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The Bike Shop / Re: Recommended Torque Settings

« on: January 26, 2016, 07:24:43 PM »

Nice one - thanks everyone 

Finally got my bike built up today. Guess I should do a bike check now.... 

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The Bike Shop / Re: Recommended Torque Settings

« on: January 24, 2016, 03:33:43 PM »

How about the bolt on top of the forks to tighten the headset?

no torque setting as it's only used to preload the bearings. it shouldn't need much.

Cool - thanks. And how about the wheel axle bolts? In particular female hubs.

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The Lounge / Re: UK BMX blogs

« on: January 22, 2016, 06:11:21 PM »

gonna take a wild guess and say you mean streetphire? from what i remember it popped back up and has now gone again

Boom! That's the one. That's been doing my head in for weeks.

Fuck - last post was from January 2014 though 

Anyone gone any recommendations for similar sites?

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The Lounge / UK BMX blogs

« on: January 22, 2016, 10:08:22 AM »

Bit of a random one - just getting back into BMX and there used to be a street orientated UK based blog I visited all the time and I can't for the life of me remember the name or find it. Can people just throw UK BMX blogs at me!

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U.K. / United Mothership XL Bars

« on: January 22, 2016, 08:43:35 AM »

8.8" rise, cut to 28" width.

Fantastic condition - barely used.

Literally had them on a cruiser for a few days and have just been sitting in a cupboard for the last 9 months!

In London, so am willing to meet for cash if you don't want to pay for postage. Otherwise can do PayPal, but it'll be an extra £5.99 for Royal Mail 2nd Class signed for.

£30 o.n.o

Pictures here:

http://imgur.com/a/UnyFo

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The Bike Shop / Re: Recommended Torque Settings

« on: January 22, 2016, 05:11:38 AM »

How about the bolt on top of the forks to tighten the headset?

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The Bike Shop / Re: Recommended Torque Settings

« on: January 21, 2016, 06:13:02 PM »

Cool, cheers for the input guys. 12-15Nm sounds good, 39Nm sounds nuts ('cuse the pun!).

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The Bike Shop / Recommended Torque Settings

« on: January 21, 2016, 05:59:59 AM »

Hi there,

I've just brought my first bike in many moons and am about to build it up, and want to do it properly. I can't seem to find anywhere that has recommended torque settings for the various bolts on a BMX.

If any of you guys are as OCD as I am apparently being with this new bike, any tips would be sincerely appreciated. In particular I want to get the stem bolts right, as I always used to have issues with slipping bars, and this is back when the biggest bars available were 8.25", so far less leverage than the 10" behemoths I'm putting on my new build. However, on the flipside - I once snapped a stem bolt by over tightening...

Whilst I'm on the topic of slipping bars, do any of you guys use this stuff:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/finish-line-fiber-grip-assembly-gel/rp-prod30012

A friend of mine recommended it to help stop the bars slipping, but I'm somewhat cynical, as it's meant for carbon, not steel.