Those riser bars look great!
I’m about to put some taller bars on my kids 16" er because the basically flat bars it came with have her too leaned forward for sure, and there’s no way she’ll ever learn to stand and power up hills with bars so low.
What about carbon and titanium Brompton upgrade parts for kidbike that end up on wifebike later?
They make aluminum bmx bars for younger kids.
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Indeed. I threw some on the last kid-bike and it lost a couple pounds. I think @Face’s kid has it now.
Yup!
One cup at a time. Insert fork with bottom bearings in place and wrap a piece of velcro around the crown of the fork and the downtube of the frame to hold it in while you assemble the top of the headset. You can do it with one hand with a little planning.
Oh, and grease the inside of the head tube, not the outside of the headset cup.
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Oh, I was just going off the picture of the blue frame with grease spooged out between the cups and head tube. Grease on the inside stays inside.
There was definitely an abundance of spooging. Greased the inside of the HT and the outside of the cups, ala:
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One 
cup at a time
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Borked the headtube on my bmx bike. The last hour of it’s life was spent casing jumps, so it had a nice send off.
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Was it a full send
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Rawland Stag 3.0 build has been dragging on for months and months, finally did finishing touches last week!
Screen capture of current parts list/price spreadsheet:
Significant changes:
- Covered up almost all of the Rawland Stag viking iconography and name with blue/purple reflective geometric / crystal / diamond decals.
- Rebuilt the rear wheel with different lacing pattern and new spokes/nipples since I broke dozens of spokes with previous lacing pattern.
- Brand new drivetrain, out with indexed 10-sp downtube Dura Ace/Campy Record levers, in with SRAM 22 Red/Rival shakes. First time oiling freehub body pawls on White Industries hub.
- New narrow Paul Touring brakes to pair with SRAM lever pull in purple ano, as a treat. Trying out some generic sparkly purple brake housing from eBay with colorful ferrules and cable caps.
- Found some Ritchey EvoCurve handlebars in silver (discontinued?) to match the SRAM levers, updated to 31.8 stem standard. New Fizik purple tape is probably too thicc but feels so nice.
- New chainrings, cassette & chain (those IRD Lobo chainrings are beautiful compared to generic Sugino)
- Sewed new mudflaps similar to those on my Elephant NFE but added a previously-used capped brake cable loop inside for rigidity on windy downhills. Rear flap I made some diamond cutouts and backed with reflective 3M tape.
- Improved dynamo wiring, added some VO R-clips as guides in places I’ve never tried before.
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Why the replaced fork
BITD when Rawland Google Group still existed a bunch of members thought the fork was really overbuilt and convinced Jeff Lyon to do a big group buy of lighter legged wiggle forks with bonus custom add-ons (like rack mounts). I just jumped on bandwagon at the time since I was unhappy with Nitto M13 canti-mounted rack and wanted an OrcRack eventually.
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It was 100 percent send for 80 to 90 percent of the jumps.
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It’s always so much fun looking at your pics, so many little details to notice on all your bikes. I’ve been doing that a lot lately with your cycletruck while working on the Lorry.
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This is so fucking TAF it hurts my eyes. Job well done!
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So many nice details. Even the shoes match!
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