Mechanics and Fixing Any Questions Answered

Is the chain through the derailleur wrong and rubbing on the tab between the jockey wheels?

Bitex I think, not totally sure. Which are decent hubs. Suspect Hunt opt for a lower grade of quality control to get the price down, or are openly buying seconds. Or when touring all the factories got one of the copy cats to mimic one of the well knowns. All heresay. Used to work in China + Taiwan briefly, got a good flavour for how things are done, and generally its not the Chinese or Taiwanese manufactures who are taking the piss, its the western brands messing about.
Experience in the workshops, you tend to notice trends on certain parts and mftr's*

*I.E Shimano 105 + Ult flat mount calipers with the brake pad pin seizing in place. My record is a 3 month old bike, one pin totally rotten, needed a new caliper, shimano had none, and still deny its even an issue (not heard of that before mate!) so the guy ended up returning entire bike to retailer (not me thankfully) for refund, and then bought same bike from another retailer. But then took the fecking stupid rotting pins immediately out and replaced with old MTB hex bolt pins. Issue solved. Just this minute literally saved 2 more calipers from pin seizure, 1 year old bike, done a thousand miles if its lucky, both right right on the edge of been stuck in there.

Hunt do admit that they have an issue with these hubs

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And claim the replacement part was developed by their pro team

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Ooh, I had to replace one of those a little while back too.

Also those shitty shimano pad axles are the worst, any that aren't seized I see immediately get some anti seize on the threads in those and the crappy brown cables are the worst things they've made.

You can drill it out and tap it again. Or just drill and MTB folding pin. It's incredibly shit and time consuming.

crappy brown cables

The ones that turn into pubes?

I've never drilled one out but have replaced with a split pin. I've got them out with a flathead bit and mole grips to really get some pressure on it when turning, and when that's failed I've split the caliper in half and got hold of the long end.

Weird pubes stuck in outers and anything they pass through.

Never considered splitting the caliper, may try next time

It was a last resort but it worked.

There is a pin with a 3mm hex head that fits these nicely. I think they are Aztec or Hayes. Will check workshop box tomorrow.

The Shimano MTB ones are 3mm along with the tektro, promax and most other Shimano copies/licenced stuff.

There are tabs on the inside of of the cassette catching on the trainer? I have a similar problem with 12s campag and my tacx neo

https://forum.cyclingtips.com/t/problems-with-12-speed-campag-on-elite-direto/3752/10

Anyone know what bb FSA road cranks use?

Various.

Hmmm….

The ones I’m looking at seem to have a straight spindle so hopefully would be Shimano compatible rather than sram.

Some have 19mm, 24mmn or 30mm axles.

Ah fuck it, I’m holding out for some cheap 165mm Ultegra or DAs.

The ones with 19mm axle are not the easiest to get a BB for, never in stock IME and last about 5 minutes before going again. Then think there is another one which is GXP style 24mm on drive side and 22mm on the NDS, might be wrong. Also wear out as you look at them.

Haha really? Recently? Haven't had any contact since summer.

Try to educate my customers on them. If you get a good set and no problem, sweet, happy days. If you get a bad one, don't just take it, return it. Though I think quite a few distance sellers 100% rely on a good bunch of customers with faulty stuff just don't bother to return stuff.

With Shimano flat mounts, so long as caliper doesn't look like its been dredged up from bottom of the sea I've just been sending them back to madison, small piles of them. Just don't understand why they've come away from something thats work fine for 20 years and installed a piece of actual cheese instead.

The 19mm megaexo BBs are expensive and shit, yeah, I think the 24mm are almost hollowtech compatible but really tight, they've got a preload bolt with a 5mm hex that likes to round.

I think there's the dreaded 19mm, 24mm that you can just put a hollowtech and 30mm both in different axle lengths, BB30 only or Bb386. For road bikes, that is.

Any good tips for getting box style handlebar grips on?

I’ve got a particularly floppy foam pair that I’m struggling with