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what can i get for 16 frujus?

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So the Other day i got my hands on a brand new MRP G3 carbon chainguide -big ups to wide open for hooking me up-. you know the single ring guide for mountain bikes. After installing it onto the yeti,  i noticed the chain was rubbing against the guide in the big cogs -it was already happening with me old chain device E13 LG1+. mainly because i hadn’t added the proper 2.5mm spacer between the frame and the outboard bb drive side (as it is recommended for 73mm Bottom brackets shells.) because i wanted a better chainline.

Anyway, the rubbing was annoying me a tad and after a little brain workout, i thought of pushing the chainguide closer to the frame and the only way to do it was! the Hammerdsmidt facing tool. i remembered a few years back that the hammerdscmidt groupset required a well faced bb+chainguide mount to be as accurately in-line as possible and that truvativ had produced a tool for this issue.

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Evidently, it took so much brain power of my own to make a connection of what i needed to happen and the solution. face off metal off the chainguide mounts so the guide would be closer to the frame! boom! it all happened in matters of days. the boys from Sram/truvativ wholesalers would have the tool! they have to!

rode to their workshop, boom! got that Hammerdshmidt facing tool for the price of 16 ice-blocks. but boom i can’t use the tool without the handles and attachments…

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Luckily, the guys told me to use the campagnolo BB facing tool to use the arms. This evidently happens -in my opinion and noone else so far- because the truvativ was made to fit the park tool bb facing tool BFS-1. However! i believe that Park tool has copied the campagnolo design  for facing tool thus the reason for the coincidental fit.

Once again, with luck, the boys from Truvativ NZ are also the campagnolo distributor. And evidently, they had the mega bucks arsenal of campy tools, but i had to go through the big man in charge, skinny and tall really, THE David Benson himself! luckily he was in a good mood and let me borrow the priceless tooling of the cycling gods.

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 Knowing i only had 24 hours with the tools, i made sure i used it properly and safely. After rushing back the shop and a quick stop-over at home in the middle of the whole process -i had to pick up the campagnolo grease- i spent the 4 hours in total shaving off1mm from the ISCG05 tabs. I thought that i was supposed to take 2mms off but i got impatient and it turned out that 1mm was perfect.

All i can say is to always double check to make sure everything fits proper and don’t rely on what you think you should cut. measure, measure, measure and install and take apart and install again.

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Anawhata to Bethells Beach

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Taking a knife to a gun fight was Dave Benson’s apt description of taking a cyclocross bike into serious singletrack. Seeing Teva roll up on his awesome Yeti for our overnight excursion into the Waitakere Ranges  made me wonder what I was getting myself into. But the weather was crystal clear and not too hot, so off we went.

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The last time I rode this trail, it was really boggy. I’d hoped the week or so of fine, dry weather would have dried the trail out and made it more ridable. It hadn’t.

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After bashing through mud pits, bogs, mud holes and some fun sections, we came to a junction. The choice was blast down a trail that put us 5kms from Bethells Beach or try to find a sneaky route through some private land that would spit us out a bit closer. We tried the latter. It wasn’t all bad. The downhill at the start was rad. It was fairly wide but with deep rain ruts snaking all the way down. Negotiating it was a process of trying not to slide into and out of the ruts. Too much fun. This was the wrong way though, so we had to push back up the other side. After a lot of bike pushing we made it back to the junction.

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The blast down the last downhill through the bush was the best part of the ride. I got caught out by the rocky sections, blowing through my inch of Continental Cycloking travel at the front and pinch flatting. The pic above is me pumping up my front tyre at the end of the trail. I’d have to do that another half-dozen times — knife in a gunfight.DSCF3072

The Waitakere Ranges at the end of the trail.

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We made it to Bethells Beach eventually and then over to Oneil’s Bay where we made camp among some old pohutukawas just off the beach. I got to try out my Hennesy Hammock. I took a bit longer than the dude in the video to set it up, but it happened.DSCF3086

Teva went ultra-light with this snazzy paracord-camo tarp bivy set up.DSCF3100

Cooked a feed, drank some whisky, chilled out.

Thanks for the photos Teva!

 

Edit: that’s the last photo i took of the evening that i forgot to send justin -teva-

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Combining favourite things …. LTD

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So not much to do with bikes except we all rode there. But SBC does get a credit on the AWESOME poster.

Me and Jammy from TokyoFixed organised this and it actually was super RAD.

This had been a dream of mine for a few years and made me realise you gotta realise your dreams cause chances are your dreams are pretty fucking cool!

Thanks to everyone that came.
Thanks to the DJ’s Into the Void. For the sick tunes and epic poster.

Pt Chev Master Brewers beer competition

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The next round of the Pt Chev Master Brewers competition is scheduled to go down in eight weeks’ time so I thought I’d post some pics from the last one.


The last competition was all about IPAs. This time we’re brewing stouts, so Orlies is fixing to brew up some black metal beer. Does anyone know of any Mexican black metal bands?
This time round we have a new entry from two-thirds of the SBC hiking squad, Teva and Conrad.
Here are a couple of bikes from the last brew comp too:

My O’Brien

Stu Jacob’s Independent Fabrication.

Bob’s Colnago Super.

Chupa Kabra

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AAAh great times in summer! bla bla la
some old some same old.
people riding in the sun, chilling, trying out bikes that is too big for them, drinking beers and wine and bourbon and coke, girls coming along (summer does bring out really pretty girls or as brian would say “lovely”)
people nearly dying. Ah talking about nearly dying, frecking Dave survived one of the most impressive crash in history of booze cruises. coming down the snaky run down the domain brakeless came up to a car on the last dodgy corner and had to hit the curb and flow through the bushes a la superman dodging jumping trees and branches to land on a downslope covered with leaves and managed to only cut his hand a bit. impressive indeed, one of the luckiest escape in history of teva.
darn i hate predictive text on computers.
as smart as we were we managed to pick up enough canteen noodles for 7 people. it was sure delicious as 7 canteen noodles boxes on a drunken night.
party ended at doc as usual but 70% of the group went home.
i gotta get myself on a road bike…
anybody got cash to buy more bike parts come to whites or give me some…