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Grim Donut is Ritchey Edwards of the MTB world.

Colonel Kurtz with you heading up the river with a mission to kill.

Anyone watch that Remy Metailler bike build vid I posted a few posts back? It's like the most calming zen thing I've seen in an age.

yeah those ambient music bike build vids are usually a good watch.
But please wear gloves when tightening rotor bolts (@3:28).

Hah yeah that's pretty good.

I could play that vid on a loop and bliss out into eternity.

Do you have links to similar ones?

Why wear gloves?

Could just be clumsy me, but torx key slips and then it's your knuckles against extra sharp rotor arms. ouch

Torque on them is tiny so slipping shouldn’t really be a problem, but yeah could see it happening when removing them.

I use a calibrated torque bit in a drill to do em up.

This was nice (maybe even from this thread):
https://youtu.be/AuyuHOYQ_ZA

^^This is why centre lock is better.

I happen to like centrelock too but let’s hope Tester doesn’t hear us

I use a calibrated torque bit in a drill to do em up.

Ooh, get you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h3Olipey5k

Damn you, Corona Virus.

I just drill them to 1 then top them off with a torque wrench. 1 on the drill is about 5nm.

Anyone building a bike nicer than mine isn't relaxing, especially if they're fitting a dropper.

This is why centre lock is better.

Yeah, they warp less too, but Hope don't do them in purple.

Thanks for the links. Wasn't even aware of this genre of bike build video previously.

Yeah, they warp less too

Please show your workings.

Should have said "less than single piece rotors", I've never needed to true a centre lock, or a Hope rotor for that matter.

https://youtu.be/ld6PIx2lpXc

I got about as far as him commenting on "puddles everywhere"

Speaking of which when are we riding in Thetford?

Dunno. Maybe when all these storms have fucked off