2sixstreet

The best way is a homemade job. Theres quite a big thread on this which will give you a few ideas. If thats not your thing then go for the Sora short cage. I know of someone with one excess to requirements...

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I paid £1 as thats £1 more than if I downloaded it another way. Only given it one listen. I think it will grow on me but they have a lot to live up to.

Ok, since the alext Bristol 18th post went to shite and a lot of people said they could make/prefer Sunday 21st this is for you. A lot of people work during the week including me and I dont like to encourage people missing school and depriving them of the education you will need to fall back on when the trials dream dies. Post up if you can make it and we'll organise a time and place.

So you get an impromptu photo session with a woman and we got annoyed by a dodgy wino with an electric boat!! Figures.

A lot to do with the speed you're trying to bring the bike to rest from and as you have said heat dissipation etc. You dont put Porsche brakes on a peugeot 106 for the same reason - its just not necessary.

I dont totally agree but cant for now back it up with hard evidence so will shut up. My basis is from experience with hydraulic equipment and several operator controls running on the same system. The same pressure was always available at each point, even if the system was open. Similar principle to what is being discussed.

One of Monkey Boy through Alex's wheel. Obviously back when it was a bit warmer.

Yes, you have the same initial force at the lever but since hydraulic fluid is incompressible this translates to the SAME force in however many pistons you are running, not spread over them. It wont be an average of the lever force at each piston it will be an addition, therefore more power. The more pistons you add the bigger the fluid reservoir required and the greater lever travel which then becomes a limiting factor. Pretty much whatever pressure is available at the lever will be available at however many pistons you have.

I cant quite explain why more pistons WILL give more power as surface area is independant of friction, friction (drag) being the driving factor (pad contact on rotor). With more pistons you increase the surface area of the pistons being driven which will give you more force. SO, even though the area of the pad doesnt come into the equation, the more pistons you have, the greater amount of power you can apply to that pad. Another way of thinking of it is running a 6" rotor and then an 8" rotor on the same wheel. You will expereince greater 'power' with the larger rotor due to a bigger radius away from the centre of the wheel. You could probably achieve the same power from a single piston system at 8" as a dual piston system at 6". This is from the greater force that can be applied to the pad, not because you have more pad area. Hope that makes some sense. Please feel free to correct me if you think i'm talking out my chocolate starfish.

Yeah, lost for words.... Thanks for going easy on me . If i'm not out tomorrow i'll be in hiding :$

The pistons are of different sizes on multi-piston brakes. Following the rule of the least path of resistance, the bigger area'd piston will contact the rotor first (feathering the brake) and when this can go no further and you keep braking the smaller pistons act. This gives a more progressive feel with light braking and stupid amounts of power when right on it.

rowly, as matheprat said, feel free to drop a PM for spontaneous riding.

Theres loads of locals and i'd be up for it but i'm out with injury for a while and i've reserved time to watch Aus smash England in the rugby. I can imagine Monkeyboy will be on here soon - he'll be up for it with a bunch of other regulars. Get some of our ph numbers as we try and ride whenever we can.

You could have 'egged' the cups (possibly the head tube but unlikely). Wheel straight, impact through the front wheel and forks, slightly loose headset. This has the ability to deform a headset so that its longer one way than the other. When you turn it, it will bind up. Put the front brake on and rock the bike back and forward in different positions to see if its got play in it. I think you mean 1/4 way around . Headsets these days dont usually fail in a spectacular fashion, they just dont feel nice.

Thanks for the advice Dave but I cant remember the last time I went into a real bikeshop. I have other options which I will pursue. You still riding? I've not seen you about for ages.

Any reason why this has to be done quickly?

Wow, nice post. I said I wasnt taking the P. Deeeeep breath alex. I'm glad you organised a ride but since you canned it its a general assumption that the majority of people have a normal working week and would prefer a saturday or sunday.

Thats awesome, organise a date and get people to come, change the date and get people to change their schedules and then bottle it altogether. Not taking the P, just find it a little humorous. Hands up those who would prefer Saturday 20th or Sunday 21st.

That defeats the whole purpose of using it. I'm guessing you wouldnt get the required torque doing it that way. You could hower still use the top cap to tighten your stem down on the spacer, do up the pinch bolts and then remove the top cap. Then again you could do this with any normal stem...

Check out ebay.

It's the posts i'm after with the M6 thread. If thats what you have i'll take you up on the offer. Much appreciated. I'll PM you.

Like a few people I havent cut my fork down and am running a few spacers. A single adjustable spacer would be a neat solution to multiple spacers. Has anyone used one? Good points? Bad points?

5. Use a large vice, its dead easy. Use soft jaws to protect the cups or bearings and wind away. Nice and parallel all the way.

Try this. Worked well for me. (Unibond Repair Metal)