Yes.

I also found I need to put a bit of light oil on all the valve threads, as having that many threaded parts nested can get a bit sticky.

It’s not zero-faff, but the lack of flats has made it well worth it for me. I think Northwind is right about it being a per rider thing, and it probably depends a bit on how rocky your average trials are.

HTH. Might be an idea to put the post down, remove it from the bike, and disconnect the cable entirely to see what the post does.

I don’t notice the weight. Went from flatting once a week on the hardtail to never again. The base of the valve is very flat and sometimes has a problem sealing, I solved this by cutting a couple of washers from an old inner tube. Installation is just enough of a faff to discourage me from changing tyres, so I tend to do that less now and just ride what I’ve got on.

Have you put it down then released all of the cable tension to check if it still happens? Apologies if teaching you to suck eggs, but you should be able to wind tension off at the lever end until the lever has plenty of slop.

Does it also creep down with your weight on it for any sustained amount of time?

Sounds odd. If it’s rising slowly, but rises fast when you push the lever, then the oil valve is probably partially open all the time whether due to cable input or an internal problem. If either of those is the case though, I’d still expect the post to sink when weighted (I might be wrong).

That looks fine.

I thought it looked a bit short compared to the ones I’ve fitted, but google image search for “ks lev integra” with “cable” or “connection” shows ones looking exactly the same as yours. If someone’s broken/modified yours, they’ve made a very neat job of it.

It’s usually cable issues first with Levs. Probably the grease you mentioned, but also worth checking none of the routing ports in your frame have been wearing away at the outer, and that when you install it, it’s not putting any kinks in the cable. Here’s what happened to a friend’s outer at the post end, because they’d shoved the seatpost down without pulling cable back through the ports:

Hey Head Lane by any chance?

whitestone – Member
Singlespeed?

I suspect it was no longer in the 36-36 configuration from last spring :D

Rusty Spanner – Member
Just out of interest, has anyone climbed Shoebroad Lane, behind the old Unitarian Church in Tod?

It’s doable on 32-42 but you’ll probably be stamping up the Honey Hole section. Was with DazH the other week and he did it on a single speed…

I’ve not tried it myself on anything above 28mm internal width, but this was one of Schwalbe’s comments in 2015:

“We’ve tested the Procore system on rims up to 40mm (outer width) and it does work. Wider than this is actually not tested since the 27+ trend is very new. However we see it very interesting to also use Procore on 27+ tires as they are used with a very low pressure. We’ll continue testing and will react, either with a further extension of the usage allowments or with a 27+ specific Procore version.”

This is probably the rim they were talking about.

Maybe these Tufos? Slickest looking CX one they do.

http://www.tufo.com/en/cyclo-cross/detail/dry-plus/

Much better visibility in that photo than we actually had for most of it :D

Made all our lights look like petrol station freebies from a distance.

fifeandy – Member

If you go dig around on Schwalbe’s website they did a study on it ~5yrs ago.

Annoyingly, they didn’t go below 20PSI at the time though. A couple of years back I messed around a lot with pressures between 11 (thanks Procore!) and 20. At first it was just for a laugh because I could, and I was surprised when it sped me up quite a bit on descents.

Ended up settling on 17PSI for my body weight and setup with a 2.4 tyre, just to stop the pogo bounce of lower pressures on climbs, and I’ve found the same happens with plus tyres if they’re too low.

In!

There are some browser plugins out there that allow you much greater control over guff in your feed than FB do, without automatically blocking ads. FB Purity is one.

allthegear – Member
Yes – don’t use it.

Not even this works. They once got caught tracking and building shadow profiles of people who didn’t have facebook accounts.

footflaps – Member

WhatsApp sends all your contact list to FB, so all phone numbers and emails are known……

They’ve also done far more than this. I’ve had it suggest someone I’d never known as a friend, and with some digging found out the only thing connecting us was our forum usernames on a single forum. That I’d never linked to from Facebook.

If the ERDs match and you’re reusing the hub as well, tape the new rim to the old one and transfer the spokes one side at a time. Vastly simplifies relacing! :D

It means “I realise what I’m saying is bad, but by rephrasing it slightly and prefixing it with ‘I’m not saying’, I can feel a bit better about myself”.

Viewranger here. The OS mapping is good, and stored offline so as long as you get them in advance, you’re never buggered if you’re without signal.

Also, bit of a faff, but you can import GPX files and overlay them on the map. Really helps me get out and explore locally when I see someone ride something new near me on *cough* that website.

jamesgarbett – Member
Are they any good as a cheaper alternative to an SSD?

Just to add to what everyone else has said: Hybrid drives do a really clever thing where the most used bits of your drive get put on the flash memory, speeding them up. Usually that’ll end up being your OS and most commonly used applications.

I’m on an SSD now, but a hybrid drive was a great upgrade to my last laptop.

I wondered about this a while back after buying a dehumidifier that has the same warning, so went and found out. Oil in the wrong place can cause parts inside the compressor to fail mechanically when they try to compress it.

You’ll find people online saying “It’s an old wives tale” or thinking it’s only an issue for old fridges, y’know, before progress something something. They’re wrong even if it hasn’t caught them out, they just… failed to get unlucky.

This video probably has more than you want to know :D

I worked in a petrol station for a bit when I was 18, and we were told not to dispense petrol if people pulled the hose right the way across, and use the tannoy to tell them to move. Not only does it wear hoses, with whatever nozzles they were using at the time, people were more prone to flinging petrol everywhere as they removed them from the car.

Some petrol stations have pumps with long hoses that terminate quite far above the cars; I think these are designed for refuelling either side. Many don’t and have short hoses people will yank on to do it.

This story was brought to me by someone in the audience after I did a talk on how much I hate “fun” offices:

A startup had a glass wall around the space under a staircase, and people kept walking into it. Instead of putting some decals or something on it to make the glass more visible, they decided it would be cooler and more “startuppy” to have a ball pit. Except, that many ball pit balls are expensive, so they filled the space up with cardboard boxes and just put balls around the sides and on top. A symbolic ball pit then. The boxes were warm and dark, so in no time at all it attracted rats, and they ended up with a fake ball bit concealing a load of shit and piss.

(Argh – wrong thread. Delete please! )

Northwind – Member
With powdercoating finish/quality is everything, you want a recommendation really. Places that do motorbikes are usually a good start- motorbikerists are demanding.

I had a couple of rims blasted and powder coated here a couple of years ago, got good results:
https://www.facebook.com/PenninePowderCoatings
Chris does a lot of motorbike bits. Massive ding down to the bed of one of my rims since last summer, and the coating cracked around it but none flaked off.

Shred – Member
Where are you staying in Joburg? There are lots of areas that are not safe at all.

There are also areas safe in the day, but not at night. Only been once for an event, and stayed in Braamfontein. Two floors of the hotel had been done up, the third floor had no power and rented rooms out by the hour. In the day, the streets were busy and felt safe, at night deserted apart from people loitering with obvious intent. We were told “Stay in groups at night, don’t walk around alone at any time if you’re a woman”.

Ear enlargement will solve your problem.

I’ve solved a presta valve shrader hole problem by cutting a couple of washers from an old inner tube before.

unfitgeezer – Member
Also have it in my head that if I do go to the top I wont be able to breath properly…not fit at the moment and 2 stone over weight…

Fit or not, you will get short of breath climbing stairs near where the gondola drops you.

I’ve hurt mine three times, and it was like P-Jay says every time.

Hope F20s use an M5 thread. I just double checked one with a caliper, because the pedals happened to be on my desk, and the major diameter on the pin thread is 4.83mm (which is the lower end of spec for M5).

Most pedals that don’t have custom pin shapes use M4 high tensile grub screws. M3 bends too easily.

4.5Mbps at home in a town of around 15,000, and I have to move gigabytes of data a few times a year. It’s very annoying sometimes, but possible with planning. It’s fine for most other stuff, and occasionally I’ll just travel to a friend’s office or into Manchester to get decent bandwidth.

Depending on where you’re looking to live, B4RN’s coverage area[/url] is worth a look. They run gigabit fibre to the home for £30 a month including VAT. The incumbent networks in this country are arseclowns, and B4RN are getting it done.

I forgot to take photos before leaving for a few days, but you can see what we made here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nottinghack/6414704113/

We molded the green ones from shredded milk bottle tops. The white ones were an earlier laser cut experiment (too brittle). The holes in wooden pegboard wear through use then the hooks start to lift out when you take tools off, and that looseness was what annoyed us about commercially available wire hooks in the first place.

That’s why I’d make tool holders and mount them on a solid sheet of plywood now, but if you buy a system, I’d definitely go for something that uses steel boards.

Wera make good stuff. Getting a set of their stainless allen keys last year felt like a complete indulgence but they’re a pleasure to use.

Pegboard: I once designed and injection molded my own hooks. Will post some photos later, but I’ve found it wears over time with heavy use. If you have basic woodworking tools and the inclination, IMO it’s probably best to make your own tool holders to fit each and screw them up.

As an aside, has anyone ever tried ‘rICKERS’ or similar.

I can think of one design enhancement: If there were some kind of connecting material between them, like some sort of strip made of exactly the same material, then you could apply them under tension and reduce the potential points of failure. You could also then keep it on a roll and it would be much quicker to apply. I reckon it’d only add about ten grams per wheel.

It appears in the dropdown now.

Edit: It appears in the dropdown on the front page for me, but not on forum pages.

Not a usual stop at Lee, but the ice was at that nice pinging thickness :D

esher shore – Member
couple of wraps of electrical tape to seal the spoke drillings, then quick wipe with Iso again, and wrap some Stans/Roval whatever tubeless tape around to completely seal the rim area. the electrical tape acts as a last defense if the main tape failed/split or leaked

That’s what I’ve settled on too. I’ve tried it with just electrical tape before, and it sealed, but seemed like a long walk waiting to happen.

One thing I like about gaffer is that you can do a bit of testing then cut a roll down to the exact right width for a given rim. The adhesive degrades fairly fast on the shelf though, so it’ll become useless in a year or two. If I have Stan’s/Tesa in a near enough width, that’s what I’ll reach for first nowadays.

While changing tyres, I’ve had a bead peel gaffer at the edge such that it leaks. A bit of isopropyl on a rag will take the residue off fairly quick, still a pain in the arse though.

Explored some steeper bits of Calderdale last night, and went out for a perfect winter day today. Lee Quarry:

Solid puddles at Cragg :)

Make it a large shed, and convert the rest into a sauna for your family. It won’t need any coal.

Well, if you do it inside a shed in a garage, you certainly won’t get cold…