I recently was told that it was not good to hang bike with suspension upside down. Something to do with the oil going where it wasn't intended to settle.
What do you say?
What do you say?
I have had this issue on more than one occasion. Often when I flip my bike back over one or both brakes are mush till I pump them a number of times. Just bled my brakes yesterday, how often is recommended? I won’t say that I do not turn my bike upside down but I try to avoid it. I have also had dropper post issues.If you have any air in your brake lines it will exasperate the situation. You may find that you will have to breed more often. Its not that the air never existed in brake lines, it is that it is more apparent when a bike hangs upside down. Other than that, all good.
I try to keep my seat post fully extended unless I am actually using it.How about hanging a bike from the dropper post, extended? Good or bad?
If you have any air in your brake lines it will exasperate the situation. You may find that you will have to breed more often. Its not that the air never existed in brake lines, it is that it is more apparent when a bike hangs upside down. Other than that, all good.
How about hanging a bike from the dropper post, extended? Good or bad?
I have had this issue on more than one occasion. Often when I flip my bike back over one or both brakes are mush till I pump them a number of times. Just bled my brakes yesterday, how often is recommended? I won’t say that I do not turn my bike upside down but I try to avoid it. I have also had dropper post issues.
I try to keep my seat post fully extended unless I am actually using it.
After experiencing a few dropper post rebuilds and finally a replacement, I try not to even lift my bike by the seat or post. I have no idea of gravity’s effect on the mechanism but that is the habit I have tried to establish.
Sorry my engineering mind seems to think that these products are poorly designed and continued to be designed that way.
The fact that customers will pay for products that have these short comings surprise me. The fact that they accept it surprises me even more.
Price yes, but weight and reliability, don’t be lead down the garden path. The reality is a couple a few dollars more in manufacturing and maybe $20 more in sell price is all that’s needed, but greed being what it is it’s more like $200+ for the end consumer.Just a continuing battle between price, weight, and reliability.
The bike world is kinda nuts about weight.
Price yes, but weight and reliability, don’t be lead down the garden path. The reality is a couple a few dollars more in manufacturing and maybe $20 more in sell price is all that’s needed, but greed being what it is it’s more like $200+ for the end consumer.
I'm with you... completely. I saw so much BS in bike industry it's hard to believe people really buy that. But I'm surprised over and over again, and it's really impossible to tell where to start. It can be with company that wasn't able to design and produce proper working front derailleur and they "invented" 1x and people are going for it, including 400eur worth 11 or 12 rings of metal, which is probably done in China for 0.4eur/piece. Or it can be company selling 70eur super light carbon bottle holder, which is neither super light (20+grams heavier then super sturdy no R&D carbon bottle holder that my brother made for me), nor carbon (only upper layer is carbon, rest is fiberglass which is 10x cheaper but heavier option, therefore also that not so super light weigh). Or it can go to 12.000eur worth bikes, for which people think price is perfectly fine, as these are carbon bikes, and carbon means space tech... in 2018 But bike market seems for me to be really open for all the BS marketing departments thrown to them. Honestly, I have feeling, people in marketing departments on bike companies have competition who can invent more ridiculous and more expensive junk to sell people, and they push this to see how far people will go... and for now, there's seems to be no limits in that.Price yes, but weight and reliability, don’t be lead down the garden path. The reality is a couple a few dollars more in manufacturing and maybe $20 more in sell price is all that’s needed, but greed being what it is it’s more like $200+ for the end consumer.
Which is nothing compared to say the golf industry . It still comes down to, they will stop making them when people stop buyng they until then...there is a demand in the market.I'm with you... completely. I saw so much BS in bike industry it's hard to believe people really buy that. But I'm surprised over and over again, and it's really impossible to tell where to start. It can be with company that wasn't able to design and produce proper working front derailleur and they "invented" 1x and people are going for it, including 400eur worth 11 or 12 rings of metal, which is probably done in China for 0.4eur/piece. Or it can be company selling 70eur super light carbon bottle holder, which is neither super light (20+grams heavier then super sturdy no R&D carbon bottle holder that my brother made for me), nor carbon (only upper layer is carbon, rest is fiberglass which is 10x cheaper but heavier option, therefore also that not so super light weigh). Or it can go to 12.000eur worth bikes, for which people think price is perfectly fine, as these are carbon bikes, and carbon means space tech... in 2018 But bike market seems for me to be really open for all the BS marketing departments thrown to them. Honestly, I have feeling, people in marketing departments on bike companies have competition who can invent more ridiculous and more expensive junk to sell people, and they push this to see how far people will go... and for now, there's seems to be no limits in that.
And this is why I don't ride bikes. I already have two kids!You may find that you will have to breed more often.