EZo Cycle

Same Spot... Years apart

Today we rode passed a spot I took a picture from around 45 years ago, got Frances to take a recreated picture.

Wheel build: Almost 3 years old now these wheels, still spinning flawlessly. DT swiss G549db rims built o to Bitex hubs with Shimano Rotors and cassette. Bearings not changed yet.

This bike is used on an urban commute everyday and weekends too.

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Trek Rail 5 rear linkage service:

Tried out the Lebycle bearing puller but it was not suitable for odd shaped frames, which most full suspension bikes are. Designed with curves for the look not serviceability. So needed to use the Enduro Bearings kit instead. The Noble wheels bearing puller and even punch and hammer for certain bearings. This job can be tough.

But once the new set of bearings are put in, courtesy of ,the rear linkage comes alive. There was a knocking my client noticed and it turns out a spacer in the main pivot was missing.

SON dynamo front wheel rebuild with Campag Levante rim. Light installation.

SON edelux lights are brill but the Brother Kepler frame was not ideal for this. Bike packing bike with mudguard was not fully designed to have dynamo light setup. The fork had a port at the bottom for the wire to be internal but no port higher up for the wire to come out. The mudguards used a bolt to hold the top up and had a big rubber and steel washer to hold it tight without scratching the fork or mudguard. However it stopped the wire coming out to the light mounted on the fork crown. So I cut a channel out of the rubber washer to allow the wire through between the crown and washer. One light solved. Also had to cut the coaxial plug from the wire to feed it through the port, then resolder the plug back onto the wire.
Next the rear light arrived, this time the rack version not the seat post one.
The tumble w**d rack has a nice port next to the light mount and wire can run out through the end of the tubing. Nice. But then there was no nice was to run the wire to the front, no ports.
The non intrusive way was to wrap the wire around the top tube. But that looked terrible, but risk of damage. So I had to drill ports into the top tube to internal route the wire. I almost drilled 2 holes on the seat stay to hide more of the wire. But didn't want to drill small tubing.
Had to set the frame upside down to gain position to drill on the underside of the tube. Stepped up the drilling from 2mm to 7mm using 0.5mm increments. Bit of filing with rotary tool to clean up the hole. Then used Di2 wire grommets to hole the wire and stop crap getting in.
Then crimped on some connectors and voila all done.

Really wished Brother had designed this in, hate having to drill a frame to do internal routing but needs must. Turn out nice though. Had to use some coloured tape to hold the wire between the rack and top tube, but heyho.