Discussion
After a bloody hard ride at the weekend (Queen Charlotte track, 75kms, 2600m vertical, half in the pouring rain over roots and rocks...) my bikes well stuffed.
New brake pads on the way (0.2mm left..), wheels are off , old pads are out and its filthy so will get a good clean..
But what else to do?
Clean the calipers and fit the new pads is a given. Will clean & check out the gear indexing etc too.
Bike is a trek 6500 hardtail 2008 1.5 years of riding, lightly serviced before.
So what else Should I do? Opent he hubs and grease? Bottom bracked? do anything else to any other bits?
New brake pads on the way (0.2mm left..), wheels are off , old pads are out and its filthy so will get a good clean..
But what else to do?
Clean the calipers and fit the new pads is a given. Will clean & check out the gear indexing etc too.
Bike is a trek 6500 hardtail 2008 1.5 years of riding, lightly serviced before.
So what else Should I do? Opent he hubs and grease? Bottom bracked? do anything else to any other bits?
New cables.
Dont just replace the inners as its a waste of time. Buy 6ft of Shimano cable off the Reel at your LBS with a handful of endcaps.
Makes all the difference.
If you have the tools and the right mindset - its pretty easy to strip a bike down to a bare frame and re-build, I would do this to each of my bikes quite regularly - give the frame a real good inpection.
buy a tub of engine degreaser and make yourself a little parts washing tub, all the derrailuers, chainring etc get thrown in and swilled about.
Theres bits of bikes that just cannot be cleaned without beign taken apart - my derrailers would have the back plate take off, jockey wheels remvoed etc.
It will be like a new bike when its done - its just a case of how far do you want to go!
As for BB - that will be sealed, so its a case of cleaning it all upo and checking for damage/play.
Hubs - depends whether they are cartridge of cup+cone bearings.
Certainly its worth removing the disc rotors, then giving the hub sheels a really good clean round the spoke holes, and the shell (feed a rag through and work it round).
Dont just replace the inners as its a waste of time. Buy 6ft of Shimano cable off the Reel at your LBS with a handful of endcaps.
Makes all the difference.
If you have the tools and the right mindset - its pretty easy to strip a bike down to a bare frame and re-build, I would do this to each of my bikes quite regularly - give the frame a real good inpection.
buy a tub of engine degreaser and make yourself a little parts washing tub, all the derrailuers, chainring etc get thrown in and swilled about.
Theres bits of bikes that just cannot be cleaned without beign taken apart - my derrailers would have the back plate take off, jockey wheels remvoed etc.
It will be like a new bike when its done - its just a case of how far do you want to go!
As for BB - that will be sealed, so its a case of cleaning it all upo and checking for damage/play.
Hubs - depends whether they are cartridge of cup+cone bearings.
Certainly its worth removing the disc rotors, then giving the hub sheels a really good clean round the spoke holes, and the shell (feed a rag through and work it round).
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