Slowly but surely getting things spun up to start biking on the weekends once I finish this last class.
I have a 2005 Gary Fisher X-Caliber 29er that needs a tune-up. A full tune up which includes cables, bearing packing, adjustments, cleaning, trueing wheels, and torque check costs $200, plus another $100 to rebuild my fork (started leaking from the top, probably due to wall hanging for 3 years) . So instead of giving them the $300 plus I bought the tools and parts to do it myself.
Ordered:
Park Tool PCS-9 maintenance stand and 33 piece Jensen tool kit.
Replacement cables for the brakes/derails. Went with the Shimano Sil-Tec.
Rockshox service kit and 15 weight and 5 weight oil to rebuild my leaky front fork
Already have synthetic bearing grease to repack the bearings
New tubs, tires won't hold air
Nice new pump, my old one vanished
Last time I rode the bike it was just shifting wonky, otherwise it was fine, I did put a LOT of hard miles doing single track runs over two summers with almost no maintenance, so I'll see if it needs more than just what I purchased. I was going to buy new bearings but was at a loss of what fit what. I've never done any bike maintenance before, but it has to be easier than doing timing belts on Volkswagons or pulling the control arms from an Evolution. I have a lot of tools, plus now all the weird specialized stuff for bikes, so it should be a chill day in the garage watching YouTube videos. Hopefully.
Also ordered an EchoHitch 2" for the wife's Sportwagen, doing install this weekend.
Have to decide between the Kuat Transfer 3 bike or the Themla 3.
Also need to find her a bike, almost had a killer deal on a Trek 29 hard tail but it was too big, so now haunting craigslist and pinkbike.
If anyone has any good bike wrenching tips on as to what I should replace or whatever let me know.
This is the bike -
http://www.bicyclebluebook.com/SearchListingDetail.aspx?id=10053&make=682&model=43990&priceMax=20000I thought about buying a new/used one, but I love that bike, would rather buy some nice components for it than buy something else.