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What did you do to your bike today? (v2)

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DontcallmeKenneth:
Rode it until about 4:30 am. Did some things. Watched chrome rims yo do a feeble 180. Saw some hoes pile into a mini van. Fell trying an ice pick. Hopped a cone. Thought about doing a rail. Almost 180d out of a feeble. Shit in a porter potty. I say it was a good night-morning.

-MEAT-:
I bought an Orange Msisle frame last week, basically immaculate, £55 off ebay. Its the 3rd i've had since '98, plan is to paint it up all pimpin', chopped off all the old canti mounts and most of the cable mounts first, they used to be on the top tube, theres nothing like sliding down the tt on your nuts, only to have them snag on jagged metal.

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Craig Slist:

--- Quote from: bluebmx;3611281 ---Flipped my front tire so my less used hub guard could take the brunt of my abuse for a while, tapped my seat back down and put a sweet 25t ti imperial on to make my ratio feel better due to the lost leverage with the 165mm cranks. Those ti imperials aren't 15/16 bore, but luckily my friend has some power tools and a lot of patience.
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Looks good dude,you get those cranks from sketchphoto?

And I could never run 165's,180mm are the bee's knees

CHROME_RIMS_YO:
did my first lefty feeble to 180 out in 12 years. the blackest of miguels got some clips, thanks bud. peep this clip on my tumblr.

i also bought a piece of nice dark brown cowhide with a hand etched western pattern to recover my aitken seat in the coming frigid months. i'm going to try to add 5mm worth of padding while i'm at it. i'll definitely post pics when i start working on it in a couple weeks.

bluebmx:

--- Quote from: Craig Slist;3611722 ---Looks good dude,you get those cranks from sketchphoto?

And I could never run 165's,180mm are the bee's knees
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Yes I did, and I do feel a loss in pedal efficiency. I very well may go back to my 170s soon, but I'm going to give it a little more time, just to see. Other than burning my legs up quicker, I've adapted to them in every other ay and could easily ride them full time now.

In the spirit of the thread, yesterday I tossed a very small spacer on under my stem to compensate for the amount that my feet being pushed closer put me more over the bike. Worked like a charm and everything felt like before with 170s, as general body posture goes.

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