origin8 makes some decent pedals. they come powdercoated in obnoxious colors, but the black and white powdercoat aint bad. it’s otherwise a basic wellgo pedal that starts out shitty but once the bearings break in they’re pretty smooth.
i’m curious about the origin8 pedals i just bought. light as hell for platform pedals, haven’t seen them branded under other companies. they only come in black and silver though, which probably explains why i haven’t seen a whole lot of them.
Origin8 is coming out with an aluminum single-speed CX bike. Since I work for a company with a J&B account, I plan on picking one up at cost, JASCOing the paint off, and then racing some of the SS category races next year.
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theyre innertubes are good and cheap[/quote]
tubes used to be cheap. Got four from
chainlove and they lasted me a year between 3 bikes. But the price went up to 4 for 11.99 plus ship. Might as well just buy a 10 pack from pricepoint. Also boo on nonthreaded valves (cos picky about looks).
for real. shit ruined my last hand pump, i swore never to use a threaded post valve again. of course, every time i’ve been to a shop since then, i’ve asked for non-threaded post and not gotten it. grrrrr.
Yeah, they’re surprisingly hard to get a hold of. As a mechanic, I can tell you that lots of customers are actually afraid of non-threaded valves because they think that little nut is super important and that, without out, the 48mm valve will just disappear into the rim, never to be found again.
On my training wheels I have one threaded and one not threaded because I just buy whichever tubes are the cheapest. I hate clinchers.
Tubulars for ever and ever as god intended until he consumes us all in the cleansing fires of the apocalypse.
Amen.
also, fuck tubes with non removeable cores when i flat in the middle of nowhere and cant use my extenders, but i dont know this until i unwrap said tube in the middle of nowhere. FML.
I like the nut cause it helps keep the valve from bending side to side when hooking/unhooking/pumping.
With that said, I have one of the adapters that threads on (to the cap threads) that converts to shrader. I ALWAYS use this… gas station emergency, but generally just leave my pump set to that. Also alows cool dice on valve-stem
Not sure what extenders you speak of, but buy the adapter thing that threads on like i have… works with all tubes. Unless you are talking some CO2 cartridge hookup.
or really deep rims?