{"id":25,"date":"2009-09-09T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T08:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-03-28T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T12:55:47","slug":"ewr-project-phase-three-and-a-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatsurfer.com\/retromtb\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"EWR Project &#8211; Phase Three and a half :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Not much to report today, ran into several problems that I need to resolve before I go any further <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">The tyres I had down for this are too big (certainly for the back anyway).<br \/>\nI bought some Mavic\/DX wheels from <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.retrobike.co.uk\/forum\/\">RetroBike<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> and when I fitted them they were very badly out of true <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">.<br \/>\nSo I tried a spare set of Campy\/LX rims I had stashed in my shed but these were Presta drilled and all my tubes are Schrader <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">.<br \/>\nAlso my rear hydraulic hose is about three inches too short so I&#8217;ll have to make up some fresh hoseline and bleed the rear brakes.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">All this is a drag because I was planning to take it for a test ride this Thursday in my local forest&#8230;&#8230;..you don&#8217;t mind while I scream a bit do you?<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">I&#8217;m off to find some Zen like calm (and some more bike parts&#8230;..)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">My big steel pig is putting on weight<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/EWR_build030.JPG?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">But doesn&#8217;t she look cool&#8230;?<\/span><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/EWR_build031.JPG?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">NOS DX Thumbies and Magura &#8216;Tomac&#8217;<\/span><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/EWR_build032.JPG?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: bold;\">Overcrowded looking Answer Accu Trax <\/span><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goatsurfer.com\/images\/EWR_build033.jpg?w=620\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><a name=\"schrader\"><\/a><a name=\"schraeder\"><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to report today, ran into several problems that I need to resolve before I go any further The tyres I had down for this are too big (certainly for the back anyway). 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