Carlperkins

i think its awesome, ive wanted to make my own truing stand for ages but havent really had time to try it. i still use the brake pad method. i think you could definatley improve, not sure how yet but you can with a bit of technical know how. awesome!

wait so what set up do you have on your bike? i take it you have a rear freehub and a front sprocket, and you want more engagements.. option 1: you buy a new freehub and spokes. keep your current rim and just swap the hub and spokes over, keep your current front sprocket too. (cheap option) option 2: you buy a fixed rear hub and spokes, new cranks which can take a front free wheel and possibly a new BB depending on the size of yours. then the freewheel itself. (better option, in my opinion) edit: building a wheel is really pretty easy, lacing it is just like knitting really, just a pattern that sounds confusing. tensioning the spokes and truing the wheel perfect is the hard part. (you can get it done at a bike shop for like £10) if your in norwich, go to pedal revoloution. i do not recommend mandarin cycles or halfrauds. lol

haha yeah its all good, i was just having a laugh. at the end of the day ive already done it, i wore goggles and i have nothing else anodised i would like to raw. so job done.

magura, all the way. why? i have no idea. I heard echos have a less power. i have maggy cylinders on an echo lever. tnn lgms on a grind and its bang tidy

haha your suuuuuch an idiot. im 20 and seem to be more down to earth than you. I didn't really need the run down any more mate. already done it, would have been nice if you initially posted that but oh well. "I was making up mixes 50x stronger than what you did, which means, that shit was really going for it on the spicey reaction front" .. you my friend are what we call a bad..ass! woah 50x stronger. that the line you open up with when meeting a girl? you: "hey darlin', did you know I make 50x stronger mixes of caustic soda than all those other fools on the trials forum, and.. I don't even wear goggles (in your head she's hot to trot right now), wanna come home with me?" Her: err no, get away from me, and if you keep hiding in the bushes out front of my house with a camera im going to call the cops again.. thats how i see this going. good luck with the chemicals fella! chow!

haha oh my god i tried to be reasonable but this monkey guys an absolute bellend! you have literally no common sense and are not able to see things from other peoples perspectives. and by the way no, not every motorbike accident involving a car causes you to die. i can tell you obviously don't ride a motorbike. however "off topic" this is.. i hope you never ride a motorbike, you seem to have about as much common sense as you do brain matter between your ear holes.. i.e FACK ALL. ive been hit by a car and have friends been hit by cars and guess what you little fairy.. i'm still here. and its cos of helmet and leathers. god you annoy me. haha correct i am 20, and thank you for the compliment haha. i just thought id be better off asking some knowledgeable people before rushing in and destroying my eyes, or EVEN worse.. my rim. next time i think ill make a bathtub of it, and do it in the bath whilst i clean myself off after a good day out on the bike

@ MonsieurMonkey.. yeah its probably a good idea to wear goggles. To be honest I couldn't care less if you don't wear them when your doing it but its probably not a good idea to tell others not to wear them. im not saying your gonna splatter your face with it everytime but the one time it does happen you will regret not putting them on. for the sake of looking like a twat for 10 minutes its worth saving your eyesight. "better safe than sorry" its like saying stop being a pussy and wear a tshirt on my CBR1000 (motorbike) instead of wearing a leather 1 piece. yeah its all fine and dandy till you fall off and leave a nice meat skid of your own skin 300 yards behind where the car hit you. Might as well wear a 1 piece in the first place and avoid a full body circumcision. thats my 2 cents.. and anyway, i rawed my rim lovely and did it safely, then cleaned up after myself so no one else got that crap on them. SUCCESS!!

yeah followed ali's advice to the dot, worked perfectly. 100g to 1 litre, rub on, wait bout 30 secs then wipe off, afterwards a quick wipe over with autosol. sorted. nice job with the crank bolts istafox! looks mint! ill put some before and after pics up tomorrow, cheers guys! carl.

alright nice one ali, ive used nitromors alot and stripped bars, frames etc. got that down to a "t". i just thought i'd double check cos if i end up destroying my rim i cant afford a new one at the mo. cheers for you advice mate. and yeah im gonna be polishing it up with autosol. ill let you know how i get on.

cool, how long do i leave it on the rim for? or is it just an on-off job? cheers mate.

ok so I have an anodised front rim and I want to raw it. just bought some B&Q's finest caustic soda. It says to add 100g of soda to 1 litre of water. ill obviously put goggles, mask and marigolds on... then what? do I put the mix in a glass bowl? plastic bowl? and do i apply with a sponge? or will it eat the sponge? and lastly.. the join in the rim, will the soda affect the join? Cheers for any help. Carl.

20", 24" or 26"?? i can see this being a fail of a thread for some reason.

ahh nice, i measures it with one of those flappy measuring tapes i found in my nans sewing box haha. ok so 480 and 3x.. ill put that in and see whats what.. edit. 236mm. sounds good yeah? i take it all the hub measurements i entered are correct?

ok so i was trying to measure the rim diameter and i wasnt sure whether to measure from the outer edge of the rim to the other edge (the rims absolute widest point) or whether to measure from spoke hole to spoke hole. anyway i measured spoke hole to spoke hole and it came to 475mm (edge to edge is 521mm) spoke hole to spoke hole example.. then i punched it all into dt swiss and this is what came out... anyone think this is right?

ok so i have an echo sl rear 24" 32h rim. (Weight : 565g. High : 23mm. Width : 38mm.) - info from the internet. and im going to buy an echo tr non disc rear hub. http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/135mm_fixed_hubs/echo_tr_rear/c21p10708.html (Flange Diameters: 40mm - Centre to Flanges: 35mm) can someone please tell me how to use the spoke calculator? i'm having difficulties much appreciated. carl.

yeah i ran a bb5 through the headset. basically just make sure you have a decent cable, a £2 cable from halfords wont be very good. and make sure you have a nice amount of cable from the lever to the top cap, don't run it tight.

ive had a bunch of americans ask.. "Hey is that a race bike? and did you make it yourself?"... that's why only 5% of them have passports. I could do nothing but face-palm and then ride off...

ok, I think ill put the lightweight tube in the back with the holy roller and run at a good pressure. Then if I get a few flats ill swap back to the DH tube. I'm no weight weenie, but I have a light echo 24" frame, light forks, cranks etc. Pretty much everything is reasonably light besides the wheels, so I thought I might as well put it on a diet and see how it effects my riding. I worked it out and in total I'm saving over 900g off the rear wheel, then maybe 100g on the front with a lighter tyre, tube and filing the holes square. Then about 150g off the pedals. So I should be able to save well over a kilo on the old girl. hopefully it will make it easier to manoeuvre the bike and get up stuff.

Yeah, would flex affect them in anyway though? Just wondering if over time they would crack or something. I probably need a big machine drill to do the initial holes then i could file the rest if needed.

Its more for looks, the weight would just be a bonus. It probably wouldnt save that much anyway. Ill do abit more research then ill see what happens. Would look awesome on my bike i think.

ok so i saw these on a guys bike in bike pictures http://www.aliexpress.com/fm-store/807490/211178101-498089662/ZHI-7075-CNC-cranks.html i have a pair of echo CNC cranks which look pretty much the same but without the holes. i'm pretty handy with a drill and file etc.. do you think its possible and even safe to do it to my echo cranks? im not sure ill even do it because i don't really want to mess it up but has anyone ever tried it? Carl.

yeah my landings can be pretty hard sometimes, ill keep a puncture repair kit and spare tube handy. lol

will do, cheers for the advice fella.

yeah im going from a maxxis DH tube in the rear (the heaviest one on tartys) to the lightest one, the welterweight or something. and im going from a kenda blue groove compy 2.5" tyre to a holy roller 2.4". im thinking ill get a load of pinch flats too but hopefully it will make me a smoother rider lol. i take it the higher the tyre pressure the less chance of punctures.. cheers, carl.

ok so ive decided to chop some fat off my bike. currently running a 1kg tyre on the rear with a 650g heavy duty innertube 2.25mm thick. and on the front a 450g dh innertube and a 778g tyre. basically im swapping to 2 x 150g innertubes 0.9mm thick. a 778g tyre on the rear. and a 750g tyre on the front. im also toying with the idea of filing the circle holes on my front rim to square holes. i dont run my tyre pressures that low to be honest. but basically my question is... whats the likely hood of me having a puncture on every ride? has anyone run these thin tubes before and are they any good?