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

« on: December 01, 2011, 01:27:35 PM »

Dished my back wheel a little bit. Replaced my tube. Chinked like 50 curbs.

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: December 01, 2011, 09:41:00 AM »

Damn! Really? They look pretty beefy.

Yeah but I'm sure they know this so there warranty program is probably good on it. I would look into a Brian Foster stem!

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: November 30, 2011, 10:38:29 PM »

A lot cracked from what I've heard.

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: November 30, 2011, 02:46:50 PM »

Hahaha I get my license in a few months so well see. But thanks Ethan I'm confident and the way you described it is how I was honna go about it.

BTW-great thread!

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: November 30, 2011, 02:26:41 PM »

If you do one spoke at a time its gonna get egged I reckon.

what if I do it in a criss cross pattern? Like one then accrpss the wheel?

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: November 30, 2011, 01:31:54 PM »

There pretty old and rounded.

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: November 30, 2011, 01:23:18 PM »

Is your vandero2 messed up already?  If not, just leave it, mine is still going strong.

Yeah mines fucked..

A dremel with a thin cutting disk will cut through threads without damaging them or leaving any ragged edges, like sawing or snipping them would. You may need to tap the threads longer too.... in which case its probably worth just buying the correct length spokes in the first place. One spoke at a time should work too.

OK good to know. There odyssey spokes and my wheels are odyssey so I feel like they will fit. When I buy spokes do they come with nips? In the picture there were nips on the spokes.

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The Bike Shop / Overhauling my wheels

« on: November 30, 2011, 10:55:55 AM »

So both my wheels are getting pretty trashed and I have a few questions. I saw some close out spokes on Odyssey's store so I was thinking about picking them up. How do I cut them to length? Also I don't want to pay a bike shop to rebuild my wheels so is it a bad idea to take one back spoke out at a time and replace it with a new one? Then true it at the end?

My second question, I know some people had some problems with vandero 2's getting wobbely and having shit bearings. Is it worth it to replace the bearings and cones and just rebuild that wheel too?

Thanks guys!

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

« on: November 29, 2011, 09:42:56 AM »

Did a smith before work and the front wheel came loose, when I got home I found out that the axle is stripped. Gotta put my shitty Vandero wheel back on....

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The Bike Shop / Quick Questions

« on: November 28, 2011, 11:32:11 AM »

I wanna trim my front axle down since I'm using an older wheel for the time being. Never trimmed axles, is it just a matter of hacking the excess off and filing down the ends?

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

« on: November 19, 2011, 09:30:02 AM »

Installed my new pegs and hubguard. And put my old 48h Araya front wheel on since my vandero wheel has shit the bed.

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

« on: October 30, 2011, 01:51:55 PM »

Walked my spare up to the gas station to put air in the tires since my electric compressors valve ripped :mad2: and blew the tube up since the spokes were poking through the rim strip...

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

« on: October 29, 2011, 12:45:29 PM »

Forgot where it was, then remembered its in the garage. I don't like keeping it in the garage since I share the garage with about 5 other people in the apartment.

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U.K. / Trustworthy/Untrustworthy sellers: UK

« on: October 24, 2011, 11:48:02 PM »

Motobrando traded his Federal seat for my cult, got here quick and kept in contact with me.

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

« on: October 24, 2011, 11:46:12 PM »

bought another eccd so now i have 3 browns and a spoke wrench. and a crappy school burrito edit: wrong thread but now i have to tighten up my spokes because they are all loose. awesome

Why do you have 3 of them? Wanna sell one