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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum nipples

« on: December 30, 2014, 02:47:10 PM »

If you CBA to buy these nipples because you are afraid you will lose the tool, my suggestion is to stop being a tool and keep track of your shit.  Just a thought....

Are you trying to look smart or funny using that "tool" word in different meanings? because it's not, it's actually pathetic if you ask me. Here's something funny!

as tight as I could with my fingers

If standard nipples had a tool that surround them and had comfortable grab, they also can be tighten that much. The tool is the key, not the nipples.

First - What the fuck are you even going on about?
Second - I scrolled through this thread twice just to double check.  And I'll be damned, I never did ask you. 
Third (I know it's getting hard for you to count this high, my apologies) - You took a fraction of what I was saying in your last quote to some how prove a point that I wasn't even talking about.  I was talking about the hex head on the top of the nipple and how it is also advantageous for supreme wheel building.   

If we are going off of the "the tool is the key, not the nipples" logic then the G-Sport tool once again proves these nipples are a superior system.  Because of the fact the nipple tapers, the tool fits very snug.  Also, I'm no math wiz here....  but I'm pretty sure that 6 sides touching each other would provide a better surface area for tightening the nipple than 4.  Thusforth and so ons and what have you.....  G-Sport Tapered Hex Nipples (and the tool) > whatever the fuck you are trying to say.  Unless you would like to further explain yourself...... 

Also, after further consideration, you are a tool that I wish got lost. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum nipples

« on: December 27, 2014, 07:48:06 PM »

^^^ My comment was merely for satire.  Torque and rotational weight aren't really things that have dick to do with one another. 


But, since everybody got their panties in a bunch about rotational weight, I will say that I can 100% feel a difference on my bikes.  Even switching tires from a 2.1 to a 2.35 is something that is pretty easy to feel the difference on.  Hell- my wife isn't even an avid BMX rider, but she could tell the difference of rotational weight on her light weight wheel set I built for her.  I sort of tried to build her bike up as light as I could since she doesn't have the upper body strength of most BMXers.  She ended up riding my bike one day that had heavier wheels and enjoyed it a lot more.  She said that she liked the way the heavier wheels were less squirrelly and that the heavier rotational weight was easier to control.  Makes sense. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum nipples

« on: December 24, 2014, 08:52:34 AM »

Just say no.

I did aluminum nipples once.  It's just not worth it.  I'm fully convinced that no combination of care, tooling and antisieze will prevent you from rounding them off if you care that your wheel is semi-true and are the least bit un-smooth.  It was worse than being married to a ginger.  Either one could ruin your day at a moments notice.

The g-sport nipples are most likely tons better, but you're still going to end up galling a few of them eventually to save like two ounces while you're possibly running 27 ounce tires.

If you're already on Kevlar bead tires, some stupid light rims, .8mm thick tubes and titanium spokes, cool. have fun. Otherwise there are less painful ways to save rotational weight.

Read this after my last post above.....  You are wrong in the assumption that the G-Sport nipples are the same as regular alloy nipples.  Very wrong, in fact.  For me, it isn't about them being lighter weight than brass nipples.  It is their ability to lace up the wheel with the most tension in the spokes humanly possible.  In the words of Adam22........walk with me.......

So one time I wanted to lace up the tightest god damn spoke tension allowed by the force of Joe Rich's dread locks.  I used G-Sport nipples with the copper anti seize that comes with Odyssey cranks.  I laced the wheel up as tight as I could with my fingers/provided spoke tool.  THEN, thanks to the 6mm hex head on the nipples, I used my handy dandy hand held impact drill to finish the job.  AHHHH, I can still hear that lovely sound of "TINK TINK TINK TINK" of the impact gun.  The wheels were seriously the best wheels I ever built.  You couldn't even get one spoke to flex.  This was 100% due to using the G-Sport nipples.  No other nipple, be it brass or alloy, would have been able to stand up to that.

Spoke tension, bro.  Get you some. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum nipples

« on: December 24, 2014, 08:44:52 AM »

Bunky is right.  I find myself pissed when I am building wheels using regular brass or alloy nipples.  The G-Sport nipples are too good. 

If you CBA to buy these nipples because you are afraid you will lose the tool, my suggestion is to stop being a tool and keep track of your shit.  Just a thought.... 

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The Bike Shop / Re: IS GALAXY THE NEW OILSLICK??

« on: December 21, 2014, 11:06:30 PM »

Actually I am waiting for the Galaxy hats to come out. I think I could rock one

Rockin like Dokken

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The Bike Shop / Re: aluminum nipples

« on: December 21, 2014, 11:04:08 PM »

G sport nipple you torque more on the shitty ones than the g sport nips

What

It has to do with rotational weight.  Now go fuck off.

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The Bike Shop / Re: IS GALAXY THE NEW OILSLICK??

« on: December 17, 2014, 08:49:04 AM »

There's a "your wife never wants to keep her leggings on for me either!" response begging to go in there... but it is already starting to get a bit out of hand so I'm going to pull out...

BOOM!

Flawless execution. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: IS GALAXY THE NEW OILSLICK??

« on: December 16, 2014, 09:17:21 PM »

I think when you are down at sea level and not waaayyyy up on that high horse it looks a bit different.  Just a theory, though. 

BANG BANG!  SHOTS FIRED!  haha   

I don't think I would ride it on any of my personal bikes.  Right around Interbike time when everybody was dropping sneak peaks of this stuff there was some (presumably) high school aged ramp tramp that was lurking at our skatepark.  She had on the same leggings that were pictured earlier in this thread.  To me, every time I would see my seat it would remind me of haggard ass ramp tramps and would make me less stoked on my bike.  And I 100% dig the Madera hubs.  They totally give off a "nebula looking ass" vibe.

My wife is way into it though, even though she doesn't wear the leggings.  I'm planning on grabbing one of the Tripod seats for her bike as per her request. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: Mid school "collecting"

« on: December 15, 2014, 10:22:14 PM »

This is my boner jamzz.  Don't get me wrong, love some old Standards as well.  But the Kink stuff rules.

Looking at that Barcode makes my back hurt.

It is actually pretty awesome to ride.  You would think it would be a lot heavier than it really is.  I will have to try to weigh it again to get exact numbers, but I felt like it was around 35lbs.  Also, the only thing I felt weird about when riding it was the bar height.  But after a little bit of cruising around on it I started to notice less and less.  She ramps like a champion.  Can't wait for it to get warm again so I can take it to more skateparks.  This was at my local right after it was built:

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The Bike Shop / Re: New odyssey stampy video

« on: December 15, 2014, 10:17:51 PM »

I was stoked to see another Stampy test.  But was bummed it was another fork test.  I was hoping for something else, but I understand the reasoning for the second go at forks. 

Also..... this could be a little bit of the Coors Lite talking here.....  but C'MON!!!  Don't you feel responsible in the slightest bit to let people know what BMX products are designed in an inferior/dangerous way?  I know that sometimes you can stir up the shit pot too much to the point where you might fall in and then be covered in shit.....  So I do get it on one hand.  But on the other... at least you can get out of the shit pot, take a shower and not smell like shit after a few days.  Everybody else would be forever smelling of the stench that is doo doo. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: IS GALAXY THE NEW OILSLICK??

« on: December 15, 2014, 10:10:20 PM »

The biggest difference I see is that the Odyssey stuff looks way closer to those chick leggings than the Madera hubs.  But I still see space 'n shit on all of that stuff... even the Total frames. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: Mid school "collecting"

« on: December 12, 2014, 11:09:47 AM »

There you go. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: IS GALAXY THE NEW OILSLICK??

« on: December 12, 2014, 11:06:02 AM »

I think the Odyssey seats are pretty cool, but I personally wouldn't ride one. 

It does look like everybody is trying to cash in on this color trend at the moment.  Before too long it will be all the rage in the scooter world. 

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Bike Gallery / Re: Sunday Model-C Fully Loaded

« on: December 11, 2014, 10:30:08 PM »

Same ^^^ 

This thing looks really bad ass.  Stripping that much Black Magic must have been a pain in the ass. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: Cruiser guys, ATF 24" vs Wave C vs Liquid, input please.

« on: December 07, 2014, 09:12:01 PM »

It is brand new.  Dude runs a small shop and made it as a custom build.  Still available as far as I know.