Herbertlemon102
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inspireds are much stronger than your echo, thicker tubingPut one on. If I didn't have mine, I would have scratched and dented my frame loads. Not a single scratch or dent on it.
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ah I think it's invite only...? Maybe drop me a message/pmAh right, I'm only 15 mins from Cov so i'll try give it a search and hopefully sort some rides out
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We're the "coventryish riders" riders on Facebook, there were 3 more who couldn't make it
me and kyle rode there last week and ran out of spots after about 2 hours or so, most of the decent spots have been knocked down so riding wise its pretty awful now
sounds like a good turnout though, the more people the better it is generally, didn't realise there were that many around that rode anymore
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dunno what youre on about, ten people showed up and it was a blastI'll be heading to Bristol and wouldn't dream of going back to Leicester unless I absolutely had to (
) but just so you know, they've apparently knocked most of the spots down.Hex is gone, and apparently Royal is all fenced off. A bunch of little spots are supposedly no longer too. Slats at the uni are back in action though.
Not saying it'll be no good at all - just so you know it might not be what you hope (which shouldn't be much anyway). Haha.
josh leech, pogo, myself, josh Gilbert, john, rich, James, tez, Jason, Chris. Was great!
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we seeing as I filed it off... NoLay a piece of paper where the date stamp was, push it against the stamp, and rub the paper with a crayon. It works with coins and you can get a crayon copy of the coin on the paper, might work on the stamp.
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it does but rawing it made it unreadableDoes your lever not have a date stamp? Those old levers look so "solid".
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oh you sexy man. Pm inbound£25 posted because I would rather help a brother out than have it messying my granite worktop?
Same as that, imagine black slaves and a carbon look bit where it says 'hs33'.
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It just looks like it's leaking, wrap some ptfe tape around the the screw threads, job done.
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.that sounds expensive, if you could slap some pics and price?I have a a brand new never used carbon look trials edition 2011 full brake for sale if you fancy it?
hmmmmGive it an Echo TR style TPA!
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Myself, pogo, Ryan, josh are headed to Leicester if anyone wants to join, 1 ish at the courts just up from the station
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cheers.Ive got a feeling those levers didn't make it to 2002, i have a white lever same shape as 2004, but date stamped 2001. Looks good though.
yeah I thought it was 98' but someone said to me it might've been an 02'. Is also temporary and for sale
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my dad wondered into my room earlier and forced me to do just thatHoover yer carpet you manky bast...
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So! I decided as a entertaining little project, I would repair and modify my very old 1998-02 raceline magura.
At the start: paint scratched to hell, brake seized, does not work.
First off I wanted to get it to work, so I flushed it out and found the internals looked okay, no leaks. Through trial and error I found the lever would occasionally not return, and I decided this was to do with the piston. I found it was seized (more or less) and removed it, cleaned the bore and piston, replaced the spring, and hey presto it returns nice and snappy.
Next up was a mineral oil bleed, and now the brake works perfectly.
Onto the appearance- super tatty. First off I rawed the lever blade with some sandpaper and wire wool, then with the help of nitromorse, I did the same to the lever body. Obviously nitromorse can't get into all the fiddely places, like between the bar clamp etc, so that was another job for some Swiss files and sandpaper.
The process was then repeated on both slave cylinders.
The end of the lever blade has this "sphere" shaped end, similar to motorbikes, but i thought it is completely unnecessary on a bicycle brake, so I cut it down to make it look more modern, and save about 0.0000000001 grams #weightsaving
So now it looks and works the part, but I'm wondering what else I could do, please put some suggestions below! Drilling the lever blade was an idea.
I'm still after a more modern magura though so get In touch!
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Pretty sure on tartybikes it says unscrew the clamp bolts, put an object that covers the threads, so when you try and screw the clamp bolts back in the just hit the object and force the clamp open. Don't do it too much though.
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Quality. Would be awesome to meet a few people there very soon. Not sure I'll be able to make it this weekend but definitely soon
there's a group of us on Facebook, "coventryish riders" pm me (Jamie Wiltshire) on Facebook if you're interested -
look at the tope tube, look at where his leg is and how close it is to the downtube (above the downtube obviously)
its fake.
I think it's still plausible, just.
Vids or it didn't happen!
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Damn I remember seeing a thread on that bike a while back, was it he ones with the cutouts in the hubs aswell?Long shot but does anyone have the picture of the heavily drilled out Echo lite? I remember that also been tasty.
I remember the guy had really gone to town on it, if anyone has them maybe post them all up?
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My friend Jason's gu- he's joined the 203mm club with it's front brake. Love itttt
On a related note, there's a bunch of us called "the coventryish riders" on Facebook, if any of you are based in cov and are on Facebook drop me a PM
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as above, I have no garage and a simple setup to play about with would keep me entertained for eternityNice dude, having somewhere to practice like that is idea. I'd say just keep at it and you'll pick things up as you go for sure. Bike time is always the key and style comes as a result.
I could keep myself entertained with that set-up for hours!
perfect place to learn on. Put two pallets down and slowly move them apart as you learn to gap bigger and bigger, maybe spice it up and try some gaps to front. Keep at it, I almost prefer videos like these to edits
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I like to prepare myself for crashing into walls by having brakes which replicate that experienceA LOT more likely! Euan Beaden ran 203s on a 2013 fourplay team and snapped the frame after 5 months or so. however hes had 203s on an Arcade for over a year... im sticking with 180s on my Skye, mainly because not many people actually need 203s, and realistically i dont either (other than top riders i guess) and because if i ever go to a smaller rotor ill hate it haha.
saying that, there are a few crazy people like Jamie who run 203s for DA ULTIMATE BRAKIN POWAR
but other than that most people dont "need" them imo, and a lot of people run them to be like danny mac n stuff. i personally dont get the fancyness about 203s haha
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cheersthat looks silly
who cares? I weigh next to nothing and it stops better than anything I've ever had
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*le update* put insulation tape on the saint pad backings, no moar pad rock! On the downside my freewheel ate itself. New rotors are lurvely
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http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=371237413859seems it's a fat bike fork, guess they need that extra power for their big ass wheels. Imagine it with four tgm pads! And how much lining up you'd have to do to get the pads to hit at the same time, and bleeding it.
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Just found this gem on eBay. Hooked up to a single lever
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