Originally Posted by
cooker
You might have gone a bit overboard with all those purchases, but if it gets you riding, why not?
I don't think you can use those extra spacers because your stem is clamped at the top of the steerer tube already. You will get plenty of height from the trekking bars and/or new stem.
You'll need shoes for those SPD pedal. Also practise on grass as you are likely to fall once or twice learning to ride with clipless pedals.
If your wheels are wobbling they may need the cones adjusted, not new bearing balls. A bike shop can help with that.
Personally I don't like the ride of suspension seat posts. Raise your butt a little off the saddle as you go over bumps and use your legs as shock absorbers.
Good luck!
I pulled the steerer tube off and there is a good 3/4 of an inch left in it. The clamp won't be 100% on the tube, about 2/3rds but it will be safe enough tightened up with spacers I am sure. I got the spacers because together they make 26mm which is the current spacers + about another third. Which should do me. If not I'll just use whatever I can, they come in a set so nbd. The trekking bars look ace although I read that they can be a bit flimsy feeling. Will see. Not expecting much for the price hehe.
Got SPD shoes. Fished them out of storage. Nice sexy beige ones I got on sale in the mid-late Jurassic. They still smell of stagnant pond water too.
I tried adjusting the cones fwiw. I got it nice and tight but the wobble is epic. Its moving like 4mm or more. I suspect I had been riding around on it like this for some time thinking the bearings were bust but it just needed adjusting. Unfortunately now the bearings really are bust. I'm hoping new bearings and a repack with some grease will sort it, if not it might be the cones or the hub. Bummer if its the hub but its a generic Scott ally one anyway so won't be expensive to replace if I have to I guess.
Never tried a suspension seat post. I am 100% certain it will be rubbish but I figured if it isn't unbearably bad it will help a lot. The ride on the Sub is best likened to a pneumatic drill. Its cripplingly harsh on all but pristine asphalt. I'm planning to do some bridleways and dirt track on the wider tyres which I will also run a few psi down to (hopefully) smooth things out a bit. I'm not sure how adjustable it is anyway. I only want it set real firm for the big OMG pothole moments to spare my lower back which has a couple of compressed vertebra from years of riding sports bikes on crappy provincial roads.
If its terribad I can just send it back.
