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    Servicing Shocks

    in Mountain Biking Discussion

    Posted

     Wipe your seals and stanchions clean and lube the seals with a little fork oil of any kind and a qtip. Not a substitute for an ohaul if that's what they actually need but doing this every couple rides will keep your shocks clean, lubed, happy and feeling like they should.

    Don't follow too close.

    in General Chat

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    Got this 81 CB650 a few years ago, unhipstered it and fixed a bodged head gasket job from the previous owner. It took about 150 miles of putting around town for me to figure out I didn't need to be riding a motorcycle around Austin. I enjoyed working on it a lot more than riding it.

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    Injury Reports

    in Mountain Biking Discussion

    Posted · Edited by JRA

    14 hours ago, AntonioGG said:

    My insurance doesn't require a referral so I go straight to Austin Sports Medicine.  I start with the soft-tissue expert Dr. Fernandez and he then refers me to the other in-house specialists if needed.  I'm kind of a regular there.  If you require a referral then start there.  Maybe you can call it in and they'll just refer you straight-up.

    I didn't tear my hamstring but rather my proximal bicep tendon.  It wasn't at the bone, the ends were too frayed too re-attach, so I now have a unicep.  Every once in a while if I'm a bit low on electrolytes and I use my arms a lot, I may get a bit of cramping which I can't stretch out.  They did go in to try to re-join the tendons but after cleaning up the frayed ends, there wasn't enough length.  They just did some other clean-up (accromyon shaving and clean-up of cartilage in the socket). 

    Is your hamstring balled-up?  If you completely tore the tendon, you'll noticeably see it balled up.  For me, when it happened, I had zero doubt about what just happened.  I hear an internal pop, see a flash of light, then noticed the balled up muscle.

    Dr. Windler did reconstructive acl surgery on my left knee in '98. I need to go see him for a freshup. I've been having to ice my knee after rides(which haven't been many lately) and even after standing for long periods of time I'm starting to see swelling and tightness without any apparent reason.

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    I want a hard tail

    in Mountain Biking Discussion

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    44 minutes ago, mack_turtle said:

    Seriously, I love wrapping bars. It's therapeutic to get the spacing just right, wrapped the right direction, tucked in the ends, neatly taped at the center.

    Also, when the 2 trimmed pieces are within an inch of each other, on every wrap.

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