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  • Whitwick / Coalville / NW Leicestershire Riders
  • asbrooks
    Full Member

    rascal, sounds interesting, I could be up for that. I’ll let you know for definite tonight. Need to make sure mrs asbrooks hasn’t got me booked in to do something family wise.

    asbrooks
    Full Member

    rascal, I’m in for Monday. What time and where are we meeting? Who else is in?
    Monday is looking fine weatherwise..

    rascal
    Free Member

    Andrew – not sure exactly yet TBH on Mon.
    It’s my mate’s gig and I’m tagging along with him and another.
    Most likely scenario is a 10.30 meet at the Hurt Arms in Ambergate – not sure if you know it?

    http://www.thehurtarms.info/

    We park there, ride, then have a pint and the world’s teeniest bowl of chips after the ride.
    The ride itself won’t be the epic you had with Danny last week but will be a change from Leicestershire.
    Nick is pretty fit – his mate less so and me less so again I reckon 😉
    I’m not around for a few days now – I will be textable and emailable so maybe you could email me your number so I can confirm times etc on Sun night if that sounds ok.

    If anyone else wants to come that’s cool – use this to let me know if you’re coming…cheers

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    dannyh
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    I’m going long(ish) and local tomorrow (Sunday) morning if anyone is interested.

    Kick off in Woodhouse Eaves at 8-30am if anyone is keen. Post up if you are, if not I’ll be going anyway 🙂

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Blimey. I wish I’d gone elsewhere today.

    I had a run in with a self appointed steward of the countryside after about 400 yards of my ride today. What a silly old muppet. I said cheerily ‘morning’. No reply, so I made a silly comment about ‘this hill is a bit steep for a warm up’ when one of them kicks off a Goebbels esque rant about how I shouldn’t be there. His mate disagrees with him saying ‘oh lighten up its a free country’ which really winds our hero up. They then start to have an argument between themselves while I just shake my head and ride off. The thing is, I know where our hero lives. His house is a large detached off of a quiet lane in the village. Decent length driveway, nice garden etc. must be worth over half a million. And he’s still not happy! Sometimes I wonder, I really do…….

    Then a bit later on I meet a farmer as I’m beginning to ride a bridleway across his farm. He was as nice as pie. We had a quick chat about the road ride that is on today, I asked him if he minded me riding around the field edge rather than the overgrown bridleway and he said fine. And he DOES actually own the land!

    There aren’t half some muppets about.

    Hope the rest of you get some riding in over the weekend, weather is damn near perfect for me.

    Wednesday evening 7pm Man Within Compass car park.

    asbrooks
    Full Member

    Danny, this weather brings out the grumpy people for sure! Hopefully I can make it Wednesday. Getting out once a week is not enough now, I think I’m getting a bit obsessed…..

    rascal
    Free Member

    Sounds entertaining Danny 😉
    Me and asbrooks are out for a spin at some point tomorrow (Mon) time and place TBC – if anyone else fancies it shout up here. Was thinking Thringstone area as I can’t make Weds as it’s a mate’s 40th. Oh and it won’t be too early either!

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Yeah, just one absolute sphincter and a couple of “I wish you’d piss off” looks from others. But to put things in perspective the chat with the farmer and the umpteen other people I saw who were fine still means that most people aren’t pricks.

    Loads of sour faced roadies doing the Charnwood Sportive as well, but a few said hello!

    jez130
    Free Member

    Had a nice blast round cademan/Thringstone woods today. Bluebells are in full bloom as well. If anyone is going out at weekends give me a shout. Brings a tear to my eye Wednesday nights whilst sitting in my dirty, filthy, soiled hotel room in london.

    jez130
    Free Member

    Had a nice blast round cademan/Thringstone woods today. Bluebells are in full bloom as well. If anyone is going out at weekends give me a shout. Brings a tear to my eye Wednesday nights whilst sitting in my dirty, filthy, soiled hotel room in london.

    BillOddie
    Full Member

    Dannyh, the mistake you made was engaging in conversation with someone who is “considerably richer than you” he clearly owns everything.

    I say hello and move on. I also generally have headphones in on solo rides so I can always pretend I don’t here comments if need be.

    Last week I was asked by some dogwalker if I read the sign on the way into Leicestershire’s biggest deer based Tourist attraction. I said “Yes, but I chose to ignore it.” and rode on, seemed to do the trick.

    dannyh
    Free Member

    BillOddie.

    Yes – but I was just trying to be polite and cheerful – big mistake!

    After ‘encounters’ like this I used to fume and ponder for a good half an hour – stuff like:

    “Why can’t they just enjoy their time out in the countryside and leave us alone”.

    “Have I done something that might create future trouble?”

    “I know I’m technically in the wrong, but I shouldn’t be”.

    Etc etc.

    Now my thought process is just:

    They are the one with the problem.

    Is it going to stop me riding there? (answer = no).

    Therefore it is irrelevant.

    Proceed as before.

    dannyh
    Free Member

    And in the spirit of ‘proceed as before’, to reiterate, this week’s meet is:

    7pm Wednesday Man Within Compass, Whitwick.

    See you there(!)

    mrbelowski
    Free Member

    I’m up for it. Whether I’m actually allowed out is a completely different question – will do me best

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Roll call for this evening if you please, gentlemen.

    I will be there – who else is up for it?

    asbrooks
    Full Member

    Yep, count me in….

    mrbelowski
    Free Member

    I’ll ask the missus now. If you don’t hear from me again I’ve been killed

    rascal
    Free Member

    Nada – some early evening drinks will be consumed to help my 40 year old mate come to terms with not being a 30-something any more.
    Enjoy and keep the number of mechanicals down this week please (mrbelowski – did you find your crank bolt thingy?)

    rascal
    Free Member

    Just realised that is was theglover who lost his thing – apologies 🙄

    mrbelowski
    Free Member

    Yeah, my cranks are fine and so is my thingy

    rascal
    Free Member

    I’m glad your thingy is alright – you’ll be needing that tonight 😆

    scandal42
    Free Member

    I will be out tonight.

    fathomer
    Full Member

    No can do, though I don’t usually post anyway! And I’m not around for the following three Wednesdays as I’ll be in sunny California 😀

    mrbelowski
    Free Member

    Righty, I’m still alive and so I’ll be there with all my thingies intact and firmly attached

    theglover
    Free Member

    my thingy is repaired but i wont be out tonight as going to pick up a new car for the wife (read: biking car for me).

    Should be playing next week though.

    lucabazooka
    Free Member

    Right chaps…

    5 months later, I’m going to make it across to night, at last!

    Keep an eye out for a white Primastar van, Orange Handjob….!!

    Never ridden in these parts before so looking forward to the exploration!

    Cheers,

    Scott

    lucabazooka
    Free Member

    Foiled!

    Finished work too late – but headed over anyways for an explore!

    Had no idea where I was going/nor a map or GPS so just parked near Swithland/Bradgate and rode around!

    Looks like there has to be some stealthy singletrack around those parts….and the drive from Broughton only took me 25mins (instead of the usual mid-week 1hr Cannock slog!) … so, looks promising!

    Will make sure that I’m working ‘from home’ next Wednesday! Look forward to catching you next week!

    mrbelowski
    Free Member

    Nice ride fellas. Shame about the gates, the bad shoes and the vomit 🙂

    asbrooks
    Full Member

    Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about throwing up! Bloody flies.. 😀

    Yes another good ride last night, thanks to Dan for the guiding duties and local knowledge.
    mrbelowski – The gates give one an all round workout. Who needs a gym membership………..
    Rob, you were talking about buying a new rucksack/hydration pack. I bought this one.
    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310888927153?var=610244264615&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
    It was a little bit more than I thought it was. Still 8.99 is not bad, free delivery, UK supplier.

    dannyh
    Free Member

    lucabazooka – no worries, you know where to find us if you are interested(!)

    Last night was great, gash cheapo Aldi shoes notwithstanding. And I contributed an obligatory mechanical as well, so all good.

    We covered a pretty decent amount of ground as well – tracks firming up nicely (although the weekend might put paid to that).

    No injuries, no unfortunate incidents involving badgers or grumpy NIMBYs, so another Wednesday night success.

    See you next Wednesday evening (14th May), Woodhouse Eaves village car park ready to ride at 7pm 🙂

    dannyh
    Free Member

    I’ve got a good’un for you on Wednesday night. A slightly different route around my ‘manor’. One section in particular has absolutely brilliant views if the weather plays ball.

    I’ll leave it like that, tantalising. We could even have a pint in the Wheatsheaf rather than the Curzon as well……

    Don’t get too excited, mind. It is still variations on a familiar theme, but just a couple of bits we have not done before on a Wednesday……

    rascal
    Free Member

    I’ll be there Daniel.
    Wheatsheaf or Curzon…it matters not.
    Both do nice ales…both extremely expensive 😯

    asbrooks
    Full Member

    I’ll be there too!
    Looks like the weather is going to pick up during the week, according to the BBC
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2644668?day=3

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Looking forward to it. I just managed to finish a lower fork leg service this evening before it got dark! I’ll have to give it all a good looking over tomorrow after work to make sure I haven’t missed any bits out as the reinstallation of the fork into the bike was a bit hurried 😯

    See you then.

    scandal42
    Free Member

    I will certainly be there chaps. Wheatsheaf sounds great.

    How complex is the service Danny? I was looking at getting my forks serviced today but was slightly put off by the £90 cost.

    Could certainly do with it before I hit the lakes next month.

    mrbelowski
    Free Member

    I’ll be there i think. Sounds interesting. Lower leg services on rock shox are a doddle. The hardest bit is whacking the nut on the spring side hard enough to break the push fit seal without flattening the stupid Cheesium nut

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Scandal.

    It’s not too difficult. The best guide I have seen is the MBR workshop guide on Youtube (Rockshox lower leg service). Yours is an air fork, so I think all you have to do that I don’t is remember to depressurise the whole thing before starting.

    Don’t take it to bits unless you’ve got the fork oil already as a minimum – taking the lowers off loses all the oil in them.

    Google the rockshox oil chart for year of your fork.

    If you want to do anything to the dampers or springs (tops of legs) you will need a 24mm socket – not all that common in standard socket sets.

    You will probably need for lower legs alone:

    5mm allen key
    15wt oil
    Isopropyl alcohol (for cleaning – can get from Maplin)
    Rubber Mallet
    Tyre lever (if you are taking the seals out)
    New seals and foam rings (if you are replacing them)
    Fork grease (for the inside of the seals – DON’T use normal grease as it shrinks the rubber)
    Lots of rags
    Something to shove the rag down the lowers
    Bottle brush

    Don’t wear decent clothes – fork oil is EVIL.

    Follow the MBR guide and you should be fine – don’t leave it until the last minute before your Lakes trip, though – if you find the foam rings have disintegrated then you will need new ones – everything else can just be re-used even if it is knackered.

    Not difficult and you cannot really go wrong – the tolerances are quite fine, so if something is wrong, it just won’t go back together!

    scandal42
    Free Member

    Cheers Danny, sounds reasonable.

    Think I might just order the seal kit and oil when I get home tonight and do the lot this Saturday coming, last thing I want is the fork malfunctioning in the lakes and I’m quite sure one of the chambers (+) may be losing air, I imagine new seals etc will remedy that.

    See you Wednesday

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Depends on which seals!

    The grey ones you see in the top of the fork are only dust/wiper seals. The air spring compartment seals are (necessarily) much tighter(!) I don’t know anything about servicing the air springs themselves, but suspect this might be a lot more involved.

    My fork is a coil unit, so it is pretty crude and heavy, but the flipside is less to go wrong.

    When people say their fork is ‘losing oil’ as they can see it on the stanchions all that is really happening is that the oils that sits in the lowers is making it out past the dust/wiper seals. This oil’s only function is to lubricate the movement of lowers over the stanchions – it plays no part in spring or damping or anything else.

    Best thing to do is have watch of the MBR workshop guide for the lower leg clean and service, then have a look on Youtube for the ‘official’ SRAM/Rockshox guide. This should let you see how much is involved in sorting the air spring – as I said, I suspect this is moving from ‘just twotting it with a rubber mallet’ territory into picks and seals and real precision(!)

    dannyh
    Free Member

    I really am trying to avoid actually doing my work today(!)

    I googled this to find threads on Singletrack about Rockshox forks losing air.

    Apparently if the seals on the actual air chambers themselves have ‘gone’ then it will need sorting by a suspension specialist like TF tuned. What some people have said is that if you do the lower leg service and leave the bike upside down overnight afterwards, a tiny amount of that lower leg oil might moisten up the air chamber seals in the negative spring and this can mean they then seal better than if they have dried out – but it sounds like a long shot and temporary fix.

    I guess your best plan of action is to do the lowers service, try this bodge and then stick a shock pump in your pack whenever you go out riding.

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