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The Bike Shop / Re: Kink Lynx Bars - Experience?

« on: March 19, 2015, 08:19:39 PM »

This was 2-3 years ago but I've seen first hand 3 different people snap the bars and how much they flex just from pushing down on them. They might have gotten better but I'd stay away from them.

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Sell and Swap / Re: Anyone want new old Snafu stock?

« on: March 08, 2015, 03:57:24 PM »

Sorry for the delay. This is all the photos I have until this week as I'm doing this for a guy at the bike shop.

IMG_0519 by liveinthewoods36, on Flickr

IMG_0521 by liveinthewoods36, on Flickr

IMG_0520 by liveinthewoods36, on Flickr

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Sell and Swap / Anyone want new old Snafu stock?

« on: March 06, 2015, 06:41:17 PM »

Have a bunch of brand new original box and tag Snafu parts.

Cranks, Magnesium pedals, grips, tires, bar ends along with a few other classic Odyssey parts.

also have Hutch and Elf frames.

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The Bike Shop / Re: Completes?

« on: March 03, 2015, 09:21:36 PM »

Good friend of mine had his bike stolen and picked up a higher level Fit. The dude is a ripper and it held up for him. The Sundays are extremely well built as well. Once you get over about the $600 price point 90% of the bikes these days are aftermarket parts.

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Bike Gallery / Re: CCR

« on: March 02, 2015, 04:37:48 PM »

So rad. What seat is that?

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The Lounge / Re: Things to look forward to this year

« on: March 01, 2015, 05:39:09 PM »

Riding with a bunch of good people in Austin as much as possible.

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Bike Gallery / Re: CCR / Surly

« on: March 01, 2015, 09:45:30 AM »

so much awesome

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The Bike Shop / Anyone picking up a Z-Coaster?

« on: February 26, 2015, 08:53:19 PM »

They are supposed to drop soon and seem pretty good. I've never been a freecoaster guy but I feel like I want to make a change. Their design seems solid.

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The Bike Shop / Re: When your Sunday Soundwave is cracked in 3 places, is all hope lost?

« on: February 23, 2015, 08:33:55 PM »

Get your pre order in for a new Barcode sir.

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The Bike Shop / Pre-Order your Barcodes

« on: February 23, 2015, 04:02:43 PM »

Next batch of Barcodes is coming up. Get your pre orders in now!

http://terribleone.com/t1/mainpage3.htm

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The Lounge / Re: i might just be getting old...but two vids with blow/mdma on TCU in 1 week?

« on: February 23, 2015, 03:56:47 PM »

Weed is cool.
Booze is cool.

I'm only 23 but I'd much rather see dudes ripping having a good time with buds maybe a couple B roll party clips but throwing in a random clip of people doing a line of Z. Get out of here with that shit.



P.S: Those were 2 of the worst videos i've ever seen.

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The Lounge / Re: For those who know fasteners, machinists, and doers, A question.

« on: December 19, 2014, 09:58:40 PM »

So the scale is around 16" base diameter, 32" tall, or around 40x80cm. Capabilities will be sought out as needed, since the program is design, our workshop caters mostly to prototyping things and woodwork. It's for a fairly substantial business prize (~10 cheese) and will be used for at LEAST 10 years, so that amortizes nicely.

The model does have dovetailed wooden placards and a channel that would be cut in after the plates are rolled, but the issue is the slot is located at about 1/3 of the face, and not the center, so running a bolt behind it isn't ideal, because of the weight some people have indicated it should be connected at the center back, they want people to hoist the trophy proudly. Think it would be an issue? It would be a thin section if it was dovetailed too, the shortest bit I've seen has been 3/8 x 45*, out of a 1/4" sheet, with a good countersink, doesn't leave much.

What I'm thinking now is to braze on the the connectors with a threaded insert to the central shaft first, and tap the back of the plates with a reverse threading. If a machinist can knock up double sided forward and reverse threaded stud bolts with a knurled barrel or something in the middle, I'm thinking they could just screw together (both directions at once)

As for the bottom, If the waterjet has this level of multi-axis articulation (anybody?) it could cut this:
GVCT2 Base concentric rings cut by MilkyWilky, on Flickr

That would probably be a few less man hours than doing 10 on a lathe, and profiling this way you could just profile the aluminium block once. Also waterjet has a pretty good finish I understand. We are on a bit of a schedule.

I like the idea of facing the base with the wood, might be a sneaky way to shave some weight too. Might leave it empty as well, but I really think the design is better with more wood. I also will keep the idea of doing the center in a few sections in mind, but would rather not have to worry about making that look all good n shit reassembled.

Since I've brazed before that's probably what I'd prefer to do, but things start to get pretty tight when the pieces are all on. Worry about working on the backside. Maybe I misunderstood.

If those are just 70 degree lines being cut out of a flat plate a waterjet can cut them as long as the machine is 5 Axis. But to get the 30 degree?? on that plate you'll either need to have it machined or surface or Creep Feed ground. To get the best finish i'd suggest surface ground (surface grinder can get you to a 32 finish.) If you weren't in Vancouver i'd give you a quote for the entire job.

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The Lounge / Re: For those who know fasteners, machinists, and doers, A question.

« on: December 19, 2014, 05:35:53 PM »

I make this kind of stuff all the time. ( I'm a machinist and do high end architectural and artwork fabrication on the side.) Like G said it's hard to tell with scale but i've done something similar.

- Depending on the thickeness of the materials. You could dovetail the wood and metal. Rigidly mount the wood to the pipe then slide the metal pieces on for a clean look.

- I've done word standoffs and soldered studs to the back so they can thread into the wall. You could do something similar to the pipe.

- You could do a sleeve style. Instead of a single straight pipe use three different OD's. (Larger to smaller from bottom up) weld/solder/bolt studs to each OD of pipe and do each layer fastened to a piece that's ID matches the corresponding OD. Then simply stack the sections off of the base. (Hard to picture I know)


There are a ton of different ways you could do it. But it's hard to help without knowing your budget or accessibility to tools or machinery.

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Bike Gallery / Re: CULT HAWK

« on: December 18, 2014, 05:56:27 PM »

Looks good. Should've left it red though

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The Lounge / Do you like old or new bike companies?

« on: December 04, 2014, 08:03:44 PM »

Seeing the Kink 20 years stuff and it got me thinking how I miss the old days of companies. Do you prefer the "new age" companies or do you like how things used to be? Kink and Odyssey have gotten much better over the years I think. But I miss the old Fit, Fly and Primo days, product quality and the teams.