big john

Who needs winter when you have naughty goats?

rjones28 

Who can argue with this?

WhyFi

It was mentioned during the broadcast that he was retiring - they said that it was discussed pre-game, but I don't know if it was an announcement or leak or what.


​​​​​​Edit: I just looked - he's officially non-committal.

Velo Vol 

It all came here.

phrantic09

All this disc brake rubbing talk reminds me that my rim brakes never rub...

phrantic09

Revolt arrives at the shop tomorrow, I’m pretty excited except for the fear it’s going to make me want to bin the R3

WhyFi

Well, there goes your set-up and troubleshooting help for when your Giant rolls in.

MoAlpha

Bent in a strict sense, but a mm or two of runout is “normal” and can’t be fixed by re-bending if the disc is actually warped with a wave in it.

indyfabz

I’ve got a case of the Mondays.

datlas 

I was talking to some of my cycling friends about my recent experience with a worn front chainring and we were discussing other components that are often ignored and/or neglected.

The subject of headsets and headset bearings came up. I will honestly say that I have totally ignored mine for 12 years, I do check that the front wheel turns freely without binding and that there is no "play" in the headset, but I have not done anything more.

Some of the guys say that is crazy talk, and that I should be at a minimum re-greasing headset bearings annually.

Comments? Time to start a thread on Headset maintenance??

phrantic09

I could never get the SRAM brakes on my Felt to not rub, squeal and ting. When they squealed it resonated through the entire bike,?I don’t miss that bike.

Same here, I had to bail on my workout this morning because my legs weren’t having it.

I also spent about 13 hours working over the weekend and I’m grumpy. There’s nothing quite like a 4 hour conference call on a ******g Sunday night.

MoAlpha

i do nothing to my headsets. My understanding is that headsets fail due to brineling from repeated axial loading and grease doesn’t prevent that. They are one of several “bad” designs on bicycles, from a strict engineering point of view.

bampilot06

New wheels and tires are awesome. Ride smooth and roll fast.

crashed again this morning. Landed on the same wrist as last time, and now my opposite elbow is all banged up. Bike seems ok, Wheels are straight no bent spokes. My tape which was already on the way out is shredded on the left side, and my left shifter won’t win in beauty contest.

I was on the cap trail, (mup) and these three mouth breathers were walking towards me side by side. They saw me coming but made no attempt to make room for me. I went around them on the edge of the mup and of course this one spot had mud. Went down hard. *******s were polite enough to tell me I must have hit ice, and they kept walking.

Anywho looks like I am wrapping bars today, First time for everything so if anybody has any tricks or trade secrets let me know.

Manager at my LBS swears by ESI tape, I don’t know if anyone carries that in my area. I really like the tape on my wife’s bike but I can’t figure out what it is, and it’s not the tape listed on the trek website. The gripytac looks cool, but the texture feels rough?

Hope y’all have a great Monday.

Trsnrtr

I don't want to brag, but today, I showed my lowest weight of the week on my scale.

bampilot06

Celebrate with cake!!!!!

Velo Vol 

Brown Squirrel confirms. SMH.

Trsnrtr

I have bradycardia and yes, my heart checks out fine. In fact, I have my yearly appointment next week with my heart doctor..

Anyway, my Apple watch reported 13 times last night that my HR was between 38 and 40 for 10 consecutive minutes. The largest number that I've seen in the past was 6.

Kind of weird but my doc has always said to keep riding and quit worrying about it.

WhyFi

Ugh. Bummer.

Grippytack is awesome. Not rough - grippy with just the right amount of cush.

IIRC, the new Domane come with Bontrager tape with 'Endurance,' or something along those lines, in the name. **Edit: actually, I think that it's this Perf Tape - https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/e...pe-set/p/28485 **

MoAlpha

Oh, no! Stay off them MUPs!

bampilot06

I looked her bike up on the inter webs to see what components it came with. The tape that it says it’s suppose to come with, didn’t match what’s on her bike. Maybe they ran out and threw something else on? Not that big of a deal. I was the thinking about the black and white grippy tac. It’s mostly black so I figured the white getting dirty wouldn’t be noticeable? This feels like a trap.

Velo Vol 

Oh boy. I'm setting aside a few hours for bar wrapping at the end of the week.

abshipp 

I have a coworker that owns a high-end Raleigh from the 80s.

In describing it to me he was saying how it has this really neat feature in that the headset has a centering divot so that if you're leaning it against something the front wheel is resistant to turning and the bike falling over. I've asked him if he was sure the headset is supposed to do that and he was quite confident.

The guy is our senior mechanical engineer

Personally, IDGAF about headsets. So long as my headset is reasonably smooth and has no play it's good enough for me.

bampilot06

We could do it together via zoom, so we can enjoy each other’s suffering.

Velo Vol 

Bike shoppe said I won't get my rig back until Thursdayish, so you're going to have to wait for that.

abshipp 

Lame Glad you aren't hurt too bad.

Do the wheels make a nice whoosh-whoosh sound? I've heard that's the real reason roadies like them so much