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[volklpowdermaniac]

I have thoroughly abused hydras. Essentially run them almost totally dry.....nice and loud!!! P+S for 3+ seasons and they have always been nothing but perfect.

Word! Yeah mine really have been robust as well. Starting to get a little hub bind? (Sort of feels like your pedaling along and it gets sort of like you’re puddling through mud, then you do a little nose manual and let the rear wheel hit the ground and it releases) so hoping this helps, but realizing it could be a bearing issue too, but will try the short fix first,

[zion zig zag]

Will an Evoc bike bag (with bike inside) fit in the trunk of a smallish car? Say, a Nissan Sentra? Trying to determine how big of a pain in the ass traveling to MEX with bike is going to be.


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[jm2e]

My Dakine bike bag fit into the back of my Hyundai Sonata, but stuck out about a foot. The angles don’t work to slide it through to the back seats


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[zion zig zag]

So I’m going to have to find a van taxi I guess?


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[El Chupacabra]

Bring two long ratchet tie down straps, open all four doors, ratchet strap large item to roof of rental car, close all four doors. Instant roof rack.

[funkendrenchman]

Brake lever locked in the out position. What’s the culprit?

[zion zig zag]

Bring two long ratchet tie down straps, open all four doors, ratchet strap large item to roof of rental car, close all four doors. Instant roof rack.

I doubt the taxis would go for that.

[El Chupacabra]

Probably not. I thought we were talking about rental car sizing..

[joetron]

Brake lever locked in the out position. What’s the culprit?

What brake is it?


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[climberevan]

I doubt the taxis would go for that.

In Mexico they will find a way.

I carried a mtb in an Evoc bag in an Accord trunk, but we had to bungee it closed and the bag stuck out. It def wouldn't fit in a true compact trunk.

[XXX-er]

I carried a hard shell bike box by thule strapping it to the roof of a Citroen wagon and drove @ 130kph on the french hywy to paris, I padded the roof with a piece of foam out of the box, for some reason I brought along 1 only long cam strap and that was fortunate, the thing is you never know how you are gona carry something till you get there

[simple]

Will an Evoc bike bag (with bike inside) fit in the trunk of a smallish car? Say, a Nissan Sentra? Trying to determine how big of a pain in the ass traveling to MEX with bike is going to be.


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The dude knows about Mexico and their Sentras.

There are vans there also. Otherwise yeah I recall it jamming in the back seat

[volklpowdermaniac]

Brake lever locked in the out position. What’s the culprit?

Hmm maybe it got squeezed with no rotor or block in it? Put a funnel with some oil in the brake lever port then gently push back pistons with tool or other flat piece…. That’s assuming that’s issue.

[zion zig zag]

The dude knows about Mexico and their Sentras.

There are vans there also. Otherwise yeah I recall it jamming in the back seat

Yeah, I’m sure I’ll figure it out on the fly. I was just hoping that it would fit in the trunk. Three of us, I’m the only one with a bike, and we’ve got a two day layover in MEX on the way to OAX so I was hoping for simple and cheap.

[skinipenem]

Yeah, I’m sure I’ll figure it out on the fly. I was just hoping that it would fit in the trunk. Three of us, I’m the only one with a bike, and we’ve got a two day layover in MEX on the way to OAX so I was hoping for simple and cheap.

Couple long straps. Open windows. Done. Especially in Mexico.

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[funkendrenchman]

What brake is it?


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Recent XT

[funkendrenchman]

Hmm maybe it got squeezed with no rotor or block in it? Put a funnel with some oil in the brake lever port then gently push back pistons with tool or other flat piece…. That’s assuming that’s issue.

Pistons aren’t pushing on the rotor.

[sfotex]

Question for tubeless riding roadies…what sealant are you using? Seems like Stans and Orange Seal don’t work well over 50psi. Anybody tried Silca? Anything else?


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I'm running some Effetto in my road tires.

[Tailwind]

If neither piston is moving, I’d bet on a stuck seal in the lever.

If one piston was moving but not the other, that would indicate a seized piston. No movement makes me think lever issue as I don’t think both pistons would get stuck at the same time.

Pistons aren’t pushing on the rotor.

[joetron]

Recent XT

Hmmm. That’s a weird one. Haven’t seen it fully locked out, but I have seen some Shimano levers get a little gritty and dry and in what I guess I’d call the servo wave mechanism. They get a really stiff breakaway in the initial lever pull.
Blast some compressed air that zone where you can see a little cam that rolls when you pull the lever. Then maybe some drops of tri-flow to get it moving.
It might not be what I’m describing, but I’ve never seen a Shimano MC fully lock up like SRAM levers when the pistons swell.


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[Lvovsky]

Recent XT

Swap the brake lines to isolate the issue to lever or pistons and lines, eh?

[Roxtar]

E-Bike cranksets.
I see many crankset companies offering e-bike specific models.
Marketing or is there an actual difference?
The engineer in me says that the assist would allow using a a far weaker crankarm. The whole point of an e-bike is to use far less pedal force.
You surely aren't applying near the force to them as with a standard bike.
Any reason to not use a standard crankset in an e-bike.

[smmokan]

Any reason to not use a standard crankset in an e-bike.

Street cred?

[sf]

E-Bike cranksets.
I see many crankset companies offering e-bike specific models.
Marketing or is there an actual difference?
The engineer in me says that the assist would allow using a a far weaker crankarm. The whole point of an e-bike is to use far less pedal force.
You surely aren't applying near the force to them as with a standard bike.
Any reason to not use a standard crankset in an e-bike.

Different spindles?

[toast2266]

E-Bike cranksets.
I see many crankset companies offering e-bike specific models.
Marketing or is there an actual difference?
The engineer in me says that the assist would allow using a a far weaker crankarm. The whole point of an e-bike is to use far less pedal force.
You surely aren't applying near the force to them as with a standard bike.
Any reason to not use a standard crankset in an e-bike.

Pedaling force on a crankarm is entirely nominal compared to the forces from hucking to flat or smashing the crank into a rock. Those forces aren't any less on an ebike.