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Tried that on my stem..... Didnt work. haha. Whatever. Would have been dead now. Was even considering just throwing a cable tie around a nearby spoke to put a bit of tension on it that will stop the rattle. But it will really look crap and also I can imagine that having a loose spoke is not really ideal either.

Dont you want to drop him a call sometime pls?

Ok, ok guys. Yes, yes Now back to the spoke. Any way to fix the rattle?

Havent heard that for a while.

Not quite the advice I was looking for! But my repair does look pretty awesome though!

So I finally got it right. Tubeless conversion on my road bike. Got in two tubless hutchinson Atom's from overseas. Two months later they eventually get here and then I set about doing me thing... First mistake is I tried to do the thing the day before the argus. Yes, I know, I know. Got normal rims (Sprint 350) so pulled out the threaded tape and insulation tape. Got that going added some slime (some water based cr&p) Oh, never had any UST valves, so clever boy decided to create his own out of old tubes. Well, the night before the race my bike was all ready, good to go. Got downstairs at 4.30am to find the one wheel was flat. Figured out that it was now leaking at the valve and I couldnt re-inflate it. So I tighten the little nut thing to pull down the valve. And I over-did it with the pliers so next thing I realise that I had pulled the whole thing into the rim. So, lay down newspaper in the kitchen and prepare for the mess. Eventually get the freaking tight tyre off the rim and try to get the valve out. Well, no luck. So at 5am I am in the garage busy wacking this thing out with my hammer. Well it came out pretty cleanly. Now this is the time when I should have just grabbed my old tyre and a tube. But the male ego inside of me said, no I have to get this thing working. So I made another "homemade" UST valve and this time I put a little nut on the valve on the inside covered with a piece of rubber to seal it off. Fitted the tyre again, with more added slime = more mess over the kitchen and all over me. Pump, pump. Not sealing, tighten nut. Pump pump. Not sealing Grab pliers Tighten Tighten Pump, pump Not sealing Grab pliers again. Tighten Oh cr@p. There is too much valve on this side. OH MY <IY*I&Y(&*Y(* I have pulled the whole nut into the rim. So off with the tyre again, which has just been freshly marinated with more slime. Off to the garage again this time the hammer treatment was really brutal to get the valve out again. And the damage was more horrible than a newbies @ss in prison. Ouch. By this time I had missed my start group. Scrounge around in the garage for a hard piece of plastic which I cut into a strip, drill a hole for the valve and I have to re-rim tape my rim now at the same time too. So the plastic is now covering the abortion which I created, covered with a few layers of threaded tape. Normal tyre & tube. I hit the shower (slime) and I am in the car to leave just before 8am when I was meant to start at 6.45. Race was long and slow, but I have to admit that my tubeless back tyre felt amazing. I could feel the difference. Anyway. Look at my bike during the week and I see that the back tyre was now also flat, so that slime was a total waste of time obviously. So this weekend I decided to do the right thing. Went to my LBS and got proper UST valves and some Joe's sealant. I needed to repair my front rim, so I put a straw through the hole with 3 kebab sticks in it to beef it up a bit and I set about putting some carbon fiber into there and I made the hole all nice and pretty again. I needed to do that because the UST valve would never seal against a brutal hole bigger than itself. Once dry, I spent time very carefully layering down my insulation and threaded tape so that it was exactly in the middle of the rim. Fitted normal tyre and tube to inflate to "set" the tape correctly. Remove and set about fitting tubeless tyre. Much big words later tyre is finally on. Fit valve. Glue it in a little just to make sure. Let it dry....... Tyre sits so tight that I can inflate it with my foot pump. Get nice big syringe and inject joes through the removable valve core. That was the easiest thing ever. Pump, pump nice and easy and we done. Repeat procedure for back tyre. Take bike around block for a spin and it feels 100%. Wow, I can feel the difference. Not huge, but it just seems to feel softer almost. Weird. However, as I am riding it sounds like my chip is rattling. So when I get home I hunt down the rattle and to my MISERY is is one of my spokes. SOB SOB SOB. Not broken, but the nipple seems to be fused to the flipping thing. Tried my best to tighten it, but to my dismay it it stuck. So now After my long story. Is there any penetrating oil that could help to loosen the nipple? I really really dont want to have to redo the whole rim. I takes forever! The rim is still running 100% true, which makes me think that that spoke must have always been loose but maybe there was a bit of dirt or something just holding it taught enough not to rattle. Ideas? Help? Is it time to fit sapin super light spokes to it (it is the front wheel, so I think I could push the weight limit thing) What should I do boys?

You fell Headhunter? Sorry, this is basically the only thread I have read for the past two weeks. Life is a bit crazy at the moment. You ok? Did you fall at the argus?

Yep Currently you cant use the word "fact" and seeding in the same sentence. Seeding is like a box of chocolates......

ya, who is he? I caught up to him and he was riding around abouts me from smits side to chappies. Really strong, stood for most of the time and on this BMX thing.

No, not bad for a J rider. Spat did really well. 3.16 I believe from J. Had some trouble towards the end somewhere, but up to that point he was with the front runners the whole time.

3.27 Nicely at the rear end of the group.

ARE you calling me F A T ??? Trying to put me on a low carb meat diet here? *sniff* *sniff* I know its true..... *sniff* *sniff*

Absolutely. Especially if the rider in question has been one of the back markers at fun rides! You guys are giving Spat such a hard time for quite rightly questioning something that shouldnt be happening! If you dont have anything nice to say to him then keep it to yourself! Some of you fortunate guys are just so gifted that you get great times just by looking at the pedals, but for the rest of us plebs, good times and good seedings is the pay off of years of moving up in the ladder and hard training. So when someone shortcircuts that ladder and when they are clearly not up to scratch it pisses me off. It is a different story alltogether for an elite who has had some manual intervention because he is new to the system and when he is able to perform at the level. Yes, I know this is only the argus and he probably was the only loser in the equation. But it still makes you angry that some people can just somehow skelm their way into what they want.

Dont forget guys, You are definitely going to be passing guys from all numbers throughout the race. The last qualifying race that they may have done may have been over a year ago. Then they stop cycling for a year and come back and do the argus. Still got the B seeding, so they start there, but get dropped under the civic center. Now this dude in question has never had a "good" seeding ride so this is not the case for him. But talking about passing guys. I started the race two hours late. "Bike" problems, never change anything the day before a race. So I started casually in LL eventually. There was already guys walking up boys drive when I got there. Not just one, but many! How on earth would they have finished

Sounds like he was doing something "dishonest" then.

Well, we are attacking the seeding process, unless we find out that he cheated....

Well I think he did cheat. Or had a inside connection (which in my mind is still not the right way to climb the ladder) He has no previous record of record times or any other prevailing reason why he would have been awarded the high started group.

PPA seeding system = 8th wonder of the world! Cause no one knows hows it works!

I also want to know. If he can cheat and get away with it, I also want to dammit! I dont think they are going to give you a high seeding just because you have ridden it X amount of times. With his low burger time, he should have been seeded lower down in the alphabet. Maybe he received a O seeding for the race and he used a permanent marker to turn it into a D? Who knows, but something really doesnt tie up here.

I was surprised to see that. I left home two hours late, (road tubeless mega failure) and I was shocked not to see anything. Sad

Just spoke to David. He broke his frame this morning He is trying to get a loan or something, but he is unable to get online at the moment from the expo. If anyone can help him out for the challenge give him a ring.

There is some merit in that. I read some writeup of Dr Jeroen Swart somewhere where he describes how each time your muscle works it gets little impulses through the nerves and hense it contracts etc. Now one of the things that they have found is that when your muscles cramp, it is as if they are receiving an "over" excited series of signals which will make them lock up. If they could relax (or control) these signals going to the muscles, they could potentially stop cramping all together, but then the payoff would be permanent muscle damage. Your body cramps for a reason. As soon as it has gone past what it is capabile of doing it will "over excite" the signals causing you to lock up and forcing you to stop. He also mentioned in the writings that if you are feeling like you are going to cramp, it would actually be better to relax on the spinning and rather go slower and use a harder gear. Having less signals going into the muscle will cause it last longer before cramping, but that also goes hand in hand with less effort. So if you are cramping on suikerbossie, dont shift into a bigger gear and go slower, because your total effort is still going to be through the roof. You will then need to get off and walk or keep in your lowest gear, shift your weight differently in your saddle to work other leg muscles and help your cramping leg with your hand. It even helps to push (massage) your finger hard into the muscle that wants to cramp as you are riding and that will also help to keep it from locking.

Cramping is most of the time from not being used to the intensity and distance. Cramp block, rennies etc etc etc are all in your mind. Trust me, been there many times too. The only thing that helped me was upping time in saddle and intensity.

Thats really funny!