You may want/need to have the brake mounts/adapters faced. I could not align the calipers on my Spaceframe until the mounts/adapters were faced.
Well you were right about the violent swinging of the fork so you might be right about this too but I hope I don’t have to.
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Hopefully I’m wrong.
I remember removing the truss fork on my Jones for more compact packing when preparing to fly with the bike. Never again.
i tubelessed some archetypes on a fixed gear bike today
it’s fine
everything is fine
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Straightened out the Cannondale after crashing it last week. Everything seems to be OK, when I said to my wife that I was considering riding to work tomorrow she was not impressed. I think I’ll wait until I get my stitches out, and I can use my left shoulder properly….
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When I bought this bike it came with the original shimano 7 speed coaster brake IGH rear wheel. Set it up the other day and it’s pretty sick. I forgot how cool IGHs are, I love how there’s a different assortment of clicking and whirring in every gear. Nice match for the dynamo too, gives it a drum brake klunker vibe.
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dag thats litty
lil fucken loop tail hy hy hy
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First day back at work since I attacked myself with a machete. Took off a crank arm so I could one-foot it to work.
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tarcklebee for commitment to the game
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Hell yeah. Are you pushing off at 3 o’clock/backpedal/repeat?
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Nah I have put a toe strap on the pedal.
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I put together two bikes last year and each one took so much longer than expected it drove me crazy. I’m ~6 hours into a new build and here’s what I’ve done so far. I cannot believe how much time I am wasting, how does it take so long? I used to be able to put together a bike in the shop from frame in like 2 hours.
Steerer cut, steerer reinforcing tube install
headset install
seatpost cut, seatpost paint removal to fit
=1.5 hours
Tension and true rear wheel
install front and rear tires
crimp chainstays
adjust saddle height
fix stem spacers, mock-up handlebar
Install shifters, RD, BB, rotors, calipers, cassette, fiddle with tires, general prep
=3.5 hours
Run front and rear housing and brake cables, tune brakes.
1 hour
I still have to install the rest of the drivetrain and shifting, and fenders. That’s going to be at least another 2 hours. WTH.
On the plus side the chainstay crimping went a lot better this time:
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I attached the dangle light to my bike. There’s a mount point on the frame that would be perfect but to use it I’d have to remove the box to access the screw so that’ll happen never. I attached to the box itself with a wood screw lol.
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Nearly crashed it, whacked my mons pubis on my sternum puncher. You’d think I would have trimmed that steerer in the 10 or 11 years I’ve been riding this bike almost exclusively, but….
Those goddamn bungee nets from A——n are the worst. They were so cheap and fitted perfectly, and then they lost all elasticity after a couple of weeks and without being under stress. I should have thrown them out instead of continuing to use their saggy asses for another 8 months, but… (see above note for sternum puncher). So yeah, one of them sagged down to the wheel and got tangled, locking the wheel.
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On my Haro basket bike, I swapped out the narrow Haro Team Extreme Wing bar and silly bar ends for a Sunrise bar & BMX stem I bought from my buddy. No idea how this is going to feel going from a 110mm stem & 600mm bar to 50mm X 800mm, but I’m cautiously optimistic.
Need to run new cables & housing but I ran out of bike motivation.
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That’s a slack ht
What is the AC? I have a low trail velo orange fork