Little Things You Hate

[ForkinGreat]

Very cool, shame it's fixy

It's almost the Tron bike from Zwift. Needs bullhorn bars and more glow

 

[pink poodle]

Well it's been a day of bogans. I'm currently working at a bogan wedding. very bogan.

 

[slowmick]

I worked in a bottle shop a while back and we were sent a bunch of Jim Beam truckers in the lead up to Christmas. So being a bit of a smart arse I had one I would wear when I was at work. I gave it the suicidal tendencies style brim bend to ensure I was still at the cutting edge of cool...after a few shifts of it a coworker hits me with the "I wouldn't have picked you for a Jim Beam kind of guy..."

Were you in Melbourne on Tuesday night Poodle?

 

[pink poodle]

Damn

 

[fjohn860]

Very cool, shame it's fixy

It's a silly paint job so it needs a silly type of bike

 

[rockmoose]

Oh, so a Tron Bike like @rockmoose?

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I dunno who that bloke is, but it ain't me. I look more like a carnival clown.

For a dense tyre fill, I use speeches from the Institute of Public Affairs.

 

[pink poodle]

Oh my this looks amazing...just like Starbucks.

 

[ForkinGreat]

I dunno who that bloke is, but it ain't me. I look more like a carnival clown.

For a dense tyre fill, I use speeches from the Institute of Public Affairs.

Doesn't the stench put you off when using IPA speech tyre fill?

 

[zooks]

Internal cable routing!!!

 

[rockmoose]

Doesn't the stench put you off when using IPA speech tyre fill?

Makes me go faster trying to get away from it.

 

[kten]

LTIH
Retailers who are getting on board the black friday 'sales' train but putting up their retail prices to make the 'sale' price look better. One suspension shop had cheaper kitsuma shocks last week pre-black friday sales ffs.

 

[Minlak]

LTIH
Retailers who are getting on board the black friday 'sales' train but putting up their retail prices to make the 'sale' price look better. One suspension shop had cheaper kitsuma shocks last week pre-black friday sales ffs.

Sooooo here is how its supposed to work
1) Often sales (especially Black Friday) will be off the RRP
2) Most things do not sell for RRP ever
3) They are supposed to represent the sale price as a saving from the normal selling price
Example:- Bike is $9999 RRP but bike has usually sold at $8999 and on special $8499 so when they work out the sale price it should be representitive of the average price it sells at $8749 so if the sale is actually 20% of RRP so $7999 a saving of $800 not $2000.
Now Harvey Norman got pinged for this so usually do it right - JB HiFi however never got pinged so usually do it wrong.

So the situation you see is retailers putting the price at the actual RRP of the product and then applying the discount - not the discount applied to the "Usual" selling price.

 

[ozzybmx]

Sooooo here is how its supposed to work

Supposed sales are not working. Wait till after xmas, I'm expecting a dip in everything then... even farkwits wanting covid prices for their shitty utes with high mileage.

 

[bear the bear]

Internal cable routing!!!

Park Tool has a kit for that, and it is worth the money....

 

[fjohn860]

Park Tool has a kit for that, and it is worth the money....

HMR-4 21 oz. Shop Hammer

A perfectly-balanced full-sized striking instrument built for a wide variety of shop uses, with a forged-steel striking face and a replaceable non-marring composite tip.

www.parktool.com

 

[zooks]

Park Tool has a kit for that, and it is worth the money....

I have a “cheaper” kit and it eventually helped but fark still .

 

[beeb]

I have a “cheaper” kit and it eventually helped but fark still .

Was this on the FM1003? Mine has internal guide sleeves so was pretty straightforward. The FM1001 on the other hand…

 

[Tubbsy]

Park Tool has a kit for that, and it is worth the money....

I’ve bought a bunch of tools I’ve only used once or twice. And some I’ve yet to use.

For some reason that one just screams of personal failure. Or maybe it ass just me screaming…

 

[fjohn860]

Or maybe it ass just me screaming…

 

[bear the bear]

I’ve bought a bunch of tools I’ve only used once or twice. And some I’ve yet to use.

For some reason that one just screams of personal failure. Or maybe it ass just me screaming…

I don't have a personal opinion on internal routing. It is what it is.
A lot of modern bikes have semi or full internal routing.
Running a fleet of bikes (Wife + son + me), the pain is worth the price of entry,,,,

As a side note, a friend who throws bike spanners professionally says that this is one of their main income generators due to the time factor of any bike that requires a front-end adjustment.