DaneL
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DaneL mattbeer's article
May 24, 2023 at 13:08
May 24, 2023
Quiz: Can You Guess All of These Tire Treads?
This would be more fun as a "Spot the Maxxis" game, where one is a Minion/Assegai/other and the other is a random company's knockoff version of it. As a bonus, we might actually get a few right.
DaneL mattbeer's article
May 18, 2023 at 13:08
May 18, 2023
Revisited: The Specialized Status 140 After One Year With a Guest Editor
@yonibois: Yeah... be careful with that. If you make the fit too loose or leave a slightly rough surface, it will create a nice place for dirt/dust to get trapped, causing increased wear on the bore of the master cylinder. That's what eventually kills the master cylinders regardless, so accelerating that wear isn't great. It's definitely a good emergency fix if you can't wait for the rebuild kit, though.
DaneL mattbeer's article
May 18, 2023 at 9:41
May 18, 2023
Revisited: The Specialized Status 140 After One Year With a Guest Editor
The issue is actually that the pistons swell a tiny bit over time, so if they are a relatively tight fit to begin with, they become a press fit. The fix (if you don't just warranty them) is to replace the pistons. It's ~$20 for the parts to fully rebuild a lever. It takes ~10 minutes for the rebuild plus the time to do a bleed. I have had it happen on 2 out of 11 Code brakes that I've owned. It happened after a year or so, and they've made it ~2 years since the rebuild with no issues. Funny enough, SRAM actually refused to warranty them because they weren't from one of the batches that they already knew had the issue.
DaneL henryquinney's article
May 16, 2023 at 7:50
May 16, 2023
Video: How Bad Can They Be!? We Review Each Other's Personal Bikes
I always set my bar roll to get my wrists at a comfortable angle (even pressure across my palms with straight wrists). The stem length & spacers are selected second, and should take care of the rest.
DaneL henryquinney's article
May 16, 2023 at 7:46
May 16, 2023
Video: How Bad Can They Be!? We Review Each Other's Personal Bikes
It would be the angles that the bar manufacturer specifies. 8° backsweep and 5° upsweep means they should be angled 5° up from horizontal 8° back (those are also pretty standard numbers, so they're a good starting point). If you rotate from there, you just bias more towards one or the other, while also changing the effective stack and reach. If you find that you don't like their specified angles, stem lengths can get a bit goofy when you have a bar with a ton of rise.
DaneL mattbeer's article
May 15, 2023 at 10:48
May 15, 2023
Group Test: 14 of the Latest & Greatest Flat Pedals Reviewed
I've had no issues running crank boots with outboard bearing pedals. You just have to use thick pedal washers (or a stack of 2). It's really not an issue as long as you still have plenty of thread engagement and you're torqueing them correctly. I might reconsider that statement for someone near the max capacity of the pedals/cranks, though.
DaneL mattbeer's article
May 15, 2023 at 10:41
May 15, 2023
Group Test: 14 of the Latest & Greatest Flat Pedals Reviewed
@cykelk: You're definitely correct in that it's largely personal preference. Some people like smaller platforms, while others like bigger platforms. Some like all the traction, while some like to be able to easily adjust foot position. On top of that, some pedals just interface better with certain shoes, some are better in the mud, and some are better at brushing off impacts. That's part of the reason why there are so many options out there; most pedals are mediocre at best for the majority of riders, but might be the goldilocks pedal for the remaining 10%. With that said, at least half of the pedal options out there shouldn't exist. There are far too many $150+ pedals out there that don't meet a reasonable standard for workmanship, durability, reparability, etc.
DaneL mattbeer's article
May 15, 2023 at 8:19
May 15, 2023
Group Test: 14 of the Latest & Greatest Flat Pedals Reviewed
I'm pretty picky about pedals, and I must say the OneUp composites are by far the best pedals I've tried for the money. They're light, have plenty of grip, deflect off of rocks nicely, and replacing pins is super quick (they're also standard SHCS's, so you can buy 100 for less than $10). I've heard complaints of the pedal bodies breaking when taking an impact in cold weather, but so far mine have fared better than most of the $150+ pedals I've ridden.
My favorite top dollar pedals are the Hope F20, mainly because they're ridiculously durable. They don't have nearly as much grip, though. I'm excited to try the F22 pedals at some point.
DaneL mattbeer's article
May 15, 2023 at 8:13
May 15, 2023
Group Test: 14 of the Latest & Greatest Flat Pedals Reviewed
The new Race Face Atlas pedals are about as bad as it gets when it comes to durability. The pins thread through close to no material, so the holes ovalize quickly. After less than a season, my pair could only hold about half of their pins. The other issue is that the pins bend rather than breaking clean off. That means replacing them is more tedious; I had to cut them off and file them flush with the pedal before turning them out so they wouldn't destroy the ~2x threads in the pedal body.
Aside from that, they were probably my favorite pedals as far as grip and feel under foot, though.
Disclaimer: Race Face sent me a free pair of pedals to try. Not sure that really worked in their favor, though.
DaneL seb-stott's article
May 9, 2023 at 7:26
May 9, 2023
First Look: Moots' Womble Slider Is A UDH-Compatible Singlespeed
That's not even COVID pricing. Moots has always had crazy pricing. Beautiful frames, though.
