iwantanewbike
Über Member
Just for fun...
Show us your... components
- Thread starter iwantanewbike
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- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Not sure I can handle that amount of fun. 
Levo-Lon
Guru
Grant Fondo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Cheshire
I have got some sexy close-ups of a 1995 Sun rim for anyone without a heart condition?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Pah. You don't even monitor bar tape life.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Crikey! Tone it down a bit - we've deleted far less racy posts than that in the past.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Remember when he got arrested for showing a picture or a Suntour VX-GT rear mech to that undercover policeman?
Yellow Saddle
Guru
- Location
- Loch side.
Wow! M515 brake pads!. I've always wanted those.
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
Well the M515 looks to be a resin pad where the previous set were sintered so you might have an opinion on that...
rogerzilla
Legendary Member
Can we have an opposite version, for very short-lived components? I once killed a new UN52 BB in 70 miles and a set of Kool-Stop green (ceramic) V-brake pads in 30 miles - new ceramic rims can be very rough, just like sandpaper. A rather natty set of carbon-effect SKS mudguards cracked right across the width of the rear one in three months. Shimano 105 threaded headsets used to last me about 500 miles before they got irretrievably "indexed".
Not on my bike, but Miche track hub locknuts are notorious for splitting in two when the wheel is fitted; they are quite brittle steel and the serrations are too sharp, causing stress raisers. Imagine that happening if you were fixing a puncture out on the road! Fortunately, when this happened on a friend's fixie less than 100 miles from new, we were just tensioning the chain at my house and my Crypt of Crap turned up a couple of generic M10 locknuts and some thin spacers to replace them.
Not on my bike, but Miche track hub locknuts are notorious for splitting in two when the wheel is fitted; they are quite brittle steel and the serrations are too sharp, causing stress raisers. Imagine that happening if you were fixing a puncture out on the road! Fortunately, when this happened on a friend's fixie less than 100 miles from new, we were just tensioning the chain at my house and my Crypt of Crap turned up a couple of generic M10 locknuts and some thin spacers to replace them.
chriswoody
Legendary Member
- Location
- Northern Germany
How about a dirty planet gear from an old Sachs Torpedo hub?
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Mary Whitehouse will be spinning in her grave.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
She probably is, anyway.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Holy Trump! Full frontal filth before the watershed!!!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
My god that dirty little gear has been places I can't even dream of.
