Is it coming out of where the xx remote meets the mo-co cartridge if so those o-rings are replaceable and come in a x-loc services kit. Can you take a photo and show us where it is happening.

Use the Fox’s and services them yourself regularly and they will be fine ultmatily I would recomend rockshox’s as I think they are much easeir for the end user to services other than the dust seals most of the seals are easily avavliable from Sram or a o-ring supplier. If you do a muddy harsh ride it should not take you more than 15 to 30 mins to do a lower services.

Try loctite 638 retaining compound you will still be able to remove it with some force.

There is no lube like force.

As someone who has been visted by the black dog more than once in his life I unfortunatly know the thought processes which can get you to the place where Nick obviously was before he took his life. If you think your life is out of control it probably is just get professional help if not for your self but the people you are going to leave behind to pick up the pieces. My heart goes out to his freinds and family.

It may be the wheel has had a big enough hit to the rim and that the wheel builder/wheel truer may have had to compmise with wheel tension to get it straight.

Mid tune will be a mid tune for compression and rebound but they are seprate circuits so you can run say a mid compression and high rebound etc. MM is the most common tuning it works on most bikes you don’t tune them via ifp pressure or oil weight but by running different piston kits for different tunings.

There are some after market bodges out there I think where you lose the 11t and add a extra 36t cog to the back but I cannot remember the brands and they are not cheap.

Is it press fit bb30 or bb30.

Sorry rebound damper or rebound damper circuit

I can’t talk about how they feel in the peak district but I have been using the rct3 moco in some SIDS for the last 6 months and I find them pretty easy to dail in. You have only four variables to worry about air pressure (your spring) rebound compression (how quick they spring back) and regular compression which can be set at fully open going down hills rough trails / half open for easy trails climbing and closed for riding on the road paths etc. On top of this you have a low speed compression dail which you can add compression to to the open or half open settings to help stop fork dive and add some kind of platform damping to ride this is how I understand it works. When I race on them I tend to leave them fully open with a few clicks of low speed compression with a flick to the mid sitting for long climbs etc to stop them bobbing to much I tend not lock them out except on commutes or fire trail riding.

This sounds like the free hub I have.

I am sure you will be fine.

They are nice bikes and you can tell people that you ride a 18inch red wanga.

Buy the 2012 170 air assembly they feel a lot smother as the part that equalise’s the the two air chambers has been improved. You need 11.4015.551.040 for the 170 air assembly.

Can you cut it in the middle between the clamping sides this will releave the pressure and make it easier to remove the bolt. Also having the other bolt tight can help in getting the broken bolt out.

Are these anywhere near the right price or model Australian free delivery and warranty.

http://tbsm.com.au/bike-parts/brakes/complete-brakes

Can you send some photo’s I have a spare freehub I think at home and it has Allen key retaining bolt and a allen key for fitting the freehub.

Is it not like a shimano freehub where you use Allen key. From memory that’s how I have taken them apart.

If money is tight just replace the rim you can save the spokes if you use like for like rims or do you just need an excuse for new wheels.

I hold the fork with my legs and then guide the setting tool with my free hand it avoids damaging the dropout tips.

Try this sram part number 11.4015.491.010

This is how I imagine the big hitters of this forum riding.

By running on the axel there is less drag between the seal and bearing they run a simple dust seal instead I wasn’t very clear sorry. I think the trick with endro bearings is to use them and then replace the standard industrial bearings that they use instead of replacing the whole cups and bearings.

I’d say NZ would have better riding but I think Australia has a pretty good race and endro scene for the size of it’s population.

I’d tweak the forks first even a small drop in travel will change how quick they are in the turns.

Just the oil being pushed quickly through the shim stack on the bottom of the damper cartridge don’t panic it’s a normal noise. Add lots of rebound damping and listen to what it sounds like as the oil is being cut off by the rebound shims stacks to give a idea of what I am talking about.

Why does everybody struggle with crests and fitting tyres are your thumbs so weak or is your technique really bad. They are tight but not that hard to fit.

You don’t have to use the forks branded oil as long as use a good quality suspension oil. But be careful of the fact that some motorbike fork oils have seal swelling agents to keep the oil in the right place. You have to remember that a motor bike has the weight of the machine to help overcome any drag in the system and services intervals are longer.

Another option to hope are these guys

Enduro Bearings

As the axel sits on the bearings like hope it reduces drag and the bearings are replaceable so you don’t throw the cups away when they are done. They also sell a bearing press tool to swap out the bearings. Having send that I have always had good results using hope.

Just had a look at

http://cdn.sram.com/cdn/farfuture/x2NzQmGwGm40Rv3YjxAhcJfGrXrQRHz8fabeJ7xN8ek/mtime:1334764730/sites/default/files/techdocs/2012_sram_extdt_wheel_hub_spc_rev_c_0.pdf

Does not seem to be available as a spare but I have replaced one before from a donor lever and it is a pain in the arse if it’s under warranty try and get it fixed.

+1 to the cyclus press it’s a no brainier to me and it also fits press fit bb’s. Just have to get someone with a lathe to make me a bigger guide for 1.5 headsets.

Are they gold or silver reccons sounds like as mentioned before the value through which the two chambers equlise. It’s kept open with a wavy washer which may be broken, sounds like a strip down of the air assembly is in order they may just need a service.

No

Carbon grease is not carbon grease but carbon assembly compound it’s grippy because of what’s put in it, some enigneering type on he will explain better. For your bike I would coppaslip it as mention the stuff’s toxic so be careful but it is very resistent to water. I went to a seminar on carbon and how it’s used in bikes by a carbon frame designer and he was laughing at how we get sold tiny little packets of that carbon paste when he had seen it in massive containers in industrial use for next to nothing in cost.

Sounds like the damper side of the shock not the air can side has something wroung with it so presuming you just did a air can services you could have not have changed how the propedal worked. Sounds like it needs a full strip down, you sure the propedal is not working what’s it’s tuning and the bike it can be pretty subtitle on some bike designs.

Your local motorbike or car workshop will have a waste dot fluid container they recycle some of the elements I think. If you really worried about it ask them if you can chuck some it is what I have done in the past with the small amounts generated in a bike workshop.

I was going to say air compressor.

Just buy a hope in the first place, but serioulsly any way you can replace the bearings and leave the shell is good in my books it’s such a waste to throw them out.

“AAAAAAArrrrrrrgggggghhhhh!!!!!! No brakes!!!! Move aside before we all die horribly in the resulting carnage!”

I use to yell this coming into an intersection everyday which was after a hill and swamped with jay walker’s the canarge and funky chicken dancing was awesome.

Two Good weekly night rides in melb at the moment are the coummuter cycles ride most weds(ring the shop and ask if it’s on) yarra trails they take no prisoners though it’s fast. Also the weekly dirt crits under the westgate it’s $15 if you have a mtba licence and there is most weeks a beer or two after. The same mob orgainse dirt crits at lysty as well check out full gas promotions for details.