All Things Bikes and Tacos! (...and every vehicle imaginable)

And you are all 6 feet apart! Lol

 

Ok, I used to do my own wrenching on my bike...but now I'm back to being a noob.

My brake levers/cables have too much slop/take up before actually applying braking pressure. How do I tighten them up?

 

Saw some bears on the trail today

 

there should be a barrel adjuster on the brake lever assembly. Turn it counterclockwise to unscrew it from handle That should tighten up the cable. Adjust to your liking. Front and rear. This assumes they are not hydraulic brakes.

 

they might need a bleed

 

First time ever was a blast!

and yeah I’m rockin purple

 

Cable operated front and back. Disc on the front, rim pads on the back.

 

I'll try that, thanks!

 

Well. Shit.

 

Crap

 

I’m going to need a new crank arm and pedal set I think.

 

Man that sucks! Hopefully you can salvage one or the other. It looks like the crank failed right?

 

I have a raceface carbon crankset waiting on a new frameset, and sadly this seems to be a semi common issue with anything raceface carbon. I have not seen this many sram cranksets especially alloy, was this a crash or just normal use and it broke?

 

oof. New sleeve insert maybe?

 

How did that happen? It doesn’t even make sense to me that an aluminum crank would do that

 

Not really sure. Was jumping the bike off a kicker out in front of the house. Then I’m pedaling and notice the wobble.

 

Crank failure. Can’t get the pedal out. I’ll take closeup pic in AM.

 

Why do those gate pads do that to the bike mine does and it drives me fucking nuts I built a half ladder as my grandson calls it to put back wheels in...

 

looks like he is something blocking the rear wheel from standing straight up. My bike sits straight up on my pad and doesn’t move at all

 

Dose yours have the padded blocks on the back side I’ve noticed some do mine don’t.