Hahaha had to be said when I noticed the times!Cheeky *******!
Fastest Burger King delivery in EK mate! It will turn into good training as MTB + block of flats on my back sprinting around keeps me warm.
Those nuts can get stuck to the hose a bit, it should spin free and give the hose a clean once it does. The olive that is on there should be fine to use again, I've certainly never had any issues doing it that way.
Good work getting it done, quality variable interval training really if you put your mind to it, while also getting some extra beer tokens!
Thanks for the pointers, will see if I can lube it and get it twiddling, I'll only lube it with fluid to avoid any cross contaminiation. Got a new RS785 caliper from LBS yesterday. They had one in their Taunton store and it came in day after I'd asked. Good service, better than any courier as they have their own 2 vans which travel between the 4-5 stores, even better they gave me a club discount on a price they'd already matched to Evans' - £54 down to £50! Not bad for a part they said Madison was showing as out of stock... Just glad someone had ordered one into another of their stores in January and then never been in for it...!
I'd intended to keep the bike inverted after taking the caliper off so I could just fit the new/fixed caliper and then bleed top>down with it inverted (so only bleeding caliper) but the other half had put the damn bike down in the garage for something. Doh! Quite glad I put a bag over the hose to stop contamination as it's now full of fluid as the whole system drained and will need a complete bleed. Oh well. I have the fluid so good exercise to put new in with a caliper change.
Good work! Actually rode rim brakes in the wet outside last monday for the first time in probably 1.5-2 years. Not as sketchy as I remember but did ride extra cautiously as not a bike I'm used to the handling of (as it normally sits on Zwift). 25mm tyres and 80/90 psi isn't as harsh as I remember either... Very twitchy though, but that could be the bike setup as not great (but great for Zwift!).Winter bike = done apart from mudguards and then setup the brakes.
Damn that's really suffering, your ride temp shows that as 'only' zero, but I imagine windchill was below zero?Had my deep winter Rapha gloves on and my left hand was numb still by the time I got in, right hand was fine, think I'll be moving to the lobsters for the morning rides in from now, far too painful to put up with.
Horrific wind&rain early on here means I currently don't have a bike with guards so I drove to work (and being too lazy last night to fit my caliper). Getting our bathroom done at home, so taken 2 days holiday this week, with no bath/shower the anticipated Zwift sessions haven't happened as washing over a sink isn't ideal at the best of times, nevermind being extra smelly from Zwifting! Dentist tomorrow also means driving again, so my riding this week is going to be 1 commute - 4.8 miles... Kinda short this week, so rest week for me?! Maybe as I've been good I can get away with 2 weekend rides...
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