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I’m a scheduling nightmare. Wife works combo of day and night shifts...both ruin the ride possibilities, after school activities, and races most weekends this time of year.Sweet. RB night-riders - assemble!
Never know though
I’m a scheduling nightmare. Wife works combo of day and night shifts...both ruin the ride possibilities, after school activities, and races most weekends this time of year.Sweet. RB night-riders - assemble!
Keen definitely! Able not so sure. Weekend rides are always a certain lock in but will have to play an arvo/evening ride by ear as I do the kiddo and cooking duties most evenings. I’ll have to count my accumulated brownie points to see if I have enough built up!
Just let me know the night before and I'll make sure the spare lights are chargedKeen definitely! Able not so sure. Weekend rides are always a certain lock in but will have to play an arvo/evening ride by ear as I do the kiddo and cooking duties most evenings. I’ll have to count my accumulated brownie points to see if I have enough built up!
They seem to have a reputation for pretty poor factory bearing life sadly. Something I'll know all about in time!After riding in swampy condition at the Silvan ‘flowduro’ event a few weeks back, I thought it was time to replace all the bearings on my Tranny Sentinel. Did the headset last week then last night I lined up a a mate to help me punch out and replace all of the pivot bearings. Including the trunnion shock mount there are 12 bearings.
I was pretty surprised at how bad the old ones were. The frame is only 2 years old and 7 months of that was spent locked down in Melbourne only getting out for an hour to ride on bike paths every second day or so... Yet at best some of the bearings were gritty and ‘bumpy’ in feel while at worst they were impossible to turn by hand.
Anyway, it took a while but thanks to a big hammer, a few beers and my mate’s care and experience (a he’s a fitter and turner by trade) we got there and now she’s buttery smooth. Mmmmmm butter.
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Yeah I was a bit surprised. Not sure it the carbon frame is exactly the same as the alloy but when you come to it, be careful with the double row of bearings at the chainstay/seatstay junction. There is an internal lip between the two bearings and you have to extract them individually (rather than punching both out through one side)They seem to have a reputation for pretty poor factory bearing life sadly. Something I'll know all about in time!
Ooh, that's a good one to know! Cheers for the heads-up.Yeah I was a bit surprised. Not sure it the carbon frame is exactly the same as the alloy but when you come to it, be careful with the double row of bearings at the chainstay/seatstay junction. There is an internal lip between the two bearings and you have to extract them individually (rather than punching both out through one side)
I checked (and pumped full of grease) all my pivot bearings a few months after purchase on my 2018 smuggler. And have re-greased them once since.After riding in swampy condition at the Silvan ‘flowduro’ event a few weeks back, I thought it was time to replace all the bearings on my Tranny Sentinel. Did the headset last week then last night I lined up a a mate to help me punch out and replace all of the pivot bearings. Including the trunnion shock mount there are 12 bearings.
I was pretty surprised at how bad the old ones were. The frame is only 2 years old and 7 months of that was spent locked down in Melbourne only getting out for an hour to ride on bike paths every second day or so... Yet at best some of the bearings were gritty and ‘bumpy’ in feel while at worst they were impossible to turn by hand.
Anyway, it took a while but thanks to a big hammer, a few beers and my mate’s care and experience (a he’s a fitter and turner by trade) we got there and now she’s buttery smooth. Mmmmmm butter.
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just wouldn’t have been the same without the cramping painI’m a little cooked, but first time I’ve done this event without cramping.....and @Daniel Hale wasnt even there to see me not in pain.
Yeah XC racing is another world. We were just there for a solid ride. I made him ride the phantom to save wear on the enduro bike. It’s his school commuting bike, it’s still a heavy bike and dropped a chain like 10 times. Wouldn’t have mattered. He knows some of the other kids. Harry was only just off the elite winning time in juniors. Huge respect to fast XC peeps all round.just wouldn’t have been the same without the cramping pain
i thought felix might have placed higher, but some of those youth’s are xco podium material and use quick bikes
I'm still getting used to it. Did you find the front wheel wants to fall over to one or the other side on slow climbs? Its a trait im still finding a little annoying. Its bloody quick down hill though.New school geo rules.
Not really. I rode all but the hardest 2 a lines on the Stromlo climb with ease, the tightest ones felt fine because the cockpit was very close to the Bronson ETT wise when the saddle was up.I'm still getting used to it. Did you find the front wheel wants to fall over to one or the other side on slow climbs? Its a trait im still finding a little annoying. Its bloody quick down hill though.
All hail the mighty hammer !!After riding in swampy condition at the Silvan ‘flowduro’ event a few weeks back, I thought it was time to replace all the bearings on my Tranny Sentinel. Did the headset last week then last night I lined up a a mate to help me punch out and replace all of the pivot bearings. Including the trunnion shock mount there are 12 bearings.
I was pretty surprised at how bad the old ones were. The frame is only 2 years old and 7 months of that was spent locked down in Melbourne only getting out for an hour to ride on bike paths every second day or so... Yet at best some of the bearings were gritty and ‘bumpy’ in feel while at worst they were impossible to turn by hand.
Anyway, it took a while but thanks to a big hammer, a few beers and my mate’s care and experience (a he’s a fitter and turner by trade) we got there and now she’s buttery smooth. Mmmmmm butter.
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I’ll put you on the orange at some point for another new school geo review.Not really. I rode all but the hardest 2 a lines on the Stromlo climb with ease, the tightest ones felt fine because the cockpit was very close to the Bronson ETT wise when the saddle was up.
A few of the quite tight ones actually felt better than the Bronson, maybe the increased rear traction with your feet back further but your body forward further made tight stuff sweet despite the quite large wheelbase. I'm sold.
I'm getting the bike again later in the month and will take it down some more appropriately chunderous sections. I'll do something of a review. I was pretty amazed on a day I wasn't feeling particularly fast to best those times, with relative ease.
I busted my gut on my birthday last year to pull my Pork Barrel time (see what I did there) and made mistakes on this run but still beat it. Second downhill segment ever on the bike.