AntonioGG

at 195-210lbs I ran 90-95 front and 105-110 rear on 25c. I ride 28's now...as low as 70psi front and 85psi rear. Sooo nice! Yes, I got complacent at some point until I blew a tube on Great Hills at 360 in the first 5 miles of a ride to Bastrop. Since then I don't skip that step.

I put tube in with some air in it (just enough to have it not twisted but not at any pressure), then inflate to 30psi or something low like that, then I go all the way around pulling the bead away from the rim to make sure there's no tube poking out from under it. Then I go full pressure. Full pressure for me now is whatever it needs to get a 15% sidewall compression with rider and full kit. It's lower than traditional max pressures. Not blowouts, but I've also had cheap tubes leak from where the valve is bonded to the rubber. One time I went through 2-3 tubes before I realized the new wheel did not come with tape installed.

What brand of tube? I had 2-3 Forte tubes split down a seam before. Things that have caused a blow out for me: pinched tube twisted tube defective tube On another person, I saw a blowout when they hadn't realize the tire had a good size slit, and the tube poked out of that slit.

Just yesterday I took a tire off and noticed the hole in the rubber part of the valve was pretty closed off. Normally I blow air perpendicular to the opening to clean up any sealant before I put the core back on. I also run a pipe cleaner through it whenever I re-fill the Stan's.

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Walgreens has pill baggies for travel. They're a little thicker than normal zip locs.

I just used a cable cutter. It wasn't harder to cut than regular brake/shifter lines.

Hope brakes are just as easy. Just make sure you put new washers on the banjo bolts. Hope has a YouTube video on it.

I had that problem with my xtrs until I increased travel to max then bled them. Bleeding them without extending the lever travel resulted in the wandering bite point and pumping up on the rear break. Still not as solid as my Hopes though.

Thanks for the report. I want to do this next year as well. I just looked over the strava for a couple of people I follow, 12k feet in 91 miles of riding (shortened due to snow at altitude.) that’s pretty epic.

I'd love to do a ride like this. I'd probably stop more often to try all the different wines along the way though.

0.062" as thin as aluminum foil? How thick do you think aluminum bike frames are? The bad JB Welds are from not mixing equal parts, same problem with any epoxy (which JB weld is). Yeah, a regular epoxy will work just as well. Remember the old aluminum lugged carbon frames? Aerospace and motorsports bonded aluminum frames to aluminum and composites.

I'd rather ride a JB welded frame than a Chinese carbon frame.

I would have thought they'd use the new composite waterproof cast type instead. But seriously, At 10 years old for the frame, I'd wet sand it to get the chips out, then stop drill it, then get a piece of 0.062" aluminum, bend to match profile, then JB Weld it as you wrap the whole thing in duct tape until it cures.

Wonder if an aluminum sleeve bonded with JB Weld would be a cheap fix?

Wow!

Sometimes they just end up disabled and their loved ones have to put their lives on hold to care for them though.

I was responding to @Hugh's plural use of entry points.

I'm really surprised Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't behind that.

That's not too far from what one shop owner/rider mentioned to me in frustration with the manufacturer maintenance intervals. FWIW, I should have mentioned I put 10k+ miles on my Talas before I had to replace the CSU. I never used the full bottle of shock oil I bought. I doubt I serviced it 10 times. If I'd wiped things down I might have never had to have the CSU replaced. That's why I think just changing the lowers oil every 200-250 miles or so and rinsing the foam rings is fine.

There's only one entry point between the BCRT bridge and the splash pad and there's a direction sign there.

I figured Awesome Lawson at 150lbs averaged 590W for those 3 minutes.

Pedals are for wussies! http://www.photo-museum.org/velocipede-invention-niepce/

I went through 40 pages before I figured I could click "people I'm following" LOL! The fastest person I follow is Adam Leedy with a 5:20 I think for me to get to the 5's I would need to get back to my 2011 numbers (weight and power).