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Can I check: 1) I have blue loctite threadlocker. Would that be ok to use over the blue paste, when I'm happy with the tensions. 2) the wheel is built skew. If I understand Brucey correctly that makes no difference to the process of truing the wheel.. &..tensions should be the same on leading an...

Ah ha.spookily worrying. It is indeed the same hub/Wheel (Aksium one disc) coincidentally on a Condor. It was ridden for a year without problems until my missus and the front half of the bike got splatted by a car. Now she's finally recovered we got a replacement frame and front wheel and after a fe...

Noted. This one is an Askium disc. So I'm not the only one then.

I will just have to see how my trueing lasts.

Fingers crossed

I've had a similar issue before and am wondering if I suffered from a bad Sapim batch. The only time I've had a front spoke break was a Sapim on a pretty new pair built by Spa. The pair had only done about 1500 miles and 3 spokes went on the back and one on the front. (When the front spoke went I de...

Anyone had problems with these staying true ? In tracking down a 'tinking' sound from the back wheel I eventually spotted it was out of true with low and uneven tension on the spokes. It's a 2015 Mavic Akisum, but has not done much mileage. The spokes were loose enough that the wheel seems to have ...

Interesting. I had an xt front hub that I got water into and got pitted. I built it up with some valve grinding paste and ran it with a drill for a while dismantling and checking regularly until most of the pitting had gone. Then reassembled with new grease and balls It's fine 20 odd years later (al...

Not as neat as Mick F's bespoke but didn't take long to file out this 30mm stainless (3mm) calor gas spanner to 32mm. It was £3.50 on fleabay. 90g so not that light weight either !

Not strictly used as a band, but of the million uses of dead inner tubes I recommend their use in packing bikes in bike bags with both wheels off: Position semi deflated tyres so they coincide with frame or fork and then secure in place with figure of 8 type knots using inner tube so that a section ...

Noted. I had thought low riders were to assist balance by keeping the weight low...although had not really interrogated the idea. The Tara is pretty good for flat packing/dismantling to get a fully loaded bike into busses/on Planes etc, but I had hankered over a lowrider/over front wheel combo for s...

blackburn.JPG Well this one with a hoop wasn't safe. I now use a Tubus Tara after I found out that aluminium, time & and bumpy roads lead to fatigue. It unhelpfully swung into my front wheel took out some spokes and left me stuck in the middle of nowhere in Tibet. Managed to get a lift to Lhasa...

Mine wasn't as indexed as yours, but I followed Brucie's advice (asabove) and so far it been good. Handling much better than before I realised my headset was overnight and brinneled. It's cheap to try anyway, so surely worth a go.

Having just done the same with mine the braking is substantially better than before. So was worth the time setting/resetting to get right.

If you re-use you get sustainability credits (and retain a few some beer vouchers)

(Blimey....didn't expect straddle cable angle/yoke height to make no difference) Double check: That would be horizontal on the lower arm of the brakes ? Whereas the shimano set up diagram is close to horizontal on the upper side. ( just googled park tools video that said brake pad bolt should be dir...

I have these brakes on my Raleigh Randonneur. I am trying to work out the best yoke height cable angles, having essentially kept them until now at the angles they were when I bought it 2nd hand last century. Just found the shimano set up instruction: Br at50.jpg My front brake was set up like the ab...

Noted. Lacking corrosion inhibitors........Will have to see how well trained my seals are.