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That’s kind of what I figured as well. I looked at google earth and saw nothing but pavement. Driving isn’t too bad, but would have been nice to be able to ride somewhere instead.
Well I ended up using a paint scraper and it worked perfectly! Guess I can return the crown race remover tool when it arrives. I totally forgot to go to home depot to get a piece of PVC and I ended up cutting up a plastic trash can and wrapping it around the tube. Surprisingly is also worked. Now I just need for the shock pump to come in tomorrow (I didn’t realize the Rockshox Silver TK didn’t come with one). I can already tell it’s WAY smoother than the old one. Can’t wait to take it out on the trail this weekend.
I bought my current bike (Gravity 27Five G2) on bikesdirect. For the most part, I have been satisfied. The one thing I will say to keep in mind is that IF something does go wrong (such as in my case), you will be doing a lot of waiting for replacements to be shipped in.
I managed to get a defective front tire right away. I told them about it and sent pictures and they mailed it out pretty quick. The problem, however, is they somehow sent me ANOTHER defective front tire. After showing them again, they did end up sending me a new front tire.
My point is, if something does go wrong, it can be a bit of a pain when you can’t talk face to face with someone. That said, for the price, they are hard to beat. Trek, in my experience, are way over priced simply because of the name. Should you decide you want something else, you also have to go through the process of sending it back, which will be expensive. Just things to think about.
I’ll give that a try and see if I can manage to get it off. It seemed pretty dang flush with the current fork though. So much so to the point where I could barely even get a knife edge on it.
To seat it, I planned on just getting a piece of PVC from home depot as I have seen a lot of other people do online.
Ugh. Totally forgot I was going to need to swap over the crown race and don’t have the tool for it. Now my nice new fork is going to sit in my house for another week until I can get the tool in /sigh.
I actually just went ahead on bought the Recon Silver TK. I tried finding the Gold, but I don’t think you can get it in a straight steerer for a 27.5. I also figure that the bike really isn’t worth dropping much money on at this point seeing as I am not doing anything too crazy on it…yet 😉
Awesome! Thank you for the reply. I think I will get a recon and then keep this bike until I think I need something else. The rest of it has been great so I didn’t want to get too carried away.
