dubjay on January 24th, 2007

So I’m just riding along and I hear the infamous Hadley screech, followed by a cassette that backs up the chain while coasting.
Hoping that it was just something that came loose, I cracked open the hub and found this lovely piece of something floating around inside.

Yup, the driveside bearing exploded again. I’ve had this hub [...]

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dubjay on January 18th, 2007

Yesterday was my 35th birthday. Do I feel any older? Nah, not really. There’s less hair on top and a couple white hairs have mysteriously appeared in my beard (facial hair coincidently seems to be a byproduct of working from home).
I happened to get the following email yesterday.
We at Mtbr.com Forums would [...]

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dubjay on January 15th, 2007

Ever since I got my Marzocchi All-Mountain 1, I’ve always felt the front end had quite a bit of play when going through the rough stuff, especially compared to how solid 20mm forks feel. One day, while surfing the various bike websites, I found out that Hadley offered a 9mm thru-axle conversion for their [...]

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dubjay on January 2nd, 2007

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.  We spent our Christmas in Paris and celebrated New Year’s in Barcelona.
My resolutions for 2007?  I haven’t had much time to think about them yet.  My head is still spinning from being on GMT.

Lose some weight (isn’t that the norm?) - I’d like to get down to a [...]

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