Bicycle thread

[Askel]

Originally Posted by Bimble

Seriously, I have this irrational fear of learning to dismount a bike while moving.

Dismounting is the easy part.

It's my doublenut crunch remounts I need to work on.

[Mercury264]

Alberto Contador tested positive for banned substance during Tour de France

[trailer Rails]

Originally Posted by pierce

personally, I think this is more drool-worthy...
http://www.santacruzmtb.com/blurlt/

I like this one mo better: http://www.santacruzmtb.com/tallboy_carbon/

I built on the other day in the orange color with 10 speed XT.

[Mr Head]

Originally Posted by JohnBryer

It's a 2010 leftover, but it's all mine, and it came home today!



I have Soul Wheels http://www.bikesoul.com/ on order, and should have them just in time for the snow to start falling in Utah!

Nice!

[ducnut]

Originally Posted by trailer Rails

I like this one mo better: http://www.santacruzmtb.com/tallboy_carbon/

I built on the other day in the orange color with 10 speed XT.

The Tallboy gets great reviews, but, just couldn't swing that kind of money. Furthermore, riding that is like running through the woods with the Mona Lisa.

A friend has a '10 Giant Trance Advanced SL. It's pure sex, but, it would kill me to ride something like that and scratch it.

[2whl-hoop]

Can anyone offer any advice for retaping handle bars?

I know it sounds like a simple task, but I'm likely to wind up with a baseball size wad on the end of the drop and a little curlycue strand on the rest of the bar, such is my degree of precision with these things...

If anyone has any tips i'd appreciate them.

Also, I have some kind of gel pads under the current tape @five years old, can I reuse these or should I try to get new pads?

[JohnBryer]

Originally Posted by s3hoop

Can anyone offer any advice for retaping handle bars?

Search youtube....lots of instructional video's there

[ducnut]

Originally Posted by s3hoop

Also, I have some kind of gel pads under the current tape @five years old, can I reuse these or should I try to get new pads?

Keep the gel pads. I put them on every bike I re-tape.

[zippy]

Originally Posted by Mercury264

Alberto Contador tested positive for banned substance during Tour de France

bad hamburger


sweet cannondale ! Even came in Pitts colors

[Gummee!]

Originally Posted by JohnBryer

Search youtube....lots of instructional video's there

...or Park Tools.

Always wrap bottom up and always towards the bike.

Otherwise, its practice.

M

[pierce]

Originally Posted by Gummee!

...or Park Tools.

Always wrap bottom up and always towards the bike.

Otherwise, its practice.

M

just curious, when did they switch to bottom up? the old days (mid-late 70s ?), we started on the middle top and went out and down, tucking the ends into the bar plugs... but then, the tape I most liked was a fully adhesive backed cloth tape from some french company or another, so no electrical tape was needed to secure the ends, and the stuff stayed put even if you tore it in a crash.

[melville]

Originally Posted by pierce

just curious, when did they switch to bottom up? the old days (mid-late 70s ?), we started on the middle top and went out and down, tucking the ends into the bar plugs... but then, the tape I most liked was a fully adhesive backed cloth tape from some french company or another, so no electrical tape was needed to secure the ends, and the stuff stayed put even if you tore it in a crash.

But then came all the plastic and cork tape that wasn't fully adhesive. That stuff peeled and looked like crap if taped top down.

[2whl-hoop]

Originally Posted by Gummee!

...or Park Tools.

Just what I needed! Thanks!

[Jeffy]

Tires arrived as well as tubes. Now I need to get some rim tape and maybe straighten my wheels a bit.

Also saw this website for maintenance DIY.

http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/fix/index.htm

[zippy]

my ride to work bike '94 trek 520