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TobinHatesYou posted:OzCycle is an idiot and uses roughly 10x too much PTFE. You can actually just use straight food grade paraffin and the performance will be within <1W of wax with any amount of lubricious micronized solids. That sounds better, but I already have 3lbs of wax. I also have the molton wax, but I don't like that it has Molybdenum disulfide, which leaves black crap around. I really like the double boiler technique, I think the crock pot thing takes up too much room and requires a separate crock pot just for your chain. This just requires me to have a old pot that fits in a pan.
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I added some beeswax for shits and giggles and also it smells way better than plain paraffin wax.
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Ciaphas posted:It took an hour and a lot of swearing but I got my (mechanical) disc brakes all dialed in the other day. It's nice to be able to stop on command again If you have BB7s, this video WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Avid BB7 brake setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NasGJFtgq0A
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I bought the first guy's recommendation because it was cheap and didn't involve a crockpot. New problem is that the seem on my rim appears to be where my tubeless tires are leaking and will only hold pressure about like 10-30 psi while riding. Gonna add some more sealant and see how it works, but is there something special that needs to be done here?
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Sep 2, 2020 00:36
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Mauser posted:I bought the first guy's recommendation because it was cheap and didn't involve a crockpot. What seam are we talking about here? Usually where air escapes on the inner edge of a rim isn’t actually the source of the leak. It’s just the path of least resistance for air that has already leaked into the hollow cavity of the rim. Use an appropriate amount of sealant (and the right sealant, Orange Seal) and slosh it around good. If that doesn’t address the leak, then redo your rim tape.
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Sep 2, 2020 00:44
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Rim tape is brand new and was holding perfectly until I put it on the rack and drove 150 miles. The seam is where the two pieces of metal meet and come together on the rim and there's a sliver of a gap between the two ends. When I got to the destination it looked like all the sealant had blown its load, but let me seat it again and see if anything pops and then fill it up again. P.S. I got the orange stuff already as a recommendation from the thread
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VideoGameVet posted:If you have BB7s, this video WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! Other than his recipe for centering the pad range over the rotor, I don't know how that's much different from what anyone else was doing. The whole keep the caliper flush to the fork seems both obvious and tricky to get right when dealing with the conical washers.
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Mauser posted:Rim tape is brand new and was holding perfectly until I put it on the rack and drove 150 miles. The seam is where the two pieces of metal meet and come together on the rim and there's a sliver of a gap between the two ends. When I got to the destination it looked like all the sealant had blown its load, but let me seat it again and see if anything pops and then fill it up again. Oh, where the rim is sleeved. Hrmmm. Still it doesn’t seem like it should be an issue if the joint is covered mostly by tape, and the sides are covered by the bead. TobinHatesYou fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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VideoGameVet posted:If you have BB7s, this video WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! I was really hoping this was going to be like the canti brake video a while back where he took it off and hucked it in the trash.
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Mauser posted:Rim tape is brand new and was holding perfectly until I put it on the rack and drove 150 miles. The seam is where the two pieces of metal meet and come together on the rim and there's a sliver of a gap between the two ends. When I got to the destination it looked like all the sealant had blown its load, but let me seat it again and see if anything pops and then fill it up again. Did you set it up tubeless and immediately put it on your car and drive? I find that sometimes after a new tubeless setup, I actually need to go for a ride for the sealant to plug up the bead and any other small holes. I guess the constant sloshing helps it coat everything nicely. I could see that the sealant puddled near the seam and kept leaking out? Or got into the rim and traveled to the seam as Tobin said.
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This was after I had set it up and given it a 2.5 hour ride on a very hot day with zero issues and then put it back in the cool basement. So it would have experienced some pretty extreme temperature shifts between basement and then exposed to pretty high heat again on the day of the drive, but otherwise should have been seated I think. Like I said, I'll fill it up again and see how it goes.
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e.pilot posted:I was really hoping this was going to be like the canti brake video a while back where he took it off and hucked it in the trash.
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CopperHound posted:Would you like me to make a video on how to service sticky hydro sram levers? Yes please
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kimbo305 posted:Other than his recipe for centering the pad range over the rotor, I don't know how that's much different from what anyone else was doing. The whole keep the caliper flush to the fork seems both obvious and tricky to get right when dealing with the conical washers. It's exactly the alignment that I WASN'T DOING RIGHT. I was doing that visually because this is the first bike I've had with discs.
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Tubeless tire is holding air at full pressure now, so problem solved until it causes a problem again. I need to replace my bar tape on my gravel bike soon and the previous stuff was whatever they sell at REI which seemed to get cuts and gashes really easy from I don't even know what. Are there any materials that I should be looking at if I want it to be really durable? Also, it has to be a sort of lightish blue.
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Sep 2, 2020 19:41
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Bicycle Maintenance and Repair Megathread: problem solved until it causes a problem again
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I've never had an issue adjusting BB7s. I even have to remove them to fit them in the S&S box. They're fine unless you don't have a torx bit or a warped/bent rotor. Maybe this is just a decade of adjusting parallelogram shimano v-brakes, but they're easy. It isn't like they're loving cantis or something. I do find them a bit more annoying than some to actually mount new pads in, but that's it.
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Sep 2, 2020 23:17
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CopperHound posted:Would you like me to make a video on how to service sticky hydro sram levers? Pitching those in the garbage might be satisfying but shipping them off for warranty and then selling the new ones they send as replacements (don't use em, they'll fail too, even the 'redesigned' ones) gets you money for actual good bike parts.
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Sep 3, 2020 04:04
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What do they sell for nowadays?
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Sep 3, 2020 04:05
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I got $180 for the pair. They retail for $240 cdn.
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EvilJoven posted:Pitching those in the garbage might be satisfying but shipping them off for warranty and then selling the new ones they send as replacements (don't use em, they'll fail too, even the 'redesigned' ones) gets you money for actual good bike parts. Woah look at this guy ruining the joke.
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EvilJoven posted:Pitching those in the garbage might be satisfying but shipping them off for warranty and then selling the new ones they send as replacements (don't use em, they'll fail too, even the 'redesigned' ones) gets you money for actual good bike parts.
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I'm p sure at this point they're so used to replacing their trash you could fill a garbage bag with SRAM levers and a return address, throw em over the fence of their HQ, and they'd ship you replacements. They come with stickers you can put on your bike that work really well as warning labels to let everyone around you know that your brakes are either going quit or just lock up at any given moment.
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I like my Codes. I hated my Guides. I need to bleed my Rivals. That’s my SRAM brake story.
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CopperHound posted:Does Sram care about the provenance of their levers? 'Cause I got all sorts of brakes that get unloaded at the bike coop. SRAM doesn't seem to ask questions about broken stuff.
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nm posted:SRAM doesn't seem to ask questions about broken stuff.
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My guides worked perfectly fine for years and then the front started sticking in hot weather. Rebuilt the lever and it's like new again. It seems like the issue was some sort of degradation of the plastic MC piston or the seals, maybe from not changing the fluid enough.  I definitely notice the rsc is better and more powerful than the guide Rs on my new bike, I assume because of the linkage between the lever and MC.
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Why would you rebuild when you can get a new one? Rebuilding is for Shimano or campy.
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think of the environmental toll of sram having to ship infinite replacement levers and brakes to anyone who ever bought them, forever
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I just put on my first set of Continental GP5000 tubeless, now drinking beer to ease the pain in my thumbs.
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mikemelbrooks posted:I just put on my first set of Continental GP5000 tubeless, now drinking beer to ease the pain in my thumbs. I bought a bead jack after doing the same. I decided $15 was worth never doing that again.
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Yeah, time for a new hanger.
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Yeah, time for a new hanger.  I took it apart so i take a few pictures and yeah.
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If you have alternate rides, I say give it a go on unbending that one. But take a pic of it side on to see which one you need to buy.
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kimbo305 posted:If you have alternate rides, I say give it a go on unbending that one. But take a pic of it side on to see which one you need to buy.   Oh i did, i just didnt post them because its boring.
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Sep 6, 2020 03:38
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Clean your drivetrain while you’re at it.
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mikemelbrooks posted:I just put on my first set of Continental GP5000 tubeless, now drinking beer to ease the pain in my thumbs. Those are some massive thumbs if you did without levers. I put on a set with tubes to set in the tubeless rim tape. The next day after I removed the tubes, the tires had stretched and basically fell back into place with very little effort. It's hilarious how much of a difference it was.
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FogHelmut posted:Those are some massive thumbs if you did without levers. Just one lever, but I did cheat and hold the tyre in a vice because I was chasing the tyre round the wheel, the only other tubeless tyres I have fitted were Giant’s Gavia but they had been already been fitted, the gp5000s did seat with just a track pump but the Gavias always needed my compressor. I think if I hadn’t been lazy I could have removed the discs and put the wheels on the floor.
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ElMaligno posted:
Pretty sure that’s a 25: https://wheelsmfg.com/derailleur-hanger-25.html But only in stock at their ripoff rival: https://derailleurhanger.com/product/derailleur-hanger-25/ A hanger is one of the rare places where I feel like a weaker product would be ok/preferred. If you want to sort through: https://wheelsmfg.com/derailleur-hangers.html
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