# Tarck Arts and Carfts. Post your home-built bikey stuff.
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [January 23, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528 "2012-01-23T18:45:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 34
### Author:  [@Tail\_Hook\_Lengthener](https://tarck.cc/u/Tail_Hook_Lengthener)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 7:56pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/661 "2018-04-04T19:56:46Z")
Some of those old Kona steel MTBs have true supple tubing. The bike looks great!
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### Author:  [@Face](https://tarck.cc/u/Face)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/662 "2018-04-04T20:04:40Z")
Thanks dudes. It’s just a 26er with a poorly angled photo taken of it.
Rides pretty supple, especially with tubeless and that long chair pole sticking out. Next up I gotta find a purple chairpole in 27.2 x 400mm to replace the 27.0 with a soda can. Maybe a purple headset too? Orange pedals are definitely calling my name as well.
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### Author:  [@Rusty\_Piton](https://tarck.cc/u/Rusty_Piton)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/663 "2018-04-04T20:22:48Z")
Love that hose loop.
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### Author:  [@Face](https://tarck.cc/u/Face)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/664 "2018-04-04T20:45:59Z")
I want options.
Those brakes have been on 2 of my bikes and a couple of Motorbacon’s.
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2018, 11:45pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/665 "2018-04-08T23:45:00Z")
Moving my Vans for flat pedal sole-chat here.
Easiest thing to do is to carefully get started and then kind of lift the sole and slice at the inside of the flap repeatedly until you get through it:
I cut 3-4mm off my Vans pro sole the other day so I could stack the Superfeet carbon onto it.
I did a good day of MTB yesterday and am pleased to report that my shoes felt plenty supportive and generally perfect for my purposes. Did not once think they were too floppy, nor too stiff to walk on. Generally just forgot about my shoes. Perfect! If you are as stupid as me and start cutting your Vans soles up please don’t cut yourself. The foam they are made of is really difficult to work with. The project totally dulled a complete snap-off boxcutter blade. I’d estimate you need 1 of those blades per sole to do it without annoyance.
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### Author:  [@Face](https://tarck.cc/u/Face)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/666 "2018-04-09T00:19:04Z")
An electric fish knife goes through foam like an electric fish knife through fish. As to say, really easily. I used it to cut large slabs of latex foam and memory foam for a couple furniture projects a while back and loved it.
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### Author:  [@shane.rrr](https://tarck.cc/u/shane.rrr)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/667 "2018-04-09T13:11:05Z")
Dang I might do that carbon sole in vans.
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 2:15pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/668 "2018-04-09T14:15:24Z")
> [@Face](#):
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> An electric fish knife goes through foam like an electric fish knife through fish. As to say, really easily. I used it to cut large slabs of latex foam and memory foam for a couple furniture projects a while back and loved it.
oh good call.
I was imagining that something like that might do the job quickest. Just went down to the hardware store and grabbed the most appropriate box-cutter, which seemed like the snap-off blade one because you can make it really long.
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### Author:  [@shane.rrr](https://tarck.cc/u/shane.rrr)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/669 "2018-04-09T19:34:08Z")
You could also heat up a wire or clothes hanger and cut it with that. I have done that on other foam things.
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### Author:  [@VT\_regularbike](https://tarck.cc/u/VT_regularbike)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/670 "2018-04-09T23:24:15Z")
Yeah pc power supply and some really thin wire works real good.
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### Author:  [@jeffro](https://tarck.cc/u/jeffro)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/671 "2018-04-10T00:40:32Z")
> [@VT regularbike](#):
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> Yeah pc power supply and some really thin wire works real good.
Top tip, right there.
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### Author:  [@Crustradamus](https://tarck.cc/u/Crustradamus)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/672 "2018-04-10T03:05:07Z")
God damn that sounds fun
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### Author:  [@Blakey](https://tarck.cc/u/Blakey)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2018, 5:22am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/673 "2018-04-10T05:22:50Z")
> [@VT regularbike](#):
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> Yeah pc power supply and some really thin wire works real good.
- Nichrome wire
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### Author:  [@bward1028](https://tarck.cc/u/bward1028)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/674 "2018-04-26T20:09:59Z")
Working on a brass insert to fix my busted lever.
Fit is done, next is to tap and thread the brass, drill the lever, and fasten from the front side with tiny bolts.
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### Author:  [@NOVELTYNAME](https://tarck.cc/u/NOVELTYNAME)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/675 "2018-04-26T20:55:07Z")
can you make it a little more steampunk? like, add some natural leather and maybe use a liquid filled cologne sample vial for stability
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### Author:  [@igor](https://tarck.cc/u/igor)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/676 "2018-04-26T20:58:43Z")
Make sure to hot glue some random gears to make it properly steamy.
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### Author:  [@jdsmooth](https://tarck.cc/u/jdsmooth)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/677 "2018-04-27T16:15:25Z")
needle gauge gear indicator
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### Author:  [@VT\_regularbike](https://tarck.cc/u/VT_regularbike)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 3:29am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/678 "2018-04-28T03:29:31Z")
Brass makes no sense at all for that application. It’s not cheap it’s not light, it’s really not that stiff. Why?
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### Author:  [@bward1028](https://tarck.cc/u/bward1028)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 4:58am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/679 "2018-04-28T04:58:00Z")
It’s scrap I had and it’s easy to shape. What would you do?
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### Author:  [@NOVELTYNAME](https://tarck.cc/u/NOVELTYNAME)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/tarck-arts-and-carfts-post-your-home-built-bikey-stuff/19528/680 "2018-04-28T15:02:38Z")
> [@NOVELTYNAME](#):
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> make it a little more steampunk? like, add some natural leather and maybe use a liquid filled cologne sample vial for stability
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