Recent content by Karate Monkey

Yeah, cause they'd get in trouble for wearing piercings 🤣

I use a variety of tools to route internal cables, but I've settled in primarily home-made; get a couple of shift cables, and two brass brake housing ferrules. Place them over the cable, with the open end around the cable knarp. Into this, glue two round 5mm rare-earth magnets, positive...

I'm gonna make some brass ones and broach them with Robertson just to screw with y'all at this point.

Tough crowd. I've got a pair (two, actually) of Ergons sitting on the shelf. As my arthritis has gotten worse, lock-ons have gone out of the question. It's neither squish, nor traction, but damping that is important, and I've found no grips that do a better job versus the mechanical...

Working to fix one of life's biggest annoyances (in the sense that nothing bad whatsoever will happen to you if you don't, but there's got to be a better way): The chewed up ESI. After looking around for someone who has made a grip-protecting bar plug, and coming up empty, except for boat...

If you're confident in your mechanical skills, you don't need any special tools but a vise and a pliers wrench to service. You don't need the IFP tool, just a stick that fits to push the IFP to the right depth. Also, the sucked down posts typically have the IFP jammed at the top. It's a bit...

Gotta line them up in order of slinky-ness

Nina, and her fabulous Tortie-Dazzle-Camo (TM) has a thing for inspecting bags that may or may not already be on the floor. She also likes to perform physics experiments to test if gravity is still working as expected (it is)

Yes, but you need to remove the core. It's installed just like a presta core, just with slightly larger flats (uses the valve extender flats).

My favorite picture of our now deceased feral Mama: Shortly after this, she got a little too old to "make it" into the bird bath (which we used to fill, but kept dry for her), and she knocked the flower off the base. She made it another 4 years. My second favorite: After this, she (we)...

I mean, if that was all it took...

I'm still working through the rear set, but I switched back to Shimano metal in the front. It has the ultimate pucker stop that I feel like the MTX pads just don't have. I will grant that the MTX pads are way quieter with most of the same power. To be fair, I see why racey people tend to...

@Patrick what's with the subliminal fatbike message?