Today I did something to my bike thread...

Could I ask one more favour. Could you measure the inner dimensions of the case, as in where the foam actually fits.

Thanks for that

Think it's 25mm maybe a little different on the rear, they're reserve 40/44 wheels. Looking forward riding them later when it dries up a bit. What psi would you guys recommend? The tyres suggest 90psi and a lot of advise online says 60psi, so went with 70 and ill see how it feels. I usually put 85/90 in my 28s.

When I’d tubes in my GP5000s I was running 70 front and rear and it was perfect, 90 would be like a rock, and I’m a touch over 100kg at the moment.

Tubeless I run 60/65 with gravelkings

Just back from a 90 minute jaunt there on 60ish psi and they felt great, I kept thinking just by the size of them I'd feel the resistance but they seemed to roll really really well and ate up a lot of that buzz from pocked tarmac surfaces and almost bounced over those gnarly surfaces around farm gates. Really nice, pretty pleased with my "upgrade". If there was any difference in performance I'd say its the fact that they're Gatorskins replacing the more sporty Michelin Pro4's but I'd hardly be one to notice it much on a short spin at my casual pace, guess the real test would be on how I feel after a few hours.

gave the bike a wash this morning

The bike hasn't had a wash in about 4 months

Finally changed the tires on the good bike, think I was pushing the limits on the old ones:

Its a good long time since I posted about making tools.

Some on here might remember me making a set of picks similar to the Park Tool set.

The mild steel I used for the pick itself was less than ideal, and about 2 years ago @Peterx very kindly sent me some silver steel rod.

I duly made the pick ends on the lathe, and then left them on the shelf, having never attempted to harden steel before.

However, today was the day. The process seems to have worked, and I've left them to cool before I set them in their brass handles 🤞

A gyro brake kit is what you are looking for to allow the fork to spin.

Nice. You didn't waste any time

I've had an intermittent, not particularly reproducible clicking for a while now.

Took this morning, as I can't go for a spin this weekend, and decided I'd track it down.

In between each of these, the bike was taken down the road and back to check progress.

Headset cleaned and regreased.

Non drive side bb bearing replaced (drive side down a while back, but I had the non drive bearing on order).

Stem and handlebars cleaned and regreased.

Thru axles cleaned, regreased and torqued.

Pedals checked, removed and threads regreased.

Finally, with the click still present, I cleaned and regreased the saddle post. Voilà, no click.

This is all fingers crossed, mind. Won't really know until the next proper spin.

Some random photos

I didn't do something to my bike today, I did something with a bike component.

I have an original non drive side crank arm from the early/mid eighties Muddy Fox rebuild.

Thought it would make a cool handle for the bike shed. So I went down to the engineering room...

Next step is to clean up the crank, and get some 8mm threaded rod and a couple of nice acorn nuts.

Might use one of the old pedals as the handle on the inside, but we'll see

More or less. I'll clean it with some soapy water, and we'll see about polishing it.I think it may have originally had a brushed finish