This from the guy in Australia!

The temp doesn't bother me, it's the ice. We had a pretty good storm this week: 4-6" of snow followed by freezing rain and then a little more snow that night. Yesterday was warm so there was a decent melt. Today is cold, so now all the snow is covered by a nice thick layer of ice and the snow underneath is too deep to ride through. Sucks because there's not a cloud in the sky. If I tried going out today I'd break through the ice and not be able to move. I'm done with winter.

Haha fair call. Im only sweating lightly at the moment - its getting cold over here!!

Im pretty good with cold weather, ive ridden in it enough. Got caught out in the rain once to find my favourite trail becomes super tacky in the wet, making for surprisingly faster, or they felt faster, runs.

Mid summer at present. Woohoo.

We've been haviong some decent weather here so winter has been OK for the last week or so.

So since this is the general thread.....

I was watching an auction last night for a gravity dropper. Well actually I was out so I wasn't watching, but I put in a bid of 190 and I lost. Oh well.

Did a little searching today and came across this:



Sette from pricepoint. Damn inexpensive too. I couldn't find any reviews on it, so I'm thinking it's new this year? Anyway, think I'll pick it up.

Thats cool. I wonder how hard it would be to hit that lever by mistake?

It's supposed to be under the nose of the saddle, so I would think it would be pretty tough to do unless you mean to.

I did read a little on some website saying if your saddle has a plastic or cloth cover around the rails, the lever might not have enough room to travel the distance it needs to engage the mechanism.

You guys have your general MTB Thread.

yay!

At that price point, it's definately worth looking into!

RIding on the road sucks..
I hate road riding. Just because the idiot drivers who tried to run us off the road.

I did it ALLL day today because my riding partner wanted to

Who here takes apart and re-lubes all the pivots on their full-suspension bike? Is it something you feel you should do on a yearly basis? I know it is dependent on conditions and actual use, but I'm curious to know. What about the BB?

I do, just to inspect everything. I found a bad bearing this year, and every year I get a little slop in the bushings.

I check pivot bolts for tightness periodically and look/feel for slop in the bearings. But the FS bikes I've had use sealed bearings so there's no lubing.

I got a shock one time checking over my AS-X - - 3 of the 4 dogbone bearings were shot: seals torn, bearings fried. Turns out they were lower-grade standard industrial cartridge bearings. Bought better 'blue-seal' ones at the bearing house to replace.

Not gonna happen. I just burn them out and have the shop replace them when the time comes.

I can hardly find time to oil the chain.

However when the BB was seized to the point that I was not strong enough to turn it with my feet, I replaced that myself. I had to go to work, and driving sux.

Thanks guys. I was feeling guilty not attending to my bike. I may take the BB apart and relube it but I'll just lube the pivots through the zerk-fittings.

I like zerks.

Thanks. Towards the end of last season I was getting some creaking. I know it could be a multitude of things but thought that maybe I'd have to start with pivots. I will now set that aside and start with the BB. After I'm doing playing in the snow, though.

Just grease your nipples and ride!

Woooooooohooooo!!!!!

toaster oven banned already? That's a shame.

toaster oven?

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I prefer to WD40 my nipples.

They'll never hurt from arthritis that way.

OMG!I was just outside and someone took a bite out of the moon........