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#7551
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Greenville SC
Posts: 4,290
Bikes: 1975 Motobecane Grand Jubile, 2020 Holdsworth Competition, 2022 Giant Trance 29 3
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#7552
serious cyclist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Austin
Posts: 21,147
Bikes: S1, R2, P2
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#7553
Super Modest
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Central Illinois
Posts: 23,906
Bikes: Trek Domane+, Trek Emonda, Giant Propel, Colnago V3, ICE VTX WC
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2,340 Posts
#7554
serious cyclist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Austin
Posts: 21,147
Bikes: S1, R2, P2
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Worth going through the last five pages? Y'all have been busy while I've been driving to Amarillo the red light hell loop.
#7555
VFL For Life
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 52,249
Bikes: Velo Volmobile
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1,444 Posts
#7556
dot dash
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Land of Pleasant Living
Posts: 12,659
Bikes: Shmikes
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3,361 Posts
#7557
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Yucatán. México
Posts: 7,292
Bikes: 2022 Gt Avalanche
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1,394 Posts
I used to say I aged backward during those years.
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#7558
dot dash
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Land of Pleasant Living
Posts: 12,659
Bikes: Shmikes
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3,361 Posts
#7559
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Greenville SC
Posts: 4,290
Bikes: 1975 Motobecane Grand Jubile, 2020 Holdsworth Competition, 2022 Giant Trance 29 3
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#7560
VFL For Life
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Knoxville, TN
Posts: 52,249
Bikes: Velo Volmobile
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#7561
cowboy, steel horse, etc
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The hot spot.
Posts: 46,230
Bikes: everywhere
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Lady Wildcats are out
#7562
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Greenville SC
Posts: 4,290
Bikes: 1975 Motobecane Grand Jubile, 2020 Holdsworth Competition, 2022 Giant Trance 29 3
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#7563
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 19,569
Bikes: Litespeed Ultimate, Ultegra; Canyon Endurace, 105; Battaglin MAX, Chorus; Bianchi 928 Veloce; Ritchey Road Logic, Dura Ace; Cannondale R500 RX100; Schwinn Circuit, Sante; Lotus Supreme, Dura Ace
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Well, THAT'S embarrassing!!!! The creaking noise the Canyon was making was the SEATPOST, NOT the press fit BB I rather extravagantly replaced. Boy, is there egg on MY face! A little assembly paste, properly torque down the screw, and....... silence. ALL the creaking noise gone.
I also raised the saddle the 3mm I'd lowered it by, and felt a LOT more able to put down power. I rode exactly the same route as last night, but 5 minutes faster over 22.6 miles, AND I felt a whole lot stronger. Maybe it's the position, maybe it's the relief from having solved the riddle, maybe it's that it's 5 degrees cooler - the wind was pretty much the same. I don't know. I DO know that yesterday I was tired and uncomfortable in the saddle and found it hard to push hard, and today was very different.
I also raised the saddle the 3mm I'd lowered it by, and felt a LOT more able to put down power. I rode exactly the same route as last night, but 5 minutes faster over 22.6 miles, AND I felt a whole lot stronger. Maybe it's the position, maybe it's the relief from having solved the riddle, maybe it's that it's 5 degrees cooler - the wind was pretty much the same. I don't know. I DO know that yesterday I was tired and uncomfortable in the saddle and found it hard to push hard, and today was very different.
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"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
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#7564
VFL For Life
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#7565
Silver Comet Fred
Keep it going Owls.
#7566
Senior Member
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Location: Greenville SC
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I was super in to botany when I was in school so I took quite a few biology and plant physiology classes. I'm just delighted that there is an alternative context for the root "turgid" than what I have seen before
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#7567
Senior Member
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Location: Greenville SC
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Well, THAT'S embarrassing!!!! The creaking noise the Canyon was making was the SEATPOST, NOT the press fit BB I rather extravagantly replaced. Boy, is there egg on MY face! A little assembly paste, properly torque down the screw, and....... silence. ALL the creaking noise gone.
Brakes definitely needed a bleed, but the seatpost and clamp wedge were absolutely dry. Added some carbon paste and all the noises disappeared.
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#7568
Silver Comet Fred
#7569
cowboy, steel horse, etc
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: The hot spot.
Posts: 46,230
Bikes: everywhere
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I guess the Lady Wildcats aren't out yet. I forgot about the double elimination action. They face the Beavs next.
#7570
Klaatu..Verata..Necktie?
Join Date: May 2007
Location: SF Bay Area
Posts: 19,569
Bikes: Litespeed Ultimate, Ultegra; Canyon Endurace, 105; Battaglin MAX, Chorus; Bianchi 928 Veloce; Ritchey Road Logic, Dura Ace; Cannondale R500 RX100; Schwinn Circuit, Sante; Lotus Supreme, Dura Ace
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I don't feel too bad about replacing the BB. I'm pretty sure the Wheels Mfg. one is a better product, and I am a big guy. BUT I wish I'd thought of the seatpost first.....
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"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
"Don't take life so serious-it ain't nohow permanent."
"Everybody's gotta be somewhere." - Eccles
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#7571
Super Modest
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Central Illinois
Posts: 23,906
Bikes: Trek Domane+, Trek Emonda, Giant Propel, Colnago V3, ICE VTX WC
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#7572
serious cyclist
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Austin
Posts: 21,147
Bikes: S1, R2, P2
Liked 3,685 Times
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Well, THAT'S embarrassing!!!! The creaking noise the Canyon was making was the SEATPOST, NOT the press fit BB I rather extravagantly replaced. Boy, is there egg on MY face! A little assembly paste, properly torque down the screw, and....... silence. ALL the creaking noise gone.
I also raised the saddle the 3mm I'd lowered it by, and felt a LOT more able to put down power. I rode exactly the same route as last night, but 5 minutes faster over 22.6 miles, AND I felt a whole lot stronger. Maybe it's the position, maybe it's the relief from having solved the riddle, maybe it's that it's 5 degrees cooler - the wind was pretty much the same. I don't know. I DO know that yesterday I was tired and uncomfortable in the saddle and found it hard to push hard, and today was very different.
I also raised the saddle the 3mm I'd lowered it by, and felt a LOT more able to put down power. I rode exactly the same route as last night, but 5 minutes faster over 22.6 miles, AND I felt a whole lot stronger. Maybe it's the position, maybe it's the relief from having solved the riddle, maybe it's that it's 5 degrees cooler - the wind was pretty much the same. I don't know. I DO know that yesterday I was tired and uncomfortable in the saddle and found it hard to push hard, and today was very different.
#7573
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Greenville SC
Posts: 4,290
Bikes: 1975 Motobecane Grand Jubile, 2020 Holdsworth Competition, 2022 Giant Trance 29 3
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My old hardtail MTB needed a seatpost regrease pretty regularly or it would creak, even out of the saddle.
#7574
Silver Comet Fred
Ouch giving up a 5 spot is not what the Mighty Owls wanted.
#7575
Silver Comet Fred
9 runs in the 8th. Not good. The Mighty Owls will have win this one without me. I'm going to bed.
Last edited by DougRNS; 06-03-22 at 08:56 PM.