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Bike Gallery / Re: Stainless Isla.

« on: February 04, 2015, 03:45:59 PM »

I fully expected this to be brojob-levels of gay when I clicked on this thread but sheeeeeit son it aint. The nitpicky wiener in me is telling me to tell you to get a black chain though.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Native.

« on: January 31, 2015, 01:26:48 PM »

fucking badass. I wonder if James has any of these left. My frames broken and nothing is really tickling my fancy on the market.

http://nativebmx.bigcartel.com/product/trendkill-frame looks like at least one.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Steerer Tube Threading/Compression Bolt Size and Fork Failure

« on: January 28, 2015, 11:10:31 AM »

haha i think the best ive done is pick up an Alliance shirt back in the day. might be the only decent product we ever put out up north of the border.
the OG ruben stem was dece' tho!

Word. I still have my old Alliance shirts. I wanted a PSI pretty bad as a little grom. You werent the dude walking around the Toronto Bike show last year in a brand new Alliance shirt, were you?

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The Bike Shop / Re: Steerer Tube Threading/Compression Bolt Size and Fork Failure

« on: January 28, 2015, 09:10:43 AM »

haha yes,  sparky's literally keeps 25mm alive

Bonedeth, Mutiny, Shadow and Subrosa do all use 25mm...

But so do Colony, Deco, Demolition, Fly, Kink, Macneil, Premium, Snafu, Stolen, Total, Verde... (as far as I can tell).

statistics will be taken into account as soon as someone actually runs something from one of those brands

What kind of dirty Canadian are you, not running Macneil parts. For shame...

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Bike Gallery / Re: Wasp

« on: January 27, 2015, 08:22:33 AM »

Also have a fit solo seat on the way. Hoping it is as thin as the eccd.

Not even close. It's more like an OG Macneil pivotal with padding all around than an eccd.

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The Bike Shop / Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)

« on: January 22, 2015, 02:30:16 PM »

I've been waiting to build these up for a while now, and finally got myself some spokes and rims. DT spokes, straight gauge, and GSport Birdcage hoops. Odyssey has drilled the flange holes so small and the flanges themselves are too thick for the spokes to make it through the bend. I gave Empire a call and they recommended just drilling it out, so here we go. They said the early batches of Antigrams have this problem, so it's not me just being a hack.

There is a bit of a trick to it, I found it easier to flip it out toward the axle sort of and kind of turn it as it pops into place. Its hard to explain properly. I built quite a few of these when they came out and kinked a fuck ton of spokes in the process. Some of them were worse than others though, and wont go without a drilling or reaming. Or shaving of the paint on the spokes around the bend. 

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Bike Gallery / Re: BSD Raider, (update)

« on: January 21, 2015, 08:46:18 AM »

Fuck, I wish these frames came with removable mounts at least.

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The Bike Shop / Re: keychain installation

« on: January 17, 2015, 02:31:47 PM »

One of my 'master' pins wont take anything more than the very tip of my 3mm allen key. The rest are fine, the hex on that one is just slightly under sized I guess.

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Riding Photos / Re: Papoy riding

« on: January 10, 2015, 12:01:05 PM »

Word. I just like when people grind really tall shit. Its a bit like watching someone pop a zit, but without the feeling of disgust afterwards.

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Riding Photos / Re: Papoy riding

« on: January 07, 2015, 03:25:19 PM »

The high part is definitely calling for some pegs action.

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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum nipples

« on: December 31, 2014, 07:56:07 PM »

This thread has reached '16 and pregnant' levels of stupidity

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The Bike Shop / Re: winter riding gear questions

« on: December 27, 2014, 05:01:20 PM »

I think my fullcut helmet was the best winter riding purchase I have ever made. That plus a hood keeps my head and neck warm at an elite sauna level.

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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum nipples

« on: December 24, 2014, 09:25:49 PM »

I am really happy that people like my nipples.

I am really happy that people like my nipples.

I am really happy that people like my nipples.

Feel like a 7 year old laughing about that.

For posterity

I am really happy that people like my nipples.

I am really happy that people like my nipples.

I am really happy that people like my nipples.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Mid school "collecting"

« on: December 12, 2014, 03:46:29 PM »

Looking at that Barcode makes my back hurt.

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The Lounge / Re: The Scotch Thread

« on: December 02, 2014, 02:47:47 PM »

Im cheap as fuck so I stick to the Glenfiddich 12. As much as I like drinking scotch, listening to people talk about the how the flavours differ makes me want to blow my brains out.

Straight liquor is where its at though.