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Did you try lightly sanding them first?

I recently gave away a pair of ano blue brake lever extenders. For the whippersnappers in the audience, these clamped onto the end of the brake lever at a 90° angle so you could keep your hands on the bar ends and use your brakes.

I was the original owner, and gave them to a local trail builder who's even more of a retrogrouch than me.

Was the M970 the one with a tiny allen bearing preload? I like the style of that generation, but the no-weird-standards of the 980 wins it for me.

And an obvious candidate: Thomson 27.2 x 410 silver post. Completely functional, near indestructible, can't see the scratches...

I think they were (are?) a BMX group. It doesn't help with why red, but different.

There still seems to be a DX crank in X-type 104 with up to 180mm arms around.

A set of DX v brakes in original powder coat red. So much nostalgia, so little utility...

I'll probably put them on a bike for the kids in the next year or so. Maybe with Avid levers - they can be adjusted closer to the bar.

Edit - 

Also a 104 BCD bashguard on my XTR 980 crankset. The finest mountain crank shimano ever made - normal BCD, normal bearing preload, no strange 'standards' and silver faces to polish with your shoes. I don't know how old they are, but they're not coming off my main bike until they fail.

One of the random rarely ridden bikes in my house has a 9spd XTR shifter with a 105 derailleur.

It's true, the shifts are like nothing else. I love a clutch, but they do let down the shift performance.

All trails. I noticed when I added a bright light to the bar. Turned it down to low and my eyes went back to looking where they oughtta.

Ah, right. I get into trouble if my bar light is brighter than the helmet one - my eyes seem to follow the brightest patch, and the bar isn't always pointing the way I want to go.

Is there a brightness reason you mounted the 1600 on the bar / 1100 on the helmet? Or is it just a weight thing?

DMR v-twin when running clips. Similar dimensions to a Mallet, with the SPD interface.

When I find a shoe

/that I'm willing to pay for

/with a deep enough cleat pocket that the tread can rest on the pins like a flat 

/and a soft enough shank to feel like a flat shoe 

I will have found the grail - a combo that feels like flats, but never blows a foot. As per Hepcat.

I've used Merlin, no problems.

(shipping all the way down to NZ somehow seems less hassle than to N America though)

Posted by: Endur-Bro

Don’t they make a 94 bcd spider?

If they do (and someone makes a bash for it) that gets the boxes ticked.

Mine is the only bike I see around with a crank mounted bash. Unless you want a chainring smaller than 30t, 104BCD is still good.

Sram used to make 104 spiders for its direct mount, are they still around?

I've found getting the brakes wet, muddy and gritty seems to help with howl, it's easy to try.

Posted by: RAHrider

I havent ordered a cassette yet. I was waiting to see how my bearing press looks first.

As for the Rapha stuff,don't get too excited it is 10 worse than you would expect for $35 but also no better.

How are the glasses?Do they pinch your head funny or get gooey where the rubher pads touch your skin?

The glasses haven't given me any trouble yet (after bending the arms to my head shape).

Posted by: Brocklanders

Posted by: Kieran

Posted by: Brocklanders

Received my POC knockoffs today from Amazon.

Have to say the lenses are pretty damn good for the price of 35 bux. 

I went out of my way to get some without the POC logo. They showed up with the POC logo.  These came with 2 lenses, a dark and polarized lighter tint. 

https://www.amazon.ca/Lorsoul-Polarized-Cycling-Sunglasses-Baseball/dp/B088RBRVF8

Does the frame strip in the centre affect field-of-view at all? I'm a goggles man when it comes to DH but looking for something for trail use, so wondering if this could be a bit annoying?

No you don't notice it when looking forward.

I notice it when looking around an intersection waiting for traffic. Never when riding on dirt. 

An extra bonus for me with price of my knock offs was feeling confident about heating and bending the arms to get a more hooked shape behind my ears. Clamped a soldering iron in the vise and did lots of gentle bending.

You guys don't have an equivalent to Youshop in Canukistan?

Beautiful.

The glasses I bought seem to have vanished, but these look functionally identical...

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/4001143543119.html?trace=wwwdetail2mobilesitedetail&spm=a2g0n.store_home.allProducts_179812074.4001143543119

When I was originally looking there were heaps of sellers with variations on the same frame. I just went with whoever had the lens options I wanted and a OK rating from lots of buyers.