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will a slightly wobbly BB break my bike? its having the gears serviced at the moment and just received a call saying the BB has a little bit of play in it... will i be safe to ride on sunday?
😯 i dont know enough about dandyhorses!
Yeah you'll be fine! As long as it's not stuckfast you can ride!
phew.... thought i might end up bikeless for sunday then!
so whats the score with bottom brackets, will "play" somehow damage my frame? educate me oh wiser riders 😳 for i'm not sure how its even ended up with "play" after 4-5 months use, no drops or jumps. perhaps its my weight 🙁
The BB shell will only fall out leaving you with a downtube and seattube hanging in the air. Think of it as a form of suspension.
Seeing as Swinley's on our doorstep we've no excuse - would be great to meet some riders from the local area too, and those farther afield. Might be just me though as I think Pip's got something booked...
whatever you post meant DezB... it sounded scary!
Phil, is it HT2? If it is you're swap you some spanner time in my garrage (I'm in wokingham, no idea if thats on your way).
i have no idea what it is.... a google search isnt too helpful but the halfords website suggests that this years model uses a truvativ powerspline BB.... and i cant see much difference between this years model and last years Fury apart from the stickers on the forks.
extra cool points and sicounted entry to my next sexyparty for the help btw 🙂
I can bring a spare bike if that helps
WCA... you get automatic VIP entrance to my sexyparties anyway, you know that 😉
thanks for the offer though... it's not felt weird riding it at all and i didnt notice any play... but then again as you may have noticed i'm probably not going to know what that feels like anyway haha! i'll have words with the guys this evening and see what they say. nothing will stop me coming on sunday even if it means buying a new bike/stealing torms new bike.
Phil..
Rule 101 - if it still turns, it's still alright*
*please see ammedment 9734f re: application of rule 101 to the tightening of bolts.
okily dokily neighbourino!
i might ask them to get in a new BB for me anyway, keep it in a drawer until riding feels weird then at least i'm prepared...
Yeah I'd get one fitted as soon as you can, but in the meantime it won't stop you riding.
well that was a successful trip to halfords to collect my bike, new BB fitted for free, got to keep the old one (so little "play" its almost unnoticeable) new cable for the rear derailahhhh... again for free, and got them to lock off the front so i'm forced to stick in the middle ring, thus achieving 1X9 until i get a bashguard and whip off the other rings.
tasty 🙂 just got to remember to pump up my front tyre and i'm sorted for sunday!
anyone bringing a go-pro or anything on sunday?
Warm gloves and skull cap have arrived...yay!
Still waiting on the spare brake pads - the front disk is screaming because I got dot5.1 on it. (Still it was silent last time I went out, so perhaps washing + braking have helped)
Bit worried that where I live will become impossible to drive...
Still,should be fun!
Whatsa go pro?
I'm going to try and bring a pro-ho if that's any good?
if i dont reply on this thread again, its because i tried to drive into work in 3 inches of snow (now i know its safe.... i know how to drive, but god help the idiot that crashes into me because snow turns their brain off)
its BEAUTIFUL around Swinley now, a good 3-4 inches of snow in places and its nice and soft 🙂 shame the forecast suggests that will have all have melted by Sunday!
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Never go anywhere without him. Especially not in the snow.
i'm safe 😀 some surf_matt style powerslides around roundabouts and its alll gravy!
night ride at swinley in the snow tonight to check out the conditions me thinks
Good effort.
Balls to driving though. The arse end of my beamer will spend the whole journey trying to overtake me! Today I will be working from the comfort of my living room with a sneaky ride out with the dog on the cards for lunchtime. Happy days...
ahh you want a nice safe sensible old man skoda like me, no turbo, no traction control, just front wheel drive and all the torque the diesel can muster 😆
going to invent a reason why i need to leave early this afternoon so i can beat some of the worst traffic home before it gets dark *fingers crossed*
out at 6am defrosting the car and clearing all the snow off, even cleared mrsconsequences car for her, but it got covered again by the time i left at 6:40 😯
i blame the tories!
even cleared mrsconsequences car
You can never have enough brownie points, this I have learned.
waking her up before 7am to tell her its snowed and i'm leaving her [s]for a younger women[/s]for work didnt go down well. but then again she still gets angry at her alarm every day.... NOT a morning person.
You can never have enough brownie points, this I have learned.
[Insert] Backdoor joke [Extract]
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(did you notice con-air on tv last night?)
Whhaaaatt?! I was involved in a dalliance of shenanigans and tomfoolery whilst possibly the greatest piece of cinematic history was on the kev. -5 man points. 🙁
it was beautiful, ever so, especially the wind blowing nicholaaaaars's hair. *swooon*
'how can I liiiiiiiiive without you?...'
Don't think I can make it. My Elixir's are screaming in the wet and the weather has meant I cant try new pads as they have not come. (Plus I cant get the front pads off because the bolt has rounded). Don't think it's fair to subject everyone to the brake scream!
take your brakes off and have a ball, i might showup depending on beer and other half and weather etcnot that i'm a weather nancy, the last ones i went on was mental cold like -7 and the other you needed a ****in noahs ark
timothius no one cares about what your brakes sound like. I rode for 60km of a 100km ride with a friend whose breaks squeeled on every rotation of the wheel. Yeah I almost killed him, but we're okay now.
Just come along. One of the guys on here is probably already getting a bit excited at helping out a fellow biker with his nuts! (& bolts)! 😀
Ah cheers! Will come then. I'll try to pop into the LBS to get it sorted on Saturday, but otherwise it's going to be LOUD!
I'll bring some chocolate to prevent my assassination.
tim my good man.... my front brake squeels like a 12 year old meeting edward cullen on every rotation as i found out last night. i do know a cheeky quick fix that might help both out brakes... we can try it in the car park before riding (i'll bring allen keys).
if it doesnt work then we'll kick TSY in the shin as hard as possible so everytime i he puts pressure through a leg he'll let out a wimper, that will distract from our brakes 😉
[flounce]Oh yeah, that's right, sure... pick on the Yeti. Racists![/flounce]
Right then who's travelling, how far, for this supersexualfun?
I just checked my route and I think it takes something like 2 days for me to get there...
forgot to mention, went for a ride around swinley last night
holy quicksand batman! riding in snow up hills is like riding up a sand-dune.... havent been that worn out by a bike ride since i first started.
it was like riding in narnia, so much untouched snow, LOADS of animal tracks and a few sets of footprints, but pretty much no tyre tracks. only saw 2 other cyclists the whole ride.
the weather forecast suggests that it should get up to 3-4degrees and some rain before sunday so we're going to be looking at mud. i love mud. depending on what time the temperature drops on sunday it might harden up a bit and get all fast and flowy again, but in all honesty - as beautiful as last night was - i'd prefer to ride in mud and rain that battle through the snow to get up hills.
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if the snow melts it'll be easier to see the icey puddles and roots 😯
It was like riding in the back of my wardrobe?? 😐
I went for a ride near where I live yesterday. Same experience. I found cycling almost impossible as the snow was a foot thick. Walked about 90% of the trail pushing the bike which sucked a bit.
Still, the scenery was good!
yeah walking hills i had managed to build my self up to always riding was a bit disheartening, but, its all good exercise 😀
there is now a [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/roll-call-for-the-stw-swinley-sexy-party-this-sunday ]ROLE CALL THREAD[/url] for the ride to keep things a little bit organised.
all messing around, organising lifts, photos of cats, discussing suede jackets should continue in this thread though!
now there's a role-call thread this one can descend into madness....
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YETI - if you're reading this, i'd like to present to you my dream fullface helmet.
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on that note, why hasnt (hoping to be proved wrong on this!) anyone made fullfacers that look like sharks and dinosaurs?!
My best mate at Uni descended into madness. Proper madness, the sort of madness that lead him to believe that he could control Karl Kennedy off of that there Neighbours (but only at the repeated tea time showing).
Madness is my MasterMind specialist subject, let's roll...
Phil does that helmet come in Yeti?