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My Mountain Biking Hobby is my Back Door and Entrance for Unexpressed Emotions and Uncontrolled Feelings for Seeking Thrill and Because Mountain Biking Takes me to a Place Something Unusual of the Real World!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Sporty MP3 Player




I recently bought this sporty mp3 player online from beyondbikes. I found it to my liking after reviewing that this gadget is a waterproof and shock proof unit. Amazing huh! I can go around trailing with my mountain bike under the rain with music in my ears! ^-^ ahhhhhh! I can't wait to give it a try!!!

Friday, February 6, 2009

Revival



I am bit tired and dizzy tonight, while I was on duty at crywolf, I was also busy trying to revive my Deore XT rear hub.! Luckily the assembly was successful.. But not until it is tested! I guess I'll have to re-lace my rear wheel for the test!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Broken Wings






This is my Shimano Deore XT FHM 775 with pawls with broken wings, I'm currently working on how to make it's return spring functional without those broken wings. The wings acts like hooks at the return spring to keep the pawls stay in place while acting as a close open valve.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

5 Inches Test



Yesterday me and The Escaper had a trail ride at the Tanghal Quarry it is a trail route we use to ride for a steep slippery and loose rock trail for a few test or practice for a coming game!

I manage to change my front suspension travel and improvised the locking knobs so us to keep the travel length stay as it is. And I gave it a test at this trail.

Luckily it worked well. And the best part I found out that my fork's bushing whispering a worn out signal! T_T




Wednesday, January 28, 2009

New Gearing Ratio



After the wreckage of my Shimano XT M775 rear hubs, I switch to FHRM65 a non-series hub of shimano that I think will do the work while waiting for a budget for a better pair of hub! I was thinking how to revive this hub. I think I have an idea to make the return spring funtionable without the pawls broken wings!

And while the alignment of of my rear wheelset, I had this road cogs in my closet that send me to try a new gearing ratio. I was using for more than a year this 42 chainring with a mountaibike 9 speed cogs. Now I am using a 32 chain ring with a 9 speed set of road cogs.


And Lastly, I bought this Woodman sitpost clamp today. I've been waiting for this size of clamp for a year now, after buying a frame without a clamp that fits with a 31.8 sitpost.



Thursday, January 15, 2009

Busted Shimano XT



I got A busted rear hub. It's shimano XT hub, I bought it last year and I have been using it ever since even under the rain or muddy trails. Haven't opened it for cleaning, so I guess it's one of the reason the pawls are no longer functional!
 
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