What you done t' your bike today

[Johnallan]

Fitted up some cheap Sonder Camino forks (from the Alpkit eBay store) to my Pickenflick. 5mm shorter with 5mm more offset. They feel fine and although the handling feels different, I couldn't say if it's better or worse.

They have some benefits over the old ones though which is why I swapped - more steerer length and mudguard mounts, plus through axle for the dynamo hub. Just need to sort those things along with the hose routing now I know they feel OK to ride

[JohnClimber]

Fitted the only ever carbon On One Mary bars to my new bike.
I blagged them off Brant many years ago but not used them on a bike for around 8 or 9 years.
Good job I didn't thrown them out.

[ton]

busy morning yesterday.

fitted new to me Hope pro4 wheelset to my Krampus, with 2.6 schwalbe jonny watts tyres on wtb rims......... wow what a workout.
fitted schwalbe g one tyres to mrs t's camino............ easiest tubeless set up ever.
fitted new cables throughout on my Krampus and tuned the gears...... how easy is old 10 spd stuff to fettle.
fitted new ergon grips to my krampus, her camino, and grandsons bike.

all good....

[BridlewayBimbler]

Fitted up some cheap Sonder Camino forks (from the Alpkit eBay store) to my Pickenflick. 5mm shorter with 5mm more offset. They feel fine and although the handling feels different, I couldn't say if it's better or worse.

They have some benefits over the old ones though which is why I swapped - more steerer length and mudguard mounts, plus through axle for the dynamo hub. Just need to sort those things along with the hose routing now I know they feel OK to ride

Looks good! Can I just enquire what mudguard you have on the downtube?

[Johnallan]

Looks good! Can I just enquire what mudguard you have on the downtube?

It's a "zefal croozer". Dead cheap and works to keep the bottle clean-ish, but that's about it. It's not really wide enough for much else

[ledburner]

Chain, looking rusted and stiff.

Most of the crap on a chain comes off the front wheel. Either fit a fuller front guard or a chainring case.
I know it's left field /may look unaethetically pleasing but your ride time to maintenance ration will shift in your favour. Dry toes are a bonus!

Home made 'Heros' * chainset guard & Crud Fender XL guard (O'ring mounted & easily removable)

*Other confectionery brands avaiable

[jameso]

yesterday rather than today but anyway .. I found out that meths is really good for cleaning latex based sealant out old clogged valve cores. Just open the valve nipple all the way, pull out top seal the core and drip a bit in, work it to-fro and repeat. Cleared a couple of mine good as new. Thought it was worth knowing since many of us will have meths with us on a trip and it's usually in the middle of nowhere when you try to re-seat a tyre you realise how claggy the valve is.

(I know, I should get some hi-flows)

[thenorthwind]

yesterday rather than today but anyway .. I found out that meths is really good for cleaning latex based sealant out old clogged valve cores. Just open the valve nipple all the way, pull out top seal the core and drip a bit in, work it to-fro and repeat. Cleared a couple of mine good as new. Thought it was worth knowing since many of us will have meths with us on a trip and it's usually in the middle of nowhere when you try to re-seat a tyre you realise how claggy the valve is.

Good tip

(I know, I should get some Schraders)

FTFY

[JohnClimber]

Fitted Carbon Mary Bars to my new bike as my arm (broken and not set right when I was a kid) can't cope with straight bars (see for sale section )
But I think Carbon Jones bars will be perfect once the rear brake hose is extended.

[whitestone]

The rear tyre on Cath's winter road bike wouldn't stay inflated. Had fresh sealant in the tyre about a week to ten days ago. Hmm.

Fill bath to about 10cm, bubbles coming out from around the valve. Try trick of loosening valve and pushing in, shaking tyre to get sealant in around the bung, retighten valve and reinflate. No go.

Off with tyre - easy, just one lever needed then fingers. Somewhat worryingly the bead came away from the rim very easily on both sides. No visible damage to the rim tape. Clean both rims. Remove valve, there's a small sliver of rim tape around the hole where the builder hadn't cleaned up properly. Ho hum. Put a short length of Gorilla Tape across the hole just to provide a bit of insurance. In with a new valve and replace tyre - no levers needed. Then the fun began!

After ten or more goes with the Airshot loaded up to 140psi the tyre just wouldn't seat. Remove it and set about cleaning the bead of a small coating of hardened sealant. That took over an hour then lightly sanded each bead to make sure there were no little bits left sticking, cleaned everything up and refitted the tyre.

This time the tyre popped onto the rims first time. Add sealant, replace valve core and inflate. Back to the bath - there's still bubbles coming from around the valve. Loosen the valve, slosh the sealant around a bit, then a bit more, retighten the valve, reinflate and...

Success! (Hopefully, maybe )

Only taken two and a half hours! I'm leaving the tyre in the bath for a while and will check periodically to see if it holds.

That was by far the most obstinate tubeless installation/repair I've done.

[PaulE]

Surprisingly simple bike job yesterday. I got out on the road bike earlier in the week and decided that I really don't like wiggly shaped "ergonomic" drop bars... And I had a set of selcof shallow classic drop bars that I took off my London Road commute bike knocking about the garage.

Swapped over in about 15 minutes, even managed to reuse the same bar tape and get it nice and even first time! makes up for all the times that a simple job flags up loads of other fiddly ones and suddenly an afternoon has disappeared!

Second job was to fit the (bought from here, ta!) roof rack to my car, again all went surprisingly well other than removing a flap of skin from one knuckle. Then it obviously needed testing so popped a bike on the roof, dog in the boot and went for a couple of laps of lady Cannings plantation.

[Hyppy]

… went for a couple of laps of lady Cannings plantation.

Is that a euphemism?

[fatbikephil]

… went for a couple of laps of lady Cannings plantation.

Is that a euphemism?

[dlovett]

busy morning yesterday.

fitted new to me Hope pro4 wheelset to my Krampus, with 2.6 schwalbe jonny watts tyres on wtb rims......... wow what a workout.
fitted schwalbe g one tyres to mrs t's camino............ easiest tubeless set up ever.
fitted new cables throughout on my Krampus and tuned the gears...... how easy is old 10 spd stuff to fettle.
fitted new ergon grips to my krampus, her camino, and grandsons bike.

all good....

What rims are you using on the Camino with the g 1's?

ta

[PaulE]

… went for a couple of laps of lady Cannings plantation.

Is that a euphemism?

[ton]

What rims are you using on the Camino with the g 1's?

just what it came with........ alpha wheelset IIRC.

easiest tubeless ever. took as long as just putting tubes in.

[redefined_cycles]

The rear tyre on Cath's winter road bike wouldn't stay inflated. Had fresh sealant in the tyre about a week to ten days ago. Hmm.

Fill bath to about 10cm, bubbles coming out from around the valve. Try trick of loosening valve and pushing in, shaking tyre to get sealant in around the bung, retighten valve and reinflate. No go.

Off with tyre - easy, just one lever needed then fingers. Somewhat worryingly the bead came away from the rim very easily on both sides. No visible damage to the rim tape. Clean both rims. Remove valve, there's a small sliver of rim tape around the hole where the builder hadn't cleaned up properly. Ho hum. Put a short length of Gorilla Tape across the hole just to provide a bit of insurance. In with a new valve and replace tyre - no levers needed. Then the fun began!

After ten or more goes with the Airshot loaded up to 140psi the tyre just wouldn't seat. Remove it and set about cleaning the bead of a small coating of hardened sealant. That took over an hour then lightly sanded each bead to make sure there were no little bits left sticking, cleaned everything up and refitted the tyre.

This time the tyre popped onto the rims first time. Add sealant, replace valve core and inflate. Back to the bath - there's still bubbles coming from around the valve. Loosen the valve, slosh the sealant around a bit, then a bit more, retighten the valve, reinflate and...

Success! (Hopefully, maybe )

Only taken two and a half hours! I'm leaving the tyre in the bath for a while and will check periodically to see if it holds.

That was by far the most obstinate tubeless installation/repair I've done.

[redefined_cycles]

Something yo tell the grandkids and/or geandnephews about Bob... 'the time I had to fill the bath to 10cm or less'. Hopefully they'll be die hard tubeless fans and 'get it'. Well done and hopefully a nice success story coming up right there. Pity about wheel builders (and many other trades), hearts just not in the 'obsessively precise' dept).

[Chris]

Put some Chinesium carbon Surly corner bar copies on my single speed broken road, went for a ride and they didn't snap so I'm calling that a win.
This is the closest I get to a gravel bike but it has 2.6 inch tyres on so quite a bit of comfort from that.

How did these bars last the test of time?

I'm contemplating getting a carbon set from Ali express just to try.
Too tight to buy the surlys like most people by the looks of it

[trob6]

Well they still haven't broken !
I did The Camino De Santiago with my wife this year and ridden it a fair bit and I love them.
I tried a genuine set of corner bars my mate had and liked them, but they weighed a ton and I'm a weight weenie sort of.

[Chris]

Thanks for that!
Looks like I'm buying a set to try on my stooge!

Let's see if they make it to the 2025 wrt.

[Hyppy]

Added some (matching shiny) retro bar ends as inners.

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[Richpips]

Finished building up my Rothair today.

[faustus]

Tidy looking bike! Never heard of them before either...enjoy!

[fatbikephil]

Neither have I, and it's got slidey drop outs for SS - details please Rich