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beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
I've done my whole house now, well worth it.
("it" being the wait for matching rollers to come back into stock at the local hardware store after I did the first two a couple of months ago!)
Flow-Rider
Burner
For all you tap snappers.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
That's a mint idea!
dazz
Downhill Dazz
Errrm... or you could just get the ones that are designed to do exactly that.
I do like what you've done there tho. Take it to the next level by adding a guide on one side and a sprung tensioner roller on the other! Better yet, go full send with some 3D printed rollers in a derailleur and screw that to the wall!
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Quiet you! It's a novel innovation I tell you!
(Genuinely did not know they made them... )But don't worry, I've learnt from the bike industry and how to patent barely different reinventions of existing engineering concepts - Narrow-wide roller blind chain beads and pulleys here we come!
(Boost finger spacing and clutched tensioners will be the "innovations" for '24 and '25 )
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Que?
Nicolai might have some innovations for your blind pulleys is what I’m thinking
ashes_mtb
Has preferences
Gearboxes are where it’s at now.
Mr Crudley
was a wheel size expert
Have they finished arguing over 'standards' while all sorts of brackets are made to make motor 'Y' work with frame 'X'?
I would be torn between surprise and total disbelief if the MTB bike industry agreed to a common standard there.
I don't think they have it in them.
ozzybmx
Not a tree-hugging earth muffin
I think they do it on purpose, just to be unique and corner the market.I would be torn between surprise and total disbelief if the MTB bike industry agreed to a common standard there.
I don't think they have it in them.
Sram Dub bb/spindle ? 29mm... why not 30mm like everyone else.
Mr Crudley
was a wheel size expert
Agreed, it is all about a bit of planned incompatibility / competitive advantage.
Just so you can't mix and match and ultimately have to pledge alligence to one camp or another.
Saw this in my travels, the whole purpose of making a BB axle 0.2mm thinner can only be to keep the other guy out. There would be no other good reason. It has been going on for ages.
ForkinGreat
Knows his Brassica oleracea
It's kind of surprising that the bike industry hadn't done this (More?) decades ago. The Auto industry has been doing it to the consumer for ever, it seems - locking them into a brand, model, and even model iteration/year.
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
I agree. The bike industry may have a lot of standards and incompatibilities but if you look at almost every other product in the market, there is no compatibility between manufacturers.
Mr Crudley
was a wheel size expert
One of the more crappier things companies do to consumers for no other good reason than commercial advantage. It had always been difficult to mix and match and doesn't seem like it will ever improve. Please buy our shiny shit, please................
Fred Nurk
No custom title here
FSA's 24.07mm crank spindle size, just that much larger that it won't fit in Shimano / Raceface / Hope bearings....
The Duckmeister
Has a juicy midrange
They probably did that so customers were stuck with their shit quality bottom brackets.... (It's been said that FSA stands for Faulty Stuff Attached.....)
gippyz
Likes Dirt
Surely an angle grinder or belt sander can fix that?
fjohn860
Alice in diaperland
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