I learned how to pull a bike to bits an put it back together when I was about 14 years old. I would get old bikes from the garbage dump and clean them up and sell them.
saw your set of tools you have with you on your tour (when you were biking that is ;) and was wondering how well you can repair a bike and how you learned it ? did you pick that knowledge up only for the tour ?
anyway, keep up the blog posts and videos, they are just great. always read them ;)
Cheers for that longtang1234. The forks lasted very well over the 12,000km I cycled from Japan to Switzerland, and I had no other issues with water in the forks.
put a vacuum hose to it and make a low pressure system in the tube. Water boils at lower temperature in sub atmopheric pressure. This will make sure the water is boiled off. Even if you cannot achieve subatmospheric pressure, the air movement will dry out the fork quicker.
No worries.
14degrees 3 years ago
thanks for getting back to me. nice way to earn some cash as a 14 year old ;)
bosie2006 3 years ago
I learned how to pull a bike to bits an put it back together when I was about 14 years old. I would get old bikes from the garbage dump and clean them up and sell them.
14degrees 3 years ago
saw your set of tools you have with you on your tour (when you were biking that is ;) and was wondering how well you can repair a bike and how you learned it ? did you pick that knowledge up only for the tour ?
anyway, keep up the blog posts and videos, they are just great. always read them ;)
bosie2006 3 years ago
Cheers for that longtang1234. The forks lasted very well over the 12,000km I cycled from Japan to Switzerland, and I had no other issues with water in the forks.
14degrees 4 years ago
put a vacuum hose to it and make a low pressure system in the tube. Water boils at lower temperature in sub atmopheric pressure. This will make sure the water is boiled off. Even if you cannot achieve subatmospheric pressure, the air movement will dry out the fork quicker.
longtang1234 4 years ago