I don’t really say hello any more, simply because I have a bandana on my face to keep the flies out of my mouth.

However I give a nod to acknowledge another riders existence, although that depends on where I am: If say I’m on a canal tow path where I’m likely to come across many cyclists I simply won’t bother reacting at all. But if I’m somewhere remote and I haven’t seen another human being for 2 hours and out pops a guy/girl on a 5 then I’ll probably give a mildly surprised “Hi there!”.

dmorts +1

the exact same thing happened to me with my 2013 SLX M675’s.

I then purchased Shimano’s bleed funnel and used epic’s bleed kit excluding the syringe, works fine. I find the tubing stays on the nipple better if I remove the dust cap completely. You’ll also need a 7mm spanner BTW…

I use shimano’s guide click

Nope a nice one in a park and I’ve not had anyone say anything about skinheads yet.

I wear them outside of work too, they are my only pair of shoes bar my AM41s.

Work in a cafe

I would suggest go to the DM shop in Covent Garden, try the standard shoes, then try the UK made for life ones, and see which fits best. Its a great little shop.

That’s what I’ve got the Made in England ones, they fit me better than the Thailand ones – which are too wide. The leather is really thick on the Made in England’s and I think that’s the problem.

Your feet are not used to ‘proper’ footwear

I’ve worn DMs since September 2012 and I’ve a pair of steel toe cap boots that are fine.

As for their size, I have them laced up tight as they are slighly on the large side if anything…

There is a fold on the toebox that digs into my toe and causes pain, I had another pair before (Vietnamese made ones) same size and they were fine 😐

Care to follow that up with some suggestions CFH 😉

Should be fine now – I didn’t replace the seals when I did the service, and have just noticed the fork is leaving really gunky crud on the stanchion again, it is also feeling a tad notchy – probably meaning the oil I added has been depleted by the poor seal.

I’ve owned my recons since 2011 and serviced a few times, I haven’t touched a single seal, just renewed fluids. Unless the seal is cracking/splitting, I don’t see the point in replacing it.

Whilst out riding I saw a horrific sight, deep in the woods; hundreds of 29ers all with skinny steel tubes and rust, thrown into shallow graves… I think it was the 650bzi’s that had done this…

Teflon grease (and most other types too) will cause rubber seals to swell, there are a lot of seals in a set of forks so it would do a good deal of damage. It would be better to not grease at all than use a non rubber safe grease. TBH I grease my recons and it doesn’t have that great an effect on performance, I’m sure you won’t die if you just don’t grease them.

You can get some suspension oil from a motor bike shop and it will be just fine in the lowers (make sure it’s the same weight – I think it’s 15wt for recons).

Oil weights vary between manufacturers and this difference can have an effect in the damper; making it too fast or too slow, again you can just try it. If you can’t adjust your damper to the setting you want with a certain manufacturers fluid, you can just try another – it won’t damage the fork and you won’t get killed (probably).

I use RS fluid in the damper.

Getting every part of the bike and yourself dirty (some parts may only become wet/gritty) in one ride.

To answer the original question: I work in a food place and people make a real mess sometimes, but I’m not too bothered, people generally are messy… but, when people leave things on tables about a metre from the bin, I think you a lazy ****.

Servicing a cup and cone hub for the first time and feeling how smooth it is…

Zip ties and inner tube. Why spend money?

Careful now, if you don’t send back the extra laptop then the loss incurred by apple might force them into bankruptcy.

I’d keep it for a month, if it’s all quiet then sell.

You put your hand in a flame – it burns, do it again, same thing, and again same result. Same with life you try and try, but it keeps going wrong, everything you do results in pain and failure, so great that it’s debilitating, eventually you start to feel numb. Nothing brings any joy everything serves to provide you with pain and misery. You listen to your favourite song do your favourite things and it does nothing.

Why not give up tomorrow? Because that means another second of pain, you’ve put your hand in the flame of life and it’s burned you too many times, your mind simply can’t imagine that it won’t burn again.

But stop, hold your hand a bit longer let it set you alight, let it burn you alive, let it do it’s worst.

That’s what keeps me going, if my life really is that bad then let it kill me, at least then I won’t be to blame for my own death.

how do you undo them if they’re tight?

Attach wheel to fork and do up the bolt thru really tight, that should hold the axle nicely, and undo the cone, the spanners are thin so will fit.

When I describe why and what I’m feeling to people, they help me put things in proportion, inside your own head a hellish microcosm can easily be created.

As for pills, I’d be wary of grabbing them, depression isn’t something you pick up on the bus home, it’s brought about by many different things, you really need to dig deep and address what exactly is making you unhappy and want to give up. It can be the smallest things that you put aside in your mind and pretend they don’t bother you but they all mount up.

First pull of the lever if pulls an inch ish, second pull half inch, and it keeps doing that until you leave it a small amount of time when it goes back to an inch. Obviously with the levers in a more normal position this means the first pull goes straight to the bars.

That is air still in the system, I used to have the exact same problem with a set of elixir 5s.

I was able to get them to work perfectly after a lot of faff, that faff was required each time I bled them – in the end I gave up and bought a set of SLXs.

However, make sure your calliper is aligned and that both pistons come out the same amount on both sides.

When bleeding place the levers 90 degrees to the ground.

If you have bled your brakes go for a ride, don’t bleed them again – why? because the vibrations from riding will cause air bubbles to relocate and hopefully collect at the lever (I always found that the majority of the air will be in the lever).

Ideal scenario would be to go for a ride, remove the brake from the bike hang it vertically ensuring that the lever bleed port is the highest point.

For me I have found that when bleeding the lever it helps if you pull the lever syringe and hold it, then pump the brake on and off, keep doing this until large bubbles stop coming out (disclaimer, this is something I do, if it does any damage to your brakes I can only be sorry, but it worked for me).

edit: it isn’t hoses or seals, I have replaced the lot on my Avids and I have always had that problem. I put it down to poor design in that the reservoir is too small and therefore any air in the system will affect performance.

Bought the Lopes of Wiggle, thanks for letting me know.

A vice

I ride through there, not great at jumping, but I live close to the woods so I’ll gladly come down to dig/watch you/chat…

Service and assemble hub then attach centre lock rotor. You cannot gain access to the cone on the drive side therefore you tighten it before you insert the axle into the hub.

‘let the school down’ with ‘reckless and dangerous actions

Was he throwing flap jack

Ah just replace it, you’ll get better pick up as well. My bike came with a cheap non series shimano hub, I replaced it with a SLX hub – much nicer (but I like shimano hubs) I would recommend getting a hope, unless you have a fetish for cup and cone there really is little point in getting anything else.

Serviced the callipers with rubber grease and bled; my elixir 5’s worked well for about 8 months then stopped being awesome, I tried to get them to be nice again but I just couldn’t manage it for some strange reason – finally I decided that I could no longer spend my life inside bleeding brakes so bought a set of SLX’s and I find them a much nicer brake to use as well as maintain.

It’s fine if your chain is quite tight as is. I used one for a about 6 months and it was fine, again push down because of stays. It does creep and lose tension a bit when going over proper rough stuff, again if the chain is really slack and you don’t have enough chain wrap it will result in slipping and bad noises.

I use one of these (with the arm zip tied to the stay), more chain wrap than an angry old man could shake a stick at and no need to adjust.

I thought the same thing, but yes 6ml is correct. It’s just there to keep the bushes damp. I use stendec stuff (it’s blue – yep that is the only reason I like it) you might be able to get some suspension fluid in a local motor bike shop, it will be probably be cheaper. Different manufactures have variations in viscosity this will matter in the damper (I use rock shocks stuff there) but in the lowers it won’t matter.

Don’t be surprised to find about 2 drops (literally) of oil present in the lowers if you’ve never serviced them before. I’d recommend using a spanner, when I used a socket it slipped.

edit: I won’t bother replacing seals unless they actually leak, I’ve have my recons 2 years and two services later they work fine without having replaced a thing bar fluids.

Look at their mirrors too see if they are looking at you (oh and to spot if the drivers a knob). Even though they are in the wrong it won’t be of any use when you’re in hospital. 😛

The elderly would win fighting to the death (as they have little to live for except that bus seat) and fuelled by pure hatred and self righteousness.

Calliper rebuild on my Avids. Pumping the pistons out using a track pump… the piston shoots out of the calliper hitting me in my head just above my eye, a bit too close that. 😕

mineral oil is now p1ssing out everywhere and the caliper looks proper broken.

Glad I’m not the only one covered in mineral oil after the weekend 🙂

Brand new SLX 675 brakes – I began bleeding them for the first time using epic bleed solutions kit and as I pushed the syringe at the calliper fluid pisses out of the lever from the diaphragm seal – lots of it, all over the wood floor in my front room, I don’t yet know how much damage was done.

I’ve also got a small collection of hose nuts with rounded flats.

Attaching a hose to an elixir 5 calliper I sheared of the head leaving the thread in the calliper. Fortunately I greased the thread before hand other wise I would not have been able to extract it from the calliper.

You have to do something fun that involves achievement.

I spent 2012 trying to get onto apprenticeships and getting a girlfriend, on both accounts it would go well, then bam – not interested. The worst part is that you don’t know what you did wrong so you can’t correct it for next time and become scared that it will happen again. Oh and to top all that off at the end of 2012 I failed my driving test twice.

I thought that you align the valve/logo to make it faster to find the valve.

I’m with Euro on the helmet thing but never mind.

Clips for jumping, I don’t know about you but I like to know that if a landing is looking bad then I can ditch the bike. Hitting the ground with metal tubing in between my legs doesn’t sound fun. Chicks dig scars but not guys with broken willies. 😛

Also you can do gnarcore skillz wid flats

A short stem is perfect, I’d rather have a short fork but be fairly upright on the bike thanks to a short stem.

*caution I’m not a pro jumper I have done a little bit – but that’s what I’ve got from what I’ve done*

Also what do you define as healthy?

Items that are low in saturated fat, sugar, salt… that sort of thing – more comes into it, somebody else will have to give a more detailed criteria, remember this was just a thought.

Others exist such as convenient/lazy, lack of cooking skills etc

Going of on a tangent, but why do all take aways serve unhealthy food (awaits mention of a fancy healthy take away somewhere fancy)?

IMO cost is the main factor. Take this as an example, my lunch break option 1: a cheese and ham pannini with tomatoes – £3.25 or option 2: a chip butty with BBQ sauce (btw BBQ sauce is much better than ketchup) £1.70

Trainspotting, The film is not as detailed as the book and omits chapters, however I thinks it’s brilliant and does the book justice.

I only 1 finger brake, I don’t see the point of braking with 2 fingers as you will just skid. You may not have as much grip on the bars with that bandage on mind.

How about you show us a few pictures of things (some trails and other interesting things) in Aus.

The picture is taken in bad light with the OP in a hoodie and I think she is attractive so she must be definitely good looking IRL.

The correct answer is to wait until they’ve ranted themselves out, and then say “Aw, I think someone needs a hug…”

I like that, I’m taking that with me 8)