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lordrobs said:
So... I may have squirted degreaser/water into my hub when cleaning my bike the other week. Either that or I just didn't notice the noise when free wheeling before :o

I'm going to try my charm to get a free hub service when it goes in for its 6 week check up but when this fails am I better off handing over £20 or is it a simple job that even a numpty can't mess up?

I've had a look online and it looks a bit tricky :o
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Which wheels/hubs do you have?
 
Cut the steerer, got the brakes bled.

The ***** Hope Hed Doctor the LBS sold me doesn't fit in the carbon forks. Reading up on it it isn't really recommended for them. This wasn't Withington Cycles though they sold me the dodgy star-fangled nut headset before Bike Dr sold me the wrong headset. Utter sigh.
 
lordrobs said:
So... I may have squirted degreaser/water into my hub when cleaning my bike the other week. Either that or I just didn't notice the noise when free wheeling before :o

I'm going to try my charm to get a free hub service when it goes in for its 6 week check up but when this fails am I better off handing over £20 or is it a simple job that even a numpty can't mess up?

I've had a look online and it looks a bit tricky :o
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If you only get the noise when freewheeling then it'll be the pawls rather than the bearings.
It's really easy to strip them off and regrease them. Or just leave it, some people like a louder freewheel.
 
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If you only get the noise when freewheeling then it'll be the pawls rather than the bearings.
It's really easy to strip them off and regrease them. Or just leave it, some people like a louder freewheel.
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This isn't a clicking sound (I get that as well) instead this is a background grinding all be it very slight. I only noticed it when I spun the back wheel by hand, I'll have to see if it does it when turning the cranks.

Grudas, I think you might be on to a good solution!
 
Vonhelmet said:
Having fun? :p
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To be honest the build itself hasn't been annoying but every time I've had to go to an LBS for help they have been nothing but crap.

Ironically Edinburgh Cycles have been the best of the bunch so far.

Edit: sat on a bus in an attempt to get to the bike shop before it closes. Instead of enjoying my time off work riding in the sun. This new bike had better be worth it.
 
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Got the replacement headset part which finally fit (third time lucky).

Built the bike back up to the point it was at before I had to take it apart again so now all that needs doing is the bar tape, chain and obviously indexing everything. Oh, and peddles.

Without peddles bar tape or chain it's almost bang on 8kg. I guess once I add the bling peddles, bar tape, chain and not so bling mudguards I'll be at 9kg. Not too bad though it'd be nice if it had been closer to 8.
 
grudas said:
Unless something starts ticking, moving, making noise etc there's no reason to service your bike every 680miles? - that's just mad IMO!
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Noted :)

Guys at work said they start looking at servicing at around 6-700 mile mark :/ I'm gonna do things myself when I feel they need doing to be honest.

Roady said:
Thanks for this matey, added to my 'list of bike jobs' for the weekend! ;)

It's not hard but coming from not knowing, learning and then getting it right it depends how valuable that £50 is to you. Certainly replacing brake and gear cables along with checking and reindexing the cassette (along with cleaning it) is good for £50. It's beyond me currently.

It took me 3 hours last saturday to remove my chain, chainrings and cassette and clean it all and reassemble. Another hour and a half to clean my frame tuesday and then half an hour to check and refit my headset last night. 5 hours of work for me, probably 2-3 hours at a LBS for £50 is a pretty good rate?

I got a parktools toolkit from planetx for £20 and it had all those tools in along with many others. With cycles the 'difficult' part is making sure you have the right tools and can find instructions how to do things. The actual work is generally straight forward once you have those things. The hard part is knowing if you've done it correctly! ;)

There's no reason you shouldn't be doing it then! I'm an IT guy but always taken things apart to 'figure out how they work', I've done stuff on cars (mostly just brakes, discs and pads) and have done other mechanical stuff before (farm boy born and raised!).

Servicing your own bike is a good feeling and I can afford the time to learn to do it myself, rather than the expense to get someone else to do it! :)

Saves me even more money for cycling gear! ;)
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Not a bad tip I thought. I don't have many lol.

I'd much rather save the money and do it myself and get good at doing it myself rather than paying for someone to do the work for me and been without a bike for 4 days.. They said 4 days is their turn around time :/ which I thought was insane.

Thanks for the tip on the parktools kit I'm gonna have a look got one :)

I have a lot of tools for cars so maybe I just need to start getting tools for bikes.

topgun06 said:
If you can do all that yourself, nothing on a bike is beyond you. You just need the tools.
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I find bikes fiddly but then again so are cars, I'm sure I can do it I'm just nervous about screwing up as this is my commuter now.

Shamrock said:
Another cyclist killed in London by HGV.

http://road.cc/content/news/147888-cyclist-killed-collision-tipper-truck-london-morning
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This sucks :( a trucker got too close for comfort with me this morning, they genuinely dont understand the risks they're taking.

Retests/refresher courses need to be something all drivers do every 5-10 years as so many people are poor drivers.

grudas said:
RIP! awful! I don't feel like much if anything is being done tbh, like 90% of the deaths are at roundabouts so they should be worked on first and improved in such way that cyclists would not need to share the road with HGV's! then again, basic cycling training would help.. understanding about blind-spots is also very important!
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I agree with this. Drivers need training on cyclists and cyclists need training on motors, were vulnerable so vehicles should give way to us but in the same sense we need to be aware of what we're doing and how it affects other road users and give cars the chance to get past us when they want to.

A lot of work has to be done in all honesty for both sides of the fence.

topgun06 said:
I'm sure it would be fine. I dont think you can go too wrong with helmets. But remember Rule #35. ;)

Should be able to remove the visor though :p
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I need to replace mine and this looks very similar to the one I have just different colour coding ha. It's also got 10% off and I'm a sucker for a bargain!

Never seen that link before but I like it haha.
 
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Always tempted by the Fulcrum wheel deals when they're on for a cheap upgrade for the wheels that came with my PX.

My cassette is showing a bit of wear now as well :( but will ride it on a bit more cycling through the gears I think!
 
Ride London place thru my club sorted! Shame it's on the same day as a qualifying time trial! Oh well can do those every week. Ride London but once a year!
 
Just ordered a Chinese carbon seat post since so many of you on here have had good experiences with carbon from that part of the world. If I end up having to pull splinters out of my backside I'll not be impressed! :o
 
FishFluff said:
Just ordered a Chinese carbon seat post since so many of you on here have had good experiences with carbon from that part of the world. If I end up having to pull splinters out of my backside I'll not be impressed! :o
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I'd like to put it on record that it's too early to say if my frame/wheels/seatpost don't suck :)

So far though they have been the least annoying part of my bike build.
 
I'm getting this tomorrow, rather than paying £50 for a service I'm spending £48 (possibly £45.60) on this.

http://www.halfords.com/cycling/tools-maintenance/tools/workstand-tool-kit-bundle

Has everything I've been told I'll need and more, hopefully I'll just need odd bits after buying this and hopefully won't need anything for a while and when ever I need any work doing to the bike, I'll have the tools and your support to do it :D

Love a bargain.
 
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The main thing missing from all those type of kits is cable cutters, so you'll need to buy a pair when it comes to replacing your cable outers for the first time.
 
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