What did you do to your crosscheck today?

[Rusty_Piton]

Finally, finally got these things installed properly on my bike. They look pretty weird with my gigantic pedals.

[frank_doktor]

EVERYTHING looks weird with those pedals, even if they are good for this purpose.

[BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS]

the closest you’ll ever get to truck culture is having giant running boards for pedals on your bike

[atombombsunsets]

Spent way too much time frame swapping my Trance today.

Just need to trim housing & install cables, refill the rear brake, and put the chain on. New frame color looks fantastic and the DVO shock looks great in there too.

[wickedwagon]

Got 3rd in a fixed parking crit

[jimmythefly]

You say that but I also know a guy with a Bullit sporting two big eye-searing LED driving lights.

[akasnowmaaan]

I’m trying a fidlock bottle on the Banshee. We’ll see if it holds up or gets floppy over time.

[cheese]

would though— with current LED tech you can get a lot of lumens for not a lot of watts

[Rusty_Piton]

I’ve definitely been ogling these setups on a Bullitt fb group.

[cousinmosquito]

@Rusty_Piton

Finally, finally got these things installed properly on my bike. They look pretty weird with my gigantic pedals.

Looks super nice.

[Crustradamus]

let’s see some pix

[atombombsunsets]

Finishing up the build on my new Trance frame. Refilled the rear brake, air spring swap on the new Lyrik & finished cables & housing.

Needed to cut the steer tube but I don’t have a steer tube cutting guide. Improvised with two stems with two headset spacers I don’t care about. Set the gap between the spacers to the kerf of the hacksaw blade. Ended up with the squarest cut I’ve ever made.

I also don’t have a star nut setter, but after trying to punch one in with no success I remembered that I had a spare expansion plug so I popped that in instead. So much simpler!

[yonderboy]

In the past, I have used also two grip lock-ons to trim handlebars.

I invested in a proper guide a while back, though.

[Nasho]

You can get a tube cutter for pretty cheap

[atombombsunsets]

New tools are fun but I also like justifying my bike part hoard.

[Rusty_Piton]

IME, using a tube cutter on a steering tube raises a lip around the cut that needs to be filed off.

[Nasho]

Well yeah, but that’s normal. A hacksaw cut needs to be filed too.

[jimmythefly]

Agree, the way the pipe cutter works squishing metal out of the way can leave a flared edge all around that’s more of a pain to deal with if you have headset parts or stems that are already tight tolerance around the steerer.

[yonderboy]

I modded my fender setup a bit to cut down on the spray hitting the platform. It wasn’t a super rainy day, but there’s some room for improvement.

Somebody on here is using an SKS longboard fender flap in a similar manner. I binned the ones that came with the PB fenders. There’s a PDW origami flap on there now.

[Rusty_Piton]

@Crustradamus

let’s see some pix

I’d love to have some spotlights mounted down there that I could turn on with a switch on the bars to supplement the dynamo but I’m nowhere near electrically skilled enough to make that happen.
FB group where these were being discussed is Bullitt-The Dark Side

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