What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!

[Plankosaurus]

A friend of a friend brought an old nomad over for me to look at the brakes before heading up to bright. Pads were cooked so started looking for solutions to get him going and found a pile of issues so I sent him up with my slopestyle instead and played with his nomad.

Most of the bearings were totally shot, and one was seized completely, rear axle had to be tightened with pliers, drive line messed up with motorbike chain lube, shock hardware worn to the point of about 1mm of play (doesn't sound like much, but it clunks like crazy).

Pulled it all down, cleaned, lubed, replaced broken stuff - should ride about 400% better now

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[bear the bear]

Do it ! The only thing(s) stopping me is the older frame and no internal routing, though an older style with the lever under the seat would work really well, and bikepacking with the saddle bag moving around with dust between it and the seatpost wearing a hole in my dropper stanchion.

A 50-60mm lever dropper would be awesome.

Can't unfortunately Trek Checkpoint with a seat mast topper .

 

[rockmoose]

Always fun for sure, I'd just rather be an awkward old guy outside than an awkward old guy inside.

There used to be a cantankerous old fart, with a jovial little Mexican offsider that would have known what to do, in this situation.

 

[cokeonspecialtwodollars]

There used to be a cantankerous old fart, with a jovial little Mexican offsider that would have known what to do, in this situation.

Guilty on one count of cantankerous however I plead not guilty on the charge of jovial. I'm not your guy.

 

[pink poodle]

Weather ruined the plans for a day down the Mornington peninsula, so became that awkward old guy at the local dirt jumps haha.
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Hey!!! I'm not awkward...that's a good dose of pop dude! Very nice to see. Did you consider taking the backpack off?

Better than being the awkward old guy at the indoor skate park.

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What are you guys tying to say?

 

[Chriso_29er]

Hey!!! I'm not awkward...that's a good dose of pop dude! Very nice to see. Did you consider taking the backpack off?

With all the scallywags around and my car keys in there, not a chance haha

 

[Asininedrivel]

Did the Bastion's have "No touching, you break it, you buy it signs"?

Haha, I do feel for those guys though. I met one of the founders a few years ago - really nice bloke who was super keen to push the boat out pretty hard on innovation and trying new things. Yep they suffered a high profile failure, but they've been transparent about it from what I've seen. Plus their bikes just look insane in person.

 

[Rorschach]

South West WA for the weekend
Margaret River on Saturday and Dunsborough on Sunday purely for the reasons the state XCO was racing them the other way around
20km on the bike on Saturday - my longest MTB ride and finishing off at the Margs Brewhouse

Also an action shot of me getting some small amount of air

Dunsborough Sunday morning for a ride before heading home. More like Kalamunda if a bit less rocky

There’d been a bit of rain on the Thursday/Friday so the trails were grippy as hell

Obligatory pic of my bike after a post-ride clean. The Nukeproof is my brother in laws new Giga RS, absolute weapon but too small for me!

 

[Oddjob]

The Schwalbe Marathon Mondials finally gave up the ghost after 10 long years on the tourer and then my monstercross. The Kevlar bead snapped and blew out the inner tube.

Thankfully my spidey senses warned me and I bought a set of Vittoria Terreno Zeros 700x35 in expectation a couple of weeks ago. They come with all the fancy mod cons like tubeless compatibility and Graphene, but I'm running them with Tubolito tubes and some Mr Tuffy tyre liners.

I can already report that they really smooth out the road. Making a very serene ride on my Ti frame and Vibrocore flared bars even more so. Hopefully they will have much better rolling resistance than the truck tire Schwalbes.


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[Flow-Rider]

The Schwalbe Marathon Mondials finally gave up the ghost after 10 long years on the tourer and then my monstercross. The Kevlar bead snapped and blew out the inner tube.

Thankfully my spidey senses warned me and I bought a set of Vittoria Terreno Zeros 700x35 in expectation a couple of weeks ago. They come with all the fancy mod cons like tubeless compatibility and Graphene, but I'm running them with Tubolito tubes and some Mr Tuffy tyre liners.

I can already report that they really smooth out the road. Making a very serene ride on my Ti frame and Vibrocore flared bars even more so. Hopefully they will have much better rolling resistance than the truck tire Schwalbes.


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The swallabe spicer pluses I own have done well over 30 000kms, I keep on swapping them to keep the wear even. Haven't had many flats with them either.

 

[ozzybmx]

There used to be a cantankerous old fart, with a jovial little Mexican offsider

Then one day... the little girl grew up and the old man disappeared.

 

[smaj]

The Nukeproof is my brother in laws new Giga RS, absolute weapon but too small for me!

Love the look of those decals on the frame and forks.

 

[teK--]

A friend of a friend brought an old nomad over for me to look at the brakes before heading up to bright. Pads were cooked so started looking for solutions to get him going and found a pile of issues so I sent him up with my slopestyle instead and played with his nomad.

Most of the bearings were totally shot, and one was seized completely, rear axle had to be tightened with pliers, drive line messed up with motorbike chain lube, shock hardware worn to the point of about 1mm of play (doesn't sound like much, but it clunks like crazy).

Pulled it all down, cleaned, lubed, replaced broken stuff - should ride about 400% better now

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There is nothing more satisfying to me than replacing all the pivot bearings and seeing how amazing it feels after.

 

[Rorschach]

Love the look of those decals on the frame and forks.

He got it invisiframed from new, and then put some new decals on. Looks great.

 

[kten]

South West WA for the weekend
Margaret River on Saturday and Dunsborough on Sunday purely for the reasons the state XCO was racing them the other way around
20km on the bike on Saturday - my longest MTB ride and finishing off at the Margs Brewhouse

Also an action shot of me getting some small amount of air

Dunsborough Sunday morning for a ride before heading home. More like Kalamunda if a bit less rocky

There’d been a bit of rain on the Thursday/Friday so the trails were grippy as hell

Obligatory pic of my bike after a post-ride clean. The Nukeproof is my brother in laws new Giga RS, absolute weapon but too small for me!

Love the Giga in the background. There's a green one that I see occasionally on our trails and they are a good looking bike. I almost went with the Nukeproof but couldn't find one in stock until a week after I bought the Madonna.

 

[pink poodle]

Decided to head for a morning pedal. I haven't ridden before lunch in a very long time.

 

[Rorschach]

Love the Giga in the background. There's a green one that I see occasionally on our trails and they are a good looking bike. I almost went with the Nukeproof but couldn't find one in stock until a week after I bought the Madonna.

It’s a lovely bike, but even as a large it feels tiny for me. I tried to ride it and it bobbed all over the place, but he has put a 500lb spring on since which has firmed it up.
Proper enduro sled too, would be wasted on me. I was looking at a Reactor before I got my Prime, don’t think I’d have regretted it

 

[Mr Crudley]

It is a very windy slug it out in lower gear kind of day. On the plus side, it isn't raining and the trails have had a clean up.

Fahn cool on this ridge now.

 

[wkkie]

Installing the new tyres on the new wheels and experimenting a little with rim protection.

Up front trying out 12mm EVA closed cell. I've used the 20mm in the past on the rear and is worked really well after a lot of punishment. The front isn't usually as harsh.

A few slices to help with sealant flow and in it goes. Still can't test until next Tuesday all going well, but Harcourt should sort it.

 

[yuley95]

Installing the new tyres on the new wheels and experimenting a little with rim protection.

Up front trying out 12mm EVA closed cell. I've used the 20mm in the past on the rear and is worked really well after a lot of punishment. The front isn't usually as harsh.

A few slices to help with sealant flow and in it goes. Still can't test until next Tuesday all going well, but Harcourt should sort it.

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Nice one. Do you just cable tie it together?