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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 16, 2009, 11:31:21 PM »

I am glad to see so many of the more respected members of BG interested in this! I made a spreadsheet listing different components and potential articles for them. Please edit, add, remove, change wording, whatever you feel needs doing. If you know a good article or video for something already, post a link with the word "done" under either article or video.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnwRtvUPvy5CdEw0QjNGc1FwUWo0WTN2M056X2V6clE&hl=en

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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 15, 2009, 05:44:00 PM »

Yeah, I clicked that. I was really hoping it would be like MTBR, but the forum format is really annoying. That's why I'd like to see Vital expand their review section.

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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 15, 2009, 03:59:52 PM »

I am glad to see a good number of people interested in making this work. I think to gain good traction, we'll have to get the basics out of the way. Though there is probably a good amount of stuff out there on the net we could use. Please post up any Howto's, videos, etc. that you know of. I am building a list of articles we could do. I'll post as we get further along.

RideBMX guide to freecoasters
Basic BMX assembly
BMX assembly by a Flat Cat
990 Brake install
Gyro Install

A bunch of stuff from VitalBMX. Perhaps we can use these as well... http://www.vitalbmx.com/videos/techtips#scope=tech_tips&page=1

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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 14, 2009, 04:39:27 PM »

Very nice Ride, I hope we can see some of your work in the wiki.

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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 14, 2009, 04:01:41 PM »

Carbon, it'd be great if you could do that. I definitely would like to moderate as well. Does that software allow embedded Youtube videos?

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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 14, 2009, 03:13:02 PM »

Wikia has a bit of a learning curve to it. Kind of a bummer. Let's try bmxtech.wikispaces.com which supports external links, and supposedly blog import...

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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 14, 2009, 02:00:59 PM »

If someone is already doing a comprehensive list, that would be a great start. Is it a collaborative thing (i.e. wiki), or just a site? If nothing else, we should link to the list. And if he would like to export his work to the wiki, who's going to complain?

I thought about the list thing, but there is a lot to keep up with. Hopefully we could get the companies/fans to do the listing themselves. Maybe work with VitalBMX to get more parts listed in their reviews section and work with them... just throwing out ideas here.

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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 14, 2009, 01:51:05 PM »

I think that was what sheep had originally intended, but the forums took over so much of the maintenance and cost. He probably ran into the same issue that Bunky and I had/have with free-coaster.com  only one person does the work. I am hoping a wiki can make it a more collaborative effort. Maybe we can have the discussions here on BG...

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The Bike Shop / Idea: BMX Tech Wiki

« on: November 14, 2009, 01:40:01 PM »

UPDATE: The BMX wiki is currently up at www.bmx-u.com Please contribute what you can. Even just a photo, or other work to be edited, it all helps. We may move this to BG later on, but we'll have to see.
Contact info: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnwRtvUPvy5CdEtCUE1hODRnUDVUbUl0aldkTmo3bVE&hl=en
Some Links: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AnwRtvUPvy5CdEw0QjNGc1FwUWo0WTN2M056X2V6clE&hl=en
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[Original Post]

One of the things I have always enjoyed about bikeguide is that we can get a good dialog going about some of the more in-depth parts (like helicoils, etc). At the same time, I see a lot of reoccurring topics. The stickies help, but if we were to cover all of the answered maintenance questions, that list would be far too long.

So, what if we started building a wiki with answers we come up with. Hopefully we could link to maintenance videos on Youtube (because, lets face it, people prefer watching videos to reading...) I am not sure if there are restrictions on the number of photos, but if we find a way around that, we could use it to keep an up-to-date listing of interesting parts (like freecoasters) without having to put pressure on one person to keep things up.

Anyway, let me know what you guys think. I don't have any experience with Wikis, so help is very much appreciated. I opened http://bmxtech.wikispaces.com/ as a test. If you have a better host in mind, please start it, or suggest it.

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Common Questions and former stickies. / Lube, Grease, and Whatnot

« on: September 20, 2007, 07:44:35 PM »

Did you read the thread? I think it has been covered... Most bike shops will have what you need...

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Common Questions and former stickies. / Lube, Grease, and Whatnot

« on: January 13, 2007, 01:10:53 PM »

F1 and NASA don't use as many different brand lubricants as some of these kids.:big:

Some people don't simply want their bike to "just work". I want mine to feel a specific way. I also enjoy experimenting around with the different types of lubes that are available.

I am sure that NASA and F1 research groups have run through many more lubes than almost all bikers. Boeing could find a lube that was suitable (in all the tests they ran) so they produced their own...

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Common Questions and former stickies. / Lube, Grease, and Whatnot

« on: January 12, 2007, 09:29:13 PM »

You guys make it too complicated.

All you really need is:


White Lightening for chain and cables

Sheep, which White Ligtning is it? Self-Cleaning Wax Lub, or Epic?

and what does ORM-D mean?

thanks.

The regular White Lightinging (self cleaning) is what he was refering to. Epic is a nice chain lube, but stay put as well as the regular.

ORM-D is some sort of classification of lube that (according with federal law) cannot be shipped over air.

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Common Questions and former stickies. / Lube, Grease, and Whatnot

« on: January 02, 2007, 02:23:15 PM »

so would i want to use metal prep on a chain with stubborn pins that im trying to take apart?

Not really, that is more of a cleaner. I would say use a penetrant first (like WD-40 or something else) then use the cleaner to get it nice and clean. And finally lube it.

i think most bike lube is a waste of time. the best you can hope for is to keep whatever part you're lubing free of dirt and corrosion. cables being the exception.

Silence is a beautiful thing. Lubing you chain prevents creaking. Greasing your brake posts prevents that squeeling. And What about bearings? Grease and lube is your friend... as long as you want your bike to last.

is car braking fluid good for anything? thats all I got

That is usually hydraulic fluid, which will not work all that well. Invest in some good lube.

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Common Questions and former stickies. / Lube, Grease, and Whatnot

« on: December 28, 2006, 12:01:41 PM »

Use linseed oil on spokes when building a wheel.Its sticky when it dries.

I have used linseed oil on quite a few spokes. It is nice. it sets up well and does not dry like some other ones, so re-trueing is much more comfortable, and higher tensions are achieved with less strain on both your hands and the nipples, spokes, and rims.

i like my dry white lightning in cables.


as for hubs and everything, i use a 10 year old bucket of multipurpose grease in a tub from canadian tire. gets the job done. no problems as of yet. plus its green, so it looks alot better then that icky yellow stuff.

General Grease is good. if that is what you are using, then consider yourself covered. The advantage of moving to some performance grease is to change the feeling of parts (or in some cases how it holds).

Using any type of grease (even Bacon grease) is better than nothing at all...

I just throw Pedros Ice-wax into everything, except my seat and steertube. Hubs roll smooth. Headset too.

Ice wax is nice and fast. Unfortunatly, because it is wax based, it does not protect metal from shock loads as well. This is something that you must weigh when deciding on your grease. Right now, I am running my bearings without inner seals, so I needed a sticky grease. It actually turned out smoother. And it will help protect the bearings a little bit better than thin lube/wax.

lolz@this thread

i use oil for the chain and cables, and thick stuff for everything else. you must be a real pro to use all that stuff?

I like to mess around with little things on my bike. I do work at a bike shop, so I see these lubes and grease used for other things (such as long ass MTB and Road rides). It is facinating to see all the differences that can be made by simply changing some ingrediants...

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Common Questions and former stickies. / Lube, Grease, and Whatnot

« on: December 22, 2006, 05:49:04 PM »

The spoke prep is for building wheels.  It's not like loc-tite.

The spokefreeze was indeed "Developed in conjunction with Loctite."

Many people use locktite to build wheels. The Idea is to prevent the spokes from loosening. Unfortunatly, it can give a false sense of tightness. That is why I asked about the Wheelsmith.

The DT Stuff is basically just mild strength locktite. I have used it in place of lock tite before. It has the same disadvantages.