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bicievino posted:I admit I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of current lower-end gravel bikes (narrowing to that given the selection of what can clear wider tires), but I checked the bottom-rung Journeyman and it come with tubeless compatible wheels. I bought a Claris-level GT Grade a few years ago that came with tubeless rims so I think nearly any bike you buy today that can fit wider tires should be able to. To add to the incidental costs of tubeless, there are also valve stems (which cost at least as much as a tube each), tape (which is cheap if you get strapping tape or expensive if you get the branded stuff to match your rims), and an air compressor or inflator canister thing if you want to get them mounted at home. I'd say it is definitely pricier overall for me but worth it
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spf3million posted:I spent $80 a couple years ago on a pump with a large side cylinder and a switch next to the valve to release the compressed air from the cylinder into the tire all at once. Works great. I have Specialized's standalone canister and it works pretty well. I've used it to mount tires (marathon supremes first and foremost) that I was completely unable to get to seal otherwise, even after using a tube to seat the bead one side, soapy water, etc. I'll admit I've never tried more than a couple of layers of tape.
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setting up tubeless is indeed a pain in the goddamn rear end but the first time you pop your tire and it heals itself like magic you'll realize it was all worth it
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Spyre is one of those things that looks like it should be better on paper but isn’t really an improvement in performance over conventional mech disc brakes
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Aug 28, 2020 06:51
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think of the environmental toll of sram having to ship infinite replacement levers and brakes to anyone who ever bought them, forever
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that's not just sloppy, that is literally unsafe to ride
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Sep 18, 2020 17:39
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"go to your local bike shop for service" says the OEM, when your local bike shop is forty five minutes away and cannot affix a crank arm to its spindle
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The main thing you want a real bike cable cutter for is for trimming cable housing, and even then it's probably easier to get it cut straight with no burrs using a dremel or similar
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sram and shimano cranks are absolutely fine without a torque wrench. The FSA cranks with the pinch bolts are the ones you have to watch out for (and maybe they still gently caress up even with proper torque? Don't know, don't care).
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People just call all quick links "connex." Please respect the connex trademark or else, uh, nothing will happen
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 pretty sure I've heard it used interchangeably, on this forum and others
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kgibson posted:Any particular injector? Amazon has a bunch of random/generic ones that all seem comparable... I use the 4oz Orange Seal bottle that comes with a little hose. I had a Stan's syringe but the plunger dried out and cracked in under a year. You don't really need to inject the sealant through the valve with MAXIMUM FORCE - turning a bottle upside down to drain is sufficient
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DevCore posted:Is there a front rack that’s a similar design as the pass and stow rack? The specialized pizza rack is one alternative. It's finicky to set up and not really amazing, but it's closer to $100 than $280. I did ragbrai with most of my camping gear on top of it.
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Dren posted:I've been messing with my bike fit and I'd like to try a setback seatpost. I currently have an aluminum frame and seatpost, 25.4 mm diameter. If I'm not trying to get a suspension or carbon fiber seatpost for comfort is there any reason to get something more expensive than the $15-$30 ones I see on amazon? If you're going to get a cheap seatpost, get a kalloy/uno instead of whatever markov-generated chinese brand shows up first on amazon. If you spring for something like a ritchey, it'll have a better designed and easier to use saddle clamp, which will be forged as part of the post instead of swaged into the end of it, so there's no chance it'll work itself loose. I'd say the kalloy is fine, especially if you're not sure you're going to keep it
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Velo Orange sells a 25.4 seatpost for $25. It appears to be forged
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I didn't mention it but I'm pretty sure kalloy is, or is a brand/subsidiary of, the company that makes the seatposts and stems for all the bikes that come out of Taiwan. They're also an easy answer for "which threadless stem should I get?"
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yeah, a carbon seatpost will need carbon assembly paste, and also you really ought to be using a torque wrench to tighten your seatpost collar to spec
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my impression was that SON is still made in germany, which is why it is like three times as expensive as anything else, and that SP gets sold under several brand names (like Kasai) but not SONhighme posted:
beer definitely helps the wheel building process but I can't imagine xanax would
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Apr 12, 2021 19:45
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get a more ergonomic saddle and you probably won't need to gently caress around with a psnes inflator
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Apr 26, 2021 22:39
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 is the nx part plastic? surly dropout designs have always been kind of goofy
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May 11, 2021 03:58
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yeah, sounds like facing the headset and bottom bracket, except you need a different tool
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Jul 5, 2021 16:35
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mikemelbrooks posted:Cheap digital verniers are crap. I always wondered what the hell that exists for. I actually hid the 3.5mm hex wrench from my bondhus set because I kept grabbing it instead of the 4mm
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Aug 17, 2021 15:54
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are there still companies selling $40 titanium seatpost bolt kits?
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Aug 31, 2021 15:53
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someone reprogrammed your Di2 setup as a joke
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Sep 2, 2021 16:06
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iirc all sram shifters/derailleurs with the same number of gears are intercompatible
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How bad is it really to mix tubeless sealants? I bought a new bike that came pre-filled with stans and I have a couple of other bikes on orange seal. I don't want to have to buy stans but I also don't want to unmount and thoroughly clean these tires when they dry out (or throw them away).  funkymonks posted:Pedros Pig Juice Delightful product name. I'm glad to have that in my search history
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mAlfunkti0n posted:[*] Mindset headset removed (with prejudice) lmao I had to look this one up and apparently it is a race pressed into an integrated headset head tube so that they can used caged balls instead of a cartridge bearing.  I can't imagine they saved more than a couple pennies per bike at any scale so I guess it exists just to increase the total amount of misery in the universe
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do they not label those GS and SGS like the road derailleurs?
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amenenema posted:How did Thomson get such a solid reputation with such poor quality? I bought a seatpost clamp from them that was at least 3mm wider in diameter than advertised. A $5 no name one was within 0.1mm of spec. Made in USA pride (  ) going hand in hand with people refusing to believe that 3D-forged Taiwanese stems are better in every way. The seatposts are distinctive looking at least and are featured in 99.999999% of radavist photo shoots
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Does that say 2.8NM? Why is their torque spec so much lower than every other clamp I’ve encountered?
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As a guess, I'd assume welding together a whole new bike frame would be cheaper than replacing the bottom bracket cluster like that
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iospace posted:I have new tubeless tires (Gravelking SS+), but no compressor (however I can access one near my work). I'll be using orange seal. What's the instructions here, and can I do it with just the floor pump? You can try it. Seat the tire with an innertube, unseat the bead on one side and take the tube out, put the valve in, then pump as hard as you can to try to reseat the bead. Take the valve core out and put sealant in through the valve once the tire is seated successfully e: actually, taking the valve core out before you pump can get you more airflow
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VideoGameVet posted:I'd like to build a decent (mechanical) 1x12 setup on a bike with a 135mm rear spacing. My grocery/errand/around-town bike is 650b, 42t chainring, 11-42 cassette and it works really well for me. I think your proposed set up is pretty good for most usage cases, though you may want a slightly bigger chainring if you are intending to do mostly gofast tryhard roadie stuff on pavement
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I'm going to give him the bare minimum credit for at least not building a DIY fork
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lol very presumptuous of them to give themselves an XT-level part number 
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is there any reason a press-in bottom bracket couldn't be put in with a cheap homemade headset press (the largest-diameter set of threaded rod, nuts and washers you can put together at the hardware store)?
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Tigren posted:It's me, the guy who carries an extra shift cable in his saddle bag in case one breaks. And also a new chain in case one breaks. And also an extra saddle in case mine breaks. And also I carry a laptop with me so that I can hack my SRAM firmware back into working condition if it shits itself
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brake cables are thicker/stronger. all cables can snap but what people are talking about above is a design flaw in shimano 11-speed shifters which causes the barrel at the end of the cable to snap off within the shifter
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meltie posted:And in 10-speed land too. Ugh. Yeah, you’re right, it’s anything with aero (under the bar tape) cable routing
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send them back and get the right brake levers, imo
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