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Update: Almost 13 weeks and it's still not healed. The xray from 5 weeks looks the same as the xray from 12 weeks. It's significantly displaced and overlaps about 4cm. Here's the weirdest part of it though. I feel great. I have been riding off road doing blue trails nice and slowly without...

Commencal Meta Power Shimano e8000 motor A while back I clipped my left pedal on a rock and went over the bars. I clipped the rock so hard that the left crank was bent/twisted. The axle appears to be straight after I put some new cranks on. In the first 10 kms back riding a clicking sound came...

Pantone 427 C is the colour

Broke clavicle and it refuses to heal. So I need to sell my meta power 29 essential fox. But i need to touch up the paint work but I don’t know what the colour is. Any help much appreciated

Lots of burs on cassette, I usually file them off on my commuter ebike and skipping stops. But it's an 8 speed and 1000 watt beast with ridiculous amounts of torque. New chain and cassette every couple of months, hence the cheap 8 speed.

2019 meta power 29. I've done about 1500 kms so far. I have been rotating three chains every 300 kms or so. Barely any chain stretch. No burs on cassette so all good so far

A Agreed my pedals are a large platform spd. But it was still all down to rider error. I should have seen that I shouldn’t have been pedalling. But I was fatigued and trying to gain some speed instead of scanning the trail properly.

I’m guessing you mean -40mm on a 150mm 29er? I quickly looked at the V10 specs and it has -2mm bb drop.

Well there you go. I am truly confused. But I’m used to that :)

Okay, yeah right @Gary I have a 29er with 150mm travel and the specs say it’s bb is -15mm. So sitting on the bike it might be -20mm or more with sag. Is that a low bb do you reckon?

What is the definition of a genuinely low bb? I just thought it was having the bb lower than the line between the axle height if you draw a line between the front and rear axle. I don’t claim to know jack about jack though.

Counting the days for sure. Can’t complain much though. I’ve had almost zero pain either at the time or after. Mainly discomfort. I can move my arm all over the place without a problem except I can’t lift my arm directly out in front. Yet. Here’s where the pedal struck hard.

Could have been way worse eh. Landed on side of face and flat across collarbone.

PS: I also cannot recall a pedal strike ever while descending. Always on tech climbs, which can be just as dangerous despite never having crashed that way before.

@Gary Yup, struck a rock somewhere around 7 o’clock in the motion of pedalling. And i was fatigued after doing about 25kms. I’ve trained myself over the years to look ahead down the trail but i maybe need to train myself to see what’s right in front :)

They do stop the crank coming off but it would be a last resort after the bolts loosened and the lock nut somehow fell out. So probably not needed but I’m ocd :)

wow, i've never noticed the pedals being wider apart

I bought some of these cranks but they don't have any of those lock tabs included. Is that normal? I ended up using the ones that came with the bike but they don't fit properly between the two allen bolts. So I had to file them down for the holes to line up with the bolts.

Good point about the pedals' platform size. I haven't really liked them from the get go so I might switch to flats but it'll take a while to get used to them. Haven't ridden flats in 30 years. I only scorpioned because I was clipped in and I wonder about the added force of a 20kg bike landing on me.

So I clipped a pedal and went otb in a full SCORPION. It bent my crank but I've been wanting some 155mm cranks anyway so I guess it's an opportunity :) I wasn't going too fast or being a dickhead, it was just one of those things.