Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

I have one of these spare with new foams....

Could you be tempted to part with it? What colour is it?

Black. Looks a bit tatty from the outside, has stickers on but as I say, it has new foam internals.

Could you be tempted to part with it?

Yes it hasn't been used in about 4 years
I'll have to check it's the right model.

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any secondhand peli case with wheels
high density foam off ebay
no way more than 200 notes all in, fully custom, and good fun

https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Abbey-Bike-Tools/Team-Issue-Tool-Box-Kit/OXZQ(https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Abbey-Bike-Tools/Team-Issue-Tool-Box-Kit/OXZQ)

Boing!

Yeah, it's kind of impossible to miss that once you start googling these things. There are a lot of nice tools in there, but I've accumulated a lot of tools myself.

I think the sensible thing to do would be to see which tools I use, then work out if there are any obvious gaps (and any non-obvious, also I suppose), and then work out what sort of space they'd take up. And do I need to take my Park Tool mech-hanger-straightener on holiday with me?

You'd never fit a flamethrower into one of those

Travel flamethrowers are getting quite compact these days

Oh, and I got a pair of MDR-P rotors today for the more gravity oriented wheels.

They look fancy

That's a srs looking rotor

The centre lock rotors on the hardtail have always felt better than the much more cut away six bolt ones. Swept surface of the MDR-P is very similar to the centre lock rotors, much more so than the standard six bolt design, and all the reviews are very positive about them so I got a 180/203 pair.

Matchy matchy must be observed.

I also have some small spacers coming to slightly reposition where the pads meet the disc as it’s ~3mm inboard of the edge, so sweeping empty air when the arm is not present.

do I need to take my Park Tool mech-hanger-straightener on holiday with me

Only if you have a steel frame and hanger

I have used it to straighten alloy hangers on metal frames before, admittedly not on carbon.

I've used it on a carbon frame with aluminium hanger, no issue.

Surely just take a couple of spare hangers. They work better than the straightener when you snap them too.

This. Hangers take up less space and once an alloy one is bent and then bent back it becomes much weaker; only a matter of time before a slightly graunchy gear change causes it to snap.

True. I’m thinking more the diagnostic element- establishing that the hanger is bent before spending half an hour failing to get the bike to shift cleanly for e.g.

Ok, changing the subject, here's my "don't get caught out again" kit for looking after Magura brakes, who can spot something that I've missed?

Magura Brakes

• Whole spare brake
  
• Two syringes, one with correct hose
  
• Flat bladed screwdriver
  
• 8mm open ended crows foot spanner suitable for 4Nm torque wrench
  
• Black bleed blocks and a band to hold them in
  
• Cable cutter and barb fitting tools
  
• Re-usable zip ties
  
• T25 T handle wrench
  
• Q-tips
  
• Magura bleed blocks
  
• T25 suitable for torque wrench at 0.5Nm 6Nm, 5Nm
  
• Torque wrench for 0.3-1.5Nm and 4-20Nm
  
• 3mm punch
  
• Hammer
  
• Lever change block
  
• Long 3mm hex wrench
  

spot something that I've missed?

Storage, peli case?
Will it all fit?

I think that lot will go into quite a small space, there's also the actual bike to consider but there'll be a lot of overlap between the brake tools and the tools for the bike.

• Whole spare bike
  
• Hammer
  
  

Done

You need a lot of tools to service the suspension it appears.

Missed off the Shimano brakes

The Magura’s are now both working well, in my extensive “roll down the hill which I live on” test. It will of course be interesting to see how they go at the weekend.