For a whule I've kinda wanted a scooter, and recently one presented itself to me! The reason I've wanted a scooter is they're a perfect mix between BMX, which I love, but don't ride enough because when I ride it it just makes me want to ride at the dirt jumps, and skateboards, which I don't ride enough because I'm too scared to learn to drop in …
I've been riding a hell of a lot at the Rothley Bike Track this year, it's been great, and I've been getting much better at my tricks and getting so many good flow lines. On top of that, it made me better at riding too! I'm riding the most powerfully I've ever ridden, which is amazing! More time on the bike is always better.
For proof, he…
The final post of Project Postie didn't come out as I really wanted, and that's weighed on me since. I just wanted to get the thing finished, so didn't take good pictures as I did it, and I didn't take any proper pictures after. Well, I now have that same Grandad's camera (very posh one), and have r…
Wobbling wheels, I have them often. On my dirt jump/trail mix bike, on my commuter (although that one is stable), on the wheel I repaired a million times (and more after that), and finally after about a year on the new wheels I didn't mention because I wasn't posting. Now normally I'd just jump straig…
I finally test rode the GT retro XC bike and it's amazing, but the rear brake was completely locked up. The springs are gone, and so I bought a new one.
Forgot to take pictures though, so all you get is the after of a new BMX U brake installed on the bike. It's not great power, especially compared to…
TLDR: Thank Sheldon Brown for keeping the bike mechanics industry working, fake chains are all over the place, buy from supplier, reputable online dealer (NOT EBAY OR SCAMAZON), or preferably a genuine local bike shop if you have one that has stock. Get yourself a chain checking tool, and oil your chain well. Your bike will love you for it, and …
So first of all, no I've not yet finished the GT and fully tested it... The starnut is still loose, the 5th gear still skips. I'll do it at some point, honest!
But I've got a new idea, see?! And it requires changing wheel sizes (like almost all my plans seem to)
We've had this old green bike in…
This is a late night post, but I keep forgetting to write it! Not much will make sense, but when does it ever?
It was the clock changing day last week, also known as 6 months since I installed my wrap around mudguards on my CX/Road/Gravel bike. That's when I said I'd take them off. Also a great time for a full service.
So, it's been a while, I've done things I should have written about, but here goes something that's happened over the last few weeks. I upgraded my MTB to 9 speed! This was due to having a 9 speed shifter I was gonna use on the GT (post up at the same time as this one) but I wanted more gears on this bike, so I did it. There were issues, because…
Some of you may remember the Project Postie wheel donor bike... Well, it's been hanging from my garage roof for a year now and I just loved the look of the frame, and definitely had to do something with it, and FINALLY I did... Welcome to the family, the Neon Annih…
To the guy that owns this wheel, if you can't be arsed to read my ramblings my recommendations are clean your bike more, the grease was replaced with mud, and that if the wheel wobbles let me know I've probably not got the screws set quite right.
A friend of my Dads brought over his rear wheel a little while ago as it had seized up in the…
I finally got mudguards (like 4 weeks ago, I also finally made the pissing post...) Honestly I swear I've had no things to post or something IDK, let's ignore that there's no fucking algorithm here!
So the mudguards: They needed to fit within the not massive clearance of my cyclocross bike. It's got clearance for 35mm tyres with good mud …
I didn't take enough before and after photos of this project, but here's the finished project: A working bike, from something that was almost working but damaged.
I'm sorry if you don't listen to the audio on these, there's kinda no pictures of this shit...
This is how my bike looked before. I went into the orange colour as my old tyres were yellow, and that made the whole bike look a yellowy orange colour. However it was only th…
It's finally, finally, done...
This post is gonna be a mess. The stuff I did happened 2 weeks ago now, and this was meant to be a speaky one but shit gone down so I'm sat on my Grandparents sofa, writing this up, while watching stuff about some old lady who wrote Bohemian Rhapsody :P
Anyway, my wheel broke, and I knew it was dying, but I did nothing about it f…
I've never been quite sure how well the previous two owners of my Scott CX bike looked after it, but I'm 99% sure this one was my fault. From a recent post someone might have read and remember me talking about my crank coming loose? Well, that seems to have been a long term issue, as the bott…
I've had a few random mechanics things go off over the past weeks that I've not put on here, but before that if you're wondering what's going on, why this is a more bloggy post, and where project postie is, well uhh, I felt like it, and the guy who's welding my frame got ill and had to pospone giving me the bike back.
So I decided it was …
This one is mostly a ramble, but there's some mechanics in there somewhere
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I bloody hate bikes sometimes. It's often said that you experience just as many issues on Linux as on Windows or Mac, but that when you know you can't fix them you ignore them and move on, and I have the same relationship with bikes now... I want my shit to run perfect, but usually make it worse, or try a much more advanced thing instead of some…
I've never quite known how chain wear works, or how the hell people know if they've done 1500 miles or whatever (before the days of Strava and having bikes on there especially). I do want to keep my bikes in working order, so check my chains, but when they're about to wear I get paranoid that 2 pedal strokes over the magic 0.75 (I stick to this …
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Crank Swap Saga Part 2: The Swappening
Project Postie Part 1 | The Before Project
Part 1 of a journey of building bikes. Use the tags to see all posts!
A Gentle Reminder To Adjust Your Brakes
Why don't my brakes work?! Well, at least I'm going downhill, right? :P
Brifter Broke? Going Oldschool
Changing gears the old way is good!
Brake Cable Rub
Failed Crank Swap