Im guessing your valve stem may be gummed up, possible from previous slime. Glad you got your ride back to the house for repairs. Thats whats most important.Theodore Voltaire said:Thanks for the offer Rix, but no.
Yesterday I was riding down to the condo, and about 8 miles from home I got a flat. Luckily it happened about 100 yards from the light rail station, so I did the walk of shame over there. At least pushing a Bomber is a lot easier than a Sportster. The train arrived just as I got there. I didn't even have time to load my go pass, so I rode back to Farmer Branch for free. When I got off the train I was still a couple miles from home. I called my beautiful wife Buffy and ask her to drive my van and come get me, but beautiful Buffy's don't know how to drive vans, so I got her to drive her car, and I made her sit and guard my bike while I drove home and got the van. That took about 10 minutes. Soon enough my bike was back in the garage. It's been a couple of weeks since I changed the tire, but when I tried to put slime in the tube it wouldn't go in. I'm guessing the hole in the valve stem is too little, or whatever, but it wouldn't go in. I won't let that happen again. When I get the tube out I'm going to chop it up, and we'll have a look at what the problem was.
1abv said:
The aliens are coming.
Theodore Voltaire said:My brake pads are getting worn down on the 4 piston caliper I bought last February. Thinking ahead I bought replacements back in June, or so I thought. J02A looked like what I need. They're supposed to fit Shimano XTR, XT, SLX, and Alfine calipers. My caliper is a XT BR-M8020. That's a XT, right? Well these J02A don't fit. The back plate, and friction pads are noticeably smaller, and the hole for the lock pin is in the wrong position. It turns out the ones I need are H03A which are specifically for M8020, M820, and M640. I had to order a set on Amazon for $50 frickin dollars to get fast shipping. Of course these are the ventilated ones though. On eBay they're a little cheaper, but they ship out of china. I ordered a back up set on eBay for $35 that might get here by December if I'm lucky.
i can't complain about the way they work though. They have strong stopping power, and don't fade like the 2 piston XR did. Bigger pads don't you know. You got to pay to play sucka.
Allex said:With a good controller you can configure the power of regen, and with adequate force of the regen you rarley need to use the pads during the paved tours, but now, your rear wheel will wear out faster.
1abv said:When I was running 2 pot Magura brakes I would go through about 3-4 sets of pads a year. Now w shimano 4 pots they brake better and I go though about 2 sets a year.