Trying to learn more about bike repairs

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I have taken great interest in the following:

1.  Converting from ball bearings to sealed bearing.  I have Shimano hub  which is a candidate.  This involves. removing the cup by hammering this off.   Removing the bearings, and then pressing the bearing at the non drive side.    (Press fit or gentle tap).  Then measuring on the drive side.    And then putting the axle and the bearing.  Tap    Then reinstalling the nuts.  The bearing could be 6000 RS, or 6902 (depending on the hub diameter, and axle OD

2.  The manitou fork.   My manitou fork and the one that was shown by YT (in Spanish) are the same,

     Steps:

    1.  Remove the wheel

    2.  Remove the brakes for the fork

    3.  Remove the bottom fasteners.  

        1.  For the right (spring side with the admustment)  remove the blue adjuster with a 2 mm hex.  Then

             using a 8 mm hex loosen by turning to the right.

        2.  For the left side, loosen the bottom fastener.  using a 12 mm socket or  combination

        3.  Let the oil drip

        4.  You can now  renive tge stanchion

  4.  For the right leg:

      Loosen the plastic yellow stopper using 24 mm open wrench

      1.  Remove the two shafts inside:   Remember the order.   Clean wipe, adn grease the spring

      2  Reattach

 5. For the left leg, 

     Two conflicting versions

    1.  Remove air

    2.  Remove the top cup 

    3.  Clean and regrease

    4.  Remove the sponge and soak in oil

    5  Replace

6.  Inject 10 -15 ml of fork oil (15W)

7.  Replace the 12 mm nut at the left side, tighten the right side using the 8 mm hex by turning to the left.

 8.  Reattach the blue adjuster using 2 mm hex

   

Not all repair jobs are perfect - you have to redo this and you must be patient

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We have experienced that even your best shops and mechanics foul up in the jobs you ordered.  There could be many causes:   wrong part, wrong diagnosis, the parts were reinstalled properly, too tight or too loose tightening.  A part was missed.

You must be patient and humble enough to admit the mistake was made and you have to redo the job.

This happened in my recent attempt to regrease the bearings of the headset.  I am on my third back job.

The goal at the start was to regrease the headset bearings and make it smoother.  I soaked the cage, and the individual bearings.   Cleaned each and every bearing.

However actual use of the bike showed the steering to be binding and abnormal.   I found out one ring at the bottom was missed out    The steering again was not 100%

So a washer was missed at the top bearing, and another one at the bottom.    So I added the missing part, and the binding disappeared.  However, I have not tried yet on actual ride.   

Hmmm that is what you call experience.   And maturity.  Surely, this will not happen again.  

Bike lanes - are they real, or just an LGU gimmickry

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This post would like to think that bike lanes were real legislative effort of LGU in response to pandemic, to enable many of the populace be mobile using their bikes.   DOTR has a huge budget for bike lanes. Perhaps, the bike lanes did get a lot of votes from the biker segment of the society  (It could be huge)

However my observation reveals that:   there are very few bikers using this;  this mostly occupied by MC and those without barriers are used by jeepneys, tricycles and cars for their motoring, in violation of the intended use of the bike lane.

This post is not complaining but merely pointing out our mindset towards laws and projects which we do not intend to pursue seriously.  And those bikers must learn to be more wary, and not complacent when they use bike lanes.  They need not be angry, frustrated or even go on bike rage (haha excuse the pun)

Excuse me.   No bike lanes