Not sold?
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Just seems like an incredible faff for very little benefit.
Cleaning a chain takes minutes, and every few hundred miles I remove chain and cassette, degrease it and re-lube it, I have this down to about 30 minutes.
I don’t use any fancy lube, just Fenwicks, which saves the nasty buildup of gunk you get with fancier stuff.
The few watts this probably costs me isn’t as big a concern as my crisp consumption.
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Fair points. I certainly won’t be waxing myself. Just wondered if there would be any benefit when I’m buying a chain anyway, to get a fancy waxed one for raceday.
But as you say. I’ll lose way more Watts through my love of pizza and wine and inability to hold aero due to not Ridin my tt bike enough! 
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I’d bin the chain and buy a new one. Strip it in mineral spirits and use Silca lube. I’ve waxed and I’m coming round to the conclusion that the faff isn’t worth it. This non-wax lube ranks up there with waxed chains when tested. There’s a site somewhere that has tested and ranked all the lives.
Edit: lube testing and ranking: Lubricant Testing - Zero Friction Cycling
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Shimano pins cannot be reused. Once youve pushed the pin out you can get it back with a lot of fiddling but it wont go in properly and the chain will likely snap shortly after.
New chain time.
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Exactly the reason I moved to KMC. I broke loads of Shimano chains when I was more mountain bike focused. Always a PITA to sort out on the trails.
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I’d go with a new chain, if you bodge this and it fails on the Welsh coast you’ll be swearing, a lot.
Think I got a KMc off Merlin for £24 a few weeks ago.
Hutch used to just get cheap new chains instead of £80 ones
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New chain, chains are cheap
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Cheers all. Looked at my account and have just been out for a tescoeses big shop today. Fancy lube and wax and stuff can get in the bin.
@jeffb that’s the one I have in my basket right now! Might go garish gold. Just for lols.
Gonna just leave the bar tape as well. It’s serviceable and this race has cost me enough money already. The Canyon however genuinely needs new tape as that’s all shredded to pieces. Whatever stuff my lbs put on there a while back, it’s crap.
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New tyres, chain, big chainring and casette swap this week for me to get a couple of last weekend rides in before Wales. I learned my lesson at Roth with an unnoticed sidewall split on a new tyre I changed the night before racking.
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I have a great sidewall split story. Riding down the switchbacks from Alpe d’Huez to the lake at the bottom for the long course tri, mates bike is making a tick-tick-tick noise. Stop a few times but can’t find anything. Queueing up to get into transition we notice a bulge of inner tube coming out of a hole in his sidewall, which has been flicking his brake every revolution 
Managed to patch it up in transition but how it didn’t go pop I’ll never know, he’s a lucky boy
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For the TT bike you can just get tennis racket tape from amazon for a fiver.
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OK. A new problem today. Well it’s a known issue for me that I’ve not yet tackled.
Got a bts bottle holder that came with the tri bike. Thing is the mount is all loose. As per the video, the angle changing element doesn’t tighten up. The Allen bolt is just spinning inside the plastic. So the thread had obvs vanished over however many years it had been around.
My initial thought was to get it in place, remove the bolt. Fill it with superglue or something similar. Jam the bolt in pretty quick and accept that it’s in that position forever.
Thing is I can’t even get the bolt out, as it’s rounded inside. Any ideas on how to a) extract the bolt and b) then lock it in position. Or is it more new stuff time? Seems a shame not to repair it.
I’ve tried pressing on the back end whilst undoing the bolt. But I can’t get enough pressure without a vice or clamps or stuff like that.
TIA
Oh and I did manage to fit a new chain to the tt bike. Almost went tits up when I dropped the chain and the quick link halves fired across the shed! 
But luckily managed to locate them. Phew!
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I would say there’s a piece missing from that. A circular piece of metal with a thread on the inside and points on the outside to grip the plastic, like the one just to the side of it.
Have you got any spare nuts (ooooeer missus)?
Wedge one in the the hole, maybe with some glue, as you tighted the Allen cap into it.
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Yep, agree with @JaRok2300 there is a captive nut missing. Find one that fits and you are good to go.
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Cheers guys.
I’m afraid I am most definitely not the kind of guy that has spare nuts. Definitely don’t have captive nuts.
But I shall seek and source.
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This might be a bit high risk, but if the nut is too big to just wedge in the hole with brute force you could heat it up bit and it would melt its way in and make a perfect fit. Be ready to dowse it with some water if you do that, as soon as it’s in just the right place.
I will delete and deny all knowledge of this post depending on the outcome 
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I don’t think a nyloc nut would fit in the hole so you would need a longer bolt and the nut would be proud (aero loss ?), so if I was doing a quick bodge I would get a longer bolt and nyloc nut. LBS might be able to help or you could temporarily use a normal bolt (more areo loss) whihc you can easily get longer ones (longer button head bolts can be harder to find). Also temporary doesn’t need to be stainless but if it was a permanent fix then I’d go stainless. For longer term could you email the manufacturer for a replacement star nut ? If you do it now you might get it in time.
Cheers.
Trouble is i can’t even get the bolt out; so that’s at least half of my issue. Also don’t know who made it. It doesn’t seem to have any branding on it whatsoever.
Not fussed on aero stuff at all. My fat arse will do a plenty good enough job of pushing the wind around 5mm of extra bolt behind my saddle! 
I simply want it to hold in place and not launch my bottles into the ether over the bumps of Wales! One will be my spares, and one nutrition. So i can do with not losing them!
TT is going to LBS on Sunday anyway to have the brakes fixed. So i might ask my mate if he can sort something on this little bracket thing while he’s there.
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Even a fully functioning BTS can be touch and go in terms of launching bottles, especially on a bumpy course.
I would secure your spares with some kind of strap, piece of old inner tube or similar. It only takes a few seconds to untie it and guarantees it won’t be missing when you most need it.
Your nutrition is a bit trickier as I’m guessing you’ll want it on the fly so may have to take your chances with that, just make sure your cage is a good tight fit.
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