I found out a week ago that you can turn off the Knog Boomer by holding the button in without having to go through the four blinking options.
Manuals, pffft.
This is a rad tip. Going to try nek time i get a flat.
I’ve been teaching this to all the young’uns at work, saves us a few tubes.
Also pushing the valve past the tyre beads after mounting while still flat, I’m amazed at how many people still don’t know to do this.
after nearly a month of commuting with a knog frog strobe and cycling through options to shut down i remembered your post lyndo, was getting shitty cos half the time it would skip the off option and id have to cycle through multiple times!
From Velo Cult’s Instagram.
Amazeballs - this is something that my old flatmate would have done.
I don’t see anything wrong with that?!
the (retarding) force is not strong with this one
hey guys I figured this would be the place to ask this question so that if it’s a super stupid idea at least i put it in the right place.
I’ve found a DI2 specific frame for pretty cheap that I kind of want to make into a beater. I know that sounds bad but it’s cheap and I have a ultegra 6600 group sitting around so I might just use it for rain and beer and stuff. The problem is there are no guides for mechanical gears, my question is:
roughly how much duct tape will it take to act as cable guides (I’m assuming I will have to glue something under the BB)
OR
how bad of an idea would it be to use tub glue to attatch some cable guides.
But in all seriousness wouldn’t the brake work ‘okay’?
I spent 30mins on a bike trying to get the rear gears going well, new cable, straightened hangar, lubed shifter etc etc.
Then realised it was a 8spd shifter on a 9spd cassette - derp.
You win this thread Mike.
Yussss…
Breaking it to the customer was funny, and I didn’t get a straight answer over how it had happend either.
spent twoish months getting ready for overseas bike holiday. take extra chainrings to have a choice of gear ratios.
don’t check to see if they fit 10 speed chains.
only bring 10 speed chains with me.
(in my defence my older model of the same ring does fit 10speed rings)
Didn’t have a proper chainbreaker on hand so I installed a chain on the ol’ fixie with just an angle grinder and a pair of pliers. It went perfectly too. (had one of those quick-release links so all I really had to do was grind off the unwanted length through the middle of the pin & try and pop out the halves of the pins with pliers)
Oh my god what
Ages ago I had a customer bring in a bike with an X7 rear mech and an LX shifter wondering why they wouldn’t work… I pointing out that shimano/SRAM rear mechs/shifters are not compatible, he said “I Know” and went dead silent with the funniest look on his face.
He had read X7 upside down as LX.
This is gold
burnt my knee on some pipe on the air compressor, i didnt event know there were any hot parts on the thing.
Reached over to use the LH brifter while tuning gears, the scab on my arm caught on the stem and pulled off a nice bit of skin from a NYE stack. Blood dries faster than I can clean.