NotSoBigBen

I use a Samsung phone, not an iSheep 🤪, as I say in most cases I'm ok with it .... The odd occasion it loses connection I can live with 😎

Nee man .... 😂😂😂😂

Garmin Livetrack ... Yes there are very occasional times it doesn't work but the majority of time, for me, it's good enough

'off-road' royalty and yes it does ride just like a normal bike, no it doesn't feel like there's only 'half a fork' 🤪 The Lefty jokes haven't changed I guess 😎

That's one of the small things to sort out today 😁 Will put the lockout on and bleed it

Finally, a few small details to sort and then riding time!

Sometimes it's not the event but outside influence that can make a specific running of an event tougher than others For me despite having done an ACE and a few iM races amongst others ... The toughest I can recall doing are a Sabie experience, in fact one of the first ones it rained like crazy and the mud was bloody horrendous .... Doing an Audax, one of the longer ones, it was so cold at the super early morning start it was difficult to ride in a flippin straight line! But I guess it's that human trait of having to be able say 'I suffered more than you' 'one up man ship'

Know-nots .... No man bloody coffee everywhere 😂😂

Getting so close to actually being able to fit it now! Picking up a new Lefty sticker now 😎 Got a complete wheel that just needed some TLC .... Fixed a few spokes, serviced the hub ... Bonus!

Took this bike around the TT course it'll be used for to see if that gearing would be ok ... It'll do! Every so often I get asked 'why' I do the 'crazy' things I do but today I get an added 'can you really push that gear' from someone I see in the parking lot .... Short answer as always 'because I can' and 'probably no, except for short steep downhill sections' Was going to explain the 1x big gear advantages of more efficient chainline and stuff but then again it's 'marginal' so stuck with 'because I can' 😎 #ItsWhatIDo

I have no idea why anybody would need so many bikes 🤪

That is my go to bar tape on my gravel bikes .... single on the drops, double wrap on the top as you say. Not really that fussed what tape, whatever I can get my hands on at a reasonable price For the 'under' layer on the top I scrounge some leftover tape wherever I can.

No sorry, I have absolutely no idea .... It was a 26" fork from some old timer bike. In fact it has been modified (filed) to take a slightly bigger tyre I have it on a single speed steel bike now!

Thanks for the heads up! Just waiting to hear from a local who might have one ... if he doesn't let me know in the next few hours I'll certainly see if I can get this one PUDO'd to Howteng

Demmit, fricken heck .... after all the excitement of collecting the necessary goodies from the engineer chap and ready to build a wheel and install turns out the hub I managed to get is for a 2.0 fork not my 1.0 😨 (ja ja Grumpy did warn me to check that first) So now on to finding a 1.0 hub or wheel 😎

I have a similar experience to @Wannabe .... I have a road and monstercross bike with Tektro's, a set of Avid BB5's on another monstercross and then some very cheap ones on yet another monstercross I have done Suikerbosrand a few times with the road bike with no issues, done Race 2 the sun, Gravel Travel 100 with the MonsterX with the Tektro's also all good I do however find all of them a bit fiddly and I do adjust them every so often just to keep the feel I like I find the Avid's have the best feel and stopping but need more attention than the others Just to mention I do ride them as proper gravel bikes and don't go looking for 'gnarly' single track or rocky sections ... I do come across short sections like that and I just 'ease' through them!

This is in fact one of those frames 👌

Sjoo .... I only really have experience with converting MTB frames etc. to gravel Biggest problem I foresee is clearance for bigger tyres, best to post a pic of the space available .... I wouldn't attempt tubeless on those rims myself I must say Disc brakes on the front no issue by changing the fork... At the back 🤔 Having said that, it'll certainly be great fun for the both of you!

Finally getting down to sorting the Lefty stuff for my gravel bike. Thanks to advice from Grumpy I dropped the fork off at a local engineering guru to have the spacer made, provided the dimensions from @Mongoose!, thanks again mate. He says it'll probably be ready tomorrow 😎 Have to build a wheel .... That'll happen over the next few days. Bloody hell Grumpy has some cool cool stuff!

A longish story behind this but no ... not Amish, not analogue, not acoustic Pushbike if you will or 'Mountainmaschine ohne Elektromotoren' Cooling on the Highveld but far from unpleasant!

That is pretty cool! Printed some Fox goodies for my son and ASX battery covers for the Grumpy one ....

I find it not too bad but I do use the standard (not HD) version as well .... I'm not there for the view 🤪

Espresso may not be the answer but its worth a shot 😜

Thanks Chris ... Another one of those builds where I was asked 'but why' and at times I even wondered myself. I must say though it is an absolute hoot to ride! As an aside my stock reply when asked about any of the 'unusual' builds I do is simply 'because I can' 😎

Legs tired .... Ride with your heart! Taking a lot of frustration out on the bike at the moment, yesterday just 2 hours of ambling aimlessly and today 2:30 'on the rivet' Both had the same effect 😎