MongooseMan

@Jbr when you say ~30% paraffin oil, do you mean you take 70g of the wax pastilles (as below), and 30g of paraffin, and melt that together to make 100g of wax?

Is a “shared” purchase between myself and my wife 😂 For her, jewellery, for me chains and other bits and bobs. based on this article it’s definitely not necessary (but, then again, neither is the whole waxing process 🙈) https://zerofrictioncycling.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ultrasonic-Clean-Race-Chains-Quick-guide-v3-converted.pdf

Chain from the trainer bike will be going in straight away, it's in dire need of a clean

Arriving today, let the fun begin...

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Stolen: Momsen Gravel Bike 2019 When: 05/04/2023Where: Pinelands, Cape Town, Western CapeCustom Gravel bike build. Carbon / alu rigid fork. Stripped 29er Momsen Frame. Easton EA70 Wheelset with Brand new Maxxis Rambler 40c tyres . Gravel bars. Shimano 105 Groupset. Custom CSIXX blade. Medium FrameGet further details about the incident in the Stolen Bikes section.

My LBS quotes R250 per brake, so I'd assume a 3 year payback (inflation notwithstanding) even if I only have 1 SRAM bike and only bleed once a year.

When did you have it done? I've seen reports on here that their business model has changed recently to only selling the kits.

Seems like it: https://evobikes.co.za/product/sram-rival-etap-axs-shift-brake-system-fm-2x12-speed-disc-brake/

Still Dot fluid

Recently got Rival AXS shifters/brakes on my bike, and looking to add the required brake bleed tooling to my arsenal. Any recommendations on a good bleed kit available locally? Currently leaning towards something like this: https://evobikes.co.za/product/jagwire-wst052-elite-dot-bleed-kit/ Seems like a lot, but when you factor in ~R150 per brake at the LBS it starts to pay for itself quite quickly. Thoughts?

I’d be surprised and concerned if you can’t ride it in a downpour

Yes: https://www.instagram.com/p/CoRxgGlKR-U/

After gravel season, definitely (along with some road wheels... maybe...) Loving this bike 😁

You get a new number each lap, so a different book page needed. same route, different directions (the variation has changed over the years ). there’s a great video on YouTube called “where dreams go to die”, highly recommended.

Upgraded the drivetrain on the diverge to an AXS mullet setup, ready to climb up some walls now 😎

The block shows the “middle” 2 quantiles (ie where half the group finished) the middle line shows the median finish time in the group the dots are outliers (mostly >1.5x the 1st or 3rd quartile range, but differs in some software) https://www.statology.org/how-to-read-box-plot-with-outliers/

Jeepers, that spread in 4G. Anywhere from 3h to 7h

@Kom it was twitchy in 1D as well. No crashes that I saw, but never felt far from one…

Cool video with one of our own @J Wakefield Also nice to see I'm not the only one with k*k hamstrings 🙈

Maybe if you got split peas then you got pins… 🤔🤔

Ahahaha, ok, so nothing is consistent then 🙈 Neither me nor my sister got pins. Anyway…. the moral is, check before Sunday morning

Probably also worth realising today, and not Sunday morning: there are no safety pins in the envelopes.

Even sexier when it's dirty