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The Bike Shop / Re: Odsy Clutch hub slack issues

« on: July 20, 2016, 10:04:55 PM »

read on a few different boards regarding the slack adjustment mechanism, and the grub screw loosening itself.

one option is to just take out the grub screw (so that the adjuster is at max slack) then use conventional spacers to lock in the slack amount, until you get warranty/ proper fix

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The Lounge / Re: post BG redux PAPOY

« on: June 06, 2016, 07:26:56 PM »

good friend of mine. she was pissing herself from a dude winning it.

in reality i stood to the side, and instead of lobbing it like a normal person, the bride chucked the flowers straight backwards almost like a rugby pass. i caught it the last second, before it hit the floor.

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The Lounge / Re: post BG redux PAPOY

« on: June 02, 2016, 06:15:31 PM »

sour grapes

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The Bike Shop / Re: odyssey clutch: clicking noise when I stop pedaling

« on: June 02, 2016, 06:14:17 PM »

Its metal against plastic without any strong forces on the screw right? Wouldnt just household glue do the trick?

loctite is classier because bikes

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The Lounge / Re: post BG redux PAPOY

« on: June 02, 2016, 02:25:08 AM »

went to a wedding. I caught the fucking bouquet.

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The Lounge / Re: post BG redux PAPOY

« on: May 31, 2016, 11:41:41 PM »

none of you look how i imagined you do

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The Bike Shop / Re: odyssey clutch: clicking noise when I stop pedaling

« on: May 31, 2016, 11:33:38 PM »

That adjustable slack washer is the Achilles heel of the hub. My grub screw has gradually worked itself to a setting with more slack and needs the occasional tightening to get it back into position. Also the hole threaded for the grub screw creates a stress point for it to crack around the screw.

the self loosening is part of my worry about the hub - in an ideal world the slack adjuster sits perfectly well at its setting and there's no wiggle to work the screw loose etc, but it's always limited to manufacture tolerances i guess. i wonder if you could just pretend that it's metal and secure it with loctite (give it overnight to cure properly!) would work on such materials.

a second ghetto fix would be to add ANOTHER grub screw into the hole, tightening it against the first one (essentially treating them like cones on older generation hubs' conenuts) then cutting/ filing off the protruding excess. then against, putting a few actual spacers on is much less effort than this.

as for stress concentration, that part shouldn't be seeing any stress, since the whole slack adjuster is only something for the clutch mechanism to rest on, at the force of the clutch spring/drag mechanism spring.

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The Bike Shop / Re: odyssey clutch: clicking noise when I stop pedaling

« on: May 30, 2016, 09:52:38 AM »

you adjust (tighten) the slack by tightening the grub screw. the first possibility that comes to my mind is that when you put grease in it somehow 'undid' the grubscrew.

if the grubscrew struggles to hold its place and keeps loosening itself, you could always take the hub apart and add spacers to take up the slack instead. it'd reduce some room for adjustment, but you probably know how much slack you want in the hub anyway so that isn't a big deal.

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The Lounge / Re: Standard Shaman Ox, 2004 era

« on: May 30, 2016, 05:29:16 AM »

sadly, a friend's brother took the bike out and got it stolen one night around 2006, and I STILL stress over that thing. Any bike I see at the dump gets my hopes up.

it sucks that chances are the bike theif has no idea of how particularly good this frame was and would just pawn it after doing wheelies/ whatever. it's probably a personal bias but the few times that i came across people riding shamans, they always seemed to ride in ways that opened my eyes and gave me new ideas. took me a while to realise i had a lot of emotional attachment to that frame.

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The Lounge / Re: Standard Shaman Ox, 2004 era

« on: May 30, 2016, 05:25:45 AM »

I remember always seeing Paul Osicka in ride representing that for standard in the ads. it's paul osicka right...?

it's more than likely paul osicka, but i think he rode the Tao, which is 18.x" TT. The shaman is 19.5" and was my sole reason of not riding anywhere near the level of osicka. honestly, the guy can just bust jam packed incredible links in a 2mX2m living room avoiding furnitures whilst blindfolded, you can't compete with that.

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The Lounge / Re: Standard Shaman Ox, 2005 era

« on: May 26, 2016, 11:12:44 AM »

one of the seat re-surfacing i've done with fluffy fabric. it looks good for approximately 3 riding sessions then it turned into my anti-theft device.
(this wasn't on my shaman per se, but rather on my WTP pony before that, but it's the same seat that lasted many years and many re-coverings)


oh fuck!! i actually found pictures of when i first got the frame from Arker, who i meant on this site... absolute top guy he was, he sent the frame to a powdercoater for me, who baked it yellow. the lugs were already hacked off, which was a crazy mental thing to do back in that time period.


frame anti-crack treatment finished


this may have been the very first build i did with the frame - 44t ody utility sprocket i think. not sure on accuracy but picture metadata says june 2004. i slept with the bike in my bed when i got it built, i was that happy. (of course i didn't have a girlfriend)
it looks like i've never changed the wheels/pegs throughout the frame's lifetime, but i've ridden a few different wheels sporadically. the gsport homer was still the best for smoothness/strength, i ended up giving away the freecoaster wheels i had.


-------- THE END ----------

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The Bike Shop / Re: odyssey clutch: clicking noise when I stop pedaling

« on: May 26, 2016, 11:00:50 AM »

^^^

would it be a problem to have grease on the drive engagment surfaces (i.e. the actual clutch)?

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The Lounge / Re: Standard Shaman Ox, 2005 era

« on: May 26, 2016, 10:56:29 AM »

found pictures of prepping the spokes for spray painting. i taped them at the thread to prevent paint getting there


the spokes were then hung up and received 4 layers of paint. definitely not worth the effort!

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The Lounge / Re: Standard Shaman Ox, 2005 era

« on: May 26, 2016, 10:30:51 AM »

reaching 2007, the Araya RBJ1 finally showed its limits. massive chrom flaking and bubbling, hazardrous to touch/grab since the flakes are fucking toxic to the human body. apart from that the wheel was still true and smooth rolling. ironically, i've never used a brake on this rim.

fixing punctures/ changing tires did require gloves for safety reasons, and dont breathe too hard in case you inhale some of that mirror magic.


a closeup of the state of the rim. i think my camera got cancer from taking this picture.
The spray paint (4 coats) on the spokes have lasted surprisingly well

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The Lounge / Re: Standard Shaman Ox, 2005 era

« on: May 26, 2016, 09:25:40 AM »

learned hang-nothings back in 05 august, proceeded to try to learn tricks linking into and out of it for a year to no avail. the cost of creativity often came from pouring 300 hours into trying to make a trick work to no results.


random picture of riding daily at 5am just as the sun comes up for less heat and before going to work. 30'c (88'f or so). i never posted this before since the background gives the location away, and i was scared of paedo's.


just a riding picture. was trying out some flatland specific bars for more clearance for a short while, but the stiffness killed me when i rode street. went back to 2-piece shortly after.
i had a self proclaimed Artist friend (was a hipster before it was cool), who borrowed around 300 quid from me and repaid me with... a picture of my portrait using oil on canvas. the entire picture was painted with black paint as part of his "darkness" series. you can't see SHIT on it. i no longer talk to him, and the canvas was butchered and became the seat cover.
unfortunately i then got black paint on my ass everytime i rode, and all my riding shorts have black streaks. in short, everything was fucked. apart from my immaculate style, obviously.