What did you do to your EBike this week?

[HeathenRides]

As a newbie I'm a long way behind the curve on mods and upgrades however I did go "tubeless" this weekend and I have to say it was so easy!

That's the best cheap upgrade

 

[Stihldog]

Yeah, I need to have a play around to get them just right, they might need a combination of different pin lengths and magnet adjustment.
I really only made them to see if I'd like magnetic pedals as I didn't want to waste the £200 on magpeds
They seem to work a whole lot better than I was expecting so I think its going to be worth having a mess around with them until I can get something proper.

I'm using neodymium magnets, they cost more than the pedals but they are strong!

I must say …that’s a great effort!

My need and effort was a little different (and disappointing for a moment ). While riding down trails, my left foot would fall off the peddle. That would become a show-stopper as I had to slow down, or look, or completely stop, to place my foot back into position before I could continue. Fast forward to my solution …

I sat on my couch and drew up a design for some magnetic peddles or shoes. Wow! I’m so SMRT.. After a few hours of sketching and drawing I decided to Google “magnetic peddles”. My dreams of becoming rich were crushed when I saw that Magped had these available. Lol

I ordered them. Installed them. Rode them. Wow! Life changing for me.

 

[Stihldog]

I found that in the end it is not as good as clipless for stability and the very awkward position of the magnet either too front and too rear…

I completely agree. If I could I would use clipless for MTBing. Since clipless were available I used them instead of toe clips for my road bikes. As those evolved I would upgrade to the latest and greatest.

Because of my medical issue with my left side I’m unable to use the twisting release motion. Magnetic release is more of a sideways sliding motion. I can do that.

Locking or placing my foot on the peddle would become difficult or almost impossible. The magnetic peddles now snap my foot into position quickly (audible). Sometimes a small adjustment is necessary, but that can be easily done while I’m moving.

 

[steve_sordy]

What's wrong with flats?

(Retires before the onslaught of abuse).

 

[Stihldog]

What's wrong with flats?

Nuttin!

Aren’t clipless cool though. And magnetic peddles are a great conversation starter.

Btw…I hate this song.

 

[whitymon]

Flats are just awesome and help for great technic development. And you can bail mid/in air there is no other option.

But in harsh terrain with tons of rock on DH clipless just give you way more control.

As I am not a pro I still need to be able to bail … so flat it is!

 

[Tyjay]

Inflated my front tyre 3 times testing out mini electric pump for how many times I could use it
29er btw

 

[steve_sordy]

Inflated my front tyre 3 times testing out mini electric pump for how many times I could use it
29er btw

Bad weather up your way?

 

[Tyjay]

Bad weather up your way?

Nah pretty decent tbh said rain didn’t come till 6pm

was bored as I wasn’t riding today

 

[B1rdie]

Someone has done something to my brand new rear rim …

 

[RichMorr]

Someone has done something to my brand new rear rim …
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He’s marked it, It belongs to him now lol

 

[Polar]

Someone has done something to my brand new rear rim …
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Number two next

 

[Mcharza]

Someone has done something to my brand new rear rim …
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Haha, shameless doggo

 

[RustyMTB]

Could have been shocking.

 

[Mister cube]

We have a what did you buy for your ebike thread, but I don't see a What did you do to your ebike thread

So here it is

Mods delete if not applicable

Replaced,caliper,seatclamp,stem,bottle cage bolts with titanium replacements,no more corrosion!
26 bolts in total

 

[Stihldog]

An AXS paddle shifter. Replacing the pod shifter on the Fuel EXE.

The Fuel EXE


The Rail


The AXS paddle shifter.

Easy swap, install and update. Just some fine tuning in the app…maybe.

 

[alleeex]

I finally got around to Invisiframing the spare KSL frameset I bought (brand new, from a Spesh store!) in November.
Unfortunately, while working around the chainring, I noticed the cranks/motor spindle looked odd. After further investigation I found that there was 3mm of play on them!

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I've emailed the store I bought it from but I'm not impressed. The drive side crank was only half on the spindle, and the central bolt wasn't even finger-tight, so I'm pretty sure someone has had this apart already.

Edit: shop have replied simply saying to take it to my nearest Spesh dealer for warranty, didn’t address the other point I raised (bike arrived with no back axle), and zero explanation for why the RHS crank would be so loose. Very very unimpressed.

 

[Amber Valley Guy]

Installed the stroke spacers in the Marzocchi Air and whilst the can was open fitted a 0.6" token. No idea if that's to much or not enough volume reduction as it's been pissing it down all night and it's still raining now but it'll give me a starting point, so I'll have to test the rear ramp up/ bottom out another day. Oh and obviously installed the shock on the Moterra.

 

[Amber Valley Guy]

Tested the Bomber Air (in the post above) , bloody brilliant compared to the stock non piggyback Rockshox Deluxe. So much smoother, (tested down a flight of steps). Also hit 38mph going down a steep (on road, not off road) hill near me and only the fact that water and run off grit on the road around a corner made me slow down equalled my best with the stock Rockshox in dry summer conditions, it was 2 or 3C today and wet. Must admit I hadn't realised (as I've been riding on the bog standard RS Deluxe for nearly 2 years) how much of a difference a rear shock can make. And my arse didn't ache after 24 miles!
Not tested the Bomber seriously off road yet as everywhere is still a wet mess of mud and slippy rock (after all the rain around here) but my first impressions are "I'm impressed" and doubly impressed that I paid £150 for the shock, £30 for the bag of tokens (volume reducers) and £5 for a new DU eyelet bush), so sub £200 fitted and a hour say of time of fitting a 0.6" token and installing the shock.

 

[Amber Valley Guy]

Tested the rear Bomber Air properly today , hurrah it was sunny, the local tracks had sort of semi dried out and it was 13C

Must say, I'm impressed, handled even hard downhill chunk with aplomb and felt planted at all times. As it's been said many times before, when the back ends working correctly the front end feels better too.
Unfortunately my bikes now far more capable than I am, as I'm that used to having to slow down over fast downhill chunck (the o/e RS Deluxe R felt dead /unresponsive/ easily hung up/ not working in unison with the front in comparison) that I've got to recalibrate my brain to keep me off the brakes!

 

[BAh30]

crashed it when the not completely tight stem rotated on the fork steertube descending a steep rutted/chute and i went OTB. No damage to it but ive got some scrapes

 

[irie]

Did this yesterday. Interesting. Not very.

Muc off big bore tubeless valve

A PM from a fellow member inspired me to give feedback on the Big-Bore. I purchased the long Hybrid version in black. While I typically like colored stems, I chose black because the Hybrid version of the valve is a little bulky looking and didn't want to draw too much attention to it, but in...

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[Polar]

Cleaned calipers, rotors and new Galfer purple pads.

 

[Hazey]

The Cues RD U3020 derailleur doesn't have a clutch, so replaced it with an RD U6000. Made a right mess of the shifter cable, so replaced that as well.

 

[NMNomad]

Purchased a couple of 29"x2.60" Schwalbe Albert gravity pros. Looking forward to trying them out.

 

[RustyMTB]

I went about as deep as it's possible to go on a Rockshox Charger damper. 2.1 dampers have a design flaw where a seal in the compression circuit assembly fails. The damper then leaks oil upwards through the adjuster knobs until the bladder eventually collapses.

Usually, the opposite happens where over the 200 hour service interval, the damper ingests oil from the lower legs & swells. In the former case, damping weakens, in the latter, it gets harder. The assembly itself isn't serviceable on the face of it, since it's made up of an internal & external shaft connected to an external sleeve by pressed in brass pins. when you turn the adjuster, the internal shaft rotates which via a scroll cut into it, moving the brass pins in the channel, which in turn move the external sleeve, pressing on a second spring loaded sleeve beneath adding or removing pressure on the compression shim stack.

Rockshox don't sell replacements & the pins are permanently fixed, so the standard repair is to replace the whole damper. However, you can tap, press or drill the pins out to separate the two shafts & replace the seal with an upgraded o-ring which should outlast the damper.

Awkward job, lots of steps & you do need the tools & the will but in the end, it's two quids worth of o-rings vs £350 of damper, so well worth the effort in my view.

 

[VWsurfbum]

Finally got a chance to fit these tractor parts.