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Inspired by a similar thread on EMTB Forums
Having been totally happy with my G3 Levo S-Works and it's power/range - my mate has recently got a Cube 177 with more torque and a bigger battery. I'm more of a 'high cadence, appropriate gear, ride like a normal bike just a bit easier' kind of ebike rider. He's just come from an analogue and seems to want to go full tilt everywhere regardless of the general pace of the ride - ironic that we've spent the past couple of years taking it steady on mixed rides so he didn't suffer on his analogue.
Anyway, I can keep up, but cranking the Levo up is rinsing the battery and I'm back to the sort of range anxiety I had on my old Kenevo. The raft of new Avinox M2S bikes have got the 'buy it' finger twitching - but, the Levo doesn't need replacing yet and I'm going to wait a year until the dust has settled on all the new models. So, just hit buy on a Trailwatts extender - will give me 952wh total. While I've got the motor covers off, I'll drop the motor and send it off to the ebike motor center for a full Brose upgrade - my Kenevo motor came back better than new! All in, about a grand rather than ten on a new bike...
Not my fitted pic, only just ordered. Having one made with a shorter lead that goes in the top
Other than that, last thing fitted recently were some Ergon GP1 grips to give me a bit more width on my bars. Find them really quite nice (and normally grippy) - but rode back from the pub the other day when it had rained and they were blumming slippy
So, what have you done to your bike today?
Adjusted rear brake to eliminate slight noise on hard braking. 5min job took 3mins, if I don't include pulling out a replacement rotor then returing said rotor to the shelf.
I just fitted one of these to plug up the bottom of the steerer on my Reba Gold Fork - https://ebay.us/m/EZoQBt -
Dropped my brake levers angle a bit, to see if it helps with my wrist ache on longer rides. Just having a cup of tea, then I'll give my pace a rinse, as it's filthy!
My bike - broke a spoke nipple yesterday on the front wheel so fitted a new one and retaped.
Reeksy2 - retaped rear wheel, rebuilt shimano derailleur clutch that was sticking. Swapped four pot calipers across from another spare bike to give him a bit more braking power (and prestige 😉)
Reeksy1 - fitted TRP derailleur and shifter to replace his AXS, swapped that to my commuter and the GX from that to my trail bike.
Put my Kona Unit back to single speed as it should be , following a brief period with 10 speed. Had Achilles tendon issues and needed to take things a little easier for a while.
Nothing yet but this evening I'm going to experiment with stem spacers on my road bike. Always end up with back/shoulder blade pain after a ride now, want to see if lower stack helps encourage more core engagement so I'm not propping myself up so much with my arms.
Swapped the bar/stem on my road bike for a one piece one. As it's fully integrated the original headset bearings (one felt slightly rough) were switched for stainless steel ones, cables were replaced and the brakes were bled. I also replaced a bearing in the bottom bracket that was feeling a bit rough and re waxed the chain. Other than a fresh rear tyre and probably brake pads it's ready for the Fred next month.
The rest of the bikes got a wash and I set up the brakes on my hardtail properly as I'd lent the set originally on it to a mate, and just vaguely attached a set of old Hope Tech M4's to it but not made it rideable. I need to redo the sealant on my full sus before Boltby but that can wait until I've decided on which tyres to use.
I replaced the GRX400 front mech. on my gravel bike as I was finding it absurdly hard to adjust & keep adjusted. I tried an 810 (11 speed) one as I assumed it would be better quality but I'm not convinced it's not the same mech.
It seems just as temperamental with the trim positions in particular seemingly semi-random (unless the shifter is a bit dodgy) but I'll give it a try.
I’ve moved my fat bike across the workshop to make room for some bookshelves out of the house that my mate is having…
A couple of 90-150min recent rides on the gravel ebike, after barely using it all winter and sticking to the turbo, both left me with really aching shoulder blade muscles for days.
I've rotated the bars up a bit so the tops are now in line with the stem, to see if that helps.
New chain and sprockets on the road bike, going back to squirt after a year on silca synergetic. I’m not getting the chain life I used to get with squirt.
Dropper my dropper post from 240mm to 230mm drop with a few adjustments. Also swapped the Super deluxe coil for a factory x2 loosing a load of weight from the bike and making it propper poppy now .. And just looked at it as todays riding has been sh&^canned due to hail and driving rain.
Assessing the damage from a weeks brilliant riding in La Palma on my previously "almost new" Bronson. I think we did about 8 spokes between the six of us. Other than that checking out if any of the "memory patina" on forks, frame, cranks, pedals, mech etc was anything other than cosmetic. Thankfully not, so a bit of heat, sharp knife and replacement invisiframe for... well... quote a lot of teh underside of the bike 🙂
Also measuring a spoke, surely you should just be able to google the wheel rim and hub and get the spoke length. Apparently not.
Dropped my brake levers angle a bit, to see if it helps with my wrist ache on longer rides. Just having a cup of tea, then I'll give my pace a rinse, as it's filthy!
Coincidentally, I seem to have been playing with brake lever angle and also how far inboard recently. normally I just fit and forget, but become a bit obsessed lately and adjusted a few of my bikes
Fitted some Ritchey Corralitos to my cgr, I need to sit a bit more upright and wanted to bring the hoods a bit closer. Intermittent shit weather means it's sat in the garage ready to go whilst I'm in the house with a brew though.
I was hoping to be fitting two new tyres to my trail full suss. But bloody Royal Mail didn’t deliver yesterday when they said they would! 😡
Serviced my Vaults. Again.
Adjusted pistons on rear brake after putting new pads in and found they were dragging a bit.
shredded UDH through carelessness and had to go find a new one on a Sunday. Installed a new UDH.
Productive day:
Waxed chain on winter road bike, since 'winter' conditions haven't quite relented up here 😭
While I was at it I fitted some cheap clip-on aero bars. Nobody at our local/ informal midweek TTs uses them and I didn't want to be the one to fire the starting pistol on that particular arms race, but since it's my winter clunker with mudguards and puncture-proof winter tyres I think I'll be excused. Ironically I can't fit them to the summer bike 🙄
Switched my rear Barzo for a Mexcal and fitted the aero bars to my gravelised 29er for 'lite-packing' duties later in the month.
Removed winter spikes from the singlespeed, fitted some gravel tyres and waxed the chain as a prelude to trying to sell it again. Hardly seems worth it but I need a slush fund for inevitable summer breakages.
Just have two TPU tubes to patch now, which is a thread in itself as although TPU is treating me reasonably well, any repairs I've attempted have been temporary at best 🙄
Looked at it and thought about going for a ride. Went climbing instead.
I had a Mudhugger fender which split across the middle so I cut it in half. Now I have 2 mini rear fenders.
One to cover the 'loam shelf' on the Airdrop and one to hopefully prevent rocks and stuff getting trapped between all the moving parts on the Druid.
Both are currently untested and probably useless.
OP - I tried those ergon grips and hated them. Gave them away after two rides for free to someone on here. Don’t understand why they’re well liked, but guess we are all different
New grips to replace my old ones that have seen better days after 4 years
150mm cranks to replace my 160mm ones. Trying to eliminate pedal and crank strikes on the rocky up hills.
At some point before our next trip will need to fit a new rear tyre as I dont think it will last the distance
raised the BB height on my LevoSL and slackened the HA.
put it all back together and found a washer on the floor so essentially did it twice...
Mulleted my full suss today. New headset, new fork and front wheel. 🙂
Can’t wait to ride it and try it out but it might not be for a couple of weeks ☹️
Now that all the winter mud has dried out, I cleaned it. The next month's worth of incessant rain will obviously be my fault.
Today: 3 punctures fixed, 1 replacement chainset fitted, various tyres pumped.
In the last week.
- 2 complete drivetrain degreases and re oils to remove winter filth
- 2 creaking BB/crank combinations hopefully cured 🤞
- 1 offspring taken for a bike fit
- 1 cassette removed and scrubbed clean to establish which HG freehub it was on with one look of mild horror aimed at the chewed freehub body
I think every bike that fits someone now works (I've cursed it now).
Fitted new rear tyre WTB Judge high grip and Peatys Hi Flow valve to the eeb. Used the tyre monkey tool for this first time. Great for breaking the sealant crust on the old tyre. Snapped a pedros lever. Cushcore lever and industrial zip ties otherwise made light work of it.
Well, just cleaned it and did standard post ride checks, found out cranks weren’t as tight as I’d like so torque wrench out. For excitement and as I was there I greased all the garage door pivot points, much quieter now.
I opened the bike shed door, looked at winter filthy bikes, closed shed door. Decided to have a beer or three.
I’m two weeks post surgery and a medicinal beer was the required pickup. I will be out on the bike next week, so some after work cleaning and fettling is required. Possibly even a chain rewax.
Road bike stem adjustment seems to have done the trick, it felt good so I did a 40 minute GCN HIIT session on the rollers and no back pain to speak of as yet! Seemed counterintuitive but thought I'd just go for an extreme adjustment and almost slam it. Thought it would feel too low and stretched out but I feel less like I'm reaching "over" the bike now which seems to put me in a comfortable position. Of course looks terrible now with all the spacers up top, but will have to live with it for a while to make sure it's right before cutting the steerer.
My bike has had an annoying creak/clicking for the past 4 or 5 rides so I've been trying to solve that for a while. I'd already cleaned and greased seatpost and saddle rails, and re-torqued all the motor and suspension bolts, so on Thursday night I partially disassembled the headset (fully would mean disconnecting cables/hoses) to clean the bearings, crown race and steerer and repack everything with grease. I've done two rides on it since and fingers crossed it seems to have gone so I can enjoy the motor's clutch rattle in peace now 😄
Oh, add: tightened all the spokes in a buddies rear wheel which seemed to have spontaneously all loosened enough to cause a continuous tinkling noise as you rolled along.
Bontrager wheels on a Trek road bike, seemed to have been specced with plain gauge spokes so I wonder if that had something to do with it, or just a poor quality build...
converted my ebike to tubeless. took a while to get them to seal
I've been on leave so I've had a busy week working on three bikes - two of mine to get them in good shape for the summer, plus working towards completing the build of my son's DH bike.
Yesterday, Bike 1 (mine, full suss): installed and set up a new shock (RockShox Super Deluxe Ultimate, impulse buy at a good price from the Alpkitoutlet on Ebay). I'll get to test that properly at Kielder on Tuesday.
Yesterday, Bike 2 (mine, hardtail): installed and bled a serviced rear caliper (code RSC). The caliper I removed will be taken apart, serviced, and reinstalled next spring (probably - we have similar brakes on other bikes that may get swapped out before then).
Today, Bike 2: removed and serviced the derailleur (XTR, 12 speed) - the first time in ages. The clutch was fine, but the P-axle had all but seized in the derailleur body so I removed that, cleaned it up, greased and reinstalled it. I also installed new pulleys, and replaced the carbon outer plate with an equivalent aluminium part from an XT cage (as the carbon was delaminating).
Nothing more ambitious than replacing a rear mech cable and all associated outers. The old Gore Ride-on was about 10 or 12 years old, so no surprise it had got a bit sticky. Wish they were still available 😪
Fitted a sicomtb rear mud guard to the amflow ebike. Very nice mudguard. New headset bearings, new clutch in the shimano mech and fitted a new shimano chainguiide to the pivot firebird as it was dropping the chain constantly.
assume you're talking Raceface wheel? Had a lot of creaking coming from my 1ish yo rear wheel. 4 of 6 pawls has disintegrated and everything was just a mess. Guess it's an annual (at least) maintenance jobServiced my Vaults. Again.
Bit of an odd one, came back off a short ride today to find a little wobble in the headset preload on the ebike's carbon fork. Then found the stem steerer clamp bolts felt nothing like 4Nm to undo before tightening the headset topcap bolt and then retightening the steerer bolts.
Besides checking them when the ebike was delivered a year ago, I don't remember touching any of those bolts.
Weird.
I sheared the water bottle mount bolt on my cotic . Stared hard at it for a while but that didn't make it fix itself so I sprayed some penetrent at it and walked away . Got a plan now though so will have a go at it after work .
A more penetrating stare - that should do it!
I re-rimmed my rear wheel.
hope tech enduro, on a pro 4 rear.
I always thought the rim was too narrow for the bigger tyres my frame could handle, but never got around to dealing with it.
then a mate gave me a rear DT wheel which had a knackered freehub, with a wider rim.
so I did my measurements and decided it would fit, got it done in a couple of hours.
quite satisfying.
Found a crack due to a badly fitted spacer/washer, so my friendly lbs lent me a seat stay in the colour I wanted the bike in.
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Pulled down MrsF's BMC Fourstroke off the hanger and pumped up the tyres, cleaned off the dust and oiled the chain. We're off to Newborough Forest camping and were taking this bike rather than her hybrid (she prefers that as it rolls faster), but I'd rather she didn't stack it on Forest Tracks. I'll be on the CX bike.
It's not been used for at least two years, possibly three. Didn't even need to put air in the forks, rear aircan, or even the reverb. Bought the bike for a bargain price some years ago from a 'short' mate. It's an XS and still too small for me despite me only being 5'9". Lovely bike with XT and SLX 2x10. That's how far I have to pull the saddle up to test ride. Shame it's 'short' on reach. Seriously light too from stock.
And it prep for a few trips with bikes, bought some ZTTO fork mounts with various QR/through axel adapters (already had QR skewers) and fitted them to some timber so I can bolt them to the van's seat floor rails.
Spent all Saturday in the garage! Firstly my Tripster, after getting splatted by a car, the insurance is taking too long and I need to get commuting on it again, so bought some bars (Merlin: £9.99!) and fork (£200 cheaper on Upgrade's Ebay!) and fitted those. The fork has some bloody ridiculous internal routing, top of the leg to bottom, just to do away with a clip on the back of the fork. Mental. So anyway, that meant gear hose had to be undone from lever and fed through. Went so smoothly brakes don't even need a bleed. Just gotta wrap the bars so I can ride tomorrow.
Then my brother brought his Orbea Rise round so we could fit the Shimano display. That bit was easy.. but I decided the dropper cable was stupidly long and I'd cut it down. Then .. after snipping it... find that you can't refit without removing the motor. But that was after a good hour or so of unsuccessfully trying to fish the cable out of the seat tube where it was wedged pretty tight. Lunchbreak and decided dropping the motor was the only way. Unlike my Moterra SL the motor was piss easy to refit, so that went ok.
We'd fitted the display kinda wonky with the 31.8 clamp cos it didn't appear to have a 35mm option. Bro ordered one off Amazon. He rode home happy. Then I was tidying the workbench and found the 35mm clamp that must've fallen out of the box unnoticed. Doh.
Bit of a job on this weekend with the eeb.
The big job was fitting Hayes Dominion brakes. Made much harder by the headset routing. Made a little easier by the Stem Dock I found on the internet.
It had developed a 'click' of sorts from the motor area, couldn't find the fault in the obvious places so as I was removing it to fit the brakes, I cleaned and lubed the bolts and bushings, made sure the bushings were in snug. That seems to have done the trick.
Also had to adjust the battery cover, took some fiddling about to figure out how. Subsequently found a video after I'd sorted it, which was annoying.
And finally, I put some volume spacers in the rear shock. I found myself blowing through the travel even with everything else setup correctly, the shock feels much more supportive now, it'll take a proper ride to check that it's sorted. I will be going to coil soon, I forgot how much faff air shocks can be.
Not today, but last Monday I took a 2m nose dive off the side of a trail and spangled my faithful old Garmin. It still recorded the rest of the ride, even though a substantial amount of it's innards were left on the bar mount!
Yesterday -
re-tensioned the wheels after noticing a few loosey gooseys packing up after my last ride - Nice to use my new TS2.2 and be able to true 29er wheels with the tire in situ no more fighting with the old 26inch version from the 90s. - Added some fresh sealant to my tires.
Played around with luggage options to try and use what i have to get a parallel mount bed roll (similar to the miss grape trunk or revelate pitchfork) without impacting my front lights view of the road. - Settled on a Wildcat gear lion sideways on my aerobars - with a small dry bag wedged under the front to push down the front of my bedroll away from the light
Bought some Anything cages for the front forks as i realised my current set ups not going to fly on the islands - playing with fire for a wet miserable week with my usual amount of clothes.
Fitted a new bottom bracket to the Taival hardtail after the old one shat it's pants last week.
On the Airdrop, wasn't happy with the rear brake so give that a fresh bleed.
Also, drilled out the star nut and cut the steerer down by around 20mm, purely for aesthetics.
Funnily Enough over the weekend I rebuilt the rear wheel on my Gravel bike, fitted a new (wider) tyre and went for a shakedown ride...
Recently...
New bearings on The Mongrel's main pivot.
Gone back to full Magura on the RocketMAX after the Shiguras kept going spongey - used the one finger levers from a set of MT Trail Sports I had overordered.
But mostly...
I've been off school for the Easter two weeks - spent the second week trying to sort out the garage and make it a vaguely usable workshop space again. One and a half vanfuls of crap/obselete/unwanted bike parts taken to the tip so far, and I'm nearly starting to see some tiny signs that I've actually been doing this. Just off to B&Q on the way home today to pick up some timber to build a ceiling rack for all my spare wheels and tyres which will be some more floor space cleared. Still got the horrible job of rationalising the bike collection and deciding which 3 or 4 need dismantling and putting into storage or given away. that's probably a thread all of it's own though...
I thought it would be a day or two's job to sort completely, but once I started to sort stuff out, etc. it's just expanded exponentially. surely I'm not the only one with a garage that is really just one big messy pile of bike-related stuff with a narrow pathway threading through it?
No, DMR Vaults. My absolute favourite pedal when they're not rattling or grinding. Which is every 14months or so.
I’ve moved my fatbike, again. Firstly to accommodate my saw bench so I could do some ripping and again to accommodate some garden furniture that arrived unexpectedly..
Not today, but last Monday I took a 2m nose dive off the side of a trail and spangled my faithful old Garmin. It still recorded the rest of the ride, even though a substantial amount of it's innards were left on the bar mount!
Is your Garmin recommending 10+ pints as recovery? I need to find that data screen on mine 🤩
@13thfloormonk Yep, I think it's an app or widget on Connect IQ called Beers Earned. Just a bit of a fun way of estimating how many calories you've burned on a ride. That was on the ebike by the way. You should see the beers I earn on my normal bike!!