Big Bike Thread

syke · 3 Apr 2006 at 18:32

Hehe

dokko · 3 Apr 2006 at 19:11

Syk3 said:
Hehe

Looking good.

Makes me even more excited about getting mine.

Not looking forward to it coming flat packed though.

syke · 3 Apr 2006 at 19:26

hehe thats why i brought mine locally - came fully built, came with all the stuff i wanted put onto it etc.

dokko · 3 Apr 2006 at 19:32

Syk3 said:
hehe thats why i brought mine locally - came fully built, came with all the stuff i wanted put onto it etc.

There's nowt round here like that apart from Edinbrough Cycles in Byker couple of miles outside Newcastle.

But you wont get any bargains there, but the straff are friendly enough considering the snobbery in MTB buying.

"andy" · 3 Apr 2006 at 19:46

got bored on saturday so got the old paint in a tin out and resprayed my bmx,

got the chain today , planned to go ride but weather soon destroyed those plans

Breamy · 3 Apr 2006 at 20:46

love the colour. how long did it take you to do it?

alexakasloth · 3 Apr 2006 at 22:21

How do you stop :eek:

^TANK^ · 3 Apr 2006 at 22:23

suicidle_tramp said:
How do you stop

good point! :confused:

Bennah · 3 Apr 2006 at 22:29

I think he strip his bmx, for the painting of the frame...

Jonny ///M · 3 Apr 2006 at 23:31

I'll get some pics of my bike once i get all my new parts on it.Getting the BB and disk mounts faced this weekend hopefully!

Lack of cash(bloody work with its prepayed overtime not knowing what ive been paid for nonsense!!!!!!!) prevents me from buying the dulie chain device and bash guard for my saints so i cant fit them for AGES :mad:

.

I used to be one of the leave my bike looking like it was made of mud but i have sinse stopped at the shell garage on my way home to use the water thing(used to fill up water for ** engine) to rinse all the muck off the bike and give the harder stuff a rub and it ends up looking pretty new.Just means i have to oil the chain and grease stuff up again. Water surely must be better for parts than dried mud

While washing today after a long muddy run

i realised why my gears where jumping when i was pedalling like **** over rough stuff! MY GEAR HANGER IS LOOSE!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:

. Silly me.

benjo plz. · 4 Apr 2006 at 00:47

Bennah said:
I think he strip his bmx, for the painting of the frame...

Can't seen any brake bosses. Foot against wheel?

alexakasloth · 4 Apr 2006 at 08:19

Bennah said:
I think he strip his bmx, for the painting of the frame...

My bad....

Phnom_Penh said:
Can't seen any brake bosses. Foot against wheel?

Old schoollll.

benjo plz. · 4 Apr 2006 at 10:34

suicidle_tramp said:
My bad....
Old schoollll.

*cough* I noticed some bosses on the underside of the seatstay.

"andy" · 4 Apr 2006 at 19:02

yeah bosses are under the seatstays ,im not "street" enough to of sawn/grinded them off like some do

the parts i needed for it arrived today

i dont think i can afford to buy new shoes every few weeks to stay brakeless ,im sure smoke came form my soles when i tried to stop at the skatepark

too the person asking it only took a few hours as ive done it many times before, it was just a rush job wich shows in some shodyness on the backend

thinking about rebuilding my mountainbike but i sold so many parts from it on bikemagic and ebay when i was cashless that it might just be better to get a complete

benjo plz. · 4 Apr 2006 at 20:09

andy8271 said:
too the person asking it only took a few hours as ive done it many times before, it was just a rush job wich shows in some shodyness on the backend

Did you spray it?

"andy" · 4 Apr 2006 at 22:05

yeah most time was spent stripping and sanding

if the frame was worth anything id of paid to get it powdercoated , mates whove had expensive mtb frames powdercoated have found theyre almost impossible to scratch.

benjo plz. · 4 Apr 2006 at 23:02

andy8271 said:
yeah most time was spent stripping and sanding

if the frame was worth anything id of paid to get it powdercoated , mates whove had expensive mtb frames powdercoated have found theyre almost impossible to scratch.

Yeh for the best (but most expensive finish) powdercoating with heat sealing is the way to go. I dunno about it being scratch resistant, tbh, if it was an expensive job, I'd probably cover the frame in helicopter tape

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tonym · 5 Apr 2006 at 12:15

dokko said:
There's nowt round here like that apart from Edinbrough Cycles in Byker couple of miles outside Newcastle.

But you wont get any bargains there, but the straff are friendly enough considering the snobbery in MTB buying.

Where do you live? I could probably name you a good number of shops in the Newcastle area that aren't staffed by bike snobs........

benjo plz. · 5 Apr 2006 at 12:17

Theres a shop near me where some of the staff are nobs. But most of the smaller LBS staff are fine.

dokko · 5 Apr 2006 at 16:52

tonym said:
Where do you live? I could probably name you a good number of shops in the Newcastle area that aren't staffed by bike snobs........

I live in Whitley Bay.

The other shop in Byker below Edin's are just as canny like.

But the shop in W/Bay (dixons) is run by idiots, the two shops in N/Sheilds, well one i dont like, and the other you get no help.

M Steels was a proper snob when he was in Whitley Bay, so i wouldn't dream of going to the Gosforth branch now.

Apart from that, i dont really know any others, but only the ones in Byker are canny enough to buy anything from.