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posted July 16, 2005 07:28 PM
Bummer! Gilles rearset potential problem to watch out for
This is probably mostly/entirely my fault and makes me look stupid, but hopefully the info will help someone.
I'd installed a set of Gilles rearsets a while back (very nice, I like them.)
I loctited all the hardware I installed, or so I thought anyway.
Anyhow this morning, fortunately not real far from home, the shift peg (not the arm, but the peg that sticks out 90 degrees to the bike, that your toe catches or pushes) FELL OFF!!!
Which sucked! Spent about 2 hours walking up and down, many times, the part of the road where it had to have fallen off but never did find it.
Now, I think that that was already installed when I bought it, which if so would be how I failed to loctite it. (Sometimes when stuff is already together, I leave it alone, no doubt a bad practice in some instances, OK in others). I don't swear to it, maybe it was not installed and I just totally fucked up. But I think it was and I just let it be. Substantial mistake. Could have been worse though, could have been 100 miles from home or something.
So, something to watch out for if installing these, make sure that attachment is loctited as well!! 
  
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beansbaxter
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posted July 16, 2005 08:18 PM
anyone else had similiar problems??
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trenace
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posted July 16, 2005 08:58 PM
 Edited By: trenace on 16 Jul 2005 22:53
Oh I think it's inevitable or at least all too likely, such parts should be loctited. It isn't the fault of the design whatsoever or of the parts themselves.
The only fault might be, if those pieces come already connected as I think they did, is the individual assuming as I did that they could be left alone rather than taken apart and reassembled with Loctite.
Would be interesting to know if the same happened to anyone else -- but even if I'd not, I'd suggest loctiting that. That was my only point, I wasn't meaning there is a design problem, but rather a potential in-use problem depending on how assembled. Actually I think they are very nice pieces.
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posted July 16, 2005 11:09 PM
yeah i was just wondering. the gilles is the best, and only rearset, that ive wanted so bad for my 12, just havent sprung the 400+ bucks for them yet.
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posted July 17, 2005 07:19 AM
This is a good post that also applies to other brands of rear-sets, I got a set from KOR for my 954, rode it down the road and the foot peg itself started to rotate. Lesson learned, anything that moves and shouldn't... duct tape. Anything that should move but doesn't... WD-40.
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posted July 17, 2005 09:13 PM
My Gilles rearsets did the same thing. Luckily I caught the brake arm as it was dangling and never lost anything......
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posted July 18, 2005 04:26 AM
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My Gilles rearsets did the same thing. Luckily I caught the brake arm as it was dangling and never lost anything......
Yeah just the high heart rate for a few seconds not having rear brakes at mach 3
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posted July 18, 2005 06:39 AM
These things have rear what? Rear brakes? Nah, I'm sure they don't have rear brakes.
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beansbaxter
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posted July 18, 2005 08:40 AM
I seriously never use my rear brake? I'm all front!
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trenace
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posted July 18, 2005 11:42 PM
Edited By: trenace on 19 Jul 2005 01:12
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yeah i was just wondering. the gilles is the best, and only rearset, that ive wanted so bad for my 12, just havent sprung the 400+ bucks for them yet.
These are less expensive (about $266), though non-adjustable, fixed at one inch back and one inch up, in several colors including black, gold, and silver:
Could be an option: though it's an entirely reasonable view that spending a moderately high amount on something that isn't exactly what you want, is no bargain and in the long run could cost more than just buying what you really want in the first place. But these seem, at least from the pic, a pretty good possibility.
BTW, few should change rearsets just out of hoped-for weight savings. While the Gilles are quite light, you only save a little more than one pound (forget what exactly) because stock rearsets are actually pretty light themselves. So the advertising copy Gilles has of how one might save up to four or five pounds depending on the bike just doesn't apply for the 12R.
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posted July 19, 2005 02:26 PM
Also BTW, good customer service from Gilles and Kneedraggers... the replacement part is in stock, they're shipping immediately, and the piece is a reasonable price ($13.)
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