What did you do to your EBike this week?

[steve_sordy]

@Semmelrocc With a bang to the mech like that you may get some shifting problems that prove hard to track down. Your usual Black Magic does not work. You have bent the mech or the mech hanger in a minor way. Minor maybe, but sufficient to cause problems. Use a mech hanger alignment gauge and tool. Either borrow one for free, buy one for £18-£80 depending upon brand, or pay £15 at the LBS every time it happens.

mech hanger alignment tool - Google Search

 

[Semmelrocc]

No shifting problems whatsoever. I must have been extremely lucky or SRAM derailleurs are more robust than expected.

 

[JStrube]

Added some personal finish to my derailleur last week after slipping on a wet wooden bridge and doing an almost complete u-turn. I don't know how, but the mech survived despite sliding over rocks at ~10-15 mph. Just scratches and bruises (just like the scratches and phone imprint on my upper leg – I spare you of a pic ...)
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This can be so dangerous. Once, I had a crash many years ago on a surface like this. Suffered a sprained ankle. yikes.

 

[Binhill1]

No shifting problems whatsoever. I must have been extremely lucky or SRAM derailleurs are more robust than expected.

I busted one

No shifting problems whatsoever. I must have been extremely lucky or SRAM derailleurs are more robust than expected.

I truly busted a Sram one in April. Got a well used one from the mechanic at the Glencoe ski place of his own bike for £20 still going strong. I have three broken ones in the shed all busted by twigs I picked up in past 2 years.

 

[steve_sordy]

I still have a badly bent Shimano mech that I have straightened the best I can. When compared with the new one it looks spot-on (but I know it won't be perfect). I was in a rush so I didn't have time to fit the old one and then check it with the alignment gauge, so it's still in a box waiting for the next time I snap the mech. I'm about due a snapped mech.

 

[Binhill1]

I still have a badly bent Shimano mech that I have straightened the best I can. When compared with the new one it looks spot-on (but I know it won't be perfect). I was in a rush so I didn't have time to fit the old one and then check it with the alignment gauge, so it's still in a box waiting for the next time I snap the mech. I'm about due a snapped mech.

Think I broke 2 on ordinary bikes between 1986 and 2019 , then 3 in last 3 years , and we complain about chain wear etc.

 

[steve_sordy]

Think I broke 2 on ordinary bikes between 1986 and 2019 , then 3 in last 3 years , and we complain about chain wear etc.

Impressive!

 

[Tyjay]

Fitted new rockshox damper to the Zeb
Plus lower leg service whilst in there haha

 

[Winford]

Added Di2 to my Canyon Spectral CF8 ON. did require having the shimano computer and etube pro using minimax to get error codes off. You have to switch the motor to electronic shifting as it is programmed from the factory as mechanical. If you dont do this, you get a error code that locks you out.

 

[DieBoy]

Finally put the new fork, a Recon Silver RL, on.

First time changing a fork, and something I'm loathe to do again in a hurry. Definitely the limit of my mechanical (non) ability, hoping I've done everything right.

Too dark now for pics sorry.

Looking forward to trying it out.

 

[irie]

This afternoon cleaned Mrs irie's bike after her Sunday Laydees ride. West Sussex dried mud is like concrete, took me 20 minutes.

 

[Binhill1]

This afternoon cleaned Mrs irie's bike after her Sunday Laydees ride. West Sussex dried mud is like concrete, took me 20 minutes.

Your in the books now ,or are you after something

 

[B1rdie]

Added Di2 to my Canyon Spectral CF8 ON. did require having the shimano computer and etube pro using minimax to get error codes off. You have to switch the motor to electronic shifting as it is programmed from the factory as mechanical. If you dont do this, you get a error code that locks you out.

I have done it on my 2018 spectralon and it works very well, now I am trying to do the same on the cube, which is bosch powered, but that is way more complicated, there is a "y" cable that was supposed to supply the di2 with energy from the bosch battery but I could not find out how it works, despite the "compatibility chart" from shimano say its possible. So, now I have ordered a di2 dedicated battery and will try again when it arrives.

 

[DieBoy]

Finally got around to fitting the dropper post, a RFR PRO Inside.

Ordered the dropper post together with the bike well over a year ago, which in hindsight was a bit impatient as it was too long. Not a big deal to exchange it (same model, less travel) but by the time it arrived I'd built everything else on and was riding and I've kept putting it off due to dread of the internal cable routing (getting the light cables in properly was a huge pain at the time).

As I put a new fork in yesterday took the opportunity to get the cable in through the headset and in to the downtube so it went easy after that - though I doubt I'd be arsed to remove the headset just to get the cable in.

Nothing much to look at, but yeah, finally have a dropper

 

[Binhill1]

Funny how I sometimes say when out with other cyclists, how did we ever manage without a dropper. I do remember stopping and taking a spanner out to lower the seat

 

[RustyIron]

Funny how I sometimes say when out with other cyclists, how did we ever manage without a dropper.

Yeah, the old days were pretty awful. There's no way I could ride today's trails on those old jalopies with their fixed seatposts. A while back I broke something on my dropper--I can't remember what it was. But the remainder of the ride was terrifying. I felt as if I was on a penny-farthing.

 

[Winford]

I have done it on my 2018 spectralon and it works very well, now I am trying to do the same on the cube, which is bosch powered, but that is way more complicated, there is a "y" cable that was supposed to supply the di2 with energy from the bosch battery but I could not find out how it works, despite the "compatibility chart" from shimano say its possible. So, now I have ordered a di2 dedicated battery and will try again when it arrives.

I would return the derailleur, the m8150 12s I have only works with the ep801 or one other steps shimano motor.

 

[Binhill1]

Yeah, the old days were pretty awful. There's no way I could ride today's trails on those old jalopies with their fixed seatposts. A while back I broke something on my dropper--I can't remember what it was. But the remainder of the ride was terrifying. I felt as if I was on a penny-farthing.

I remember still using canti brakes and mates had v brakes ,oh how do you manage . I broke my dropper about a month ago about to start a long ride with mega climbing. It wouldn't stay up put gaffa tape on no joy. After half an hour I twigged ive been here before, disconnect the cable and it stays up duh.

 

[DieBoy]

Yeah, the old days were pretty awful. There's no way I could ride today's trails on those old jalopies with their fixed seatposts. A while back I broke something on my dropper--I can't remember what it was. But the remainder of the ride was terrifying. I felt as if I was on a penny-farthing.

Also in the old days rigid forks were standard - suspension forks were for the pros or those blessed with very well-to-do parents.

 

[E-MAD MALC]

Finally got around to fitting the dropper post, a RFR PRO Inside.

Ordered the dropper post together with the bike well over a year ago, which in hindsight was a bit impatient as it was too long. Not a big deal to exchange it (same model, less travel) but by the time it arrived I'd built everything else on and was riding and I've kept putting it off due to dread of the internal cable routing (getting the light cables in properly was a huge pain at the time).

As I put a new fork in yesterday took the opportunity to get the cable in through the headset and in to the downtube so it went easy after that - though I doubt I'd be arsed to remove the headset just to get the cable in.oʻ

Nothing much to look at, but yeah, finally have a dropper

Also in the old days rigid forks were standard - suspension forks were for the pros or those blessed with very well-to-do parents.

I had a well to do paper round to supports my upgrades like forks
Those were the days

 

[DieBoy]

I had a well to do paper round to supports my upgrades like forks
Those were the days

For the nostalgia.
Rigid fork, v-brakes (?), 3x8, no dropper.

 

[Binhill1]

My Alves hardtail has a 50 mm RST elastomer shock

 

[DieBoy]

My Alves hardtail has a 50 mm RST elastomer shock

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Fancy!

If you put drop-handlebars on it you could pass it off as the latest fashionable gravel bike.

 

[Binhill1]

Like my Cairn

 

[timo2824]

Cleaned and greased my hub bearings, straightened both rotors, cleaned my cassette, cleaned and lubed my chain. Was going to go through my spokes but decided to ride instead!

 

[B1rdie]

I would return the derailleur, the m8150 12s I have only works with the ep801 or one other steps shimano motor.

No way would I return, its a DH path … ride through or stumble through it . Its actually an 11 speed that I’m going to install because its cheap, light and shifts faster and precisely like a cable actuated will never do.

 

[Bones]

Ok, not this week but recently and already posted in the wrong thread on here
I got a new frame to replace my old cracked one and did the swop over myself as the bike shop were too busy.

 

[VWsurfbum]

Nice colour

 

[Binhill1]

Ok, not this week but recently and already posted in the wrong thread on here
I got a new frame to replace my old cracked one and did the swop over myself as the bike shop were too busy.
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Must make a big difference that cover ,that's where most of the crap goes.

 

[Bones]

Nice colour

Thanks.
Mustache use the same frame for all there game and trail bikes.
It's only the rear shock linkage that's different to give more travel to the game version.
So the only frame they had that was quickly available was a trail coloured one.
And like you say, it's a nice colour