Bike Maintenance for Beginners

It’s a decent bike, I have exactly that, was my desert commuter for 2 years & very solid bit of kit.

Mine has had a much harder paper round than yours including crashing into someone else at 43kmh but is still good (not that I’d lead with that in the advert)

@gingerbongo have you got one too?

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Yup. Can’t remember what version but I got it in about 2022 or so. Great little bike.

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Here’s mine (“one of my Canyons” :roll_eyes:) all tricked out last year with a pair of race wheels and a union jack headset cap

despite not being super light or super aero or having fancy electronics, it seems quite capable of holding a wheel in a draft-legal tri.

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Any tips to stop things like stem bolts and the front ones from corroding with my caustic sweat! I loosened them off on the TT bike over winter so they didn’t corrode in place, but it’s actually the bolt holes that also corrode along with the thread.

Might see if I can get titanium or something.

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If they are already properly corroding then I’d replace them with stainless or Ti, and grease them thoroughly. I also put a piece of electrical tape over my top cap bolt to keep water from running down the bolt into the bung, and it’s aero :wink:. If you’re on the turbo you could just wrap the whole stem/steerer in cling film.

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Feeling a bit inspired by the weather and my mini revival yesterday.

So finally got around to fitting a new chain to my bike. I think it’s been off the road for 11 months! :joy: Realised what I’d done wrong last time and didn’t leave the right ends of the links to connect with a quick link. Then would’ve been too short if I had managed to work out the error.

Hey ho. We’re there now.

Not quite brave enough to sort the rubbing on my front disc. Think I’ll wait for someone more skilled than me to help.

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It’s usually easier to buy a new bike :grin:

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Hmm think I’ll need a few more promotions in the food industry before that can happen. Not the highest margin/paying business going! :joy:

Though I was already sowing seeds to Mrs GB of treating myself to a new job pressie and getting a new tat! :joy:

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Turns out my bar tape is farked too. It’s gone all sticky and cracked and peeling.

Have just bought some new 3mm Rockbros tape to install. There’s no way I’m doing this without c0cking it up! :joy:

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YouTube is your friend! Still a chore though :joy:

YouTube can’t fix heavy handedness! :joy:

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Or complete cackhandedness as my mother would say :joy:

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I have that too! :joy:

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Where do I insert this…

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It is bound to be somewhere where the sun rarely shines, if ever.

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Mine was in the seat post. Defo no sunshinning there.

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Exactly :100:

Mine is in the seat post.

(The picture is the old battery)

Despite cleaning the pads and discs on my propel the brakes were still squealing under heavy braking.

Read on the internet that lightly sanding the pads on a flat surface was also good as it got a bit deeper into the dirt.

So I tried it on the front and it seems to have worked a treat :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Just need to do the rear now and burp the front brake :roll_eyes:

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Never try to adjust seat post on a di2 bike.

FML. Won’t go back in.

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