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The Bike Shop / Re: breaking hs bearings - new frame?

« on: March 31, 2015, 07:25:09 AM »

What I mean by breaking is that the races comes out in several pieces, like metal flakes, not that the races disconnect from eachother. The bearing balls are intact, but the races are just a hot mess.

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The Bike Shop / breaking hs bearings - new frame?

« on: March 31, 2015, 03:38:28 AM »

Hey guys.

Ive been on my frame now for like 4 years. In the last couple of years Ive gone through about 4 lower headset bearings. Whenever I remove the fork it just falls out in pieces.

Ive used different bearings each time and Im riding a Mankind justice frame with a primo strand v2 fork, I also tried other forks and still the same issue. I just install the headset directly on the fork race, no extra races or shims. I tighten with my fingers and give a last little turn with the allen key to secure the fork. It always spin freely with now play.

Can my frame be to blame? I cant see anything wrong, but I guess a deformation can be hard to see. What do you guys think? Can I fix this or time for a new frame?

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The Bike Shop / Re: I Need Help With Dialing In My Rear Brake - Gyro

« on: March 30, 2015, 12:06:40 PM »

First of all; get new cables and brake pads. 15 year old cables must be quite streched... if you are looking at spending money I would suggest a new gyro and u-brake. You can also consider getting a new chrome rim and lace it up straight.

If you dont want to get new stuff then true your wheel, remove everything, clean and lube and tighten and make sure that the springs flex well.

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The Bike Shop / Re: New barcodes

« on: March 30, 2015, 02:18:43 AM »

Get amazed!!! I've got a 36t on my S&M code and it isn't very happy. Maybe the next batch will be different, not sure.

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The Bike Shop / Re: New barcodes

« on: March 29, 2015, 02:22:13 PM »

I would be amazed if it wouldnt.

Just mail them/him and ask.

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The Lounge / Re: Middle name my child.

« on: March 28, 2015, 07:16:30 AM »

Awesome. So that he/she can sai I am awesome

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The Lounge / Re: Middle name my child.

« on: March 27, 2015, 06:39:15 AM »

Bikeguide

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The Lounge / Re: Smartphone or GoPro for lazy filming?

« on: March 26, 2015, 02:45:03 PM »

Im far from a videographer, but I would take a look at the fps. Imagine that the smartphones suck on that account. My samsung note edge films quite well, but for bmx? Who knows

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The Lounge / Re: landlord issues/renovations to my apartment (help)??

« on: March 26, 2015, 02:01:32 AM »

ombudsman

Such a weird word to adopt from Swedish, up there together with Smorgasbord.

Anyway; If you live with like 10 other dudes the landlord must have given at least one of your crackhead-chums a notice, no?

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The Lounge / Re: Middle name my child.

« on: March 26, 2015, 01:43:06 AM »

Could always just use your first name as its first name and then add jr. as second name. Whoop whoop!

Edit: or senior, just to confuse everyone.

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The Bike Shop / Re: zinc coated stem bolts yay or nay

« on: March 21, 2015, 09:58:36 AM »

Use copper paste on everything. works wonders for my bike

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The Bike Shop / Re: Kink Senec Pedals: Play

« on: March 20, 2015, 04:38:57 PM »

Same here! I thought it was a great idea, til I tried them.

Bought a pair of those new Salt sealed plastic pedals. Only ridden on them once so far but they already feel awesome!

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The Lounge / Re: Death penalty (re; Bali 9 executions)

« on: March 10, 2015, 06:58:26 PM »

Vids from their websites are semi-blocked. Have to go to a special site to see some content.

Idk, it is blocked on my chrome that is set to use American IP addresses.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Fixing removable brake hardware

« on: March 09, 2015, 04:15:41 PM »

Ive seen some good rivert uses in my day. If it can be done that is provably the way forward. I have no idea how to do it though. Prob ask at the bike shop. Thanks guys!

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The Bike Shop / Re: Fixing removable brake hardware

« on: March 09, 2015, 12:12:31 PM »

Cable stop.