Road Cycling

Jonny ///M · 16 May 2015 at 20:08

You know you've went hard when you have to push your left ball down from near your stomach? Yes?

grudas · 16 May 2015 at 20:10

Jonny ///M said:
You know you've went hard when you have to push your left ball down from near your stomach? Yes?

yyeaaah.. that's exactly it

Jonny ///M · 16 May 2015 at 20:16

FrenchTart · 16 May 2015 at 20:26

This thread has gone to a dark place.

Jonny ///M · 16 May 2015 at 20:28

A warm dark place but

FrenchTart · 16 May 2015 at 20:31

Missed a T out there

Jonny ///M · 16 May 2015 at 20:43

I'll race you on the mountain bike and win

FrenchTart · 16 May 2015 at 20:52

Good luck with that.

Jonny ///M · 16 May 2015 at 20:57

Vonhelmet · 16 May 2015 at 21:42

Cycling. Serious business.

FrenchTart · 16 May 2015 at 22:05

Fight fight fight fight.

Jonny ///M · 16 May 2015 at 22:05

Rab steele

Roady · 17 May 2015 at 09:22

Roady said:
Got a few jobs to do today but will be hitting my bike maintenance afterwards -

sticky rear brake (hope it's just grime on the cable or in the caliper)

clicks again (sounds like rear wheel again so will tighten the spokes further than I did last time, not spending too long on it as I have replacement nippes on their way... And a new wheelset!)

changing pedals to a newer set I have (some creaks from right shoe/cleat I can't resolve, pedals have done 1500 miles/2 years so have some rust on them)

Probably digging out the old Hybrid to see what I need to do to make it saleable, I'll be happy with £100 for it so nothing too major (aiming to hide/fix/replace the rusty bits, pads and cables maybe).

Well after 3+ hours of repairs yesterday my pedals are done, headset 90% done (just refit & test) but my rear sticky brake so far has been a nightmare! The 105 5800 dual pivot caliper is easy enough to get apart but there are so many bits that it took me 2 hours to strip, clean and reassemble. Now I can't find any diagrams (at all) on what torque to reassemble the pivots at and after twice stripping, reassembling and refitting I have at least isolated which bit is 'sticking'. The price they are (£20) i'm going to order another spare set of each, I just (hopefully) need a final refit this morning to make it rideable for a few days. Rebalance and tighten rear spokes and I should be out before lunchtime!

To be honest i'm quite shocked at the real lack of information i've found about servicing/disassembling them?! Shimano have no 'exploded' diagrams to help, unless there's some kind of 'service manual' that you can buy? I can't imagine every LBS bin them and replace rather than repair?

Itchytrigg said:
Thanks Roady, shall be bringing the wheel in the house shortly so I can have youtube and the internet at hand for when (not if) I get stuck/mess it up!

How did you find things mate? To be honest i'm finding most cycling home repairs manageable now, there's a few 'dark arts' which i'm figuring out are nothing more than experience (trial and error in my case).

Vonhelmet said:
Here's a little clip of me having my legs waxed yesterday and moaning like a right girl...

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Well done man! How did you find it? And today?

xdcx said:
On Thursday I tackled the Bealach Na Ba.... both ways!

http://www.strava.com/activities/304626576

Absolutely amazing day. At the top of the Bealach it was 16 degree's, sunny and not a hint of wind. All I could hear when standing at the top was the ringing in my ears. Complete silence, bliss!

This was my first ride with power and new pedals as I have Garmin Vector now. So that was pretty cool and I am getting to grips with it all now although I prefered Shimano cleats to the Look Keo so far.

Strava is a bit weird, it classes the Tornapress>Applecross climb as CAT2 (it's the harder of the sides) but the Applecross upwards side as CAT1, the distance and avg grade are slight different but not much on paper.... I am cool with being 6th on a CAT1 climb but I think the category classification is wrong and I think the segment is screwy anyway as doesn't have many riders. But I'll take it!

As mentioned, well done and 6th on one of the few UK CAT1 climbs is a huge achievement, no matter how few have ridden it (their loss!)

Vonhelmet · 17 May 2015 at 09:31

I've just been out and cycled a windy 17 miles. I wondered whether my waxed legs would feel cold without their manly fur to keep them warm, but they didn't. The wind was ridiculous when I was going into it, but it helped on the mid section of the ride when I had it behind me. Between that and chasing down a couple of other cyclists I scored a couple of PRs on segments I've not beaten in 2 years.

@Roady - The waxing was pretty painful in places, though I was playing to the crowd a bit in that video

Round the knees was nasty. The girl doing it did say it's worse on long hair, and said I could have trimmed it down a bit, but I figured that would be cheating! It feels weird now, like I've got someone else's legs on. I'm going to need to keep an eye on my legs to avoid getting ingrown hairs now...

Vonhelmet · 17 May 2015 at 09:39

Roady said:
Well after 3+ hours of repairs yesterday my pedals are done, headset 90% done (just refit & test) but my rear sticky brake so far has been a nightmare! The 105 5800 dual pivot caliper is easy enough to get apart but there are so many bits that it took me 2 hours to strip, clean and reassemble. Now I can't find any diagrams (at all) on what torque to reassemble the pivots at and after twice stripping, reassembling and refitting I have at least isolated which bit is 'sticking'. The price they are (£20) i'm going to order another spare set of each, I just (hopefully) need a final refit this morning to make it rideable for a few days. Rebalance and tighten rear spokes and I should be out before lunchtime!

To be honest i'm quite shocked at the real lack of information i've found about servicing/disassembling them?! Shimano have no 'exploded' diagrams to help, unless there's some kind of 'service manual' that you can buy? I can't imagine every LBS bin them and replace rather than repair?

I once took a Tektro R540 brake apart. These things are all the same design. I had a similar experience to you - it kept sticking. I ended up putting oil in the pivots and just not doing it nearly as tight as I could, and it's worked fine since.

Gribs · 17 May 2015 at 09:57

Roady said:
To be honest i'm quite shocked at the real lack of information i've found about servicing/disassembling them?! Shimano have no 'exploded' diagrams to help, unless there's some kind of 'service manual' that you can buy? I can't imagine every LBS bin them and replace rather than repair?

That's exactly what they do. Just about the only thing Shimano make that's serviceable are their hubs and even then if it's anything more than just the loose balls it's cheaper to just get a new hub if you can rebuild a wheel yourself.

Vonhelmet · 17 May 2015 at 10:04

Even my Zinn book doesn't have an exploded diagram of a dual pivot caliper.

lordrobs · 17 May 2015 at 10:13

Talking of dual pivot brakes... you should be able to grab ghe whole brake caliper and twist it where it meets the frame right? I mean, it shouldn't be locked solid in one position?

Fantastic morning and zero motivation to get out. Not sure what has happened over the last couple of weeks but I've been hit with a serious case of CBA. Annoyingly my rides are limited to first thing in the morning on the weekends or the second I get home from work during the week. The two times of day that I really don't fancy riding.

Itchytrigg · 17 May 2015 at 10:16

Roady said:
How did you find things mate? To be honest i'm finding most cycling home repairs manageable now, there's a few 'dark arts' which i'm figuring out are nothing more than experience (trial and error in my case).

Quick 17mile trip with nothing falling off so I call it an all in all 100% successful 1st job. Good work on getting your's all sorted.

Now to tackle the rear derailer, middle gears on the cog have been slippling a little and now I find I have to do a small down click after going up a gear to set it right, hopefully just need to tighten up the cable and hope I don't make it worse.

Wasn't planning on going out today, but the weather looks amazing right now so will have to get out this afternoon.

Itchytrigg · 17 May 2015 at 10:31

Now I find myself looking for workstands, for giggles I checked my Wiggle discount area and I'm at £936.80 for the last year already (to be fair, £664 of that was the bike but still, not really sure what I spent the remaining £270 on!)