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  1. Mabman

    Help with sticky shifting

    Easiest way to clean and lube cables/housing is to run your shifter up into the lowest, largest cogs, and then release the tension on the cable via your shifter. This loosens the cable enough so that you can pull the cable housings out of their stops. After doing so you can wipe it all down and...
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    Found this high ridge track in our sandunes, test your balance and bottle.

    I have very similar riding just over the hill from my place in in NW OR. Dune single track can be really fun!
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    Scum filmed by onlookers as they steal E-Bike in broad daylight with angle-grinder........

    As long as we are talking about angle grinders I find that the 3M Cubitron II discs are the best out there. Got turned on to them by a friend that had his steel boat in shipyard and that is what the shipwrights used. More expensive than the rest but you get what you pay for. Oh and another...
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    When we were teenagers ...

    When I turned 16 and got my license I came home and drove off in a 63' Austin Healey Sprite, non bug eye with side curtains I had paid $400 for. My 10spd was a Raleigh that cost less than $100. My next car was a 67' MGB and bike was a Columbus tubed Campy equipé Favorit with tubulars. I had...
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    WOOD ! Which Splitting Axe do you use ?

    I guess mostly I just thought it was a strange way to word it because once wood has been "fired" it is ash no? Compressed logs have been a thing since at least 1934.......... I personally have never partaken but have burned many a cord in my life done just how you are still doing it, by hand...
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    WOOD ! Which Splitting Axe do you use ?

    Seems like this time of year when folks minds turn towards wood as a heat source, here in the US at least. someone has a better mousetrap ready to go. As seen at the local market.... If anyone can explain to me exactly what recycled firewood has to do with any type of reality I am open to...
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    Tires for frozen trails.

    Try letting some air out of your tires to enhance traction and just riding carefully. You will be snowboarding before you know it and forget all about your bike.......
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    Going to California help needed

    Bike Parks as they are known in the UK are not a thing here in the US. Outside of some ski area's that have them for summer use that is. Your best bet would be to target bike shops in the area(s) you hope to visit for info on rentals and trail access. CA is not the wild west for eBiking as there...
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    Hornets

    Common here also and easily removable with a spray bomb. There was one by the garden this spring that I hit with the hose and it kept being rebuilt until I nuked it with some good old chemicals. Our chimney's don't have breasts though, must be they are all male?
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    E-bike speed restrictions (agree or disagree )

    This came up in my feed today and I thought it made some good points in how stretching the speed limit can have effect on the movement as a whole...
  11. Mabman

    Boeshield t9 wax experience?

    It is that thin and why I prefer the aerosol can because it has some blast to it that helps to bed it deep into the chain and easy for other applications also. In the bottle form you kind of need to apply link by link which takes too much time IMNSHO. But it is still the same formula and will...
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    Boeshield t9 wax experience?

    I live in a wet climate, west coast of northern Oregon, USA, so it does just fine. I also live right on the coast so I ride sandy beaches. I apply about every 50 miles traveled I would say but don't keep a log I just visually check the chain pre-ride and apply before it needs it. Only takes a...
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    Boeshield t9 wax experience?

    It is all I have used for over 20yrs after getting turned on to it by a pro bike mechanic for maintaining chains and cables on many bikes. I get the 12oz. aerosol can and it lasts me over a year keeping at least 3 bikes going. I use the needle nozzle to spray on and back wipe with a rag and...
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    Tongsheng TSDZ2 Torque sensing Mid Mount conversion

    "Will you move onto a purpose built EBike, almost certainly, as my group has done. When that old faithful really has worn itself out, we’ve replaced them with a new proper all singing and dancing model." Pretty much where I am at, especially after riding my mates new Trance a few months ago. I...
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    Tongsheng TSDZ2 Torque sensing Mid Mount conversion

    I'm glad that others have found solutions they are happy with for their TSDZ2 use. However, especially in regards to chainline there is no way that I can see to get a proper chainline, due to the gear reduction housing, without having a ring that will straddle it moving the chain inwards and the...
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    Tongsheng TSDZ2 Torque sensing Mid Mount conversion

    My first TSDZ2 Christmas of '17 I did manage to munch the plastic gear right away and went to the brass gear. Also put a 52v controller/battery on right away. Lunched the bb bearing, at around 1500. Never had any overheating problems, even getting way up there. Instead of fixing that...
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    Increasing prices for Bycicles in general

    To be fair to the eBike industry as a whole there are lots of models in the $1500-$2000 price range that have many happy owners, at least here in the states. Unfortunately they are not suitable for use as mtb's and more oriented towards street use. But also to be fair there is a much larger...
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    What are manufacturers doing to support EMTB? (USA)

    Seeing that you live in SoCal it doesn't surprise me as there is lots of competition for trail access down there. The whole Class law thing that the BPSA/PFB is in full on lobby mode around the US originated in CA. so at some point it will straighten out in eBikes favor perhaps but getting the...
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    Levo Gen 3 Rockin' the Mullet? Read This.

    I am not all that down with the whole "Geo Fencing" idea personally. Although anyone with a smart phone already, including me, is hooked up I would imagine.... Been riding Mullet for 4 years and it works for my needs, mainly to allow me to use a slightly wider tire on the rear, plus it looks cool.
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