Triggers broom
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So my old road bike which has been used to commute year round whatever the weather has covered about 6000 miles over the 2.5 years. Over the course of this time it has had:
Two new rear wheels, 1 due to a knackered wheel bearing and 1 due to a knackered freewheel.
One new front wheel due to snapped spoke and knackered bearing.
One new rear cassette, due to wear.
Two new chains, due to wear.
New headset bearings, knackered.
New bottom bracket, very knackered.
New jockey wheels, worn,
New rear brake caliper, worn release mechanism causing it to release when riding.
New rear derailleur.
Now some of this could have been avoided by better maintenance but much of it is down to the fact that it see water, salt, dirt etc and only gets washed once a week at best as family and other time comitments mean I don't get a chance to do it every night.
Pretty soon the only original it will be the fork and frame.
Anyone else experienced this or do you all look after your bikes better than me?
I have a new road bike that is only going to get used when it's dry and there is no salt on the roads.
Two new rear wheels, 1 due to a knackered wheel bearing and 1 due to a knackered freewheel.
One new front wheel due to snapped spoke and knackered bearing.
One new rear cassette, due to wear.
Two new chains, due to wear.
New headset bearings, knackered.
New bottom bracket, very knackered.
New jockey wheels, worn,
New rear brake caliper, worn release mechanism causing it to release when riding.
New rear derailleur.
Now some of this could have been avoided by better maintenance but much of it is down to the fact that it see water, salt, dirt etc and only gets washed once a week at best as family and other time comitments mean I don't get a chance to do it every night.
Pretty soon the only original it will be the fork and frame.
Anyone else experienced this or do you all look after your bikes better than me?
I have a new road bike that is only going to get used when it's dry and there is no salt on the roads.
Original bits on my roadbike:
Stuff was replaced either due to wear and tear, an accident or to make it more comfortable.
- Frame, fork and headset
- Handlebars and shifters
- Bottom bracket and crank arms (not rings)
- Brakes (not pads or cables)
- Water bottle cage bolts and seat-post clamp
Stuff was replaced either due to wear and tear, an accident or to make it more comfortable.
The original parts of My 5 year old Defy 1 comprise of the frame, handlebars and stem, saddle and seatpost and shifters. Everything else has been replaced including the forks, chain rings, wheels (at least the 4th set) and brake calipers (upgrades but the rear has been replaced again as it was not springing open fully).
My CX bike has even had the frame replaced so does that make it a different bike?
My CX bike has even had the frame replaced so does that make it a different bike?
Steve vRS said:
My CX bike has even had the frame replaced so does that make it a different bike?
Had a shock this week - a pulling sensation when setting off on my CX. Had to get sharpish out of the way of a woman who wanted to turn right in front of me even though my way was green - pulling became a loud creak and the bars went up suddenly. Nursed it to work, got the headset off the steerer, and the carbon steerer is cracked through at the stem / spacer interface. Now will need a new carbon fork. Bah! Hopefully Norco will cover it on warranty. My beloved CX is becoming triggers broom!Hmmm. current MTB - original parts.
Frame,
Seat,
Bars,
Grips,
Headset (3rd set of bearings)
Erm and that's it - it's 10 months old, but it's been upgradeitus.
Few bikes ago was even worse, when I finally put it out to pasture after 5 years hard work the only original bits were the front triangle and the top half of rear triangle, it looked like utter crap, but I loved it until it was worn smooth - all the paint was worn and faded, the lower triangle was a different colour because the original cracked and they couldn't supply the same, everything else had cracked, failed, broken or been upgraded.
Frame,
Seat,
Bars,
Grips,
Headset (3rd set of bearings)
Erm and that's it - it's 10 months old, but it's been upgradeitus.
Few bikes ago was even worse, when I finally put it out to pasture after 5 years hard work the only original bits were the front triangle and the top half of rear triangle, it looked like utter crap, but I loved it until it was worn smooth - all the paint was worn and faded, the lower triangle was a different colour because the original cracked and they couldn't supply the same, everything else had cracked, failed, broken or been upgraded.
In 2005, I bought a Specialized FSR XC Pro as my first proper MTB.
It was a decent enough bike, but the one place where they'd obviously worked down to a budget was in the dreadful coil sprung (on an XC bike!) forks, so I upgraded those to some RockShox Reba SLs.
Next up was an early Gravity Dropper seat post and a new saddle.
The next things to demonstrate their weakness were the original hubs, so I had the wheels rebuilt on some Hope XC pros.
Some years later, I decided I fancied going tubeless, so the original rims and spokes made way for some Pacenti TL28s, mated to the Hope hubs.
I had plenty of decent riding out of that bike over the years, but a couple of years ago, with bearings creaking and groaning all over the place, and the 115mm of travel not really cutting it any more, the announcement that our C2W scheme at work was dropping from £3k to £1k prompted a replacement with a Stumpjumper.
At which point I realised I'd never owned a hardtail, and I'd never get anything even approaching half decent money back for all the bits I'd got on the bike, so I transferred everything over onto a Cove Handjob steel frame...
Then the Gravity Dropper finally gave up the ghost, so I swapped it out for a Thomson dropper, along with a nice new red clamp to match the new red headset and bottom bracket.
After that, my middle lad decided that he'd rather we built up a bike as his first proper MTB than buy one, so the majority of my old groupset made its way onto an OnOne Inbred frame for him, along with the now unfashionably narrow bars, to be replaced by a new XT groupset, carbon bars and a shorter stem on my Cove.
There are now four original parts from that original FSR XC Pro left on the bike... Four rusty stem faceplate bolts which I'm almost tempted to have re-chromed, as without them, it would no longer be my original mountain bike!
It was a decent enough bike, but the one place where they'd obviously worked down to a budget was in the dreadful coil sprung (on an XC bike!) forks, so I upgraded those to some RockShox Reba SLs.
Next up was an early Gravity Dropper seat post and a new saddle.
The next things to demonstrate their weakness were the original hubs, so I had the wheels rebuilt on some Hope XC pros.
Some years later, I decided I fancied going tubeless, so the original rims and spokes made way for some Pacenti TL28s, mated to the Hope hubs.
I had plenty of decent riding out of that bike over the years, but a couple of years ago, with bearings creaking and groaning all over the place, and the 115mm of travel not really cutting it any more, the announcement that our C2W scheme at work was dropping from £3k to £1k prompted a replacement with a Stumpjumper.
At which point I realised I'd never owned a hardtail, and I'd never get anything even approaching half decent money back for all the bits I'd got on the bike, so I transferred everything over onto a Cove Handjob steel frame...
Then the Gravity Dropper finally gave up the ghost, so I swapped it out for a Thomson dropper, along with a nice new red clamp to match the new red headset and bottom bracket.
After that, my middle lad decided that he'd rather we built up a bike as his first proper MTB than buy one, so the majority of my old groupset made its way onto an OnOne Inbred frame for him, along with the now unfashionably narrow bars, to be replaced by a new XT groupset, carbon bars and a shorter stem on my Cove.
There are now four original parts from that original FSR XC Pro left on the bike... Four rusty stem faceplate bolts which I'm almost tempted to have re-chromed, as without them, it would no longer be my original mountain bike!
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