BoSoxYacht

White Industries ENO eccentric hub, Stans Alpha 340 hoop, Sapim laser spokes & nipples. About 900g.

A little heavy, but lightweight for a FG rear wheel.

rumrunn6

very cool is that 32 spokes?

Dave Cutter

Pretty cool stuff! I remember when natural cork was replacement to the old cloth, or leather bar wrap (or the bright plastic bar tape). It's a great old school look... that functions very well too.

I just ordered a little bicycle this-and-that from Amazon.... to include my first color handle bar tape (blue). I also decided to try an end-bar (replaces the tape plug) bell. I even ordered a digital luggage scale... so I can document the weight of my weight-weeny bicycle.

69chevy

I recently bought my 9 and 10 year old a pair of 24" wheeled road bikes.

They are so into them that my 10 year old now has clipless shoes and the boys are riding 5-10 miles a day. They have learned to come off of the seat to stop, so the seats got moved up above the bars, and the stems are low.

Since they want to ride so much, I bought a Trek 1.2 to do long rides with them, since my TT bike isn't really ideal for 13mph rides.

I have better equipped the tiny road bikes with STI shifters, properly sized Profile bars, and 24 x1 wheelchair tires (slicks).

They both are planning on competing in the Junior TT State Championships, and we have signed up for three 30+ mile rides this summer.

BoSoxYacht

Yeah.

It's been a couple years since I had built a 32 spoke 3x, and I forgot how time consuming it is.

BoSoxYacht

cool.

Get them started doing intervals(if they feel like getting faster).

SempreCycling

Very cool, what are the bikes? Where did you pick them up? My son saw another boy on a road bike and has been asking me for one ever since.

69chevy

These are the much hated Denali brand. I got each bike from Amazon.

Since I knew 24" road bikes are hard to come by, I bought these as a platform to build a decent bike for cheap (plan on them being dead in two years tops). I bought Profile Design bars (Dino SS) that fit the smaller hands much better (the stock bars and shifters are awful). I bought Tourney STI shifters, and high pressure slicks.

The bikes were $189
The Bars were $25
The shifters were $75
The tires were $40

So for around $350 I ended up with what I think is a better bike than the Fuji 24 Ace which sells for $400 or so.

I'm not sure if any 24" bikes come with "brifters" other than the $500 DB or the Giordano Libero.

Both come with bigger, heavier tires, so I would have had to buy tires either way (not "have to", but you know what I mean).

So after a lot of thought, this was what I felt was the least expensive way to get a pretty good road bike that I know will be outgrown in as little as a year or two.

SempreCycling

Thanks for the info! I don't mind if they are cheaper bikes because, you're right, kids grow so fast that they will move on in a year, two max.

69chevy

I lied. The shifters were Sora (flight deck), not Tourney.

Shimano Sora ST-3300/33003 3x8-Speed Dual Control Shift/Brake Lever Set | Shifters | Road Bikewagon

The bikes are 3x7, but the 3x8 shifters work well. I set up one to hit the stop, one shift away from top gear and one to hit it one click away from low gear.

I wanted to see which was best, but both ways work very well. Neither bike has thrown a chain, and the spacing is perfect.

If you build one of these, you will need some shift cable housing. The ones you remove will be too short.

BONUS: these are quill stems, so you can adjust bar height very easily.

Tires: https://enableyourlife.com/24-x-1-in-...chair-tire.asp

Bars: https://www.nashbar.com/bikes/Product...95_-1___204718

TankSlapper

I had a $50 amazon card I got from taking an on-line survey related to work. I figured I buy something bike related and was trying to hit as close to $50 as I could with my order.

I need some socks, so I bought three, three packs of Pearl Izumi Attack Socks at $13.99 each.


I looked at all kinds of stuff and eventually got my order to $49.33 (by adding one inner-tube at $5.50 from a different seller).

It feels kinda weird to buy a single inner-tube from a shop in Illinois, have it shipped to California, and pay only $5.50 for it... Does that seller really make any money off of this?

It was all free to me, so I guess I don't care too much

alexaschwanden

I bought 700x25c schwalbe lugano tires.

noob_rider

will be testing it out this weekend!

60spacing

Tubes...it seems like I'm always buying tubes and CO2 cartridges

Porschefan

Good dad!!

STP

cydewaze

Wheels.

GuyDebord

Pro Aerofuel top tube bag at Strictly Bikes: https://www.pro-bikegear.com/en-gb/ca...-triathlon-bag

cale

I've got that Activity Center! It's great!



That's a pretty sweet looking bike rack hogging all the play room. Have fun!

BoSoxYacht

what components did you choose? Hoops, spokes, hubs?

cale

I bought tires on sale. I always buy consumables but now that my son is riding road bikes with me, we see a lot more flats. Wonk waaa

BoSoxYacht

When I see my tires at the right price from a UK shop, I buy 4-6 of them. When I get down to 2 left, I start searching for a good deal. Usually I pay less than dealer cost from a U.S. Distributor.

When you don't pay for tax or shipping, buying tires from the UK is cheaper than dealer cost unless you are buying 20 tires at a time.

cydewaze

Psimet has his own branded hubs, so I chose those. They have a pretty cool freewheel sound that sounds like there are around twice as many teeth as a typical freewheel.

Kinlin XR-22T rims. Only 22mm deep, but 24 wide, which works out really well with my 25mm GP4000SIIs.

CX-Ray spokes.

BoSoxYacht

so what hubs are those? Rebranded Bitex?

cydewaze

After looking at pics of Bitex, then looking at my hubs, I'm inclined to say yes.

Mazatleco17

Shoes. Shimano R088