What have you done to your bike today?
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serviceguy
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Do you carry spare mineral oil in your water bottle, just in case? LOL
serviceguy
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You'd probably be better off drinking mineral oil... 😀
Keeps me from getting water drunk
Karate Monkey
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I'd been getting disconcerting creaking from my stem. I pulled it, threw a light coat of grease on it, and put it back. It came back 3 days later. I decided to ditch the "death stem"**, and get a regular quill.
Period-correct stem, only a few grams heavier than the 3TTT. I put on some temporary bar tape, since I wanted to ride tomorrow, and my replacement tape (stay tuned) won't be here until Wednesday.
**Fun question to weed out the engineers from the rest: what's wrong here?**
Period-correct stem, only a few grams heavier than the 3TTT. I put on some temporary bar tape, since I wanted to ride tomorrow, and my replacement tape (stay tuned) won't be here until Wednesday.
**Fun question to weed out the engineers from the rest: what's wrong here?**
don
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The OD of the 3TTT stem is too small for the ID of the steerer tube? And by too small I mean like a thousadth from use and removal and installation.
A regular quill design puts the stem shaft to one side while the wedge is on the other:
Side question: why have a negative rise stem if you are going to have it out of the steerer tube a couple of inches? I'm sure that extra leverage has an effect on the creaks.
Karate Monkey
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Pic is from installation, it's going down, just like the 3T.
Expansion slots on the stem are not radiused at the top. Cracks from the stem flexing and being installed/removed propagate from the sharp corners.
The design works 'okay' enough to hold under normal bumpy conditions, but is definitely looser than a modern shop would let out the door.
serviceguy
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Here's your problem, in the red square...
Which is because...
serviceguy
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I actually followed your lead and ordered a DHX2 for my Fugitive.
don
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That was the first thing I noticed as it's the same for the top of seat tubes where the clamp is but I didn't see the crack (thought it was grease smear).
The 3T has to feel pretty loose - there is only forceful contact on that one inch section of wedge!
I really like the dh x2 shock but you can’t use them on bikes with shock yokes. The shaft on the dhx has double the shaft diameter. They even had the stock on the 2024 Kenevo comp.
Seems they may have "fixed" the DHX2 with the 2024 revisions. If you have an older one they apparently upgrade for free when sending into Fox for service. Still makes me concerned on my yoke based bike.
I was going to make the exact same joke but figured you'd argue with me...
serviceguy
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The p/n on the website where I purchased it is for a 2024 model, arrives in 2 days so we'll see. I don't have a joke of a bike so I'm ok regardless....😉
I knew you would due to your famous appreciation for everything Italian...🙂
Karate Monkey
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Everyone knows you only make one change at a time:
(The bike came with--and I've been riding it with--a too-short 80mm stem for a few years, I replaced the old stem with a 90mm)
((I will probably go down more, but, see first comment))
(The bike came with--and I've been riding it with--a too-short 80mm stem for a few years, I replaced the old stem with a 90mm)
((I will probably go down more, but, see first comment))
qclabrat
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Thanks @Karate Monkey for the inspiration to take this old guy from the ceiling hooks. Loved this bike when I first saw it in Dave's basement in Somerville. Anyone here remember Dave? He was some way connected to Ten Speed Drive Imports and also worked with Steve of The Bike Stand in Scotch Plains. Anyway, couldn't afford a $1000 bike in HS so rode my $250 Peugeot from Pro Tour in Cranford for a few years. Nothing special but was one of my first purchases after getting married and moving to Edison from Fanwood. It's a SL Competition, a mid tier Ciocc with a mishmash of 80s parts. Shelved the tubular wheels and will probably swap back a period correct wheelset from the current Heliums. Also will change to a shorter 1R stem as the back ain't like it was in my 20s.
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My WTB Vigilante was getting a little long in the tooth and the rubber just wasn’t gripping like it used too.
I wanted to try a slightly less aggressive tire even though the Vigilante is great.
Personally at times I feel it’s a little overkill in Alpine, Blauvelt, Graham Hills, and Sterling…
And worst case I can always go back to the Vigilante. Let’s see you this 40 buck experiment goes!
I wanted to try a slightly less aggressive tire even though the Vigilante is great.
Personally at times I feel it’s a little overkill in Alpine, Blauvelt, Graham Hills, and Sterling…
And worst case I can always go back to the Vigilante. Let’s see you this 40 buck experiment goes!
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Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
Back at the shop, so this afternoon I swapped tires to the 38s and cleaned the sealant off everything in prep for another adventure. I got 1 flat the first day, a torn sidewall that required a boot and tube. Then the 4th day I got a tear in the morning that just needed a Dart, it never lost air or sealant. Then at the end of the day right outside the hotel I got a 2nd flat but was out of Darts and Co2 so I just left it flat.
And then…
And then…
