Chickenman wrote: I only hope none of my shop riders had bad bikes for ya. I had to go to my mothers funeral for the week before I needed to be in Rotorua.

I'm sure they wouldn't have, and I'm sorry to hear that...

Mr_Bob wrote:

Oli wrote: LOL, of course! You weren't down in the dungeons with us plebs...

So how much of this was true Oli?
http://www.vorb.org.nz/ftopict-42573.html

Stun wrote: "Hey Oli - I don't think these Hayes brakes are working properly"

Clarky wrote: "Here's some 'Pot Belge' to get you home to Wellington."

pissface wrote: hey Oli, you weren't around before, so I said it was ok for the other riders to borrow a bunch of your tools, I hope you don't mind.

skint wrote: Hey Oli - does my bum look big in this?

mtbboy666 wrote: my bike is fucked. thought id tell u straight up

r_s wrote: "It wasnt broken before you touched it!......"

mtbboy wrote: Hey Oli. Is this fluid meant to be squirting from my brake cable?

:cry:

Robbie wrote: Hey Oli, is that a crack ?

Mr_Bob wrote: My brake pads don't look too worn do they Oli?

Over and over again...

reido wrote: "I was just riding along, and, well.... this happened"

Clarky wrote: "Hey Oli, Chickenman charged me $437 to tension my spokes, and left big curly hairs in my hub grease. I got $350 for the hair on TradeMe. Is that about right?"

Oli wrote: I had to get a 140mm rotor of you and Rob for Kashi - it was cool to see some of the world's best riders lurking around your tent.

Yeah it was pretty cool most of my time was spent servicing SIDs, apart from fixing Sam Hill's brakes last thing before we shut the tent the night before the Championship race

Nah it was cool dude, she had been sick for about 5 years previous, so we knew it was coming. I'm just glad it didn't happen 2 weeks later.

Chickenman wrote:

Oli wrote: I had to get a 140mm rotor of you and Rob for Kashi - it was cool to see some of the world's best riders lurking around your tent.

Yeah it was pretty cool most of my time was spent servicing SIDs, apart from fixing Sam Hill's brakes last thing before we shut the tent the night before the Championship race

Nah it was cool dude, she had been sick for about 5 years previous, so we knew it was coming. I'm just glad it didn't happen 2 weeks later.

now when you say servicing sids. Do you mean replacing everything internally??

We replaced a few MoCo's with updated Blackbox ones, and tuned others. And then obviously seals etc.

[edit]Suffice to say, my SID WC's feel pretty damn nice. In fact so do my BoXXer WC's for that matter [/edit]

Chickenman wrote: We replaced a few MoCo's with updated Blackbox ones, and tuned others. And then obviously seals etc.

[edit]Suffice to say, my SID WC's feel pretty damn nice. In fact so do my BoXXer WC's for that matter [/edit]

.....and your address is....

Check your PM.

Chickenman wrote: Check your PM.

Is that enuciated Far Got??

Maybe Far Git, I'm sure either way works

Had customer in yesterday saying this wheel just needed tightening up. He would not believe me so round 2 starts today. Below is the axle that he thinks is fine. How do I get the problem through to him?

a bigger hammer!

applied to either the axle or the customer should work fine.
probably better applied to the customer though.

Angle grinder

Mr_Bob wrote: Angle grinder

Customer or axle?

Spokes wrote: Had customer in yesterday saying this wheel just needed tightening up. He would not believe me so round 2 starts today. Below is the axle that he thinks is fine. How do I get the problem through to him?

show him a normal one, if he doesn't get it then, tell him to go somewhere else.

Spokes wrote: Had customer in yesterday saying this wheel just needed tightening up. He would not believe me so round 2 starts today. Below is the axle that he thinks is fine. How do I get the problem through to him?

Tell him he was very fortunate, because most manufacturers don't go to the effort of pre wearing out parts for bikes. So have saved him months of riding!