You can lose about 100g just by spending £50 instead of £25 on a rear cassette.

got a mini click one and a park cantilver for bigger jobs.

can’t see why any mechanic wouldn’t have one. when I was a boat mechanic it was considered professional, right, must do. So we did it.

In mountain biking somehow its considered wrong to need a torque wrench. By the same guys who wear gay helmets no less.

Go figure.

I went through a year or so period with incredible foot pain. Then I moved my cleats all the way back. And the pain started to go very quickly.

I haven’t had chainsuck in a long time.

that inton double t6 looks interesting.. 10Ah battery too.

I just started using one again. Camelback type things are good and I like them, but I have one of those adjustable bottle holders. Good for holding little Dragon Stout bottles, cans of K cider, or a regular or large cycle bottle or even a bottle of Evian.

I’ve used hundreds.. I don’t need them, but I like to use them now and then.

A half tablet or a bite out of a tablet will be enough for most first time users, but it depends on the person’s health etc.

Side effects for the first few tablets include rolling eyes, blurred vision, and a stuffed up nose (it seems there are PDE5 recepters in the penis, nose and elsewhere). Orgasm may also be blunted. These side effects dissipate with use. De-sensitization to the drug builds up very quickly.

I personally think nothing beats the rigidity of Yohimbe, and that can be obtained easily on ebay etc. Side effects with yohimbe though include not being able to sleep for 24 hours or so…

lol.. crikey, come on, how could you ever need to take a set of brake pads? why not load the bike with a spare wheel as well.. ? roflmao!

I don’t believe a long bedding in is necessary. I think it is an ‘old wives’ tale. I would imagine the compound gets all the pressure it’s ever going to be subjected to after a few sharp stops.

I think bedding in is just the short period of time it takes to get the pad to conform optimally to the surface of the disc.

That would be cool. A cat delivery service.

A whole thread on irrelevant shit like this, and nothing about Goldman Sachs.

We deserve our fate. Or you do. Or your children.

Twitter is for twits.

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I commute twelve miles each day on the mountain bike.. just along the river mostly..

I keep a spare tube at work in case. Rather than bother fixing a tube at work, I just replace it should I need to so that I can get home in a timely fashion.

I carry the minimal.. I eshew multitools and carry just the three allen keys I am likely to need.

lol.. it’s true unless you live in Canada or summit…

lol that’s my kind of energy drink!

I still use 25.4 on both bikes AM and XC. I bought myself a spare stem (Azonic) and two sets of bars (Funn 750mm) to make sure I am ok for a few years. I like how it looks.

Are the spings necessary? Almost tempted to remove them if the freewheell still works fine and I can ride with stealth.

Anyone?

you might need a ‘firmer’ spring if you are heavy. forks often come with a medium spring. assuming they are coil forks.

i don’t always bother using loctite. even at 6N/m torque I have never had one work loose.

A dab of Superglue can work as well as threadlock like loctite. superglue is very weak in shear so breaks easy enough when you want it to.

1 chest eeze tablet, 1 200mg caffeine tablet, and 10mg of chinese manufactured dianabol. all washed down with a bottle of dragon 7.5% stout and followed by a spliff.

i have some bad habits.

no helmet cos helmets suck.

I agree with pieface, a chain is only likely to break if it’s at or near 0.1mm ‘stretch’. Having said that, a powerlink or equivalent (I like Connex) is light.

Some of you carry loads? I use a tiny saddle bag and carry:

Lezyne pump on the frame

allen keys (individual ones in the sizes I use)
glueless patches/tiny sq of sandpaper
3 tyre levers (plastic covered metal)
a tiny bottle of oil
all wrapped up in an old sock to give the chain a wipe periodically and apply a drop of oil

a saddle like this:

I am also 43 today.

Out of interest, what do you ride?

one word. dbol.

how can you build your top half in two weeks.. answer, u cant.

There is no benefit to using a torx on a rotor from what I can see. The paltry 6 N/m torque rating for a rotor bolt would unlikely strip an allen bolt of the same size as a T25. Torx does perhaps better suit screw driver type tools. For example, imagine using a regular allen key to nip up a bleed port (another common application for torx). Much easier with a screwdriver type torx right?

I see the torx as more of a mix between an allan bolt and a cross head rather than offering any measurable advantage due to the cross sectional area of the bolt/tool interface etc.

I hate that simplistic view.. It’s not a question of quality or racism; god bless Taiwan and what they did for the bicycle! There’s the question of loyalty and a recognistion that a real wealth creating economy is one based on manufacturing and not pretend and fraudulent and morally reprehensible trading, repugnant reserve ratios and multiple hypothecations, for the likes of a select few at companies like Goldman Sachs.

It’s a nice thing to buy something made in your country. It’s also the reason we have become poor and are becoming poorer. Banking doesn’t reward enough people, and retail just pays kid’s wages. Manufacturing is wealth creation and society building…

Rant over.

Any thread on fork boots always misses the point.

Because you are a Capricorn?

Because you are Scottish?

Because you are a Scottish Capricorn?

I think they are a good idea. Though I don’t think anyone is spending any time to develop a decent one. They neoprene ones can dry the area out, which can be a problem on forks.

I have a Lizard skin on my rear mech.

I know someone who has one. It’s actually quite pretty in an ugly kind of way close up.

He He I have one of those in my tool box. You can still buy them dirt cheap can’t you? Amazing how those things used to last.

I agree, I’d go Deore steel or similar for the middle ring, rather than aluminium, because I still think in the long term the steel of the most frequently used ring will help extend chain and cassette life. I can see the point in dropping weight off the large ring and small ring, by choosing aluminium.

I love that Cindercone colour.

I echo what was said above about not coming in, back when computers were not the be all. There’s more adults on bikes these days though.

Hmm perhaps I failed to consider the lenses of the inton? Are they different?

The Inton does look nice, but I have too many lights already!

I don’t think it is good advice to sell the Shimano rings. Especially not that genius composite middle one that comes with SLX and XT.

The so-called composite (steel middle ring mounted on light weight carrier) literally lasts forever. Well, many, many more times than an aluminium middle ring for much the same weight… chain and cassette lasts longer as a result..

I’m happy to use Blackspire, FSA inners and outers, especially if they are pretty, but if you are a big user of the 32 ring, make much more sens for that ring to be steel.

I blame the schools.

and on that note, a quick bike ride to feed the swans and ducks is in order I think….. after I’ve had a beer to warm my belly!