What have you broken on your bike recently?
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Yeah twisted front end is never good . Glad your ok for the most part....never good to see someone down...
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Today I discovered one of the link's pivot of my Siskiu T8 was cross-threaded from factory. There were no tool marks on the screws, and when I asked the previous owner if he had serviced them he told me he just used the bike for a year without touching it.
I started to undo the screws to grease the pivots, and the last one took a hella lot of force to unscrew it. When I tried to put it back it wouldn't go, so I checked the threads in the frame and they were fucked up.
Major props to my friend Germán, the owner of Masterbikes, who opened the shop on a Saturday noon to chase the treads and and save the day for me.
I started to undo the screws to grease the pivots, and the last one took a hella lot of force to unscrew it. When I tried to put it back it wouldn't go, so I checked the threads in the frame and they were fucked up.
Major props to my friend Germán, the owner of Masterbikes, who opened the shop on a Saturday noon to chase the treads and and save the day for me.
The Microsoft creed.
Not until it happens…. A couple weeks shy of its 3 year anniversary, so I’d say it served me okay.
Or I am not as hardbrocore as I would have you all believe.
Is that a crack in the paint or a weird reflection to the left of the threaded hole?
A weird reflection. I checked the frame for cracks while I was servicing the pivots.
I know some people got new warranty 2023 X2 with fixed "feature" I would inquire.
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Their Vault hubs are also very good. I have 3 sets and they have all been super reliable for me.
Send it in for warranty due to it "Not meeting your expectations".
Fox should send you a 2024 edition that is "fixed".
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Is that a new one? Or with the new seal head?
*edit* just read the further replies. Surprised it lasted that long.
Apparently FOX is warranting X2s at the moment. Certainly worth checking into
If Chinese pistons don't meet your expectations, you can always buy a cheaper caliper and borrow a piston from it. Be aware that the cheapest caliper don't have ceramic pistons.
those were hard annodized aluminum. They still leaked on the xts I put them in but that also could have been the rings and calipers which were leaking before. It's worth a shot.
they didn't fix my problem but they'd definitely be an improvement over that problem
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Several sellers on AE have these.
Someone here tried those. Well, maybe not those ones but some other chinesium ones and the tolerances were so poor they wouldn't even seal when they tried to bleed the brake after installation
I tried to list an example with some reviews, but AE can certainly be hit or miss.
Saw my buddy’s Stumpy carbon chainstay snap waaaaayyyy to easily last weekend. Slow speed crash and the bike landed on a small but pointy root. Thought it was a dead stick on the ground that snapped when the bike landed, but nope, it was his chainstay.
Not surprising... Looks like your bro was wearing non-mtb-approved socks.
The aluminium pedals must have been to weighty for those peak performance cranks. Should have been carbon pedals I guess.
I had a rough couple weeks earlier this fall, esploded my OEM RS rear shock, cracked carbon rear rim, and ripped the tread off half of one of my shoes. On the plus side, the shock was in its 5th year so upgraded to the new super deluxe ultimate, which with the cascade link I put on earlier this year has transformed the gen3 bronson into a even better performing machine. Walked into Evolution in Whistler and they had a pair of Fox Union BOAs in my size that fit great for 40% off! The rear wheel was a Reserve 30 in its 4th year, and the only thing I ever had to do with it was tighten one rear spoke 2 years ago, but was incredibly reliable...only cracked the rim as I punctured just before I was about to try and jump some rocks, so ended up just casing a big square edge at speed. SCB/Reserve had a new wheel to me in BC within a week, and not just a rim, wheel ready to fucking go and no need to send anything back.
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was interested in the reserve wheels but when the importer can’t give you an ETA on when they receive stock again i‘m not so sure on how fast their warranty really is when you need it
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santa switzerland is a strange entity, they get their stuff directly from the us, not from pon europe. they have been independent from the beginning of the brand