Silver Case

Wearing his new shoes

Originally uploaded by karavshin.

Rare weekend for me. Ling’s brother, sister, and mom all back at the same time, so on Sunday, I had the pleasure of not getting up until 9:30 because they all were out at Tiong Bahru market for breakfast. I puttered outside and started working on my bikes.

I installed a used set of Avid BBDB mechanical disc brakes on my old, broken Trek Liquid 20. It actually went together very easily. There is a standard mounting system for disc brakes on 160mm rotor size. The only thing that varies is the bracket that interfaces between the caliper and your bike. This provides the proper standoff.

So got the brakes installed, cleaned the chain, pressurized the talas shock, and it was all finished.

Woei and I took the Trek and the Specialized for a quick spin at Bukit Timah. One third along the loop, Woei snakebit the rear tire on an asphalt edge (I was suprised — I had the tires at about 60psi, high for a mtb) and had the fun of walking it back. I carried on.

I found that I could climb the formerly impossible hill on the Trek too. Can confirm that the bike is a lot more squirrelly and it’s much harder to track truly.

I am not sure why. Because it is a full suspension frame? Because the front fork is too weak? It’s hard to look at the bikes and see any drastic difference in their geometry.

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