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Offline BilboBaggins

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4035 on: May 21, 2014, 06:26:43 PM »
Parallel for wall rides is no good unless jibbing hard core

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4036 on: May 21, 2014, 08:17:18 PM »
Maybe I used the wrong word but riding almost straight towards the wall just to grip isn't fun anymore. Carving into the wall is easier for me when since I haven't used a slick tire since I left ohio. Maybe I'm just sucking also. I'll go out tonight to see if I'm just mind fucking myself.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4037 on: May 22, 2014, 12:13:02 AM »
I've seen you go through ~15 different sets(maybe?) Of tires in the time I've gone through 2 haha

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4038 on: May 22, 2014, 02:01:15 AM »
i'll save my wall ride steeze for real wallrides. hucking into a wall ainīt that fun anyways.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4039 on: May 22, 2014, 02:01:51 AM »
i'll save my wall ride steeze for real wallrides. hucking onto a wall ainīt that fun anyways.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4040 on: May 22, 2014, 03:06:20 AM »
I've seen you go through ~15 different sets(maybe?) Of tires in the time I've gone through 2 haha
Yeah, just 3. Momentums to wlt's to machetes. The momentums wouldn't fit the solid that I had so I decided to try wlt's. Due to cleveland weather I only got to ride them in snow or melting snow so I sold them after a month of just looking at the bike. I ended up with machetes because I wanted them again since I wanted a light knobby tire. Can't get much lighter than demolition tires but FAfs are my favorite. I may sell the t/a's and get bsd tires since they have them in 2.25 and are kind of like a larger print FAF.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4041 on: May 22, 2014, 12:37:58 PM »
Got colony fantastic plastic pedals,broke my pedal spanner  installing them:(

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4042 on: May 23, 2014, 02:01:35 PM »
The t/a tires are awesome but i think I want a tire with some tread on it. I noticed I can't grip that great unless I'm full on straight ahead charging a wall for wall rides. With my other tires(machetes) it was a lot easier to kind of ride parallel to the wall and just hop and stick. I just slide off the wall with the T/A tires.
Plus a new shipment of items just popped up in the shop so I'm going to try and pick up some metal pegs.

Could be that you were just wearing off the outer layer and breaking the tire in that it didn't grip so well

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4043 on: May 23, 2014, 04:54:36 PM »
Just started on a polishing job for my newly acquired Tomahawk stem.



Concluded that i still have to take reeeeal fine (laquer) sanding paper to prepare the alu to be able to get a shiny finish on there.
The above is what i achieved with about 5 minutes on a polishing wheel. Hence the change of strategy.

Real stoked on this little project though. Stem didn't fit the look of my R25's in chrome and the 9.25 chrome bars i'll be running, so i decided to take matters into my own hands. Definitely more work than i anticipated.
Guess normal stems are easier to polish because a lot of them are cnc'ed.

D'oh.
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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4044 on: May 24, 2014, 11:49:06 PM »
Raffle at a skatepark, won a brand new s&m atf frame. Only spent $30 lol
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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4045 on: May 25, 2014, 04:52:20 AM »
Finally snapped my cracked and rusted tree branch bars, lucky me didn't crash, replaced them with rusted but damn cheap bsd variety bars.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4046 on: May 25, 2014, 08:40:13 AM »
Raffle at a skatepark, won a brand new s&m atf frame. Only spent $30 lol

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4047 on: May 25, 2014, 08:53:59 AM »
Raffle at a skatepark, won a brand new s&m atf frame. Only spent $30 lol

nice

yep. might build it up, but all I have to spare are red parts.....christmas bike anyone? its a 20.75

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4048 on: May 25, 2014, 10:13:16 AM »
Nice one.

I switched my lever from left to right as I'm more inclined to take my left hand of the bars than the right for some reason.

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
« Reply #4049 on: May 25, 2014, 10:34:42 AM »
Raffle at a skatepark, won a brand new s&m atf frame. Only spent $30 lol

nice

yep. might build it up, but all I have to spare are red parts.....christmas bike anyone? its a 20.75



 Sweet score   you could always raw it, or sell it too me cheap  ;D

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Re: What did you do to your bike today? (v2)
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