More Belevskiy..

...Skip the first 10-odd minutes of Russians partying with Chinese hookers.

Untitled from alexander belevskiy on Vimeo.

Way too good.

Belevskiy

I wish I was this smooth throwing bangers this...bangin'.


LS майка и Саша Белевский типерь вместе))) from LSMmax on Vimeo.

The WEDNESDAY NIGHT RIDES will be back soon...after some heated conferencing, it has been decided. Get stoked and bring ya skillz.

24" Trials video

....No, not that one.


разминка 2009 ch.k. from ch.k. on Vimeo.

We are going to try taking TS in a different direction, post non-original content. We'll keep going with the Toronto news, ride postings, our own content, but also post cool videos like this, just to keep things moving.

Hiatus

How could we have nothing to write about in the first weeks of spring? Pretty simple....sick for a week and a half, sprained wrist for two weeks, shit adds up. Kenneth is done fiddling with his Cove and has nothing cool to write about on the tech department, and our so-called team apparently does not know what their responsibilities...responsibility, singular, that should be. Anyways. Maybe they'll figure it out.

Anyways since they've been slacking, my injured ass has had to step up, and Kenneth's working ass and olddd camera have had to help. Fooling around with a sprained wrist:

Cassette progress, V1-V2.5

So you saw cassette V1.0 ages ago -A SRAM PG-950 (used), 11-34t, weighing in at a pound clean.

V1.5 came fairly quickly, and with it came some positive results -160g with a steel lockring, 6 gears and an 11-23t stack. Competitive against road cassettes in both spread and weight. I rode it for a bit, and found I wasn't using the easiest gear, so I proceeded to V1.75 -

110g with a steel lockring, presumably around 103g with an aluminum item. Very competitive weight. 11-20 spread, 5 gears at this point. But it shifted like utter crap, spitting my chain around at will. So I bought another cassette, a Shimano and a road unit at that, because presumably this would improve the shift quality. Cassette V2.0, 213g with steel lockring. 12-24t spread or something like that.
However obviously to fit my SingleSpeed hub, at least 3 gears need to go.
I opted to keep 6 gears as the stack would be harder - 12-17t. 116g with a steel lockring. Not satisfied yet, but hopefully it will shift well. My ultimate plan would be a new chain and a reduced Shimano 11-28 cassette with an aluminum lockring.

Gears...again

Long time no posts. I put my gears back on today, considering I'm the technically inept half of TSS I think I did an OK job for my first time. Instead of limiting the derailleur the classic way, with the limit screws, I used the shifter to limit the derailleur. Say 1 is the hardest gear and 9 is the easiest...I only run 5 gears so I only want the derailleur to move from 1-5, or rather 5-1, in terms of cable tension. So I set my shifter to be in gear 9, all of the cable slack pulled in, and mated it to the derailleur which was sittin' at 5. Done.

Three noteworthy things...It doesn't shift very accurately, although I have yet to ride it. This is probably a combination of an old, still kinda rusty, cheap cassette, and my mostly nonexistent mechanical skills. The derailleur I'm running (thanks Rob), a shortcage 20th anniversary X.0, is bent (courtesy Mr. Fraser racing Worlds DH on it), so I remedied that by throwing a washer from my female axle between the hanger and the derailleur. The derailleur still makes all vital contact with the hanger, and it'll finally reach the 11t. Perfect. Finally, the one issue NOT related to the cheapness of my set-up (derailleur + cassette....$30) involves the b-tension adjustment. When it's dialled into an optimum position, the cage rides the dropout a bit. I suspect this has a bit to do with my frame, which is mostly intended for singlespeed use, and a bit to do with the afore-mentioned washer, bumping the derailleur out by a few mm. I'll see how it affects things while riding.