The 'what you've done to your bike today' thread

yeah almost definitely not tightened enough. make sure it is tight enough now, or you might damage your hub.

put my bonti tires on my new atlanta wheel set
road to the cricketers and got super Shit faced with jack, baker and lewis
can’t really remember my ride home…
:smiley:

Bought a new Gold KMC Strong Chain, cheap 3/32 chainwhip, a lockring spanner and a token 14t 1/8 cog. Nick the beast hooked me up at cycle city in Lyneham (ACT)

Put the new 1/8 chain on my bike. Then I removed the 3/32 chain from the whip and used the old 1/8 chain to make a tomity style chain whip. Works a farking treat! (tomity style whip is here for those who don’t know it http://homepage.mac.com/tomity/.Pictures/KEIRIN%20PARTS/Tomity%20chain%20whip.jpg)

Tried to remove the old Velocity lockring from my hub. One on of the many slip-offs I managed to wedge a spoke between by thumb and the nail. Bled a bit. Used a washer to pack up the space between the lockring & spanner for more leverage and finally got the sucker off.

Fitted the new 14t cog to my bike and then took 92 inches of brakeless fun for a couple laps on my street. It feels damn fast, I can’t wait to take it to the track… :slight_smile:

It was a good day.

best purchase I ever made was one of the shimano lock ring/chainwhip tools. used to have the same setup as you, but my knuckles hated me after a while. hadn’t had a slip yet with the shimano and it’s as tough as old nails. will probably outlive me.

+1

yeh, jono’s right, those things are awesome.

+2 Specifically it’s the Shimano TLSR22 “best…chainwhip…ever”

+1

tiz a fine piece of hard ware…

if you don’t own one then

'you should be with us… feeling as we do… as we love to but never will again… "

name this song and i’ll buy you a beer next time our paths cross…

jane’s addiction - three days.

FREE BEER!

thankyou google

haha fuck yea boy!!! The best song they ever wrote to
free beer for lewis…

^ best guitar solo ever recorded…

I do agree…

Got a Surly 18teeth cog to replace my 13 teeth. Picked up a new of steel deep vs the other day.

+1 on the shimano track whip,

Whenever I’m rifling through my bag and my friends see it they are like WTF is that!
I had my bag checked going into a club once and the bouncer saw it and was like ‘yeahhh nahhhhhhhh wtf dude’

I dont ride with it in my bag much anymore haha.

I got a front one of these for my silver Malvern Star today. Gonna team it it up with rear black Aerospoke. Pics up next week. i hope.

Can’t wait to get the stickers off of it though. Whats up with the new stickers??

They’re not new. Those stickers have been around for at least 5 years and probably more.

The massive ones that take up 85% of the rim? Not the little yellow ones pictured. They’re fine.

let me give you a tip, don’t use thinners/turps/etc on any leftover gum if there is any. rub it off with your fingers. i made the biggest sticky mess a while back trying to clean off the leftover gum with thinners. they weren’t velocity stickers tho, and they’d been on the rims for at least a year.

ah ok. Those ones look shit too :slight_smile: But I almost always take the decals off rims.

I got majority of them off in one go, but I used that Orange Power stuff and that got the last of it off pretty easily.