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Mountain bike thread
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Do Work Son
Go Kart Champion
They're Eastons.
Do Work Son
Go Kart Champion
How regular do you need to true them? I didn't ride at all last summer after fucking up my ankle.
DBESTGTI1
Go Kart Champion
Easton makes a wide range of wheels. You need to true them when they aren't straight anymore. If you have disc brakes it's not nearly as important to keep them straight like it is with rm brakes. What you should do often is check spoke tension. When ever I do a good drive train cleaning just grab 2 spokes at a time on the same side of the wheel and just squeeze them together. It doesn't take much, just squeeze and make sure they all feel uniform and none are loose. If you do have some loose spokes you need to at least tension them up a bit but that's a good time to retrue the wheel.
Do Work Son
Go Kart Champion
So if any feels looser than the others torque 'em down a bit? Good plan. I'm pretty excited to get riding again after a few weeks on the exercise bike.
Speaking of which...
Speaking of which...
knoxville1
Passed Driver's Ed
Frame up build, it's for sale now that it's done if many one is interested 
if you have a trainer or something to keep ur bike still at home, you can just rig a zip tie or something up close and spin the wheel. Its honestly a very simple process and well documented online. Otherwise bring it to a shop. Most of them won't charge anything to at least check.
DBESTGTI1
Go Kart Champion
I've been sidelined from training for almost 2 full weeks now while fighting this damn cold. It's still lingering but I got back on the bike today and decided to go big.
44 miles with 3,800 feet of elevation gain. 2500 feet of which were covered in about 7 miles.
Getting ready to go
Started from home
Road out to the mountains
Started climbing....
Kept climbing....
Still climbing.... it was starting to get cold
Wishing my bike had a granny gear up front at this point
Snow and frozen lakes at the top of the mountain
71 degrees out back down at 5,000 feet
Back at home relaxing in my yard
44 miles with 3,800 feet of elevation gain. 2500 feet of which were covered in about 7 miles.
Getting ready to go
Started from home
Road out to the mountains
Started climbing....
Kept climbing....
Still climbing.... it was starting to get cold
Wishing my bike had a granny gear up front at this point
Snow and frozen lakes at the top of the mountain
71 degrees out back down at 5,000 feet
Back at home relaxing in my yard
dmarsh15
Ready to race!
I've been sidelined from training for almost 2 full weeks now while fighting this damn cold. It's still lingering but I got back on the bike today and decided to go big.
44 miles with 3,800 feet of elevation gain. 2500 feet of which were covered in about 7 miles.
Getting ready to go
:yikes: :thumbdown: :yikes:
I thought this was the mountain bike thread? This belongs in a different thread for those who like to wear spandex.
Ill put everyone back on topic. Here is a picture of my car with the hitch rack and bike on it:
The studded tires work great on frozen ponds:
dmarsh15
Ready to race!
abalinka
Go Kart Champion
Pretty much every time I go.
DBESTGTI1
Go Kart Champion
:yikes: :thumbdown: :yikes:
I thought this was the mountain bike thread? This belongs in a different thread for those who like to wear spandex.
Ill put everyone back on topic. Here is a picture of my car with the hitch rack and bike on it:
The studded tires work great on frozen ponds:
I thought this was a MOUNTAIN bike thread? Where's the mountain? Save your frozen pond for a thread about fishing. (BTW this has been a general biking thread LONG before you joined this site noob)
dmarsh15
Ready to race!
LOL someones sensitive about his spandex :lol: you should have used more chamois cream for that ass chafing :lol:
Also it was a "mountain" bike that I rode on a pond so it still fits the thread.
If it was a general biking thread, then it should say so.
And who calls people "noobs" anymore...haha wow.
Chris@Revo USA
Go Kart Champion
I was testing my 88mm wheels for the tri bike out saturday. Checked the weather 10-15mph winds figured good day to get a feeler for them.... I missed the wind advisory of 25-30mph gusts!!
I have seriously never been so concerned for my safety ever and I was doing downhill in the mid 90s on a hardtail, 2" front travel and center pull rim brakes..
ETA... doing downhill in spandex