The other day I was talking about tweaking the SS RIP9. The quick link on my single speed chain was knocking into the cage of my tensioner, and making stuff skip.
So I had the dremmel out, and I was chopping away at the aluminum cage to get more clearance. Which somehow made everything worse. I cut away more and more material, then I stopped. I looked at the tensioner again. The pullys were closer to the right side than the left. All I had to do was flip the quick link around to face the inside of the chain.
I flipped it. Problem solved, no dremell needed. I'm dumb. And now I have a tensioner with a big chuck missing from the cage.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Shipping off to New Zealand (I wish)
Colleen is gone until July, and on a plane headed for New Zealand. I'm pretty jealous that I won't be going on the Lord of the Rings tour with her. Anyway, shes been trying to decide all winter if she wanted to have a bike with her. A day before she left she decided that she did.
So we checked out the options. They were fly with bike, ship bike UPS, or buy a bike over there and try to sell it before leaving.
I punched in a bike box to UPS at work, and it turned out to be $856.00. That was out.
Then we checked out some NZ bikes. A pair of hiking boots cost about $350 there, and mountain bikes are correspondingly pricey. I guess stuff is expensive when it has to be shipped to the bottom of the world. So that was also out.
She called the airline, and it would only cost $200 to fly the whole way there with the bike. I grabbed the smallest bike box I could find and jammed her Karate Monkey into it. Not as professional looking as a hard case, but it'll do:
I wish I could see her trying to carry that thing through the airport.
So we checked out the options. They were fly with bike, ship bike UPS, or buy a bike over there and try to sell it before leaving.
I punched in a bike box to UPS at work, and it turned out to be $856.00. That was out.
Then we checked out some NZ bikes. A pair of hiking boots cost about $350 there, and mountain bikes are correspondingly pricey. I guess stuff is expensive when it has to be shipped to the bottom of the world. So that was also out.
She called the airline, and it would only cost $200 to fly the whole way there with the bike. I grabbed the smallest bike box I could find and jammed her Karate Monkey into it. Not as professional looking as a hard case, but it'll do:
I wish I could see her trying to carry that thing through the airport.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Tweaking the SS Rip9
8 and 9 speed chains were skipping pretty bad on the SS Rip, so I had to use a big KMC single speed chain. Which mostly works. Except for the pins on the quick link, which stick out too far, and run into my tensioner:
I was getting a noise and occasional skip when the pins hit the tensioner cage.
Since I just need a tiny bit more clearance, I cut a channel into the tensioner:
Which somehow made things worse. I guess I have a sharp edge somewhere. Back to the dremel.
I was getting a noise and occasional skip when the pins hit the tensioner cage.
Since I just need a tiny bit more clearance, I cut a channel into the tensioner:
Which somehow made things worse. I guess I have a sharp edge somewhere. Back to the dremel.
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