Lordswoodadoodah
Testing the marin with a nice dry dusty spin around lordswood. Didnt get completely lost (for once) and had a nice fast short blast. The bike is ace, especially a large application of GT85 to stop the pivots creaking - rear disc pads still rattle like a bastard though. Just flies round everything and if you do get it a bit wrong, the rear end just sucks it up and saves your arse.
Got up to 28mph in the woods themselves which is quite cool :-) On the way back got into a nice bit of rhythm: Pedal, pedal, whoosh round the corner, shimmy the bars through a gap, pedal pedal, shimmy, whoosh whhosh, duck under tree branch, shimmy through trees, pedal pedal, whoosh round a corner BANG!
Once my head had recentred itself i realised i'd forgotten to duck :-) So glad i had my lid on. Took my (brand new) Zen off to see the damage expecting it to be knackered - not even a scratch - my head echoed for a few secs though :-)
Downsides were seeing how many utter tosspots let their dogs shit in the woods, clean it up but think its ok to leave the bags lying round, oh and the usual piece of flytipping.
Got up to 28mph in the woods themselves which is quite cool :-) On the way back got into a nice bit of rhythm: Pedal, pedal, whoosh round the corner, shimmy the bars through a gap, pedal pedal, shimmy, whoosh whhosh, duck under tree branch, shimmy through trees, pedal pedal, whoosh round a corner BANG!Once my head had recentred itself i realised i'd forgotten to duck :-) So glad i had my lid on. Took my (brand new) Zen off to see the damage expecting it to be knackered - not even a scratch - my head echoed for a few secs though :-)
Downsides were seeing how many utter tosspots let their dogs shit in the woods, clean it up but think its ok to leave the bags lying round, oh and the usual piece of flytipping. I dont care though its a sunny evening :-)
to the pub!
to the pub!
posted by Tim at 7:57 PM
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Cool. Won't GT85 feck the grease in the bearings though?
Possibly yeah, but i hope not :-) - its teflon so it shouldnt do too much damage, and it shouldn't penetrate too them (again, hopefully) - i think the creaking was just dry joints - it certainly wasnt suffering from stiction, and there is no play - so i dont think its a bearing issue. I know people who always give a liberal spray over with GT85 especially if its been wet, and it doesnt seem to do much damage.
It was only a one off anyway as it was pissing me off :-)
LOL at GT85 not penetrating the bearings. It will and strips the grease out of bearings.
That's probably why they were queaking in the first place.
Take them out, clean and regrease or replace. it'll also give you a chance to make sure the queaking isn't something worse about to happen.
Ah feck, that was very STW of me wasn't it :-)
Im sure it will be fine - teach for me for being impatient anyway.
Think thats a job for the bikeshop - i really cant be arsed to spend ages with a hammer and drift and i'll inevitably break something !
You could always just pop the seal on one side of each bearing and have a look and add some grease in.
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