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Bike lights
Ok what's the best out there say upto $250 to $300 want to use them for both my road bike to get to work and an occasional night ride on my mtb
Thanks
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What kind of saddle do you have?
Hi there,
I have a Serfas saddle on my bike and it really isn't comfy.
As my ride goes on, I find it I'm favouring staying out of the saddle ha ha
What's comfy out there? The king jewls needs it
Cheers robbie
Does wicking gear actually keep you cooler than cotton or is it just more marketing hype?
Expensive wicking form fitting Cycling shirt or cotton T shirt? Which is really better in warm conditions for the MTB rider? (Less wind drag is one reason for the roadies to wear them)
In the market for new shirts so I've been looking at the evidence for wicking shirts (standard cycling shirts of today) being better than cotton. I can find no research articles that indicate the modern wicking shirt is better than $10 cotton, but some that indicate there is no difference between them in thermoregulation of body heat or comfort in warm weather (over 25c).
Sticky 20mm Maxle
Got a 20mm Rockshox Maxle on a 2006 set of Pikes....and they rock.
I have now got a Maxle that doesn't want to come out of the front wheel, and is extremely frustrating!
The non lever end spacer plug is not letting go and so the Maxle is still expanded. The plug does have a small notch in it from years of usage, but up until recently I haven't had to remove the wheel as often.
The only way to get it out is :
completely remove the 'non-lever' end cap
remove the skewer
poke into hole of spacer plug in end till it pops out
then remove the Maxle
Anybody else had probs like this?
lost front axle.
Have anyone arrived home today after riding around the camel farm today to find that they can't mount there front wheel on there bike because they lost there front axle.
As I was leaving the black stump carpark today about midday I found on the edge of the road a fox front axle it look as if has been run over a few times the thread looks a little damaged but will clean up it needed.I am in Bunbury but will be in Dwellingup next weekend to ride.I can leave on the rego counter if needed. Thanks
G Tate.
New Bike? 2nd Hand Bike?
Hi
I am a beginner MTBiker.
Number plate for Bike Rack??
I've a tow-bar mounted bike rack - that when loaded obscures my number plate.
I rang Transport WA today to try to order an auxiliary plate that I could mount on the rack to be told, very abruptly, they don't do them? Seesh and here's me trying to stay legal *heaven forbid*
WTF?! Is that right? Anyone got any other experiences of that are WA-specific. If I was in NSW I could go to myplates.com.au and order a bike-rack plate by name - seems perverse that I can't here.
27.5.15 PMBC President Update.
Trailfood
who here eats what? when out riding
i eat the odd fresh and dried fruit
banannas apricots figs etc
bars, and gels, but generally after a minimum of 20 ks or so for the processed stuff.
list your favourites, recommendations , recipes for energy bars etc
Start....
tubeless seating made easy !
after feelling i lost all manhood because i can't fit tires on my own bike any more i figured it was time to go to the shed and get it all sorted. im sure most of you here run into the same frustration fitting floppy tyres, they rarly seat the first time. sure you can buy a compressor, but i couldn't justify spending money on a proper compressor, i don't like the noise and you can't really travel with one either, i don't want a 4wd compressor either mucking around with the car battery and soon all sounds to complicated, its a bicycles tire not a space craft lol.
New AM bike or complete bike build
Hi,
Just wanting to know people's opinions on buying a new AM bike compared to buying a frame and components yourself.
From experience, have people found it more or less cost effective to source all the components yourself, including forks, dropper, tubeless wheelset, XT groupset? My guess is that it would work out the same or more expensive unless you found great deals on all components.
Thanks