Greydog= Greyhound
which is a bus lol.




My order came in... 100 feet of compressionless cable housing, 50 gear, 50 brake. Housing furrels and cable ends, and brake pads.
woot.

now time to get the trek back to life.

Are you opening a shop?

lol Yes. my own private shop, because apparently decent shops dont exist.

My Trek needs everything re-done / replaced and my friends' bikes' housing is all mis matched and crappy. Its also not compression less and is real flimsy and floppy.

Dude that's awesome.

My goal is to become almost fully self sustainable when it comes to biking.
Next things on my list is truing stand, dishing tool, and that sort of stuff.
Just... eh, money..
I've contiplated building my own truing stand.

why are truing stands so expensive... They are not that complicated, and its not like their super calibrated or anything like that...
ridiculous.

Use a cheap crapped out rigid fork off ebay for 10 bucks. Make your own indexes with clamp-on crap...unless you're a welder.

You can do it, Chee.

I actually know how to weld, it's just not really pretty looking sometimes, I've been out of practice for a while.... lol
Just don't have the resources with me right now....

Cant wait for College, cause if I go to my #1 choice ill be right next to my uncles shop with every tool imaginable.
My uncle has a tool fetish, he buys almost everything that comes out of the Mac Tools catalog His tool box.. is.. massive. and in the whole shop there are 4 nice sized tool boxes fully loaded, and a back room with even more... yay! lol

and my #2 choice.. ill be an hour away lol.

I'm regretting throwing my old suntour fork away. I had to lighten my load for the move, and it got tossed. =(
This week is finals week, and im working 3 out of the 4 days, so after this week I'm going to tackle my restoration project on the trek.

i would love to go ride in this beautiful 70 degree weather we are having right now but my roommates were mowing and aired up the tires to the tractor with my pump and it fell off under the shredder.....bike pump is no longer with us.

ride without pump?
or are your tires flat?

tires need air, i can run them around 15-20 psi but i believe this is below that haha

Shredder VS Frame Pump? Bad match up. Drop by I have a couple spares.

Hey rebel - I have a rigid steel fork you can have you pay shipping. 26 inch.

I was bored in architecture today..

But there's more to welding than knowing how to pull the trigger on a little flux-core wire-feed .

I'm well aware of that Dminor. I never claimed to be an expert, I just said I know how. I also stated that it may not be the prettiest but it works. I grew up around 4 uncles who build vehicles, primarily trucks, (show trucks at that.. that actually win car shows, can fix just about anything, builds houses, does roofing, plumbing, wiring, ...
etc.
Trust me, I know there's more. But the way you're talking, you must be an expert, so why not enlighten all of us with some welding knowledge.


.... yes today has been a horrible day. So lets NOT pick on me for once.



on a happier not, In between the crap and hell i've put up wit today, I was able to do some work on my Rim. Got my hands on a T-2 truing stand and a dishing thing. Only problem is they didn't give me the threaded rod that goes in the center of the thing..
Anyway without the dishing, I was able to get the rim almost completely laterally true, and was able to smoothen out the high and low spots. Afterwards I checked the tension, good enough for me, some slightly higher, some a bit lower, but oh well... don't think its going to get much better.... I was almost tempted to buy a new rim last night.

Now my issue is for some magical reason, the rim is to close to the left stays, and the tire rubs... I messed with the axle and stuff and adjusted it over a smidge, Haven't put the tires on yet...
yay.....

You didn't dish it right.

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.... yes today has been a horrible day. So lets NOT pick on me for once.


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Suck it up princess............you're young,you'll get over it.

Dish to the right rebel.

Any quick tips on dishing..
well I dont have the whole dishing tool..... he didn't give me the threaded rod that goes through the middle of it.

^^ You are so singularly unresourceful sometimes, young cheeto.

What he said. No offense, but it always seems to be what someone else did or didn't do.

So, no freakin' threaded rod. Improvise something.

Looking for some input:

I found a Turner Burner frame on craigslist, 2004 model, for $475 with a Thomson seatpost, FSA headset, and Manitou Skareb fork. He hasn't ridden it for the last 2 years and it's had light use before that (one of those guys with a bunch of bikes to choose from). Is that price reasonable? It sounds a little high, but I haven't looked for used mountain bikes in a while.

Must be the Thomson seat post . Seriously, suspension frame with headset and fork from a 'boutique' maker like Turner - - yeah, $475 is an understandable price.

I used the truing stand to dish the wheel, got it centered between the calipers, worked all the side-to-side movement out, and smoothed out the humps, but they aren't gone.

Cleaned up the cassette, put it all back, Replaced all housing and all cables, new chain. Tomorrow is adjustment and finish up day...
All I need is zip ties...

As far as being resourceful, I didn't want to do something that would jack up his equipment. It just takes a little bit of time for me to look over stuff and suddenly something usually pops in my head. As for as the threaded rod, I don't have anything that would of worked here so I made due without.
Trek is almost back alive!!!

Thanks,
it didn't sound too unreasonable. I know mtbikes depreciate pretty quick in general, but I wasn't sure how the higher-end bikes depreciated.