Sorry, bevel or chamfer would have been better terms.
Yeah I know a small section will drive it but being fat and lazy I have killed some chain ring nuts in the past when they came loose.
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Yeah I know a small section will drive it but being fat and lazy I have killed some chain ring nuts in the past when they came loose.
It should be a little longer. Shimano could accomplish that without being too long and risking bottom-out. Ruling: moderately lame. In the days of chainring nuts I liked using a bench mounted belt sander to get overly long ones, then shaving them down to just the right length. I get the same pleasure from a steerer tube that just barely doesn't touch the headset top cap.
There's no reason for a chainring to have a bevel. It should be perfectly flat on one side and have a recess on the other for the bolt head/nut flange.
That's ready for the bin mate. reach inro the piggy bank and buy yourself a $4 NW ring off Alixpress. (DECKAS, SNAIL etc.)They're genuinely moar durable than Renthals and don't have any of their stupid "features"
And Yes. I've owned/used one of those renthal chainrings.
Also so long as you're using decent steel chainring bolts they don't come loose from being fat. Lazy yes. Fat/strong/powerful. No.
Do you also wear really short tight shorts and your SCOTT bikes are all polished to a meticulous finish?
Ideally steerer tubes should always protrude from the stem to give maximum grip area and have a small spacer placed above. if you're anal AF grind down or use as close a spacer as you can find for minimal gap. Not the steerer tube.
For anyone with normal shorts or trousers I can confirm the M820 chainring bolt length works absolutely fine when used with the according Saint chainring and "most" normal 104 bcd NW chainrings flipped. (Fitted a M825 crankset with an aftermarket chainring to a young pinners brand new Trek session on Thursday afternoon).
As with most Shimano chainsets the parts were designed to fit together. This means tons of shimano cranksets will always work best with the corresponding genuine shimano chainring and this makes sense from a business sense for Shimano. Many will still work ok with aftermarket rings. Shimano don't really want you to know this. And why would they?
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Haha, it's brand new in my eyes.
I'll have to try and find the NW one I'd worn some of the teeth down to half height.
I learnt my lesson with that, I was trackstanding on the road because it's fun to look like a roadie douche. Went to take off, the chain went snap and I went over the handlebar, hahaha!
Back to whining, my Norco Torrent is fucking great, but they put the bottle mount so low that I almost need to drop the seat to get the thing re-mounted.
Yes I could change from a fidlock but it is the only system I have found in 20+ yrs that will keep a bottle in a cage on a hardtail. Specialized side exit was the second best, Tune carbocage and Topeak Ninja were the worst.
Velocity blunt 35 rims also belong in here, they are gone next weekend and will go straight in the recycling bin. I always wanted to try some, coz dirty bearded hipster.
Have a We Are One carbon rim for the front and an alloy Crank Brothers for the rear.
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How'd you find the freehub change on those hubs?
Maybe the one I have is off or something, but I only spun the locking side finger tight. If I use cone wrenches to try to get to 10nm (as printed on the end cap), there's too much drag.
Ahhh, there was some swearing!
I ended up pushing the pawls down one by one with a cable tie then I would go in too quickly and I'd have to remove it and go again. You didn't pinch the wiper or whatever it is at the freehub? I had issues getting it to line up properly.
In regards to the tightening it was fine, did have to get a second 17mm cone spanner though.
It seemed odd that Novatec seem to really highlight that they use EZO bearings.
But neither freehub had EZOs in it, just the hub shell.
I will try and buy EZOs in future, I got great joy out of spinning those hubs in my hands, so smooth!
Nothing is pinched, it's strange. Oh well...it works.
Yeah it's a bit of an ass to get the pawls back in, without popping the rubber seal out. They don't spin in like some other hubs I've taken apart. I poked one in a bit which sounds like what you did as well
Learn from my mistake last year too...don't put liquid lube in there or it'll probably leak around that seal. It made a mess last summer. Grease seems way better for it.
Are Ezo bearings good? The ones in my front hub are still spinning smooth after 6 or so years.
I have never ever, not once lost a bottle (including full one liter bottles) from an Elite Cannibal bottle cage.
Bike park, Moab, St. George, the chunkiest ass shit. Usable from both sides.
Bike park, Moab, St. George, the chunkiest ass shit. Usable from both sides.
Do these thingies work with the Fidlock mounts?
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The B-RAD system begins with a series of slotted Mounting Bases. Available in a variety of sizes, B-RAD bases can shift a bottle cage away from inconvenient rear shocks on your mountain bike, add room for tools or tubes below a bottle cage, or even provide space for a second bottle on...
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Yeah I might get one of them.Do these thingies work with the Fidlock mounts?
B-RAD Mounting Bases
The B-RAD system begins with a series of slotted Mounting Bases. Available in a variety of sizes, B-RAD bases can shift a bottle cage away from inconvenient rear shocks on your mountain bike, add room for tools or tubes below a bottle cage, or even provide space for a second bottle on...
If I was keeping the frame long term I'd just put another Rivnut in it.
Do these thingies work with the Fidlock mounts?
B-RAD Mounting Bases
The B-RAD system begins with a series of slotted Mounting Bases. Available in a variety of sizes, B-RAD bases can shift a bottle cage away from inconvenient rear shocks on your mountain bike, add room for tools or tubes below a bottle cage, or even provide space for a second bottle on...
ALT-POSITION CAGE MOUNTS
Die Alt-Position Cage Mounts ermöglichen es, die Flaschenhalter alternativ weiter oben oder unten zu montieren. Besonders geeignet für kleine Rahmen und beengte Montagepositionen. Mit der Halterung können z.B. ein oder zwei Flaschenhalter der Topeak Ninja Serie befestigt werden.
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2 for less than half
Cool. They finally made this. I made one of these several years ago to relocate my Fabric bottle mounting tabs.Do these thingies work with the Fidlock mounts?
B-RAD Mounting Bases
The B-RAD system begins with a series of slotted Mounting Bases. Available in a variety of sizes, B-RAD bases can shift a bottle cage away from inconvenient rear shocks on your mountain bike, add room for tools or tubes below a bottle cage, or even provide space for a second bottle on...
Yeah, no clue re. fidlock, but I have these on a couple of bikes to help fit with bigger bottles, alternate mounts, and fitting frame bags on the roadie and they work as advertised and are solid AF. If fidlocks just use typical bottle cage bosses then you're probably GTG.Do these thingies work with the Fidlock mounts?
B-RAD Mounting Bases
The B-RAD system begins with a series of slotted Mounting Bases. Available in a variety of sizes, B-RAD bases can shift a bottle cage away from inconvenient rear shocks on your mountain bike, add room for tools or tubes below a bottle cage, or even provide space for a second bottle on...
they've been around a while. roll you rown with some alu flat stock. maybe not too much booze before you cut/drill/tap/file things.
there are a variety of cages around that will bolt on lower down. if you want higher up/taller than stock options, the cage mount options are it though. nice.
opens up many options. very nice if you want to wear a pack as little as possible.
I use Slickoleum with a bit of float fluid mixed in to it, they seem to combine really easily.Nothing is pinched, it's strange. Oh well...it works.
Yeah it's a bit of an ass to get the pawls back in, without popping the rubber seal out. They don't spin in like some other hubs I've taken apart. I poked one in a bit which sounds like what you did as well
Learn from my mistake last year too...don't put liquid lube in there or it'll probably leak around that seal. It made a mess last summer. Grease seems way better for it.
Are Ezo bearings good? The ones in my front hub are still spinning smooth after 6 or so years.
No idea if EZO bearings are good, they just feel really smooth and I like that.
With the amount I ride any brand of bearing will last for years. I've only ever had dramas with ISIS BB bearings, I'd do two BBS a year and bearings in my Corsair. But the Corsair had massive bearings, massive stiffness and massive misalignment, it would pop seals out of bearings after maybe 20 rides and break two pivot bolts.
Because they will most likely fall off when riding real trails and just become more plastic garbage in the woods.
It's lucky for the woods that I don't ride any real trails.
I do agree that it is far better of in one of these piles in another country rather than in the bush in Aus, coz white people can't see it, and that's what counts.
Ali express being able to sell things like this with zero repercussions is pretty poor in general
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So they finally solved 35mm bars being too stiff.Ali express being able to sell things like this with zero repercussions is pretty poor in general
Kristjan Vrecek on Instagram: "Tole je plod domišljije hrabrih slovenskih fantov. Je v fazi testiranja. Baje je ful fajn… Baje dobr dela… Baje je varno… Baje rokce ne trpijo… Jz sm mal skeptičn, kaj pa ti pravš? @primoz.re | @sense.team #flexisreal #carbonhandlebar #carbon #handlebar #krmilo #idegas #slovenija #testiramo"
46K likes, 237 comments - kristjanvrecek on March 16, 2024: "Tole je plod domišljije hrabrih slovenskih fantov. Je v fazi testiranja. Baje je ful fajn… Baje dobr dela… Baje je varno… Baje rokce ne trpijo… Jz sm mal skeptičn, kaj pa ti pravš? @primoz.re | @sense.team #flexisreal...
Plus, they just might be able to experience pain at the pro level, as indicated by the bike.
what’s the problem?Ali express being able to sell things like this with zero repercussions is pretty poor in general
Kristjan Vrecek on Instagram: "Tole je plod domišljije hrabrih slovenskih fantov. Je v fazi testiranja. Baje je ful fajn… Baje dobr dela… Baje je varno… Baje rokce ne trpijo… Jz sm mal skeptičn, kaj pa ti pravš? @primoz.re | @sense.team #flexisreal #carbonhandlebar #carbon #handlebar #krmilo #idegas #slovenija #testiramo"
46K likes, 237 comments - kristjanvrecek on March 16, 2024: "Tole je plod domišljije hrabrih slovenskih fantov. Je v fazi testiranja. Baje je ful fajn… Baje dobr dela… Baje je varno… Baje rokce ne trpijo… Jz sm mal skeptičn, kaj pa ti pravš? @primoz.re | @sense.team #flexisreal...
I mean, they are conducting highly sophisticated and easily replicable Destructive Physical Analysis.
Wait, I can't rely on $3.95 bike parts to be of high quality?Ali express being able to sell things like this with zero repercussions is pretty poor in general
Kristjan Vrecek on Instagram: "Tole je plod domišljije hrabrih slovenskih fantov. Je v fazi testiranja. Baje je ful fajn… Baje dobr dela… Baje je varno… Baje rokce ne trpijo… Jz sm mal skeptičn, kaj pa ti pravš? @primoz.re | @sense.team #flexisreal #carbonhandlebar #carbon #handlebar #krmilo #idegas #slovenija #testiramo"
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NFW
There’s a difference between low quality and lethal.
Yes, but just think of how incredible the vibration damping will be up to the second of your catastrophic facial reconstruction!
Test riders say that after the spinal cord damage, hand numbness wasn’t an issue! Certain participants will experience further weight reductions due to loss of teeth and blood! Win win
I can't translate but is it confirmed that those are ali bars?Ali express being able to sell things like this with zero repercussions is pretty poor in general
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46K likes, 237 comments - kristjanvrecek on March 16, 2024: "Tole je plod domišljije hrabrih slovenskih fantov. Je v fazi testiranja. Baje je ful fajn… Baje dobr dela… Baje je varno… Baje rokce ne trpijo… Jz sm mal skeptičn, kaj pa ti pravš? @primoz.re | @sense.team #flexisreal...
These break if set up to offset the bottle a significant amount. The aluminum stock will flex until they crack/shear. They are not built for the rigors of mountain biking. Mine lasted under 2 months on a hardtail with a 24 oz bottle.
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B-RAD Mounting Bases
The B-RAD system begins with a series of slotted Mounting Bases. Available in a variety of sizes, B-RAD bases can shift a bottle cage away from inconvenient rear shocks on your mountain bike, add room for tools or tubes below a bottle cage, or even provide space for a second bottle on...
www.wolftoothcomponents.com
£300 shifter?
Lol
Shimano 2-way release shifters already work with SRAM mechs. (10, 11 and 12spd)
I run an SLX shifter with 11spd GX on my hardtail. Shifts flawlessly.