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Headed to Lymington, back roads to Beaulieu, onto Brockenhurst and then back home. I'm very luck with where I live.
Met some friendly Donkeys along the way which is always nice.
@pt22 I also did the unclip inwards thing, until I noticed the marks on my shoes was caused by them hitting against the quite flimsy looking seat stays of my carbon frame! So I retrained my brain and feet. Apparently not an issue with Speedplay system, but deffo with Shimano.
I've finally got the cassette off the old wheels, with a lot of force!
The disc rotors are giving me some confusion though. On my bike, the stock wheels have stock giant disc rotors attached to the wheel with 6 bolts. The Hunt Wheels use a centre locking mechanism to fit the rotors. I understand that I need an adapter to install the 6 bolt rotors to the new wheels.
It's made me think; do people usually transfer disc rotors to new wheels? Or buy new ones? Which would mean it's much easier to swap and use the old wheels, eg for winter use. Perhaps a new cassette would also make this easier, Just wondering what's the best thing to do here. It's a right faff to transfer the rotors.
You can get adapters, with the official Shimano ones not being that expensive - Shimano Disc (SM-RTAD05) Rotor Centre-lock hub to 6-Bolt Adaptor | Merlin Cycles
Or you can get new centrelock brake discs, depending on how much money you want to spend. Low end Shimano ones aren't that expensive, but a quick search shows not many places have the smaller sizes in stock.
The issue with swapping wheels with different discs, is the pads and discs will wear differently. So each time you swap wheels, they'd likely need a bit time for the brakes to bed in again.
These are mountain bike ones but apparently can be used on road bikes and seem to be at a good price
Shimano XT MT800 Ice-Tec Centrelock Rotor | Merlin Cycles
@MagicPigDetective Bear in mind that there's also different size rotors. My Cinelli has a 140mm rear rotor, 160mm front, but my Cannondale has 160mm front and back. If I wanted to put my Hunts on the 'Dale I either need to swap rotors or remove the adaptor from the rear caliper on the 'Dale to accept the 140mm rotor.
Picked up a cold Easter weekend, but made the most of the sunny afternoon the week after to just spin the legs for a few km and deal with a couple windblown trees on a couple footpaths I occasionally ride if I want a gentle spin.
Was working at my first event of the year last weekend, and was on backshift last week and couldn't bring myself to face the wetness for a morning spin.
And then today, which I'm sure was one of the best days of the year so far, I spent trailbuilding as I've agreed to prepare some trails for some events later this year
I did however turn this-
In to this-
Then did a bit shovelling ready for the next pipe installation-
And yes, it did smell as bad as it looks. You can't beat the smell of waterlogged decaying organic matter.
Steel freehub bodies were fine, and so were more expensive cassettes with an alloy carrier.
The issue was cheaper cassettes without a carrier on alloy freehub bodies, however even though the individual sprockets dug in, they still functioned fine. Did occasionally require a bit hammering/levering to get them back off though.