Yeah fair enough. In terms of ability I'm a qualified mechanical engineer so I'm competent enough to handle it hopefully ;). If they're weakened they're weakened, they'd end up in the bin anyway so nothing ventured nothing gained. All the more reason to source cheap off the shelf bushings...
Yeah sorry i'm in the UK found them but the P&P makes them 45pounds.
Its not too difficult you just have to buy or fashion a tool for removal and then you can use an old bush and station to make a second tool to drift them in.
Aha I love the throw away mentality of the mountain bike industry. If I rode them in 2009 without problems, may I add doing a season in the Alps where I was riding tracks like Champery on a regular basis, just because there's something better about does that really mean I need to drop a G on a...
Jesus christ what is this thread, mountainbike racers don't get paid enough for keyboard warriors to psychoanalyse them on the basis of a two minute pink bike video.
To be fair he probably is nuts... a professional mountain bikes wants to win... put him in a straight jacket :bonk:
Does anybody know the dimensions and type of bushings used in the old style 203mm travel 32mm moco boxxers. Mine need replacing but the kits are either non-existent or around £90. I was thinking about going direct as they're only a few pounds each.
Cheers
hmm its looking like try some specialized or wait for the new shimano's, mind the less ridiculous looking/reasonably priced versions are pretty weighty still.
Has anyone tried the Giro chamber in low the version? Seem difficult to get hold of but on paper they look good.
Rhyme in my opinion is too slippery for me still! as is the shimano M-089
Well I have old DX shoes which I hate but are definitely lighter than the launches so I'd have thought the AM would be even lighter no?
may be worth a shout for me as I share the same infliction - I herd 5.10 in...
I had some DX spd's a while back, hated them, I'll have a look at those though see if they've improved.
I herd 5.10 ones fall apart, but they look good, can anyone vouch for their durability?
Looking for a new pair of spd shoes, generally use them for pretty aggressive all mountain stuff or occasional DH. I prefer the skate shoe style rather than disco slippers as I use them with mallets and plus I have quite wide feet which tends to lend itself better to skate type shoes. I...
Completely depends what country you're racing in. Not sure what its like anymore but the UK series used to be so competitive that people actually used to do the european cup to get enough UCI points to race world cups. Also you've then got to assume that the US and Australian/NZ series are as...
Glad you approve now I think of it Its a bit reminiscent of Chumbawumba (for whoever remembers them) just slightly more rediculous!
None the less all of those are race proven bikes with a history of being on the circuit (appart from Guerilla gravity which I've not herd of, maybe they've not...
Not that I'm pretending to know anything about ironhorses financial situation, but is that not pretty much exactly what Sam Hill did? Just look at the size of the Sunday thread on this forum. I thought Iron horse fell to bits over DW leaving, patents running out, a complete lack of any...
Would you be buying a brand new bike 7k downhill bike by shlongadongawonga bikes who you've never seen near a world cup race let alone a podium? It wasn't a coincidence everyone had a Sunday a few years back was it? Hell lets go back 10 years and I cant imagine anyone would even entertain the...
Mavic EX721 or D521 rims for those who go back a little further. Every pair I ever owned was/still is faultless even after a season in the alps and pretty much all mountain weight, outperformed much heavier downhill rims all day.
^^^^ This! I forgot how terrible they were, seemed like every month my cranks had about half a metre of play in them and sounded like a bag of gravel in a cement mixer
Balfa BB7 has to be the worst, the rear triangle had heat shrunk/bonded in wedges which the bolts holding the whole rear end on screwed into, which of course fell out after a few months...
Then there was the first batch of Sunn Radical on which the chainstay-like section which drove the shock...
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