beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Perhaps later, have to see if I (still) have anything anodised I don't like the colour of...
LPG
likes thicc birds
I've done ot on a shock dial (gold/orange dial on a marzocchi shock). Basically a tablespoon of draino in a couple cups of water in a stainless pot. Add dial and move around with stainless tongs for around 30 secs until ot looks evenly silver. Take out with tongs, tip draino down drain and rinse everything thoroughly.
Edit: do it somewhere well ventilated and wear safety glasses, gloves etc...
smitho
Likes Bikes and Dirt
No need to endanger yourself with dangerous fumes. Just cough up a silly amount of money for carbon....
LPG
likes thicc birds
People pay good money for a black knob!
PJO
in me vL comy
They look like shit.
Give me a nice CNC knob any day!
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
The Hopp carbon bits look better in person.
...but the finishing on the bits where the spring and detents fit in my Grip2 dials I received was shitful. I e-mailed him, and basically got back (paraphrasing) "Moulding carbon is hard, tough luck". Even with my liberals amounts of bodgeneering I couldn't get the LSC (inner) dial to ever work without binding. I ended up running the carbon HSC (outer) dial and the alloy LSC (inner) dial. I had to jam a random bit of scrap material into the spring and detent hole on the HSC dial too or it was so deep the detent ball didn't actually engage. Then Fox released the updated Fox 36's with black-anno dials.
PJO
in me vL comy
Carbon fibre is great for some things. Knobs and dials ain't one of them.The Hopp carbon bits look better in person.
...but the finishing on the bits where the spring and detents fit in my Grip2 dials I received was shitful. I e-mailed him, and basically got back (paraphrasing) "Moulding carbon is hard, tough luck". Even with my liberals amounts of bodgeneering I couldn't get the LSC (inner) dial to ever work without binding. I ended up running the carbon HSC (outer) dial and the alloy LSC (inner) dial. I had to jam a random bit of scrap material into the spring and detent hole on the HSC dial too or it was so deep the detent ball didn't actually engage. Then Fox released the updated Fox 36's with black-anno dials.
beno
Cycle Solutions
Oven cleaner is much milder and less burny burny. Takes much longer though. Also don’t panic if it turns black, it will rub off
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
Get that nasty anno off gents.
Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
For a post that has historically had bushing and keying issue I can't see a 240mm dropper ending well.
https://nsmb.com/articles/oneup-introduces-longest-240mm-dropper/
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https://nsmb.com/articles/oneup-introduces-longest-240mm-dropper/
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The Reverend
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Apparently they've redesigned the bushings increase overlap for this version. I'm very tempted, aside from of course just having bought a 210mm model which hasn't been opened.
Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
Whoops wrong thread. Can the mods move this please. Sorry.
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Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
That's really and electric dirt bike that happens to have a crankset and MTB drivetrain slung underneath. It has twist grip throttle and 4,000W electric motor. Definitely not something we want on the MTB trails.
To be honest, why wouldn't you just get a proper electric dirt bike if you were going down that path.
Yep, electric trials bike would seem more useful. The lines continuing to blur.
mike14
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Spectral now available with 125mm travel, but same geo as the bigger version
https://www.canyon.com/en-au/mountain-bikes/trail-bikes/spectral-125/al/
125/140 is a pretty good spot for a lot of the trails I ride, but that's a damn slack HA and relativity long chainstays for what should be a 'trail' bike. The tight squeeze for the water bottle would suck too.
With it not being much lighter, or really different overall, I'm not quite sure why you wouldn't just go the 150mm version. Yeah it might make your local laps a bit too tame sometimes, but it's also a bit more forgiving if you want to push things.
https://www.canyon.com/en-au/mountain-bikes/trail-bikes/spectral-125/al/
125/140 is a pretty good spot for a lot of the trails I ride, but that's a damn slack HA and relativity long chainstays for what should be a 'trail' bike. The tight squeeze for the water bottle would suck too.
With it not being much lighter, or really different overall, I'm not quite sure why you wouldn't just go the 150mm version. Yeah it might make your local laps a bit too tame sometimes, but it's also a bit more forgiving if you want to push things.
Isaakk
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I've already seen one or two electric dirt bike looking things (even more so than above, no cranks) heading up Bee Line and around to/down High Voltage. They're around.