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  1. after much blood, sweat, mail order parts and beers, I finally got the 12sp dialed.  took it to cat today.  first time there in a while.  50T got me up the hill, where I promptly punctured the rear on a rocky landing.  

    my tire went all Ron Swanson:  give me all the bacon and Stan's you have.  literally.

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    so I cut the ride short.  

    just as well.  ended up having a perfect day of sailing up on Buchanan.  pretty steady 17kt wind, surfing the SW swells on the way back, just skimming along.  hiked all the way out, dragging the sheet hand in the water.  wife blowing up my phone, inaudible in the dry bag, wondering if I'm ok.  fuck yeah, I am.

  2. 22 minutes ago, Braff Zacklin said:

    Wherever possible, he had taken the cosmic view, had taken into consideration, for instance, such things as the shortness of life and the longness of eternity.

    He reported his avocation as: “Being alive.”

    He reported his principal occupation as: “Being dead.”

     

    -- Kurt Vonnegut

     

    oh hay, found a pic of her asshole.

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  3. what I usually do is 'power brake' in the driveway (I have a long one).  stand-up pedaling with moderate braking force.  works best with the old Six Million-Dollar Man theme in your head, but Chariots of Fire is fine.

    an old trick was to run water from a hose over your rotors when you're doing this.  I don't understand the physics behind it, but it seemed to help.  we still occasionally squirt camelbak water on our rotors  if they're making noise with fresh pads, on the trail.

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  4. interesting.  I've never opened up the system to press the pistons back to zero for pad reinstall.  just use the butter knife pushed all the way through the caliper so I can put even pressure across the face of the piston.  just googled it and it looks like this is how at least a few youtubers also do it.  probably means it's wrong.

    as far as the der clutch, I've never used it.  I just put the drive train in a high gear (small cog) and that's been good enough.  I mean, remember the days before clutch ders?  how did we survive?

    speaking of ders, the last piece of the puzzle just arrived today:  a 12sp chain, ordered shipped (free) to Sun&Ski on Anderson from their Tulsa store.  no one local had one in stock (even pure online shops seemed to be out), and SnS surprisingly had the best price.  

    the hidden price was having to wait for Fedex to rout it from Tulsa to California, to Cypress, to Pflugerville, back to Cypress, then back to Pflugerville with no deliver date estimate.  So I was surprised to get an email from the store this afternoon that it was ready for pickup.  the OEM packaging had definitely done some traveling.  hopefully, the chain itself isn't bent.

    can't wait to climb without dying, in this blast furnace.

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  5. 24 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    And Africa. There is a full court, mostly successful propaganda war on there. Russia wants to starve Africa, and convince Africa it is Europe’s fault. And they also want a migrant wave to Europe.  Get the world spun up about the cruelty of Europeans to Black migrants and Europe spun up about how many are coming.  The migrant crisis of 2014-2015 was real, but it was also in large part prodded by Russia in Syria. And the dialogue about it in Europe was largely exploited and shaped by Kremlin-friendly propagandists. This is how you get more Orbans in place. 

    [FARTING SNACKS] lies [/FARTING SNACKS]

  6. automotive brake cleaners are fine.  it's what I use.  current have a can of Blaster brand, but have used Gum-Out.

    what isn't paint-safe is the mineral oil Shimano uses in their brakes.   bleeding Shimano brakes is super-easy.  just have to buy their bleed 'kit' which consists of a cup with a removable plug that you thread into the reservoir at the brake lever.  have to be very careful to minimize and immediately clean up any spillage.

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  7. 5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I assume that anything we sell to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and a few other countries, probably ends up getting looked over by Russian or Chinese spies.

    fair point.  I assume we have an export version and the 'full' version of the more advanced systems, but maybe not.  I saw some discussion about the M777s we were sending that were missing the boxes for guidance systems, for example.   as 'unforecasted demand', we may not have any of the export versions immediately available of the HIMARS.

    but yeah.  we probably really are just dumb.

  8. the whole argument is stupid.  if a Uke is standing at a border crossing and pisses over the gate, the russians will start barking about their badass nukes again.  we know all this.

    if there's any debate to be had, it's about US-built tech getting captured, and what kind of rules we can fet the Ukes to follow to keep it safe.  hell.  I'd be sending them the longest-range shit we got.  if the russians are good at anything, it's stealing.

     

  9. some pics from last sunday.  much better day.  found some trail I hadn't seen before in an area I've been riding for 20 years.

     

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    it's not the vertical distance that I hate about this one.  it's the janky approach.

     

     

  10. one reason the piston cleaning is #1 is because if they're not clean and moving freely, they're probably not moving uniformly, so you may have one pad extending more than the other and doing all the work, and wearing faster.  obviously, caliper alignment can cause this result as well.  but you're smart to be nervous about over-extending the pistons.  so again, liberal application of brake cleaner spray can get in there and flush out dirt and buildup without that risk; if not the warm fuzzy of eyeballing your shiny clean pistons.

    as far as truing the rotor, it doesn't have to be any more complicated in than just spinning the wheel at a speed where you can detect any wobble in the rotor between the insides of the caliper, and/or actual intermittent rubbing on one pad or the other.

    as far as a plastic knife being thick enough:  stack your pads together.  that's the minimum thickness your plastic cutlery needs to be to keep from vomiting a piston if you just start mashing the brake lever with the pads out.

    it's like anything:  takes a little practice to get decent at it.  but it's not rocket surgery.

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  11. 5 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    So, about a month in, my Deore brakes started squealing/graunching pretty hideously.  I can't correlate it to anything like getting wet and don't think there have been any contamination events, except maybe, maybe soapy water.

    So, I inspected the rotors and calipers and they seem to be fine, except perhaps a little more daylight on one side than the other between pads and rotors.  So, I loosened the calipers, applied brakes and tightened.

    Also cleaned the rotors with iso and removed and inspected the pads.  Two of the four were pretty uniformly "metalized," but not shiny or discolored.  The other two were less uniformly metalized, but no discolorations, just bare pad and metalized pad.  Rubbed them down with iso as well.  The difference in appearance I attribute to the metalized pads being closer to the rotors, as noted above.

    I didn't detect any oil oozing from the pistons/calipers as seems to happen sometimes with Shimano brakes, but the rear caliper and the backs of the rear pads were dirtier than the front, which seems kind of normal?  Or maybe not.

    They work fine, as far as I can tell, just noisy. I'm not a big downhiller and we have no downhills, really, but they do what I ask of them.

    I probably didn't bed them real thoroughly, although I did make an attempt and avoided lockups and abrupt stops on the trails for the first few rides.

    I intend to re-bed them more thoroughly after the above.

    Sound like I'm on the right track? Any suggestions?

    agree with rojo.  

    IPA is good.  I keep a spray can of brake cleaner around.  just fucking drown 'em ever once in a while when they're acting funny.  this includes removing the pads and giving them a VERY light pump to expose the pistons.  have to be careful not to over-pump the brake when doing this or you'll fuck up the diaphragms and not be able to get them back in.  spray and maybe touch up with qtips to get all the gunk off so they move smoothly.  

    I use an old butter knife to press them back in, one at a time.  said knife has some flex to it so is fairly gentle on the piston.  if you have a thin  piece of wood like a paint stick, that could work, assuming you can get it in there.  

    however you do it, cleaning the pistons and making sure they actuate evenly is first thing I do.

    when examining the pads, make sure you're not seeing the pins that hold the braking material to the backing plate.  best way to tell how much life you have left is compare side-by-side with a new pad.  if your halfway down, it's probably time.  the pins will start to get exposed and will mess up your rotor.

    check your rotors for warpage (not sure if you did this, above).  usually, gentle thumb pressure is enough to bend the warp out.  don't worry so much about if it's centered, at this point.  getting it unwarped is most important.

    when reinstalling a brake caliper, or just adjusting it after the pistons and rotor are good, just be extremely methodical:  with loose mounting bolts, after a few pumps to make sure it's moving, tight squeeze on the brake lever, tighten the bolts in tiny, alternating increments so they are both even.  if you tighten too fast, you'll torque the caliper out of alignment.  that right there will cause a lot of vibration and squealing.  at least as much as dirty pads.

     

    had a pretty crappy ride today.  just uncomfortable and not in control.  fucking up things I never have before.

    I did see this, short cutting up to session a feature.  seems like there's a story, here.  circle of life, etc.

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  12. On 5/26/2022 at 3:35 PM, Wally Fairway said:

    what is next - some study to determine if water is indeed wet?

    there is a 20 year old internet story about JLo having a nipple tweeker to get her nips ready for photo shoots and videos; 20 years later and I'd still volunteer.

    The Tattlebuzz: Remember When "Jenny From The Block" Had a Professional  Nipple Tweaker?

    I'd get fired on day 1.  wouldn't be able to resist saying "frt-frt".

  13. 16 hours ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

     

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    I love this.  it's like Spiderman's from Wisconsin, and he swooped in and shot them with a cheese web as he swung by.

    Gunny Highway would be proud.

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  14. On 5/22/2022 at 7:48 PM, BradInATX said:

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    Leftover brisket, terry blacks sauce, string cheese

    That all went in the air fryer. String cheese is resilient af

    not tryna be negative, but let me guess:  your cat wouldn't eat the pureed brisket so you put it on a bun with a stick o' cheese?

  15. On 12/9/2021 at 9:30 AM, Jerry Callo said:

    Dahlia's Cafe in Liberty Hill and Texan Cafe in Hutto are both pretty good.

    noted, on Dahlia's.  Thanks.  pass thru there a lot, these days.

    Trailblazer in Burnet has a pretty good cfs, also.

  16. I sort of get that, from a longterm perspective.  

    however, it seems to me, making russia cash flow negative as much as possible might be more constructive in ending the war sooner (again, no thanks to the Eurotrash).  let them default naturally.

    besides, I can easily see the US taxpayer having to cover the debt if the US govt is interfering with the payments.  

    as far as favors from putin, what a joke.  that piece of shit has never negotiated in good faith.  why would he start now?

  17. 52 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    We still have a lot of arrows in the financial quiver, and it appears we are pulling some out.

    dumb question:  how does this help anyone not named putin?  

    aside from perhaps amounting to reverse corporate welfare (which I'm very ok with), why wouldn't we want to take russian money to service outstanding debt?  doesn't that reduce cash available for the russian war effort if it leaves their country?

    are western bean counters and bankers so fucking stupid as to open new lines of business with ru, after all this?  I thought russia  was already a pariah state (well, except to those punkass frogs, germans and italians making up rules to get around their own sanctions to buy gas).

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  18. 10 minutes ago, 686 said:

    yes.

    to me, the way the grenades in these videos is always moving around before release, I imagine it's Curious George strapped to the bottom of the drone, grenade in hand, tongue in the corner of his mouth, eyeballing the target.

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    I don't play the game so I don't understand the jargon, really.  but I always liked this video.  similar situation.  first shared without irony on shaggy (or maybe hf?) by guy known to lose his shit from time to time.

     

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