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I serviced my One-Up dropper post yesterday with the little kit you get.
New bushings, brass keys, threaded collar and seal and a blister pack of suspension grease.
It was an absolute joy to work on really. Just seems really well made, and a nice, simple process designed with user servicing in mind and a nicely put together service kit with everything you need in there, along with a helpful YouTube tutorial.
It's like butter now.
Why isn't everything like that? 🙂
Some things just fight you the whole way.
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I agree, they've been built with the user in mind.
As a counterpoint, I have a Code lever blade to replace tomorrow. Seemingly simple but getting everything lined up just right needs hands like a pair of octopuses 🐙 🐙
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Nicolai / Geometron bikes are lovely to work on. Not that they need much maintenance of the pivot bearings due to brilliant sealing, but just so well thought out, easy to work on, and brilliantly detailed info to work from (and all available online without having to ask for it). Only one special tool required to knock out the axle through the main pivot but can be done via other means - I got the tool though! Also things like nothing threaded into the frame, so if you cock something up it's not an issue - even the caliper bolts screw into replaceable inserts rather than the frame.
On the flip side, the bastard 2010 Lapierre Spicy I owned years ago... those rear chainstay bearings, double-stacked with a fixed lip in the frame between them. Whoever designed that needs owned with a set of Bombers.
Hormann garage roller door. I picked up a half price bargain that happened to suit the hole I had, but it just went together perfectly and you could see why they cost as much as they do normally.
Gothenburg era Volvo's.
I built a new BMX over the weekend and it was great to not have to do the following; set up a rear mech, put cables in internal routing, trim hydraulic hoses, bleed hydraulic brakes and set up tubeless tyres!
My Bird Aeris 9 frame has unexpectedly been the best-built and designed full sus frame I can remember (and I've had LOADS).
The internal or external cable routing is simple but clever, the flip chip is quick and easy and changing the linkage (to adjust travel 160/180) is straightforward. But, most impressively, everything just lines up well and the bearings seem better sealed than a lot of bigger or cooler brand frames.
oneup pumps are equally nice to work on.
Fitting tyres to UST Mavic Deemax is satisfyingly easy.
Ragley bikes… simple, well thought through engineering. Always obvious and simple when working on Ragley frames.
I can attest to how simple it is to service a One Up dropper.
I did an emergency service in the Cannock Chase car park! All I needed was a few basic tools, some grease and a tree stump as a table!
I did an emergency service in the Cannock Chase car park! All I needed was a few basic tools, some grease and a tree stump as a table!
Lucky you had one with you...
Came here to say working on a Geometron but see I've been beaten to it.
Everything on them is well thought out and easy to work on.
The mutators at the rear of the chainstay even have a thread cut into them.
If you want to swap them or do a bearing change you remove the fixing bolts then screw a larger bolt in and they split in half for easy removal.
All the bearings are easy to get standard sizes.
I've had my G13 since 2019 and changed the bearings once last summer. Half of them were showing no signs of wear.
This is my most ridden bike and gets used around three times a week, every week, year round.
Our trails aren't renound for being dry either...
OneUp droppers are indeed a pleasure to refresh.
I'd add anything involving external cables. Internals have got a lot better on many brands, but I just don't care about not seeing cables so it always feels like a job that could've been avoided.
Last job I did was swap my front tyre from a Magic Mary, which kept deflating, to a Continental Kryptotal (hmm, might've been an Argotal). Onto the Hx1700 DT Swiss rim, not too tight to fit, but my chosen combo of Schwalbe tyre lever to hold the bead in place and a tyre pliers squeezy tool (do they have an official name?) got it on with ease. Splosh of Stans... Pumped up with my Lidl track pump. Pang pang, it's on and up and has stayed that way.
Anything with externally routed hoses or cables.
Not the tern gsd
Stans flow rims, stans tape, maxxis tyres. In combination. I seated the tyre with a track pump first try and it held pressure completely dry overnight (added sealant the following morning.
one up droppers (the first post I dared to service myself)
santa Cruz frames. All bearings in the alu linkages and very easy to change, and internal greasing. Drawings/specs available on the website. Fully sleeved routing which is a pleasure to use. Integrated headset. My only minor gripe - the bb, which is threaded (another plus point) but the shape of the rear triangle means that to remove the bb you must remove the shock and push the rear triangle out of the way, at least you do if you have a full circle bb spanner, a crescent shaped one might work. Oh and the flip chip is a tad fiddly.
only better frame design for maintenance is a single pivot where the bearings are in the chain stay not the front triangle.
On the flip side, the bastard 2010 Lapierre Spicy I owned years ago... those rear chainstay bearings, double-stacked with a fixed lip in the frame between them. Whoever designed that needs owned with a set of Bombers.
Insert " and Horst link Specialized" just after "2010 Lapierre Spicy".
Most externally routed bikes with 10 speed or less. I especially found Microshift Advent X really easy to get set up.
My ancient Fox Vanilla R 32 forks.
It's not bike related, but I recently bought a NAS from a mate, someone that also kept pestering me to set up a Proxmox server for various things in my home network.
He kept saying that it should all work well together, but he's 100% a tech-geek but.... It worked. Literally everything went together just as he said and setting up VMs on Proxmox with the GUI, with .iso images on an SMB share on the NAS just worked. Once again, technology has surprised me.
And then I looked at the shitshow Microsoft has for their internet management portals and got sad again.