Janson
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am i the only one who still thinks a compact road cassette and a short cage xtr/dura-ace mech is totally hawt?
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short backings => rounded pads.
avoid..
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narrow and wide kools (k810 and k710) are equally strong. they're good enough. i have only had good experiences with mine; they last and they're easy to take apart for shortening etc, with my normal cheapo chain tool.
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Quoted for massive fail.
word. the tk lads did bigger stuff 50 years ago than most kool kids do nowaways, with shitloads more style....
oh and danny just blew my mind.
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i was such a good boy in school. been a right pikey in uni though. living out the pre-teen dreams.
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i used to have a set of them red crv. brilliant pads. soooo stiff with thick backings and little pad.
they lasted long aswell, easily a season back when i rode for 10 hours a week.
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Because we found out years ago (did CNC backings in '99), that grippy pad material with metal backing = too much stress on plastic nipple that holds pad. Fine if you keep your brakes set so that there is not much travel from pad to rim, but the further the piston has to push out before pad engages rim.... the higher the stress on the plastic nipple that holds pad.
All tests showed that metal backing, while feeling more solid, does not actually increase braking power.
Was just about to say... I guess most of the people on here had no idea about trials back then.
How did the original plaz alu backings hold on to the slaves, just out of interest? O-ring in groove design just like the kolpen/heatsink design?
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lovely vid danny!
nice with some fairlanes too.
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aww, thanks guys.
i haven't even started filming for the next one yet. may bring the cam out some day, now i've actually got some hdd space sorted so i can have more than 10 minutes of uncompressed material on at once.
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Just got in... Have to be at uni at 8 for a very important briefing.
whoops.
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opinions? pointers?
200+ views and few replies..
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Aluminium corrodes.
It was just a thought! I would have expected it would be obvious that you should have a really small amount of grease, just like in a ffw. But whatever, it's your hub.
Aluminium corrodes so little.. A protective layer of aluminium oxide forms pretty much immediately when exposed to a normal atmosphere, which stops further corroding taking place.
Don't try and beat the engineer at his own game.
For trials, Kings should be run on oil or dry. As we don't do a lot of miles you can get away with a hub that is almost dry. I use a bit of finishline wet xc, and it's fine.
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Corrections:
Coustellier, Revell, Toxsin.
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They're redesigned the levers a bit. So they're still alive as a company making stuff.
New lever looks quite tasty, might get one some day if I'm feeling rich; loved the feel of the old one but didn't like the leaking bit.
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What do i win?
A free pair of glasses because you sucessfully failed to read the thread.
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It's all stainless steel and aluminium, corroding is not an issue, at all.
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WD40 has a higher oil content than GT85!
I'd strip it down into little pieces, clean the gunk out, and reassemble it with a really thin layer of grease on everything, like the lightest smear.
Do you even own a King? Grease in King = Bad.
It's been said a million times before. Fatmike's advice is spot on. Important to put riding pressure on it (but not trials pressure) so just riding about town is fine, just backpedalling it won't do nearly as much as riding. Riding also seats the bearings, so make sure the hub is tight every now and then when bedding it in!
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you can in disk utility. just select the "pc DOS" or whatevs it's called. read on some forum. worked fine on one of my externals..
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then you just select the length of the clip you wanna use, copy, paste in new player, then export the audio. easy peasy.
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You need to reformat the drive to either fat32 or hfs. This is easy to do in Disk Utility.
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Nikki Clarke are really good apparenty.
Especially if you need to defend yourself against fat and creepy perverted log cabin owners.
I just got some random ones for a tenner. They do the job... Thinner ones would be better but meh, can't be assed.
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That was such a good day. I need to work on my riding with the whole front end the wrong way around, it's quite hard.
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now on youtube..
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i used to be able to give up anything to ride or fix my bike. then i discovered being social with actual people and getting mashed 3 nights a week...
oh well.
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ooh, didnt see these before.
i cant believe your kenny is still in one piece.
come down at påsk!!!