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Can I call you 'Dad'?  ^_^

 

Will your son be riding the Bloemendal Spur Race? If so, I need to bring my camera to take a new pic of him on his new steed!

 

Yes. Hopefully with renewed vigor. The Spur School MTB are so flat and boring, he could just do the whole race with whole suspension on full lockout.

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that stem though hey Myles... :ph34r:

 

Hehe! Me and the boy was talking about it last night. For now he says it's OK as he knows his old man is now dirt poor.  :whistling:

 

Other thing is, as any young bloke with some technical savvy, he fiddled with the bike and managed to loosen the bleeder screw on the hydraulic lockout for the rear shock because he wanted to adjust the rebound. He thought he needed to loosen that before adjusting the knob. Now his rear shock is on full lockout all the time and his old man must either get a bleed kit and fix it again, or send it to the LBS for a quick bleed. Almost gave him a klap, but then realised he was just like me 35 odd years ago.

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Hehe! Me and the boy was talking about it last night. For now he says it's OK as he knows his old man is now dirt poor.  :whistling:

 

Other thing is, as any young bloke with some technical savvy, he fiddled with the bike and managed to loosen the bleeder screw on the hydraulic lockout for the rear shock because he wanted to adjust the rebound. He thought he needed to loosen that before adjusting the knob. Now his rear shock is on full lockout all the time and his old man must either get a bleed kit and fix it again, or send it to the LBS for a quick bleed. Almost gave him a klap, but then realised he was just like me 35 odd years ago.

 

school fees ..... not so nice when you are paying it .... but GOOD in the long run !

 

Good on him for learning how his bike works.

 

 

 

Give Mark (Marks Workshop) a call.  Hopefully not too expensive to re-bleed the shock ....

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school fees ..... not so nice when you are paying it .... but GOOD in the long run !

 

Good on him for learning how his bike works.

 

 

 

Give Mark (Marks Workshop) a call.  Hopefully not too expensive to re-bleed the shock ....

 

We were lucky in that Darryn gave us a bleed kit for free, as they have lots of them laying around in the shop. So I got some 2.5W fork oil from the local MX guys, and did the bleeding last night together. Took us 10 minutes and the lockout is working again. So now he know how to service his hydraulic lockout.

 

The Lefty is a completely different ball game though.  :ph34r:

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Hehe! Me and the boy was talking about it last night. For now he says it's OK as he knows his old man is now dirt poor.  :whistling:

 

Other thing is, as any young bloke with some technical savvy, he fiddled with the bike and managed to loosen the bleeder screw on the hydraulic lockout for the rear shock because he wanted to adjust the rebound. He thought he needed to loosen that before adjusting the knob. Now his rear shock is on full lockout all the time and his old man must either get a bleed kit and fix it again, or send it to the LBS for a quick bleed. Almost gave him a klap, but then realised he was just like me 35 odd years ago.

Sounds like he just wanted a road bike with no shocks... but thats just me.

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