boxerulez

As sad as your situation is I am very distrustful of chiropractors. From everything I read and hear it is pretty much pseudo science. Not saying it does not work for some but it has disastrous effects on some. The practice is based in mysticism and is pseudo science at best.

Degreaser/engine wash nowadays contains citric acid and even some citrus extracts, it kills paint and plastics. (Especially that monster degreaser the **** cracked a headlight on my car when it got on there by mistake) Never again please for your own sake

Did you wash with sunlight liquid? Go at the frame with Mr Min and a soft cloth and then a wash with some rally or meguiars car shampoo+wax.

Because they mess with light to dark transitioning of the eye. This is probably detrimental to your safety as a blinded driver are more likely to run you over than one that can see a solid bright light approaching.

Its not about being too bright it is about adjustment. You are travelling at a rate of speed lower than a car you do not need to blast HID level light 400m ahead on the road. Have your secondary flashing led aimed higher for visibility and adjust your beam light down to actually illuminate the road is my 2c.

Boet I dont see spec on offset anywhere. The ring just says #sram eagle tech 30t direct mount.

That is my understanding yes.

This is the sauce I was after, I will check out Rapide their stuff is well priced for the quality so yeah. That jerky feeling almost like bobbing? Yeah that would be a firm NO from me id rather stick with a round chainring if that is the case. The chainring would probably be 100% if it was bike park or trail only but I am planning to do the Karroo to Coast with this bike and there are some level stretches on that, also I prefer to train on my full sus from time to time too and I don't carry it places on my rack, I ride to the bush and back from it, so I do a lot of commuting type riding along with the technical stuff out in the bush so this is the main reason for wanting longer legs, I hate that this bike feels slow in comparison to my 3x10 hardtail on the ride back home every time.

1x12, the oval supposed helps with efficiency and the oval itself helps with chainring to ground clearance. But I am hoping there is a chainring I can slot in here that makes the circumnference larger (more teeth for longer legs up front) but keeps clearance to ground as it is now. Haven't tried oval and not interested in oval is better because oval, but if anyone here can tell me why oval is better and recommend something ill go for it.

I ended up biting the bullet and getting the BR-MT501 front and rears from LBS and now I am confident on this bike. Can control it much better lock up when need be, endo. Things are well in my world. Only thing I need some advise on from anyone, the FS3 stock chainring needs to go, I need more legs on this bike, so I am hoping someone could advise me what oval I need to get that will fit on this bike with as little money spent as possible, running out of gears is my only gripe left with this bike, so I am hoping a bigger oval chainring will increase my legs and the ovalness will keep my clearance where it is now?

Picked up a set of BR-MT501 brakes from LBS today, get home, start with front, fitted, blead, piele. Remove internally routed rear brakes front to back, fit new caliper and hoses, take lever out the box, ... low and behold the rear box has a left hand mt401 3 finger lever and the front had a mt501 1 finger lever.

Brakes seem to be selling like hotcakes, I missed out on 4piston brake sets 3 times in the last 2 weeks by a few minutes and I watch it religiously as I need a brake upgrade desperately.

I too ride to keep my pp in sight.

Have a look at Spez Skitch too, they are getting long in the tooth I picked up a nice deal on a pair the other day from Freewheel. I think they had some smaller ones too if I recall correctly besides the size 12's I grabbed. https://www.specialized.com/za/en/skitch-shoes/p/131607?color=&searchText=61218-5046

ah **** that sucks. I remember back in the day my RST forks came with 2 steerers in the box that you merely tapped in and clamped on, I dont know why the hess this is so impossible, your handlebars bolts onto the steerer, why not the crown too.