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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum bb spacer idea thingy

« on: November 21, 2017, 06:36:19 AM »

Apart from being terrible for your BB bearings (which are radial, not thrust or ACB, i.e. engineered for axial loads), not running a tube spacer will lead to your sprocket bolt coming undone, and your spindle bolts too if you don't have pinchbolt cranks. One of the subtle things that 99/100 people don't realise, like how most hub wobble in hubs with a 14mm or 3/8" axle is caused by non-parallel dropouts or exploded driver bearings being caused by the bearing shoulder on the axle not being a right angle but instead a curve

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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum bb spacer idea thingy

« on: November 18, 2017, 03:33:03 PM »

Mid bearing outer diameter: 41.275mm
Spanish outer diam: 37mm

A lot closer in weight than you suggest. Add in a 2.1375mm cup (with lip to locate the bearing) and the weight loss (for the MIDDLE of your bike where rotational weight is 1:1 not 2:1 or 1.5:1) and you're really not acheiving anything but overly complicating things for yourself, paying money and/or spending time on a machine

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The Lounge / Re: ドモアリガート Mr Robotオ

« on: November 17, 2017, 05:20:41 PM »

I like how the thread got derailed. I was actually curious if Bg is still watching this:

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The Lounge / Re: ドモアリガート Mr Robotオ

« on: November 17, 2017, 04:39:05 AM »

In Soviert Russia, bike guides you

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The Lounge / ドモアリガート Mr Robotオ

« on: November 16, 2017, 11:37:06 PM »

Does MFBS still have any viewers?

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The Lounge / Re: My plans are to move to the LA area in under two years.

« on: November 03, 2017, 05:46:26 AM »

Socal might be jarring if you are used to Wisconsin. Norcal is still hella clement

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The Lounge / Re: What have you made?

« on: November 03, 2017, 05:38:44 AM »

Whia you live in the sky

If you aren't dead set on that setup and would consider alternatives, check out some of the things you find in Japanese micro apartments

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The Lounge / Re: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium...

« on: October 29, 2017, 08:57:04 PM »

I wouldn't know about trading, well, anything. I don't know that my mate had a clue either, he was just always on the bleeding edge of tech and bought into it for the hell of it as opposed to a planned investment. Luck just happened to go his way.

Here in Australia the one market on everyone's mind seems to be real estate

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The Lounge / Re: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium...

« on: October 16, 2017, 10:07:06 PM »

Sorry Kirk I was only japing. Truth be told a friend of mine bought in on BC when it was first public, and made plenty off of it.

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The Lounge / Re: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium...

« on: October 16, 2017, 09:11:41 PM »

I heard it put North Ogden and Haverbrook on the map

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The Lounge / Re: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Etherium...

« on: October 16, 2017, 04:51:48 AM »

Is it true that this isn't one of those shady pyramid schemes we've all heard about? And is, in fact, a trapezoid model?

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The Lounge / Re: The Music Thread

« on: September 25, 2017, 05:14:26 AM »

Gary Numan's new album is pretty rad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHomCiPFknY

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The Bike Shop / Re: Quick Questions

« on: September 25, 2017, 12:11:17 AM »

September 12, 2016

You might need Dolorean-mail to avert that disaster

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The Bike Shop / Re: Different take on bearings/flange in hubs

« on: September 16, 2017, 10:00:49 PM »

Whilst they mention shock absorption first, they are taking tiny elastic deformation of the hubshell super seriously.

http://www.gokiso.jp/en/products/hub_02.html

About 2/3rds of the way down they talk about deformation of the bearings as a consequence of hubshell deformation

If it was on Sheldon Brown's site it'd probably be presented like this:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/chainclean.html

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The Lounge / Re: Make Bikeguide Great Again...

« on: September 07, 2017, 04:29:01 PM »

The low BB trend reaches new heights. Or depths