Stanchions, not much in it, but the arch and lowers are much more sleek on the mezzer. For some reason I was thinking a normal trance and not a trance e. The ebike you'd get away with the big forks fine. On a normal trance though...
On my giant trance I couldn't find the source of a weird creaking/groaning sound only under pedalling. Spent heaps of time and some money trying to sort it out. It would go away when the bike was washed and come back again when fully dried out. Only really happens in summer. Drove me nuts.
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No problems! With the dry ice you're best to work quickly once you've got the dry ice applied. It will start cooling the bearing as well if you take too long.
M20 with full kashima? Nice!
I'd probably put a dab of low or medium strength loctite on the rear axle. Seems very usual though. Any damage to any of the threads?
Ah I forgot Forrestal were doing a 60nm motor, but $22K aud, no thanks. KenevoSL was only 35nm last time I looked.
I really feel like >50nm is where they need to be.
I'm going to go one step further than Rod and say to tip your bike on its side so the pivot bearing is level and spray lots of penetrating fluid so it pools at the interface of the axle and the bearing. Let it sit for half a day and then flip it over and do the other side. Letting the fluid...
I'd say a few tools will go a long way. Some screwdrivers, a chain whip (although you can get away with an old rag), a cassette tool and one of these kits will get about 60% of simple maintenance jobs done...
Strangely enough, Wil over at Flow mtb does a range test on the same tracks for each Eeb he reviews. It is a metric, so I look at it in thinking about my understanding of each bike. It won't be perfect, the weather is different and all that, but it is something to go off.
What Rob has given me...