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What Have You Done to Your Bike Today?

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i12ride
Figured I'd start up a service/maintenance/upgrade/mod thread to consolidate bits of this kind of info embedded in the Did You Ride Today? and Most Recent Purchase threads. That way those threads could be more focused on riding and purchases and this one could cover purchases and actions to get you out on those rides by keeping your machines happy and thriving...........taking it to LBS for whatever reason allowed too I suppose, lol.
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Today I noticed my touring bike's rear brake was deflecting the rotor just a bit when I squeezed the lever. I run TRP Spyke calipers, which are unique among mechanical discs in that they use paired pistons to squeeze the disc from both sides. Thus deflection is a sign that the brake's adjustment was off.

A few minutes with an allen wrench resolved the matter nicely. Feel at the lever had gotten more mushy than I'd realized. Restored and working the way it should now. A small thing, to be sure. Still, felt nice to identify and resolve a problem before heading out to ride.
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i12ride
i have those dual pulls on my gravel bike.....haven't needed to adjust them yet
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Today I installed my new PDW front mud guard on the fat bike. Still need to take it for a road test. The new piece doesn't match the present Mud Shovel 6.5 out back, but that is likely to change sooner than later. I dig the 'paint spatter' look.
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Sorry about the non-drive side photo, but the angle of the sun made the paint spatter decoration invisible when the bike was placed 'correctly'.

Note the Mucky Nuts fork mounted mud guard. I'd originally believed a full set to include all three, guards for the fork, down tube, and rear. Looking at this setup as installed, I'm not so sure. Is the fork mounted mud guard needed given one mounted on the down tube? What do you all think?

I'm definitely going to get a Mud Shovel 6.5 in paint spatter. Should I just pull the Mucky Nutz guard from the fork, or replace it with a pain spatter version?

On to another bike. I recently went to pull my BikeE recumbent down for a ride and found it had flatted while hanging in the bike shed. If flats must happen, I vastly prefer and endorse their happening when I am not on the bike :D. Still, a flat is a flat and it needed repair.

Today I replaced the failed tube and adjusted the IGH, which must be disconnected from the shifter to facilitate removal of the rear wheel. The old tube failed at the valve stem from apparent age. The BikeE is once again roadworthy.
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Not the greatest period of my life, particularly as it pertains to cycling, but i did finally break down and buy a new cassette for my work bike .... I hate replacing things when i cannot fix them but sometime
s things wear out. Oh, well.
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Today I replaced the brake pads which came with my touring bike's TRP Spyke brakes. Dropped in a set of Hardheaded Ram disc pads in DH blue. Cleaned the rotors and adjusted everything. Now I just need to bed the pads into the rotors, and I'm ready for some big descents. I hope.
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i12ride
Awaiting your review....I love the ones i have on 2 bikes
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i12ride said:
Awaiting your review....I love the ones i have on 2 bikes
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I'm pleased with them so far and feel like the stopping power is improved over the stock pads. Unfortunately my Pike's Peak ride was canceled and moved to a completely different venue.

The new route will still be in the mountains, but the climbing will be more up/down variety rather than Pike's epic climb and screaming 4k ft descent.

That is unfortunate, but sh!t happens. The summer is young and the mountains beckon. I'll test 'em properly before long :cool:.
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