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The Bike Shop / Re: What's the status on new Odyssey products?

« on: November 23, 2015, 02:05:44 PM »

Bushings/Plain Bearings. They are a teflon filled plastic. Couple of little design details help make the pedal easy to make so we can make it super affordable without having to use looseball which would make it either very thick or have a piss-weak axle. So far we've only really been showing the plastic ones, but we also have an aluminium version with steel pins which I am absolutely loving. Hopefully we will get the issues with tooling sorted out soon and actually start selling them!

Any idea of the metal versions will be out before Christmas and what the MSRP will be?  I'm very interested in the metal version of these for some of my bikes. 

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The Bike Shop / Re: Remember how a few arm-chair engineers called this out? Well who'd a thunk it..

« on: November 19, 2015, 03:55:56 PM »

Does anyone have the link to the original post?

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The Bike Shop / Re: Sunday Cyclone freecoaster

« on: November 17, 2015, 07:08:45 PM »

^^^ This is very true.

It used to be that if you wanted to ride a freecoaster, you had to be pretty good at bicycle maintenance and just kind of accept the fact that you were going to have to work on your rear hub a lot. 

I'm glad that freecoasters became a trend, because it spawned a lot more reliable options. 

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The Lounge / Re: So, lets talk about Garage Ramps!

« on: November 16, 2015, 02:51:56 PM »

Got the ribs for the opposite side done this weekend.  I have yet to buy anything for these ramps except for screws.  I'm hoping that I can get the window side wall and the bowl corners done with the scrap that I have, and then just have to buy the face wood to finish everything. 

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Sell and Swap / Looking for: bunch of stuff

« on: November 15, 2015, 08:35:50 AM »

Looking to find:

• S&M Enduro 52mm stem
• FBM Bottleneck or midget stem
• Sunday 24umph bars (not the 24umph xl) in black or silver primarily
• Interested in any other cruiser bars especially if they are chrome.  Would love to find some of the chrome 24umph xl replicas that came on Sunday complete Wave-C's.
• Brown leather seat
• OG Shadow railed non-slim seat

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Bike Gallery / Re: Daily Pictures v2

« on: November 11, 2015, 02:07:06 PM »

Pretty cool to see a Primate still out there roaming around in the wild.

Rad to see that there's still bikes out there with gyros.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Daily Pictures v2

« on: November 11, 2015, 12:49:39 PM »

Why not man?  I always like seeing your bikes.

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The Lounge / Re: So, lets talk about Garage Ramps!

« on: November 10, 2015, 12:30:37 PM »

Got a little bit of time in over the weekend.  Went with a 2 foot tall box on the door side with a 3ft4in radius for the quarter.  Doing a 8ft tall vert wall on the opposite side with a 5 foot radius and 3 feet of vert.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Remember how a few arm-chair engineers called this out? Well who'd a thunk it..

« on: November 09, 2015, 04:26:07 PM »

I feel like a lot of the companies making splined spindled cranks have been like "splines work just fine" in the past, but why would you need to change the design if it works just fine?

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Bike Gallery / Re: The Bikeguide Barcode build-off thread

« on: November 04, 2015, 09:27:28 AM »

Man I want to try out a 21.5 Heartbreaker just to feel out what the super low bb is like. 

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The Lounge / Re: So, lets talk about Garage Ramps!

« on: November 04, 2015, 09:26:12 AM »

I measured it late last night, and I've got 8 feet and 2 inches to work with before the ceiling.

The lady is off work tonight, so she's picking up the kid from school, and I'm hoping I have some more time to work in the garage tonight.

It's been super rainy in Raleigh lately, so it would be good to have a place to ride soon.

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The Lounge / Re: MANDATORY TEST! Members over a certain threshold will be banned immediately.

« on: November 04, 2015, 09:19:21 AM »

15

I guess someone thinks I'm normal.

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Bike Gallery / Re: Mutiny Cosmooo

« on: November 03, 2015, 08:57:46 AM »

I remember that bike check.

He had some hubs that were crazy drilled out, and some titanium pegs that screwed on over some sleeve cap things.

It was probably the most heavily modded bike check I've ever seen.  Thinking about it makes me realize I need to do a bike check on my Wave-C as it has a crap ton of modifications to it.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Remember how a few arm-chair engineers called this out? Well who'd a thunk it..

« on: November 02, 2015, 04:11:58 PM »

http://www.bikebiz.com/jobs/read/position-for-product-designer-manager

Someone got sacked.

Did someone really get fired over this?  The job posting makes it look more like they need a CAD guy, not an engineer.  This seems like it would be more of a failure on the engineers side vs. the CAD guys side. 

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The Lounge / Re: New Random Thoughts Thread

« on: November 02, 2015, 02:56:28 PM »

My girlfriend probably will, but I will not.