the less grease you put in the less friction/stiction there will be so it will turn more easily.</p> <p>That won&#39;t last though... </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/to-grease-or-not-to-grease-1#post-1609908 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:16 +0000 wheeliejim 1609908@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I&#39;ve started expermimenting with this.</p> <p>I took a brand new (cheap) BB bearing and packed it full of grease. Before I touched it, it ran 100% smoothly. After I&#39;d popped the seals and packed with grease it was not so smooth (say 90%).</p> <p>So I&#39;m not sure if I have a net gain or not.. It isn&#39;t as smooth, but maybe the longevity will be improved?</p> <p>And I&#39;m not sure if it was the addition of the grease which has caused the drop in smoothness, or the action of removing and reseating the seals. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1550641 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:24:24 +0000 hugo rune 1550641@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Nothing at all. He just didn&#39;t have the support of the left or right wings of his party and paid the price for poor opinion poll ratings. Total horseshit to say any of his policies caused this - the unions just didn&#39;t like him.</p> <p>I don&#39;t know if I&#39;m qualified to comment on this since I actually live in Australia <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_wink.gif" title=":wink:" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1550621 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:59:01 +0000 konabunny 1550621@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>It&#39;s not (all) the mining companies/mining unions&#39; fault, and it&#39;s not true that the mining tax is that onerous for the mining companies - but Labor failed to achieve consensus within the party and failed to push a consistent line to the electorate e.g. that by taxing profit instead of production, it actually lowers the risk of new investment. It was a rare case of an unpopular populist policy that burned through a lot of political capital.</p> <p>(And by the way if you want to talk about things that discourage investment in mining, you only have to look at the insane knee-jerk xenophobia that pops up whenever a foreign mining company that isn&#39;t owned by white people wants to invest in Australian mineral resources).</p> <p>The failure to pass the Emissions Trading Scheme was also a disaster that burned through a lot of political capital. Not only did Labor fail to get the scheme through, they also failed to rip apart and destroy the Liberal party who were completely divided over the scheme and lost their leader over it. It should have been a political bloodbath.</p> <p>And then they have failed to rip apart the opposition during the subsequent leadership contest, and then take Tony Abbott to pieces &#39;cos he&#39;s none too bright.</p> <p>The pink batts/dodgy insulation programme was a terrible idea that was done too quickly and was ripped off left, right and centre by chancers. The stupid Christmas Island immigration processing scheme is still in place, despite it costing 3 times more than onshore processing and achieving nothing extra.</p> <p>And not that the electorate cares but there has been zero progress in &quot;closing the gap&quot; between Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islanders and everyone else. There is a ton of money for ATSI housing that has been unspent while the living conditions of some villages are like shanty towns. The NT intervention has failed and nothing consistent has replaced it. Police and ATSIs are essentially warring parties in some towns. Plenty of towns are utterly segregated. ATSIs constitute a massively disproportionate number of people in prison, in care, falling out of education - all the usual indicators of something going terribly wrong.</p> <p>Meanwhile, Labor&#39;s performance in the States has been abysmal too: the utterly corrupt NSW government has been busy shooting itself in both feet simultaneously over and over again (e.g. Sydney metro - plans basically drawn up in the back of the cab on the way to the Treasury, like the Dog ASBO plans in The Thick of It, a ton of money spent on ludicrous prep work then cancelled; schools refurbishment - huge fraud and corruption in construction of portakabins on school grounds - construction = tradie unions = Labor donors; Kenneally saying she has full confidence in outed Police Minister, just after she sacked him).</p> <p>But for all of that, Rudd&#39;s government hasn&#39;t been all bad: ffs, the pain around the GFC has been minimal (thanks largely to the Chinese pumping millions of dollars into the economy buying &quot;free stuff&quot; i.e. minerals), there&#39;s been a real move away from the knuckle-dragging style of politics (which I think Gillard is very comfortable in), FAHSCIA funding for autistic parents has been a very powerful but undramatic policy that has paid off... </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1550074 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:56:28 +0000 Earl 1550074@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>I see.</p> <p>I remember his reaction to the Victoria fires a couple of years back and the fact that some of it was probably arson. He didn&#39;t mince his words. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1547651 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:58:13 +0000 shorts_in_winter 1547651@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>He is a micromanaging, arrogant tool. </p> <p>He was popular with the voting public, less so with those in his party. As soon as they lost the emission trading scheme the decline began, and the plan to increase tax on an already heavily taxed industry was obviously very poorly received in the regions where mining is critical (WA and QLD). </p> <p>The final nail in the coffin was definitely pushing through the new Mining Tax without consulting his party!</p> <p>Good riddance i say, several large mining projects had already been shelved, and many more would have followed. I just hope the inevitable compromise on the mining tax ensures that the industry receives minimal impact. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1547521 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:25:43 +0000 epicyclo 1547521@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Big money sank him. </p> <p>Tried to tax the multi-national mining companies and by a HUGE co-incidence ends up with knives in his back.</p> <p>Looks like the Oz government has been bought and sold.</p> <p>The fact that he can be unpleasant is neither here nor there. His replacement is a silent assassin type <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_smile.gif" title=":)" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1547326 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:41:32 +0000 bristolbiker 1547326@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>He shelved his &quot;flagship&quot; environmental policy. The Aussie public like a battler, took it as a sign of weakness and his approval rating went through the floor. </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1547319 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:40:46 +0000 fogliettaz 1547319@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>[Welsh bird] Welsh Sheila mate! </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1547312 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:39:19 +0000 alexathome 1547312@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>He smelt of cabbage. Much better to have a ginger Welsh bird. <img src="http://singletrackworld.com/forum/my-plugins/bbcode-buttons/default/icon_biggrin.gif" title=":D" class="bb_smilies" alt=""/> </p> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-was-wrong-with-kevin-rudd#post-1547223 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:19:11 +0000 corroded 1547223@http://singletrackworld.com/forum/ <p>Autocratic, micro-managing flip-flopper who alienated his staff and wasn&#39;t cut out for the job he&#39;d always wanted. Sort of rings a bell... </p>