Steaming Surly Rollergeddon

USE things arrived.

Mudguards.
Ballache.

Back wheel not a problem, using the left overs of a broken rear and the rack will become part of the guard. No problems there.

Front, I was hoping to use the new rear guard to get maximum front coverage, with tyres around 30mm no problem. Running 35's is a problem and going to have to get creative to make things fit :(

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I hate mudguards on road bikes.

Rear bikini guard fitted in no time, 1xbolt 2xzip-ties and some dremel re-profiling to fit the seat stay bridge, ran this on the FXE, rear rack forms rest of guard.

Front end, I wanted to use the rear guard I have to get maximum wrap-round.
If I had a disc brake, piece of piss.
If I had canti or V or mini v's , piece of piss.
Could have hammered a star nut up the forks rear end and bolted to that.

Had to resort to using the stock front guard and start to modify the bracket and re-profile the sides of the guard, front wheel could do with a tune up on spokes as a slight wobble which catches the guard.
Will have to bodge on a flap or use the odd bits to extend.

It's on and a very gentle rubbing left. I should have checked before hitting buy on the 35's as Surly state 32mm tyre max with guards, only 3mm over but what a ball ache. Learn as you go :)

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Well that's a first.

After rebuilding the USE shockpost I went for a quick razz around.
A gentle rubbing on the front mudguard.
Shockpost is fine.
Get home.
Park bike.
20 mins later a whoompf sound.
Go downstairs to see if Rollins has fallen over.

Big black snake attack ! fuuuuuuuuck Rollins jumps and a loud bang.

First noise was the tyre popping off the rim, followed by tube exploding.

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Tyre seems ok.
Rim seems ok.
Tube in my opinion is fucked.

Dunno, maybe I didn't seat the tyre properly, only went round the house's, tyre was sat for over a day set at 60psi.

?

Aliens out to get me ?

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It was dark, maybe creatures of the night got my inner tube/tyre ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vorP5AjkH1U

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Tube in my opinion is fucked.

Nah that'll buff out

Aliens out to get me ?

Definitely

Could tie a knot in each end and have a soft spot at the bottom of the wheel all the time.

Beyond duct tape/zip tie :)

Nah, you just need some of that self vulcanizing tape that plumbers use.

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Was a Tourist today, started near Canada Water, swung by Decathlon.
Never been to one before.
Very cheap on tubes which may or may not be crap. As expected the size I want isn't covered by special offer twin packs.
Grabbed these 2 at £2.19 each to try out, usually get 28-35mm size so I expect these 35-45 to be a bit heavier...... but cheap....
Only have one spare tube left at home so grab em while I see em.
Did leave front wheel pumped up at 60psi, so far no attempts by tube to escape and explode....... yet.

Did get distracted by CO2 inflators, gizmo+ 1xCO2 £7.99 a spare pack of 3x CO2 was £3.99 never used one, was tempted.
Long story short, ended up in the Giant bike store across the city, Giant own brand gizmo was twice the price. may have to visit Decathlon again.

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In case anyones wondering, the bike is upside down minus the front wheel.
Need to remove the mudguard and attack it again, stop the rubbing.

Bit of Bauhaus, bit of single malt.
Knees sore from a 7'ish mile wander across the city today.

Following the retro MTB threads on here, I have some old bits, dug out the old suspension seat post, worked out what bike I first had it which was made in 97 so maybe I got this late 97 early 98, so it's 20 years old and I can still get parts because the design was revamped by USE and they kept standard sizing across the range of posts.

:)
Enter one old post with worn out bushes and keyways and some shims, add 1 new 25-27.2 shim which even the packaging hasn't changed much in 20 years, add a bush and key kit, and a MCU spring kit.

Be nice to recommission this and it will fit both Surly's.

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One old USE XCR post.

Saddle clamp parts above post.
Post is made from an outer tube, with an inner shaft that forms the saddle attachment.
A threaded base cap keeps the spring in, and a threaded silver collar keeps the shaft in. The collar is below the rubber boot.

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Whip out the base cap.
6mm allen key.

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With springs out, now undo the silver collar.
You can pull the shaft free from the outer tube.

Skanky.
To strip off the collar you need to remove the 2 bushes (easy) and the 2 delrin keys (not so easy)

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Everything nice and clean :)

Threaded collar has an O-ring on top and a Delrin washer underneath. The 2 dark bushes are split and easy to lift off.
The white delrin keys are about 4x4mm thick and maybe 25mm long (didn't measure length)
You need pliers or water pump pliers to grip and wiggle keys out of shaft, one came out quite easy the other needed pump pliers.

All cleaned up nicely.
I found some unserviced posts selling on Ebay for £50 so for £37 I got a shim and full service kit........

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Shaft rebuilt and greased up with red grease.
This has to be done in order of slip boot on first, then silver collar with O-ring and washer.
Then you need a rubber hammer to bang the 2 Keys into place, then the split bushes.
It was a tight fit but shaft went back into outer tube.
Collar done up.
As the spring kit is for a range of posts I have a spare purple MCU stack as my post only takes 2 + metal spring.

Slipped all this together and shimmed the frame, damn is this tight, where as the FXE seemed to be on the slack end of tolerance this is on the tight end.

Just enough height to play with, if I want to I can ride Rollins with 50mm of cushion under my ass. The rotation from shagged keys is gone, feels like new again.
Pinged off a few curbs to test function :) back to the 90's all over again, need a flex stem (joke)
Will play around with this, last used it in 2010, nice to have it working again.

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He's not dead he's just sleeping.

Something i need to do as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY

Attacked the guard again.
Refitted again.
Went for a test ride again.

Tink......tink....tink......tink..... bastard feckin thing is still catching.
Stop bike spin wheel slient.
Ride off again.
Tink.......tink........tink....... sounds a bit metallic.
Oh that's the spanners in my pocket........ knob :)

puts spanners in separate pockets and Rollins runs silent. Silent at last, and front tyre hasn't exploded off the rim again.
Bouncy seatpost is ace, this may stay put on the bike.

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I was hoping to use the rear guard up front for maximum coverage of the wheel.

Due to me not checking before starting, then finding out max tyre size with front guard is 32mm, only 3mm over at 35mm but being stubborn I have made it fit.
Need to extend the drop, might just ghetto fix with duct tape.

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Aimed for big muddy puddles to see what spray would be like.

Big clumpy work boots I ride in.
A minor tweek and spray should be cut down.
Not to bad but could be better.

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Looking good!

:)

Rear rack to refit later, should have a dry bum and clean (ish) boots then.

Test run to tescos.
Lock stayed put in it's ghetto holster.
Clipped front mudguard with boot and fucked it. Sort of went back to shape.

Pond behind was icy and someone's been feeding the piranas

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Millions of them

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Maybe some goldie looking ones

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