Had another crack at the Epic ride of a couple of climbs and had to call it short and U turn for home. Best part of 3 hours and looks like the loop is going to be a 4+ hour ride, not the 3 and a bit I had first thought... Something to build up to!
My pump tube is different, no movement in it it just all screws. Also think this is the first innertube I've really had a valve core out of, I don't recall the cheap tubes I've used previously ever doing it!
Ok after some googling... Continental presta tubes are renown for having loose valve cores and coming unscrewed easily. Lezyne hand pumps also well known for unscrewing valve cores with the way they mount. So I used the worst combination possible! Will be tightening my remaining conti tubes valve cores now I know... When I get my replacement vavle core tool. Could've sworn I had 3 of them before. The little ones are obviously a bit too easy for me to misplace! Ordered a bigger one. Once it arrives can be sure some of the little ones surface anyway!
Now the prospect of riding a suspect wheel, tubed and having no portable pump has me horrified. Must have an old one somewhere...!
Replacement hose for my Lezyne pressure drive co2 is more than buying a replacement £20 pump so as I've got another co2 inflator I'm just going to buy a cheepy pump. Anyone got any recomendations? Quite liking the look of the cheapy Lifeline or Topeaks at the moment.
I found my old crank brothers gem so carrying a pump but it's such a short stroke and no way to frame mount it with the adaptor I have.
I'm using
Genuine-Innovations-Tubeless-Tyre-Repair-Kit, cheap but they worked really well for my side wall and rim punctures
Thanks for the link. That's the cheepy one I'd been looking at on the bay for similar money anyway. Couple of discount codes, cashback, free delivery and got one ordered with some other bits I needed.
Got it now so put it in a box for future use. I can do my MTB which I know will be bent as I’ve crashed that quite a lot & my dads Giant as I had a lie down on that too...
I can see pattern emerging
Everyone needs a new bike man, gravel bike it up. Get yourself a 3T enduro.
So many people here seem to be going 3T recently, the aero one. I just can't love the look of it, it's fast but a bit of an ugly duckling in my book. Also seems really over priced for what it is without much pedigree... Yet.
The C2W voucher, could you buy one of the £1300 park tool sets that come with everything you ever need & then get a winter bike with the remainder?
Good shout but I'd point towards the lower end of the scale like the Halfords Professional toolset. Think mine was £180 or something and has so much in it, supreme quality (I was dubious being Halfords branded) with lifetime warranty. Mine is the earlier version of this one and was probably in a sale to get the price below 200 -https://
www.halfords.com/tools/hand-tools/socket-sets/halfords-advanced-200-pc-socket-and-ratchet-spanner-set-735757.html
Last day of warm weather tomorrow then back to leg warmers it looks like!
Haha your choice of handlebars sounds as bad as me finding a saddle!
Yeah cool day tomorrow so I'm planning to Zwift but looks good again next week, maybe not 20 degrees but not wet.
I got a bargain last night a set of DI2 785 shifters for £120 in immaculate condition. I have di2 FD (8070) and think I have the right length di2 cables so just need to get the rest of the kit. Will use existing calipers so think I just need RD, battery and junction boxes. Etube is for connection to PC right? Is the di2 bar end thingy worth it on non integrated bars? Could obviously change bars to integrate cables but without a frame capable of internal through the headset maybe it's too much of a faff. Unless someone is aware of an integrated combo which retro-fits? Now that would be something which sells well!