Show us what you did today, thread

[jimo746]

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Early start this morning to drop the daughter at work, then decided to have a change from the usual Saturday morning ride and headed to Tarland , near Ballater, theres a small section of man made trails with a pump track too.
Spent a few hours riding the trails there (theres only 3!) And had a blast on the pump track, finally started getting the hang of riding the pump track, which I think helped me get a personal best on the Blue trail which is quite flowy and being on a rigid Singlespeed I had to carry speed as best I could!



Then this afternoon I tackled a particularly stubborn bottom bracket that I'd already soaked in penetrating fluid for a few days, tried heat on it, tried my breaker bar + extension and managed to strip the teeth on the cup :roll: but it finally succumbed to a combined attack from a Dremel and a hammer and chisel
Fortunately the replacement bottom bracket went in without any problems





And.... I finally got around to finishing the build of my All-Terrain-Touring Bike, just needed cabling up and adjusting, so I'll take it out for a ride tomorrow and see how it rides...

 

[epicyclo]

Some fine craftmanship there Jimo.

It's so satisfying when you win.

 

[Mr Panda]

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Excellent news regarding the bottom bracket - agreed, victory is sweet! :xmas-big-grin:

I've been perambulating around on this thing for over a week as my car's in t'workshop....

 

[flash]

It’s pouring down here, so I’m leisurely dismantling my last Surly Pugsley before it goes to it’s new home giving me some space in the garage so I can finish my 1x1 build and start my coaster braked Karate Monkey hooligan bike build...

 

[PeterPerfect]

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Excellent news regarding the bottom bracket - agreed, victory is sweet! :xmas-big-grin:

I've been perambulating around on this thing for over a week as my car's in t'workshop....

Still maintain that Saracen made some cracking bikes for the money.

 

[clubby]

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Excellent news regarding the bottom bracket - agreed, victory is sweet! :xmas-big-grin:

I've been perambulating around on this thing for over a week as my car's in t'workshop....

Still maintain that Saracen made some cracking bikes for the money.

Yeah, Kili Flyer was one of the bikes I lusted after when I started riding. Shame it all went a bit Raleigh/Muddy Fox in the mid nineties. Brand never really recovered. Even now the mags and website seem to ignore them.

 

[Mr Panda]

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Yes the earlier ones were very good until they became a marketing brand and assembled "overseas"......like so many other things.....sad really. I understand the short term business economics, but that philosophy has done the country great harm on many fronts.

(bit deep for a Sunday afternoon)

:?

 

[Mr Panda]

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Jamie, Jamie, Jamie - that bike is actually on the bed FFS!

Wish I'd had mudguards on this afternoon - clothes still hanging in front of fire....

 

[velomaniac]

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Personally I loved the mid to late 90's Saracen bikes. To me some of the mid to high end ones were very cool especially the full sussers such as atop end full carbon urt model. All I could afford was a rigid aluminium Dirtrax but it was for me a revelation, my first bike with rapid fire shifters, v brakes, 1 1/8" headset and a superstiff frame that made hill climbing a sprinters dream. Amazed now that I was once a seriously quick hill climber if not particularly gifted in any other area of mtb.

 

[Jamiedyer]

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Jamie, Jamie, Jamie - that bike is actually on the bed FFS!

Wish I'd had mudguards on this afternoon - clothes still hanging in front of fire....

Well yes, Mr P it was actually on the bed in the spare room before it was dismantled, but seen as how in two posts where I posted those pictures, all anyone noticed was that it was on the bed, I have today, nearly a week later taken a couple outside so not to offend those who don't like bikes on beds (and to protect the innocent, namely me )
So later this afternoon I took a couple of photos of the recently almost completed Mercian KoM. Still needs guards and some longer hoods for the Mafac levers as they don't come down to the bars, so fitted some cheapish bar tape with a bit of extra tape but frankly, while it will let me ride, it looks absolutely dreadful, even by my standards.
So I then thought with the weather so dry and a nice afternoon I would ride into town on the LHT and drop in at the Bike Shop and see if he had any old hoods that might fit and also to check out some mudguards before fitting the old ones. No luck on either count but was a nice ride and while it was very cold I had all my gear on so was fine, with the one exception being on a long downhill that my head was freezing through the vents in my helmet, like an ice cream headache I have ridden with my skull cap but I tend to overheat with it too quickly. Should have just pulled my buff up higher. Anyway it was a really nice ride and after I left the shop I went down around the harbour and seafront before taking the backroads home. I am really liking riding at night lately out in the backroads.
Hope everyone else has had a nice day and maybe got a ride in.
Take care, stay safe and have a lovely Christmas no matter where you are.

Jamie

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