OCD maintenance

[BigdummySteve]

Subject: 2017 salsa Fargo suffering from various minor ailments none of which are life threatening but to the OCD engineer are enough to trigger nagging thoughts of “I really ought to do some maintenance”

Ok chain off and thoroughly cleaned with IPA ( not craft beer) lubed up with smooth lube

While we’re at it hope free hub pulled off and cleaned/re-greased

Crank pulled, bearing seals popped off, flushed and re-greased

Crank brothers pedals dismantled, cleaned and re-greased

Brakes bled using the excellent sram pro kit, it’s got heavy duty syringe things which allow you to put negative pressure into the fluid, this lets you really get all the air out. When you pull up in the plunger it’s shocking how many air bubbles appear.

Disks de-glazed using a very fine diamond stone, pad given a similar treatment. Refitted and callipers aligned.

New gear cable fitted and gears indexed, as a recovering rohloff user, derailleurs cause me no end of worry.

Fork pressure/ sag adjusted. Thankfully the teralogic factory fork seems, as stu remarked to be able to read your mind. This saves much worry about adjusting complicated things such as rebound and compression damping. I do however feel slightly short changed as fiddling is not needed.

And relax perhaps my wife does have a point

[voodoo_simon]

How are your tyres looking?

[fatbikephil]

Not OCD, just diligent
Except for de-glazing the disks and pads, I just ride mine through gritty mud to do that

[BigdummySteve]

How are your tyres looking?

Rear is a little worn, popped them off after the winter event and renewed the stans. I’d become a little complacent in the tubeless maintenance dept. As usual on last weekends ride I heard the ‘ tink tink’ of a hawthorn twig hitting the forks, pulled it out and all was sealed in a second.

[BigdummySteve]

Not OCD, just diligent
Except for de-glazing the disks and pads, I just ride mine through gritty mud to do that

In my defence my brakes were embarrassingly loud, recently I’ve been experimenting playing tunes via disk brake howl.

[voodoo_simon]

How are your tyres looking?

Rear is a little worn, popped them off after the winter event and renewed the stans. I’d become a little complacent in the tubeless maintenance dept. As usual on last weekends ride I heard the ‘ tink tink’ of a hawthorn twig hitting the forks, pulled it out and all was sealed in a second.

But are they clean?

[FLV]

No lower leg service?
No new cables?
No full fluid flush for the brakes?
No brake piston and seal service?
No tension check and wheel truing?
No complete bolt removal, cleaning and new anti sieze / threadlocking

Youve barely started yet

[BigdummySteve]

No lower leg service?
No new cables?
No full fluid flush for the brakes?
No brake piston and seal service?
No tension check and wheel truing?
No complete bolt removal, cleaning and new anti sieze / threadlocking

Youve barely started yet

You may have a point..

[belugabob]

If you were truly OCD, such a large list of jobs would never have accumulated

[psling]

Not OCD, just diligent

Agree.
OCD is when all your accessories are colour co-ordinated, all your bottle-mount bolts match, your spoke nipples are all aligned the same way, you have little labels on your bike with torque setting for each bolt....

[Zippy]

Sounds like normal interim keep you going maintenance to me.

[benp1]

I put a new chain in my commuter. Desperately needed it, chain was filthy and very stretched

Pretty much the opposite of OCD!

[Oli.vert]

I thought this thread was going to be tips for maintaining a good level of OCD.
But then again, I suppose that's what it is.

(nothing wrong with tinkering, pottering, or any other useful habits)

[Mart]

Should that not be CDO maintenance - that way the letters are alphabetical