What did you do to your EBike this week?

[Amber Valley Guy]

What??? Linkglide is normal drivetrain, wheel changes are same as any other Shimano systems, just remember to release the cage lever and pull the cage away when you instal the wheel. I have 10 and 11 speed Linkglides in family. Sram is more clever because you can lock the cage, I have also GX on my Bullit.

After looking at it, it's the wheel speed sensor pick up that's causing the problem compounded by the LG mech having less rear and up movement than the previous SRAM mech. I've posted pictures in the Linkglide thread.

Anyone managed to move the wheel speed sensor to another position from the inside of the chain stay, to say the disk?

 

[RustyMTB]

Sorted the weirdest mechanical I've ever had. Out on a night ride last week, I ran over a fallen branch bits of which wrapped itself in the cassette. After I cleared it out, the bike was skipping in eighth gear. I couldn't see any damage to the chain or the cassette in the stand but turns out a bit of twig had got under the chain which forced it in between the sprockets.

This caused the chain to sit high on the sprocket & skip. It was wedged in so hard, it took me fifteen minutes to get it all out with a pick!

 

[Binhill1]

Sorted the weirdest mechanical I've ever had. Out on a night ride last week, I ran over a fallen branch bits of which wrapped itself in the cassette. After I cleared it out, the bike was skipping in eighth gear. I couldn't see any damage to the chain or the cassette in the stand but turns out a bit of twig had got under the chain which forced it in between the sprockets.

This caused the chain to sit high on the sprocket & skip. It was wedged in so hard, it took me fifteen minutes to get it all out with a pick!

I get that a lot never that bad though . Broken 3 derailleurs as well picking up twigs.

 

[alleeex]

Added a sticker to reflect my habit of massively over jumping everything to flat

 

[irie]

Yeah, when small mostly dry twigs get trapped in the cassette they break up and get wedged in. When changed tyres couple of months ago couldn't believe how much organic debris had got wedged between the sprockets. Had to take the cassette to pieces to get all the shit out.

 

[Stihldog]

The ole twig-in-the-transmission event . I think there’s a science to avoid that. Broke 2 NX derailers after riding over and pushing the small branch through. Cadence rpm changes instantly, then there’s a long walk home.

Properly riding over a twig is exhausting, but if you roll over it just right …well, that’s were the science comes in.

 

[RustyMTB]

Alan Millyard solved all this twig nonsense years ago.

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[Binhill1]

Alan Millyard solved all this twig nonsense years ago.

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Quite interesting that I wonder how heavy it was

 

[Stihldog]

Alan Millyard solved all this twig nonsense years ago.

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Looks north of 60lbs. Interesting ideas though.

 

[RustyMTB]

It was built specifically to race DH. Things change but the heavier the better is a longstanding philosophy in racing.

 

[Stihldog]

True…but not too heavy.

It was built specifically to race DH. Things change but the heavier the better is a longstanding philosophy in racing.

and that’s where R&D comes in…$$$$$

 

[RustyMTB]

It was probably solving a problem that didn't really need fixing. The principle innovation, enclosing a drive train so it's protected from external contamination suits trail bikes much better than DH rigs, it being the main benefit of gearbox bikes. I imagine this is why no one else picked it up as a thing to develop. Obvs, DH guys do lose chains & break mechs but in gravity racing, it's still possible to win in those circumstances eg. Aaron Gwin, famously & the fact that Saint hasn't been revised in years indicates teams are happy with what they have. Pretty sure the famous Honda DH bike amounted to the same thing too.

Either that or big drivetrain put the frighteners on him.