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Have not had coffee since last Friday, it's been weird. Sleep is a bit better (although I've been taking Nyquil the whole time), but I've been unbelievably tired every day
Did they take your beard too ? Those bastards !
vital fluids have been extracted from me
I rode my bike to work. I rode my bike home from work. Now meetings, then beer.
Bike feels much faster with lower pressure. Travel times about the same, oddly.
Bike feels much faster with lower pressure. Travel times about the same, oddly.
I think it's about time to stop not working in front of my computer and go do it somewhere else.Work can eat a dick.
That is all.
I'm gonna say I purged an oil line today
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We've had some oil pressure weirdness on a machine and it has been hard to pinpoint what it could be, oil pressure comes up then drops to nothing then comes back up. If the oil pressure drops the fuel supply is cut off, the relief valve in the oil pump had some scores and wear so the pump got replaced.
I'm gonna have to go in on Sat to check the heat valve and water flow valve aren't faulty, if they are they dump engine oil back in to the sump and the fuel is cut off, arrrgh!
I need some silence to try and work out what the eff is going on.
Went with the 20oz drip this AM. Wise choice. Officially done with work schedule as of 2 days ago so it's yard work and kiddo time. The plan is to head out for a 30 miler gravel adventure this afternoon. Gotta love exploring new routes.
Finally told my significant other about the pink elephant in the room... felt great to get it off my chest so we can move forward on the same page. She just rolled her eyes and said don't you already have one?? I said yeah, but it has a couple thousand miles on it. No I can't sell it because it's not worth much and it's still perfectly fine. Besides the new one is going to be a little different for the new trails I am riding these days... I promised to sell some of the stuff I have accumulated to cover the cost.
Finally told my significant other about the pink elephant in the room... felt great to get it off my chest so we can move forward on the same page. She just rolled her eyes and said don't you already have one?? I said yeah, but it has a couple thousand miles on it. No I can't sell it because it's not worth much and it's still perfectly fine. Besides the new one is going to be a little different for the new trails I am riding these days... I promised to sell some of the stuff I have accumulated to cover the cost.
Whatchu talkin' about?Went with the 20oz drip this AM. Wise choice. Officially done with work schedule as of 2 days ago so it's yard work and kiddo time. The plan is to head out for a 30 miler gravel adventure this afternoon. Gotta love exploring new routes.
Finally told my significant other about the pink elephant in the room... felt great to get it off my chest so we can move forward on the same page. She just rolled her eyes and said don't you already have one?? I said yeah, but it has a couple thousand miles on it. No I can't sell it because it's not worth much and it's still perfectly fine. Besides the new one is going to be a little different for the new trails I am riding these days... I promised to sell some of the stuff I have accumulated to cover the cost.
I figured you could just hide all of your poor decisions in your shop.
I am going after a new gravel grinder with mtb bars. Basically a 80s mtb but with tubeless, disc brakes, modern 1x11 wide range mtb drivetrain.
Got volunteered to lead some research projects at work. Was asked to put write some project funding requests by the end of business today. I haven't worked in those areas in years and said there was no way I could put something like that together in such a short time period. Was asked to just put anything together. Straight up refused to put my name on something half baked and ill-prepared.
I use my 10ish year old Ti 29er HT with rigid niner carbon fork for that sort of thing. Occasionally swapping on its squishy fork. But it does have a 2x11 drivetrain as the range of OG 12 speed wasn't quite enough when I gave it a refresh. I'd probably go 1x12 next time it gets a new drivetrain in a decade.
The week that just keeps trying to kick me in the dick continues. Left headphone is dead, right one works but I can't hear shit out of my right ear, bawlz.
Now, to get Airpods, or try Marshall's version of Airpods?
Now, to get Airpods, or try Marshall's version of Airpods?
Said fuck work and rode for the first time in forever this morning . Hero-dirt caused many deathgripgiggles.
Now FTS meter is no longer at 11. Feeling somewhat motivated on a Friday before a holiday, in fact. If management were smart, they’d require that I ride regularly.
Now FTS meter is no longer at 11. Feeling somewhat motivated on a Friday before a holiday, in fact. If management were smart, they’d require that I ride regularly.
I like my v2 Soma Wolverine and am going to pick up another Wolverine - this time a v4.A.
y u no belt drive
Just because you can doesn't mean you should! The only upside for me to run belt drive would be to run an internally geared hub.
Lazy day because cyclobenzaprine. Woof does that shit put me out. Took the kids bowling, mod pizza. Movie night with the kids (sonic 2). Obi wan double header once they're in bed. Have an Emperor JJJJulius with it. Will make obi wan Catnobi watch with me, because.
just finished this bad boy today. Pretty stoked to get’er on the dirt. I thought about doing a flat bar but I already have a Creo with a flat bar.
This thread had too many weird bikes.
That looks fancy, what is it?
Finally got the rear seat delete platform fabbed up.
Used some scrap 1/4" plate alum and bent some 90's down three sides for rigidity and some space to mount some LED strips for my blind ass finding shit after the sun goes down. Burned in the support legs and moved them as forward as possible to give as much pass through room as needed underneath.
Next I have to fab up some sort of folding hinge plate to mount the motos in the bed
Used some scrap 1/4" plate alum and bent some 90's down three sides for rigidity and some space to mount some LED strips for my blind ass finding shit after the sun goes down. Burned in the support legs and moved them as forward as possible to give as much pass through room as needed underneath.
Next I have to fab up some sort of folding hinge plate to mount the motos in the bed
Hey I don't always have time/ am healthy enough for riding chunk. These bikes make dirt roads and foothills double track fun without wearing out the drivetrain on my mtb.
Looks rattly. Gonna hit it with some bedliner or something to not make it sound like a dryer full of quarters?
It’s a broken Crux I repaired and got back on the road. Weird combination of parts to get the build complete, haha.
Here are some photos from the repair
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Yes! It looks great sitting in the parking lot at work now
I gotta ask, did you use unidirectional for that? How many layers and what orientation did you use?
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Worked out my problem, heat valve has failed.
Gold thing has an IFP that controls a fuel shut off valve, it has oil in and oil out, the oil out goes to three valves, if any of them get triggered oil pressure in the gold thing drops and the IFP shuts the fuel off.
Capped the heat valve and it runs perfectly, so I had an oil pump and valve issue which made it a bit harder to work out.
Gold thing has an IFP that controls a fuel shut off valve, it has oil in and oil out, the oil out goes to three valves, if any of them get triggered oil pressure in the gold thing drops and the IFP shuts the fuel off.
Capped the heat valve and it runs perfectly, so I had an oil pump and valve issue which made it a bit harder to work out.
What type of equipment is that for? When you say "oil," do you mean hydraulic fluid or engine oil or something else?
This one is just on a forklift, it is a sentinel valve system, they use them on trucks and flame proof gear.
It's just engine oil.
There is a D shaped cam inside the gold master control valve so you can manually force the fuel valve to open.
If a valve malfunctions and somebody has flicked the cam on to the fuel priming position the system fails to work as intended so you can overheat the engine or run it with no oil pressure, or bypass any other valves the installer has used.