the drive train. it looks a bit … used. i’m not complaining. the chainring, the chain and the cassette are actually consumables, I guess with the kind of power my little legs put out they are just wearing really slowly, but given most parts are probably 2 years old it’s ok to see signs of…
how hard can re-packing your santa cruz nomad link bearings be? not very, right? there is even a grease nipple! well … someone in south east asia obviously did not really pay attention when they machined the threads in the frame and the swing arm (or forgot to change a tool as per the schedule).…
it all started with a bit of time & nothing better to do on a sunday afternoon. the fact that the rear brake had been gripping the disk asymmetrically has not really ever been a problem but being a bit of a perfectionist i was determined to make sure the pistons all moved synchronously. a…
after i had replaced all the bearings i thought it would be a 5 minute job to put it all together again. i was wrong. this is one of the axle bolts through the lower links. they both look pretty much the same: ruined threads. not sure what happened here, but someone must have damaged…
now that the bearings are out i’s time to get the new ones in. unfortunately it is difficult to find the special tools required to professionally press in the new bearings … so a little ghetto engineering is on the cards.good thing the 6900 2rs bearing internal diameter is pretty much precisely an m10 thread. the…
there is this problem with the uncharacteristically rough roller bearings in the linkage of my favourite nomad. the old bearings have to come out before the new ones go in, but there is no way to get any purchase on the outer race and once you start hitting the inner race the whole bearing just…
when it comes to bearings sticky is definitely not what you want. and those bearings are very, very stick. unfortunately. see those grimy rusty and overall pretty gross bearings in the lower link? then again this is not a difficult problem to fix, i need 8 bearings and a few seals, a bit of grease…
when i bought the honda (see: all my bikes ) i decided to try a little enduro racing. for me this was the fulfilment of a dream: i always wanted to try it, but earlier on simply did not have the money. i started in 1996, and the first races came as a big surprise: i…
i have owned a few bikes over the years, some were ridden extensively, others only on occasions. and there were a few that i was not too excited about (in hindsight). here is a short list.
as i was saying, i was looking for a bit more comfort and speed on the downhill parts of our rides and decided to replace the stock monarch that came on the bike with a rock shox vivid air. swapping the shocks was a pretty simple affair; the vivid is a straight drop in. as…
why have a high end, obscenely expensive mountain bike with totally configurable components when you can’t tinker with it to make it even more configurable and as a result very likely also extremely hard to set up. so i got this vivid air shock for my nomad. the vivid has a greater air volume which should…
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