I'm a champion bike mechanic...
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby BradL » Sat Aug 06, 2016 1:13 pm
Surprisingly, the indexed shifting works. Shifts are crisp and precise across the entire cassette. I can't quite believe it.
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby mikesbytes » Sat Aug 06, 2016 2:05 pm
My options are;
1. hang out until they reappear
2. buy replacements
If I do option 1, I will find myself in desperate need and will have to go to someones place to borrow the tools. If I do option 2 the missing tools will turn up within days of the replacements arriving
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Postby Uncle Just » Sat Aug 06, 2016 2:11 pm
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Postby mikesbytes » Sat Aug 06, 2016 2:42 pm
LOLUncle Just wrote:^ At least you know you had the tools but have misplaced them. I on several occasions have forgotten I had the right tools and made do with a length of pipe, hammer or block of wood!
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Postby jasonc » Sat Aug 06, 2016 2:47 pm
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Postby mikesbytes » Sat Aug 06, 2016 6:38 pm
I know someone who did that and they made it with a handle that was long enough to hold outside of the wheel, so you didn't bang your hand on the spokes.jasonc wrote:You can make a chain whip....
But then again, I could simply buy one that combines the lock ring tool and the chain whip
http://www.this link is broken/lifeline-perfor ... hain-whip/
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby bychosis » Sat Aug 06, 2016 7:28 pm
Solution was gripping an old bit of chain in a bench vice then winding the wheel onto it and up under the bench, followed by pushing my foot down on a big spanner on the lockring tool. Pushing down with a foot was quite efficient as it was at a good height.
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby trailgumby » Sat Aug 06, 2016 7:32 pm
Ended up replacing one set of pads, then the other, and then doing a brake bleed on the front. Then I did a Lefty fork reset and suspension tune. 4:30pm I finally made it out the door to go to Bunnings and get started on what I intended to do at 11!
At least the bike now the bike pedals properly and stops when you want it to. Kind of important at Stromlo. And I had fun psyching out the kids playing in the park opposite my place when testing the brakes and suspension settings
But now I need to top up my spares stock.
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby Bunged Knee » Sat Aug 06, 2016 7:48 pm
When I was doing bike mechanic volunteer for bike shed with old donated bikes. The quickest way to remove it without chain whip is to put the cassette removal tool in it and put it in bench vice and twist it anti-clockwise with force by hands. It comes off.bychosis wrote:i had trouble with an old cluster. Couldn't work it with the chain whip I had.
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby Duck! » Sat Aug 06, 2016 9:14 pm
For screw-on freewheel clusters this is the best way to do it; chain whip is actually completely unnecessary (or even useless).Bunged Knee wrote:When I was doing bike mechanic volunteer for bike shed with old donated bikes. The quickest way to remove it without chain whip is to put the cassette removal tool in it and put it in bench vice and twist it anti-clockwise with force by hands. It comes off.bychosis wrote:i had trouble with an old cluster. Couldn't work it with the chain whip I had.
For cassettes, if you don't have a chain whip but do have an old chain floating about, hang said chain over the cassette, preferably the largest sprocket for maximum engagement, stand the wheel vertically and clamp the ends of the chain in the vice so it can't freewheel, and then use your lockring tool to undo it. It helps to have the quick release skewer in with the nut loosely wound on to hold the tool in place.
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby Duck! » Sat Aug 06, 2016 9:16 pm
Option 3, go and look for something else, the mislaid tools will miraculously reappear (but you won't be able to find whatever it is you go hunting for instead ).mikesbytes wrote:A great mechanic never blames their tools. So to prove I am not a great mechanic, I've misplaced my chain whip and lock ring spanner.
My options are;
1. hang out until they reappear
2. buy replacements
If I do option 1, I will find myself in desperate need and will have to go to someones place to borrow the tools. If I do option 2 the missing tools will turn up within days of the replacements arriving
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby foo on patrol » Sun Aug 07, 2016 12:28 pm
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby mikesbytes » Sun Aug 07, 2016 6:00 pm
True in a sense. The replacement I'm looking at is for 3/8 where my missing one was actually for a road cassette and its chain was a little tight for a track cog but did work. So if the old one does turn up, then I have one for road cassettes and one for track/fixie only the lock ring remover will be duplicatedDuck! wrote:Option 3, go and look for something else, the mislaid tools will miraculously reappear (but you won't be able to find whatever it is you go hunting for instead ).mikesbytes wrote:A great mechanic never blames their tools. So to prove I am not a great mechanic, I've misplaced my chain whip and lock ring spanner.
My options are;
1. hang out until they reappear
2. buy replacements
If I do option 1, I will find myself in desperate need and will have to go to someones place to borrow the tools. If I do option 2 the missing tools will turn up within days of the replacements arriving
I'm sure its been done However you soon forget how much you saved on tools when you crashfoo on patrol wrote:What's wrong with a claw hammer and a length of chain, Mike?
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby foo on patrol » Sun Aug 07, 2016 7:05 pm
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby bychosis » Mon May 01, 2017 11:05 am
Had trouble setting up the front derailleur to not rub. It had a triple chainset and I figured I wont be using the granny ring so switched to another set of cranks to get a better chainline, which meant replacement BB as well. Cleaned off the existing chainrings and reinstalled them, derailleur readjusted - about 5 times. Rode to work this morning - with chain rub in my cruising gear and I still can't work out which way to turn the barrel adjusters to try and fix it.
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby g-boaf » Mon May 01, 2017 1:02 pm
So true. And with cursing for why the hell couldn't I find that before?!Duck! wrote:Option 3, go and look for something else, the mislaid tools will miraculously reappear (but you won't be able to find whatever it is you go hunting for instead ).
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby CXCommuter » Mon May 01, 2017 1:25 pm
My Garmin 810 has gone walkabouts- found three other things I was missing in the process of looking for the Garmin...g-boaf wrote:So true. And with cursing for why the hell couldn't I find that before?!Duck! wrote:Option 3, go and look for something else, the mislaid tools will miraculously reappear (but you won't be able to find whatever it is you go hunting for instead ).
Garmin still missing though
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby Duck! » Mon May 01, 2017 1:28 pm
If you're using a front derailleur for a triple on a double crank they can be very difficult to tune because of the different cage shaping, particularly because the middle to big jump on a triple is smaller than the small to big jump on a double. There's a step on the inner cage plate that locates nicely below the middle ring, but drags the chain badly with the smaller ring of a double.bychosis wrote:Drop bar roadie shifters died, so I'm tweaking a flat bar for commuting purposes.
Had trouble setting up the front derailleur to not rub. It had a triple chainset and I figured I wont be using the granny ring so switched to another set of cranks to get a better chainline, which meant replacement BB as well.
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby jasonc » Mon May 01, 2017 7:42 pm
Buying a new Garmin will have it turn up within daysCXCommuter wrote:My Garmin 810 has gone walkabouts- found three other things I was missing in the process of looking for the Garmin...g-boaf wrote:So true. And with cursing for why the hell couldn't I find that before?!Duck! wrote:Option 3, go and look for something else, the mislaid tools will miraculously reappear (but you won't be able to find whatever it is you go hunting for instead ).
Garmin still missing though
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby Warin » Tue May 02, 2017 11:51 am
It would be better if I actually looked over the entire bike before ordering in the new stuff in one hit .. rather than sequentially finding problems
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby Marx » Tue May 02, 2017 1:02 pm
I owe it all to this little thing I never thought I needed for a pad change:
A bike and a place to ride.
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby nemo57 » Sat May 06, 2017 1:10 pm
... which in turn are removable with a cold chisel and an engineer's hammer, after fixing the rim firmly upright in the vise ...foo on patrol wrote:A claw hammer and length of chain was all we ever had back in the early days and I never spun a sprocket off or had it slip. That's what locking rings were for
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Re: I'm a champion bike mechanic...
Postby foo on patrol » Sat May 06, 2017 1:56 pm
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