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I used a heat gun on mine to soften the plastic, then spread the legs a little bit wider. <chuckle>

Wow, quite a lively thread. Two things pop to mind. Back in my muscle car days I used to do full-power, no-lift shifts. This was decades before the ECU did all the clever stuff for you. It was fast, it was impressive, and it was massive abuse of the hardware. When I visualize a full-power...

FWIW, the new cassette solved the problem. I didn't change the gap (B tension) cuz the SRAM gauge said it was correct as found. Agree that gap affects shifting. I had no issue with shifting yesterday with the new chain + old sprocket. As mentioned, I recorded a close-up video of the gap in...

Yes, the largest cog. Blame my 55 years of being a car guy for me assuming that y'all say the largest cog is first gear. I don't see why replacing a worn chain with a new chain would change B tension. Looks to me as though that setting is completely independent of the chain. Please explain...

I've certainly heard and read about this, but today was my first experience. I cleaned the bike, cleaned the new chain, and installed and lubed the new chain. I thought the cassette had some life left. Wrong! The first climb resulted in fairly loud and violent skipped teeth in first gear...

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My grandson is in his 20s! :)

I heard trousers as a kid (60-ish years ago!), but it was a word that only really old people used. Looking back, they may have been immigrants who didn't grow up hearing pants in the US. Pants has been the go-to word for "outerwear" in the US for at least as long as I've been alive.

The upper pic is the single track that parallels the main (double track) Ridgeline Trail (single track Shady Creek Ridge trail according to Trailforks). The lower pic is where Bay Leaf double track trail crossed Sinbad Creek. There as much mud along the Sinbad Creek trail as I've seen in...

I don't think I can pick my way through this! My regular ride in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park had several forced detours and stream crossings that were not emtb friendly. Most years this stream is dry during summer and no big deal to ride through in winter. Not yesterday!

Older Silvia that I converted to PID temperature controller and a DP64 grinder. Why? Because I value value, and I prefer industrial robustness over electronic features on an appliance that's made of chocolate. It took many months of fiddling with a bottomless portafilter to (mostly) get rid...

Had mine done, what was it, 2, ... maybe 3 yea ... Oh wait, it was in the early 1980s. Just wait till you have a gigantic prostate and can't pee. Then you will know pain! And the people working the emergency room at the hospital.

Speaking of touching a nerve, you seem to have a hair trigger. It is completely illogical to blame the bike when YOU are responsible for the watts you put into the pedals.

It is so annoying that riders want to blame their ebike for their lack of effort when riding. Get some discipline! IMO, if you gain weight after switching from acoustic to ebike, you probably have a bit of laziness to deal with. I ride my emtb as much for fitness as for fun, and I try to keep...

I have the blind puller Alexbn921 posted and used it on the bearings the OP asked about. It worked well, but you will need to buy or make a small slide hammer. I used a long bolt, a sturdy washer, and a very heavy socket. One of the perqs of working on cars for the past 50 years is that I...

I was the Lead Systems Engineer / Technical Lead for medical device products for more than 20 years. I've endured countless team meetings where a defect found in testing was brushed off. "How many sales will we lose if we don't fix the defect?" "We've gotta get this thing on the market NOW...

Nope, the bike does not make you lazy. You make you lazy. It's your choice, not the bike's. To make it as harsh as possible, don't blame the bike for your lack of discipline.

The amount of effort you put into your ride is up to you, not the bike. You can choose to work harder on an ebike than an acoustic bike. Or you can choose to let the ebike do some of the work you used to do on the acounstic bike. It's your choice.

Wow, I step away from the thread I started for a few days and somebody gets seriously triggered. I'll just mention that science is theory supported by experiments that can be replicated. Prior to replicated, well designed and controlled experiments, it's just speculation. The thing I like to...