They aren't local, but if you message the folks at https://www.fullcycle.ca/ (use the instant message thing or email - they are quick...), I'm sure they can get you some. Free shipping too.
@Da Peach , you probably know, but your A4s should come with two sets of pads, one pair sintered and one pair semi metallic. I burned through the semi metallic very quickly, but the sintered have lasted quite long. When I order tires from the Germans, I add on some pads but they look to be out of stock at the moment. Last time I bought several of the Galpher Pro's based on the recommendation in one of the brake threads here.
Actually, I like this BB standard because of its width, which allows the frame and swingarm pivot to be wider. The only thing better is BB386 because it's the same width and bigger diameter (bigger bearings) but somehow that never caught on. The DH versions are wider than the trail versions but since no one uses the middle sleeve it doesn't matter.
Exactly. Don't hate the game, hate the player. All my pressfit bikes have been made correctly and worked fine. It's not the standard that's "bad", it's the manufacturers who can't make it right. It's not like BSA is immune to bad manufacturing either. Poorly faced shells is the most common issue with them.
Well, the BB92 standard is bad, offers nothing over BB30, except smaller bearings and forced the 28.99 "standard".
in all fairness, there were enough manufacturer's that couldn't do PFBBs right that led to a general disdain for the standard
BB30 (PF30) is too narrow. It was designed for road bikes. The wider version of it, BB386, is the best standard and what I specced on the bikes I designed, all rigid. The one issue I could maybe see with it is the large diameter could limit pivot placement. AND for the pressfit haters there's an identical but threaded version of that standard (T47). What's not to love? I wish we could hear from industry insiders who are more inside than me on why PF92 is so popular and T47/BB386 so rare.
i'm surprised T47 hasn't become more popular
I think I read something the other day that said more mainstream companies are going to start using it. But they've already effed it up by making derivative versions...
that's my guess as well.
According to Hambini it's not that hard to do, especially at the prices being charged for frames. The problem was companies inflating their profit margin by skimping on production quality and not even bothering to do checks. So hate the players.
Makes me wonder how many "creaking steerer tubes" are really headtubes that are as out of spec as some of the PF BB shells.
I’ll probably be complaining about my back.
needs a new standard
Hambini needs to take up mountain biking, he's missing out on an entire audience!
Or an Eback.
With your octagonal steerer too, so that your octagonal stem is properly centered.
Fox had problems aligning the oval steer tube in the 38, I doubt they can be trusted with something like that.
The carbon bar makers would love it, there'd be a million bars snapped at the brake clamp.
