To annoy the feweck out of people who are board and need to get out more 🙂

Keep up Northwind your 2 days and a post behind 😀

allthepies – Member

Like disconnecting hoses to bleed brakes ?

I dont bleed brakes, and I dont understand the fetish with doing it.

Its unnecessary 😀

Northwind – Member

PS,

rickmeister – Member

Hopes on our bikes do this if turned upside down,

Get them bled right.

Will still happen with any brake if you dont roll your diaphragm !!

IIRC there was an issue with master cylinders seal. May be worth checking,sending back to Hope.

I think mr ATP you are missing the point, I haven’t had the need to bleed a brake system for over 3 years.
Because I have closed brake system, much the same as everyone else. If I need to do some work on the system I just empty it and then fill it making sure that I dont put any air into the system, especially when I put the diaphragm back in

Good to hear that it worked, I spent hours doing the
1/4 turn open
pump lever
1/4 turn close
repeat
check reservoir, sh1t its empty
start again
repeat.
Only to find when I finished a brake significantly worse than before I started and a floor/bike/shoes full of fluid

allthepies – Member

Agree (sort of although when I bleed brakes then I effectively replace all the fluid with new stuff). But why disconnect the hose to do this ?

Start with an empty system, then fill from bottom up thats all. It works for Shimano and is effectively what you do with Avids.

Dot listen then, spent lots of time bleeding brakes its pointless. Just filling with brand new fluid is the best way to sort brakes.

Good question, I cant get my Maxxis advents to seal

Dont, just do this

Dont bleed em.
Just push the pistons right back, take the hose off the caliper and the reservoir cap off and pump the hose and res empty.
Bit of tubing a syringe and some new fluid, fill the syringe and tube full of fluid [do the hospital thing of get all the air out of syringe and tube] Reconnect hose and fill the system through the bleed nipple till the res is full. Dont forget roll your diaphragm.

Morvan

No I’m not 😛

Oh one point best of luck with Co2 cartridges, despite the fact that there are usually 100 to 200 of them on a plane they still question the safety of them.

Depends who you are flying with

Rode with this very nice Lady in October, I was awarded an Olympic medal in “Belly sucking in”

Also a previous [in yellow] winner of the Vuelta, even at 73 kept to the front at average 18MPH for 80 Miles.

Year before that it was a Tour winner, not friend Helen but the geezer behind, btw he out sprinted me to the finish.

Rode with this man 2 years ago

Well yesterday I passed Contador on a ride, he was going the other way 🙂

Its a brave mouse that sleeps in a cats ear

Kingspan and/or thermawrap.

Thanks, will try ProxMate as Expat doesnt work with Windows 8 🙁

OK to balance things up a bit here’s things I’ve cracked 🙂

Carbon Stem

Aluminium Frame

Klunk – Member

, mustn’t laugh really

Can do as its not mine but a friends Enigma, BTW he is a big chap and I will tell him you laughed.

Once spent 12 hours riding around the Trails there 🙂

There was only one hill that I didnt look forward to on the course I still hate it.

Just took the road bikes last Easter cracking road riding. We went down to Montagne Sainte-Victoire just east of Aix en Provence, some good looking VTT here’s a taster.

Mrs coming of the “Hill”

Going up

Spesh Roubaix 23/25. They have 25 carcass and a 23 rolling thingy apparently.
Took em down this on Sunday, drop bars and all.

Where would I get my leather saddle from you insensitive count

Checked my MTB stuff

Hully Gully No slouch 🙂

Leaderboard // Overall
My Current Place 309th / 1161
My Best Time 1:23

and a Gisburn climb 🙂

My Current Place 240th / 1254
My Best Time 8:08

hamishthecat – Member

Dales_rider – Member
Hard pressed to find better than THIS

Fine if you only want 170mm cranks. Or don’t need them to be in stock.

I wondered about 170’s but they are fine I dont notice the 5mm / 1/5″ difference. In fact they dont strike lumps as often and maybe help with spinning faster.
As for not in stock, do the email bit I did.

bigjim – Member

The GPS errors are so big
Seems to be in anad around towns, country ones are more accurate maybe some “Interference” from ????

This is one I intend to get back.

My Current Place
33rd / 533
My Best Time
1:53
Rank Name Date Speed HR Power VAM Time
Andrew Johnston Apr 6, 2013 41.4km/h – 224W – 1:35

I reckon I can find 28 seconds.

[/quote] MadBillMcMad – Member

I was thinking superlight too.

On the anthem, I always thought it be better with a 120mm fork just to make it a little less racey.

My Spesh Stumpie is a tad under 24 pounds which aint bad for a 120 full susser.
With the Horst link it gives a good ride in all conditions, better than a single pivot and Faux bar stuff. Never ridden a DW link so not sure on them.
So maybe buy a frame and build it to the spec you want.

Well my two will stand for a while and I guess I’ll never do some of those London ones as for Evian well………..

Me well I may delete one as well.
I’m now 2nd out of 3, still KOM though cos the leader is a girl 🙂

I have 3 😛

Hard pressed to find better than THIS

Specialised 🙂

I’m nearing 60 and they work for me 🙂

Load of bolloxs talked about brakes get real FFS

Dont bother ever, just change the fluid onece in a blue moon.

For interest sake

New Dot 5.1 fluid boils at 270 °C
With 3.7 % of water in it boils at 190 °C

So the hygroscopic properties of brake fluid have an effect.