{"id":960,"date":"2009-01-01T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2009-01-01T17:46:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T22:46:47","slug":"diss-is-all-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/diss-is-all-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"D.I.S.S. Is All Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_2978.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/80587-2\/IMG_2978.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"Oury grip on the Bianchi D.I.S.S. after cleaning the bike and re-fitting them with isopropyl alcohol. Hopefully they will stay in place.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I spent a good part of yesterday and today disassembling and reassembling the Bianchi D.I.S.S. that I acquired on Monday. While it looked pretty good to begin with, the drivetrain (save for the chain) was actually pretty dirty. There was also a bunch of black dirt (chain lube \/ dirt gunk) hiding all over the frame and drivetrain. So, I took pretty much the whole bike apart, cleaned everything, then put it back together. (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/bike_stuff\/IMG_2974.jpg.html\">Here&#8217;s a photo of the shiny clean crankset, chainring, and chain.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This included torquing everything to spec, re-seating the tires (with logos aligned, of course!), flipping the stem cap around so the logo faces the right way up, re-fitting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourygrips.com\/\">Oury grips<\/a>, adjusting the brake levers, and all the other niggling things that are part of putting a bike together. The grips were fitted by first cleaning them, rinsing them with alcohol (99% <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isopropanol\">isopropyl<\/a>), then wetting them with alcohol and sliding them on. They appear to be drying nicely, although I&#8217;ve read that it may be best to fit them with either rubber cement or a spray adhesive. If this doesn&#8217;t hold, I&#8217;ll try another method.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now all ready for riding, I just have to wait for a bit less ice on the ground and I&#8217;ll be able to ride. This bike might also be perfect for trying out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.on-one-shop.co.uk\/acatalog\/HBOOMMAB.jpg\">On-One Mary Bar<\/a> which <a href=\"http:\/\/utabintarbo.com\/www\/about\/index.html\">Bob<\/a> loaned to me a few months back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a good part of yesterday and today disassembling and reassembling the Bianchi D.I.S.S. that I acquired on Monday. While it looked pretty good&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/diss-is-all-clean\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">D.I.S.S. Is All Clean<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}