Colorado B.S. Thread

Not sure if you are familiar with how it is at Buffalo Trace but every morning they drop something for everyone to buy. It's never anything over the top crazy, but still nice. I went 2 years ago and had a lot of fun doing tours. We never found much of anything at stores though. If you end up needing a bottle of ER for your brother, I should be able to help

 

what are you upgrading to?

 

I bought a bigger bike and a littler bike instead of a do-it-all bike. Picked up a Pivot Firebird and an Evil Following.

 

Still have your Stanton, tho, right?!

 

Yes. I've got a bike problem.

 

Sounds like you’re doing it right to me

 

Have you built a hardtail yet?

 

It just so happens that I’m waiting for a certain shipment to clear Canadian customs any day now…

 

Ah, Chromag? I seriously considered a rootdown.

Excited to see how you build it. You'll need to come up here for a ride this summer!

 

Yes I'm hoping to be able to convince everyone to make that a daily stop to try for variety

 

I decided to go steel HT, so it was down to a Rootdown, or a Trans Am, but I landed on a Knolly Tyaughton XT/Factory 36 build because it fits my needs better (I’m a husky boy), and their sale price was in my budget.

I’m beyond excited

 

Did they go back and honor that 10% you were telling me about?

 

They did! They even swapped out the 28h wheel sets for 32h for me no questions asked.

They’ve been really great to work with the whole way. Would highly recommend them to anyone.

 

SWAT was at both Walmarts by my house yesterday. FYI I’ve seen ppl smoking meth in their cars @ both locations. My family had stopped shopping at both locations & we drive to Southlands now. They had a drone & a dog at the neighborhood Walmart. Doesn’t feel very “neighborhood” to me. Watch out

 

Where is that?

 

All four wheels in the air, goes on 4-HI, 4-LO, all forward gears, the one reverse gear.
Not one fuckin bit of noise.
Rev the fuck out of it in the air, prepared to fly off jack stands and careen thru neighbors fence.
Nothing.
Slam on brakes at roughly 40mph, in the air.
Nothing.
Slam the bitch back and forth between 1st and reverse.
Nothing.
Drive one block and it sounds like it's gonna drop a fuckin shaft.
Grind, grind, grind, occasional random knock, sometimes the sound of loose metal, repeat.
I even checked to see if something in the fuckin camper is making noise.
Nope.
And can definitely feel it thru the floor.
I wish the fuckin things still came with manual hubs, like they did before pusillanimous fucktards did away with them.
Then I could drive it with nothing spinning up front and at least rule it out, or prepare to remove it.

Literally three locations it could be, front, center, rear, and I can't even narrow it down to two of them.

 

Pulled all the skid plates. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Checked front diff fluid, was clean on the finger, and about a fingernail low. I topped it off, drove around the block, no change.
I'm 72% sure it's coming from the rear.
I suppose I could drop the rear drive shaft, and drive it in fwd, just to see what happens.
Since it happens in coast, under load, that might shed some light on it.
Might do that tomorrow. I'm properly pissed about not being able to pinpoint it. If I can find it, that'll make me happy. Then it can be dealt with.

 

Have you done the front wheel bearings?

When mine were bad, I couldn't really notice play in the wheels, unlike with the silly 2nd+ gen wheel bearings.