Room for one more? I will be up for this tonight as long as the traffic’s ok getting home

Sounds good. I have seen quite a few of the full face helmet crew down there and wondered if it was you guys, that’s not really my scene. It would be good to ride with you guys as I’m sure I don’t know half of the trails that are down there. Do you ride every Thursday?

Do you ride most of the trails down there of just tend to stick to the jumps/ workman run?

Last week I bought a dog off of the local blacksmith. As soon as I turned my back he made a bolt for the door.

So I went home last night to find a big box of shiny bike bits had arrived (more exciting than I had ever imagined). I set about installing them and found that with my fairly basic existing tool kit and makeshift work stand (a couple of ratchet straps hooked around the frame and over the garage door runners) I managed to install stem, bars, brakes and rotors, front and rear mechs, cranks and put tyres on the wheels. Not a bad effort I didn’t think for my first time and very addictive seeing as I was only going to check that my seatpost was the correct diameter!
As I was going I identified some tools which I would definitely need so will pop down to my lbc at lunch today and purchase them, the advice you have given me will definitely help me to decide which ones to buy.

Right I feel as though I’m making progress.

There seems like an awful lot of different types of grease, is there a multi purpose grease or is necessary to have one for every situation?
Also I’m assuming people use Loctite on all bolts?

Thanks for the advice guys, very helpful.

It seems that there are a variety of cassette tools. I will be fitting an slx 10 speed cassette to a hope pro 2 hub. Could someone tell me the exact tool I would need.

I have read a few articles on installing a shimano crankset. What is the name of the tool that tightens the crank cap bolt which goes into the end of the spindle?