goproyonotam Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 got new wheels for the old fixed a little bit ago. totally screwed up though.. non machined. did the bridge pedal with the front brake on anyway (because i was told they would inspect bikes to make sure safety requirements were met... lie.) and clipped in, worst experience on a ride ever. granola hippies are kinda like old drivers. anyway, when the roads are dry, i feel more comfortable without the front brake for some reason. totally wish i had a machined front though for this up coming fall weather. front brakes are legit. p.s. the podium seat with the chode hole sucks. bike shorts are a luxury none should be without. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbish heap two Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Yo... you can use brakes fine on your non-machined rims. The brakes themselves will machine the rim. Nothing bad is going to happen save a little paint getting on the brake pads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Bike Thief Caught Red-Handed Gets His Ass Handed to Him.[/url] That guy got off easy. One time I kicked a tweaker in the ass as hard as I could (with bike shoes) when I saw him trying to pop a lock with a jack. He smacked his head against the parking meter and when he shook it off I was standing over him with the jack...a couple of my friends saw what was going on, grabbed the jack, then got some shots in on him. We were gonna toss him in a dumpster and lock it shut but we were across the street from the cop shop so we let it go. Back in the 90s some messenger friends of mine heard about a bike thief/tweaker camp out near Third Street in SF, so they went out there one afternoon in a pickup with boltcutters and gasoline. They ran two dudes off, cut the chains off of all the stolen bikes and loaded the truck. Then they doused the camp with gas and torched it. Another friend of mine- who's a pretty big black dude- saw a tweaker riding his recently stolen bike downtown. He ran straight at the guy, tackled him off the bike in the middle of Market Street, then proceeded to drag him out of traffic and beat the living shit out of him on the sidewalk. SF is not a good city to get caught slipping if you're a bike thief. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Harris Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Fixed gear with two brakes - Fail Freewheel with front brake - lol wut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 pedal brakes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 :nope: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbish heap two Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Fixed gear with two brakes - lol wut Freewheel with front brake - Fail ftfy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acer910 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Fixed gear with two brakes - Fail Freewheel with front brake - lol wut i ride a freewheel with just front.... but also, im running a 32/18 combo so i dont really get over 17 mph anyways Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoiseuth Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 my brother just got one of these "for the winter commute." aka he needed his new bike fix. singletrack cruiser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 What's going on with the fork? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serial rapist Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 I mentioned earlier in here that I was building a frame from the ground up. Well I finally finished so here's a little photo rundown of the project: Basic geometry, measuring and putting the design down on paper - angles and all that. + the shop dog who's a handsome devil Next was mitering all the tubes and checking the angles to the drawing, then putting the lugs on and correcting for the right angles. Now comes the brazing, which wasn't really to hard to pick up on, but my initial work was a bit sloppy. Acetylene torch, glasses and a brass rod. All the goop and white shit on the joints is flux to keep things from oxidizing. Essentially you heat the tube and lug up till it's red hot, place some brass at the joint and then heat the lug so it sucks the molten brass through the joint to the other side by way of capillary action. A lot more of the same, but you can see the bike taking shape, also getting the dropouts into place. As you can see the bike was made without a proper jig. The way everything was set correctly was by brazing a joint and then checking it on an alignment table and cold setting it as necessary, kind of a pain in the ass but you can make sure everything is where you want it each step of the way. So i started this frame and of course a couple weeks in I get in a wreck, took me out for a while and I had to take time off the frame to deal with a lot of other shit. Finally about 3 weeks ago I got back on it and finished all the brazing. As you can see the frame has a little rust on the tubes from sitting around. So that's the frame right before and after I dropped it off at the powder coater. All the rust gets sand blasted off before they paint it. It also takes a shit ton of cleanup work on the dropouts and lugs to get the frame nice and pretty before paint. Lots of filing and grinding and sanding to get things smooth - if you care to have them that way. I chose the color 'golden valentine' because it has gold flakes that really pop off in the sunlight, bright ass color. I tried to be all slick by doing a fancy paint job on it. I made a few flourishes and graphics in Illustrator and got them printed as vinyl cut outs to make a stencil to paint over. Fucking difficult as shit to get them placed right with the amount of detail in them, it gave them all cause to stick to themselves and make my life a pain. Painted them with white 1shot and the result just made me more furious but what could I do. I named the bike GOAT JUGGERNAUT because it's a tuff ass name for a bike and shit like Allez and CXO-KARBON-239 are wack. After applying the white accents the frame had to go back to the powder coater for a clear coat. Frame back, the heat from the oven made the red bleed into the white so it tinted all the accents. I was worried they might turn bright pink but it's more of a tonal red. Fuck, I got super bummed the paint didn't turn out the way I wanted but a lot of shit this is hard to know how it's going to react in the oven, live and learn for next time. So then I built that dirty cocksucker up and got it down on the road. I ordered a lot of budget parts because my wallets been hurting, a lot of wholesale Soma shit, sugino cranks, nitto drops. Put my old ultra cool fashion deep-v wheel set on there and some new tires. Bike rides dope. Super comfortable, aligned correctly and tracks straight. It feels good to set off to build something like this from scratch and finally see the end result and be able to use it every day. I'll ride it around for a while just to make sure it won't explode then it'll see some track time. Next frame is going to be built on a jig and tig welded - got the wheels turning on a more aggressive track design. Hope some people enjoyed looking at this, maybe gives a little insight into how a custom frame it made. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 That's great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Harris Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Such a sick build. props Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Looks good. What kind of tubes and lugs did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiendish Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 That's fuckin awesome mate! Props. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Anything negative I could say is trumped by the fact that it's hand made. Nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soup Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Same. Cept i'll say one thing anway: repaint it. No offense or anything. And thems look like Richie Issimo lugs to me. Tubes i dunno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24Carrot Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 That is sick man, props. Same drop bars as mine ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoiseuth Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 good show! when do you start on #2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acer910 Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 what tubing did you use? and how much did it cost you? budgetary setbacks have stalled my framebuilding process... BUT i found a old acetelyne torch in the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fat ralphy Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 pretty amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b36Yi-Pb1wM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Floyalkng.com%2Fcategory%2Fbikes%2F&feature=player_embedded#t=71 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleSuplex Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 holy shit on that vid and serial great build, but lose that obama shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serial rapist Posted September 13, 2009 Share Posted September 13, 2009 Dedacciai tubes, Long Shen lugs/drop outs, pretty cheap basic stuff. Yeah my Obama card is wild gay, just never bothered to take it out. The whole frame + parts and paint came out to about $550, I had the wheels/headset/bottom bracket laying around so that's not included in the cost. All in all not too bad for a custom bike, lots of time was put into it though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acer910 Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 nice. are you selling it? (im not lookin to buy, just wondering) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count chocula Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 those girls could make the most epic pr0nz evar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acer910 Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 actually, those are guys. wearing leotards and growing out your hair is the "in" thing now apparently. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count chocula Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 either way. /nohomo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tipsycripsy420 Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 What are you talking about? A front brake is the most help you can get in a serious situation. If the aim is to stop fast, the front brake can't be beat. If you are going fast and you hit your front brake super tough you are going to go over the handle bars and eat shit. This shit happened to me not too long ago. Riding your bike super high is still fun to do though.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubbish heap two Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 If you are going fast and you hit your front brake super tough you are going to go over the handle bars and eat shit. This shit happened to me not too long ago. Riding your bike super high is still fun to do though.. That only happens to newbies for the most part. You have to learn to stiffen up your arms and brace them against the bars and you won't have any problems flying over anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleSuplex Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 That only happens to newbies for the most part. You have to learn to stiffen up your arms and brace them against the bars and you won't have any problems flying over anymore. this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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