Removing the slight play from the fork of my SARS Ultegra bike)

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Rizal Philippines
February 20, 2016

                                       This had plenty of fine sand and other grit, I had to sandpaper to
                                           remove some rust and imperfection

While resting at Maybancal barangay hall in today's ride, Val noticed that there is some looseness in my front fork steerer.   He said the integrated headset could be defective all ready. He tightened it. To my discomfort, the steering was difficult and was resisting me and I could meet accident.  He loosened this at Teresa lugawan.  It was better.  He suggested that I clean the bearings and all the parts.  It could be very dirty if this has not been serviced.

At 3 pm today, I opened the head set (removed the fork from the other parts) and cleaned with kerosene the dirt and grime.  I sand papered the   the fork steerer and the bearing surfaces. There was some rusting and then I greased the parts that would come in contact.

I had to disassemble because the condition did not improve.   The second time I assembled the bike it was much better.  No need to buy a new integrated headset.

                                                Note the rust, it has to be removed by fine sandpaper

                                   The upper bearing

Jeff, Angel and Val rode to Baguio Holy Thursday, Good Friday,and Black Saturday

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Rizal Philippines April 5, 2015




A glorious Happy Easter Greeting to all

Angel rode with us today and we just learned that their trio:  Val, Jeff, and he rode to Baguio during the long holidays

On the first day Thursday, they rode to Asingan.  Since they had only two stops, they were at Asingan by 3:30.  They were in Angeles by 10 am and had lunch at Dau (where we had lunch)

/They left for Baguio at 6 am on Good Friday and arrived at Baguio City by 2 pm (just about our pace).  By 4 pm, they descended for Asingan.

They went home at 4 pm and would probably be in Asingan by nightfall.  They rode home yesterday, and arrived about 8 pm last night.

Let us thank the Lorda for their safe return

Our #bikeride yesterday, November 23, 2014

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Rizal Philippines   | November 24, 2014

I rode early today to watch the fiesta procession and parade.  I decided that I will just bike elsewhere because everybody was drunk as early as 6 am;  I have seen these parades several dozen times.  They were unrowdy and uncontrolled groups.  They were shouting and laughing loud during the night.

So I rode straight to Pisong Kape and arrived there about 7:40.   It was a fast clip ride.  There I saw Master. He said he raced a couple of riders from Cardona to Morong which extended up to Pililla.

My bike ride yesterday to Pililla October 3, 2014

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Rizal Philippines  October 4, 2014

It was the birthday of my late mother and I offered a long ride for her to Pililla. I envied the time of Gerry of 60 minutes to ride to Pililla.  I was able to do 1:10 going there.   I did not stop at Morong;  I did Morong still in 40 minutes.. I left 6:10 and arrived at km 58 at 7:20.

I was in Morong by 8:30 and things began to slow down.  Val was there and we had Lomi and puto breakfast.   We parted ways and said he was going back to Angono via Teresa.

We started out past 9:00 and I was home by 10:15.  I had an appointment at 10:30 and had some minutes to spare to dress up and wipe off dust and perspiration.