What have you done to your bike today?

[DownhillR3]

New grips on the DH bike, New bars/Stem on the Firebird, new Xt brakes, rotors, pads, bars, grips on the XC bike. At this point I should just keep my Jamis... its like a brand new bike again.

 

[Glenn Rides After 4 PM CST]

@pooriggy

Converted the Les to SS,
Refresh Stan's in the trail bike rear tire.
Raised the stem up on the XC bike.
Added a 10mm spacer.
After yesterday's race my hands and arms felt fatigued.

 

[pooriggy]

@pooriggy View attachment 70721
Converted the Les to SS,
Refresh Stan's in the trail bike rear tire.
Raised the stem up on the XC bike.
Added a 10mm spacer.
After yesterday's race my hands and arms felt fatigued.

Oh yeah.

 

[qclabrat]

My Rallon has a chip to change the front angle one degree. The manual doesn't say, but can I assume the back position will slacken the frame. It's currently in the front position, setting it up for creek.

 

[Ryan.P]

My Rallon has a chip to change the front angle one degree. The manual doesn't say, but can I assume the back position will slacken the frame. It's currently in the front position, setting it up for creek.View attachment 70778

That looks like it's in slack position , if you moved center bolt back it would raise the back end so to me it looks to be in the slack setting

 

[qclabrat]

That looks like it's in slack position , if you moved center bolt back it would raise the back end so to me it looks to be in the slack setting

Your illustration sounds right. I switched it to see how it feels. Anyways, almost ready for Creek. Full strip down and rebuild. Shake down ride tomorrow

 

[RSAmerica]

Took the Judy fork off the Yo Eddy and put the original “Big One Inch” Fork back on.

I think if I rode this bike the 1st log I go over I would do a head plant.

 

[Glenn Rides After 4 PM CST]

I removed all spacers above the stem on both 429"s.

 

[qclabrat]

I removed all spacers above the stem on both 429"s.
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Do they make wider spacers? Also have a number of spacers under the stem but looks strange cause narrower.

 

[Ryan.P]

Do they make wider spacers? Also have a number of spacers under the stem but looks strange cause narrower.

tapered spacer is the solution , or no spacer and riser bars

 

[goldsbar]

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I started in the bar end era, and those are the king of all bar ends! It looks like you'd torque the bars in half if you pulled on the end of those.

 

[RSAmerica]

Plus the bars are only 22” wide. I roll in 780mm - 30 3/4” wide now.

 

[02camaro]

You don't realize you needed new cables until you put the new ones on.

 

[blackburn1973]

Well, actually it was Sunday but finally got around/finished rebuild on my KS Lev DropZone (detailed my issues in this post: http://www.mtbnj.com/forum/threads/ks-lev-dropper-wont-stay-up.42358/). Surprisingly, all seems to have worked out and got it back on my Heckler and tested with a rip around the neighborhood. Real test will be on trails but feeling cautiously optimistic. This is the model that doesn't have a schrader for adding pressure so was anticipating problems but seems to have worked.

 

[bucknejo]

I snapped a pivot bolt.

80 in/lbs torque on my Santa Cruz Tallboy did the trick. it seemed like that's what i had been setting the last few times i did the old re-grease and re-fit of the pivot axles, but i probably didn't account for any residual loctite i couldn't remove... speaking of which, anyone have a good way of removing old loctite? acetone?

 

[Karate Monkey]

I snapped a pivot bolt.

80 in/lbs torque on my Santa Cruz Tallboy did the trick. it seemed like that's what i had been setting the last few times i did the old re-grease and re-fit of the pivot axles, but i probably didn't account for any residual loctite i couldn't remove... speaking of which, anyone have a good way of removing old loctite? acetone?

Brass wire brush, preferably on a bench grinder. It'll just flake off.

 

[MMuller]

What I did to my bike today. Took it out of the closet, changed the flat from my last ride on it with @ChrisG and @Mitch on 2/27. 1st foot on a pedal since injury 3/1. Titled pic "Dumb is what dumb does". Wish me luck.

 

[Mitch]

What I did to my bike today. Took it out of the closet, changed the flat from my last ride on it with @ChrisG and @Mitch on 2/27. 1st foot on a pedal since injury 3/1. Titled pic "Dumb is what dumb does". Wish me luck.

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Hope it went well. Good luck

 

[MMuller]

Hope it went well. Good luck

Never realized how long my block is. Installing a cane holder and training wheels for the next "ride".

 

[Rdeady]

Installed new handgrips and removed the cables and controls for the lockout on my top fuel. Love this bike