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

[fjohn860]

Lower leg service tonight, including hacking the topout bumper in half and burnishing the bushes in the lowers.

Never realised how bad the bush alignment was until today.

Massive improvement after burnishing.

http://instagr.am/p/CI78JmZhWxR/

 

[Flow-Rider]

Lower leg service tonight, including hacking the topout bumper in half and burnishing the bushes in the lowers.

Never realised how bad the bush alignment was until today.

Massive improvement after burnishing.

http://instagr.am/p/CI78JmZhWxR/

You meant to be able to slide stanchions down with oil one at a time in the lowers under their own weight, not many people realise but they bind in the bushes out on the trail from the flex in the stanchions.

 

[fjohn860]

One of the lower bushes had been installed poorly from factory which I had only noticed recently.

It has (had) a flat section on the leading edge almost 5-6mm long. The burnishing I did was mostly to force that bushing back into some semblance of round.

 

[fjohn860]

You meant to be able to slide stanchions down with oil one at a time in the lowers under their own weight, not many people realise but they bind in the bushes out on the trail from the flex in the stanchions.

I am no lightweight, and are well aware they bind out on the trail

 

[Flow-Rider]

I am no lightweight, and are well aware they bind out on the trail

I made the mistake years ago with some 32mm revelations 150mm of rebushing them, they had the slightest bit of play in the bushes without oil and the new bushes ended up the same because they would jamb out on the trail and have heaps of stiction.

Your forks will be heaps better by looking how easy they slid in the last video.

 

[fjohn860]

I made the mistake years ago with some 32mm revelations 150mm of rebushing them, they had the slightest bit of play in the bushes without oil and the new bushes ended up the same because they would jamb out on the trail and have heaps of stiction.

Your forks will be heaps better by looking how easy they slid in the last video.

I've always had coil forks previously.

It has been an interesting journey learning everything about air springs.

I just never had a yard stick to compare it to, only coil forks. Never really knew if this air fork was working well or not.

After todays exercise, I now know it wasn't quite right

 

[hifiandmtb]

Thumping storm yesterday arvo meant the trails today are mint!

http://instagr.am/p/CI9UT3whP9x/

 

[pink poodle]

I do like that little rock wave/berm!

 

[Scotty T]

Stromlo again. Had a gumby stack at the top of Trebuchet, baulked riding off the platform at the start wondering whether to wait for the others to get up onto the platform, next thing was over the bars in the weeds.

 

[Haakon]

The Redemption lap. Fuck Im unfit... Successfully failed to crash though

So it was on one of these corners, not sure which... Big rocks on the inside of the dip on both to catch a pedal with a flat bit past it for full body slams onto the ground, so could be either...

 

[mike14]

Super early start to get a quick lap in at Youies before doing all the baking for in-law Xmas tonight. First ever attempt at Bandages; fuck that! There's some serious sections i had to walk through

 

[Labcanary]

Went for a family ride on gravel paths. I hauled the youngest child in the trailer and husband took the eldest child on the Dolittle seat.
Got home and tinkered around a bit to get the Weeride seat ready for the youngest child.
We'll have to go on another ride tomorrow!

 

[Rorschach]

Got out to Kalamunda today, did 15km instead of the usual 10km
After deleting my front derailleur though, I really missed the bailout gear
Will be getting a bigger cassette soon I reckon.
Had to walk a bit, god I’m unfit!
Cheers to the guys who offered me a lift up Mt Gunjin Road when I bailed off the trail
New bars and stem were good though. Few positional tweaks and I reckon she’ll be good.

 

[SummitFever]

Lower leg service tonight, including hacking the topout bumper in half and burnishing the bushes in the lowers.

Never realised how bad the bush alignment was until today.

Massive improvement after burnishing.

http://instagr.am/p/CI78JmZhWxR/

It's also worth checking for stiction with the front wheel in. If the hub is not to spec width-wise or the fork axle spacing isn't perfect then you will get an increase in stiction with the front wheel in.

 

[fjohn860]

It's also worth checking for stiction with the front wheel in. If the hub is not to spec width-wise or the fork axle spacing isn't perfect then you will get an increase in stiction with the front wheel in.

Yeah I probably should have done that.

I measured the front hub at 110.06mm, so not too bad.

And when installing the front wheel the hub has a nice contact sliding fit in the fork dropouts, so the hub isn't pushing the fork legs apart and the through axle isn't pulling the legs in either.

 

[Lazmo]

We had a real nice ride today, with our middle daughter and her partner… down their way in Donvale. Sue found some single-track off Mullum Mullum trail, and later we spotted some off Eastlink trail. My fearless daughter followed me down a very steep chute to the creek and buried the front in an obscured hole… and had a fairly chunky OTB. She actually took a pretty hard slap, and composed herself, recovered, then was grinning and back at it without hesitation. I love riding with her, she’s such a dick…we hassle each other constantly. She's a good rider.

 

[Squidfayce]

Packing shit to go for a youies ride right now

 

[sane]

Packing shit to go for a youies ride right now

Crackin day for it. Trails will have loved that bit of rain we had the other day

 

[Labcanary]

Took the youngest child on his first Weeride adventure. He squealed with delight down every hill and slapped my knees as I pedalled back up the hills.

 

[Oddjob]

Took the youngest child on his first Weeride adventure. He squealed with delight down every hill and slapped my knees as I pedalled back up the hills.

I just love how they treat you like some pack horse. Gives you a new perspective on horse racing...