OK, that is the bike pretty much fettled for Kielder. What a pain in the arse! Got rid of the annoying rattle that I couldn't trace I think, by rebuilding my cassette. It would have appeared to loosen itself enough that every sprocket had a degree of movement relative to every other one. Hoping not enough damage to the freehub to need to replace that though...
Oh, and thanks Superstar, I do like your cheap pads, fit my elixirs when Disco brakes didn't, but when one pad has a misaligned braking suface they won't fit, and will leave me one set short! So my best worn set on the rear and a new set up front.
Fingers crossed...
Oh, and my shiny new jockey wheels are seriously shiny, and new, ninja throwing stars be gone! KNC bling (for me anyway) do your stuff.
What are the wheels like? been tempted as I have for once reached the stage of actually needing some, usually I've trashed a the mech before the wheels go Shuriken like.
ReplyDeleteThey look ok, a mate got some and they have lasted pretty well for him so I thought I would give them a go, it was these ones, in silver :-)
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Did you survive and finish?
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Survived but didn't finish. Not too disappointed given the conditions. Missed the first time cut again but only by 10 poxy minutes! So was actually faster, so a definite improvement but... Well, it would have been good to make it. If I hadn't stopped to change pads, if I hadn't lost the granny ring to chainsuck, If my slow start and get faster hadn't put me into some bottlenecks, if if if :-)
ReplyDeleteOverall happy though, great day out in some proper wilderness.
Read some of the reports on it, sounds like it was one of the toughest ones to date.
ReplyDeleteI would like to think so, but only did last year and this. Was challenging and lots lost their sense of humour, big time. But as my only race was realistically against myself, and I won I guess it changes my perspective. :-)
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