https://www.makezine.com/blog/archive...peed_bike.html

And to make it that much better, its available as a podcast...

discuss.

Close the BFSSFG. There is no longer a need.

Brilliant!

Lol, wut?

I've never heard anyone stealing a rear derailleur before.

People will strip everything off a bike if left locked up long enough...

I think they really were referring to periodic maintainence and the possibility of damage to a multispeed drive. I know I've bent the RD hanger on my road bike before from having it knock into stuff (without realizing). My RD almost went all the way into the spokes when I downshifted!

True, but he was referring to the advantages of a single speed, compared to a geared bike.

chipping and flopping is mandatory?
news to me

It looks like one needs glasses to make such a bike.

So far so good.

I sure as hell have. That and tubes, single brake pads, assorted nuts and bolts, you name it.

Yeah it is, I chopped the drops right off and flopped em in the trash to make way for risers!

1. Frame I cant afford( preferably NJS)
2. Aerospoke front wheel
3. Let every body know I know more about bikes than they do.(or lie my a$$ off)



If you know a simpler way.....please ,enlighten me.

i hope the trunk boiz post a scraper bike tutorial

we found 16 was the best ratio for getting around town.

"crank spindles need to be grease free on assembly, wipe it dry or you'll split your crank"

A: Only if you're the Hulk.
B: Do that if you never want to get it off again, or want an incorrect chainline.

that's really fun !!

No, it's *flipping* and chopping. Pay attention!

What ******** dip*****s. I recently had to angle grind a crank arm off because it hadn't been greased and was seized on the spindle.

The guy on the left was pretty rad at the end of the vid with his knees cranking outwards and his fingers squeezing the brake though.

RD? That would be gone. People have broken locks here to steal INNER TUBES.

Goddam! Where do you people live? Next to a crackhouse?

yep, i've definitely had JUST ONE of my brake pads stolen before.

a small part of me has died today.

You are saying you felt "the little death" when you read it?

I saw a frame on my block stripped of its headset cups and bb. I was impressed.

Umm..from a mechanic to, presumably, a non-mechanic, that's quite ridiculous. Greasing the bottom bracket spindle risks scooting the crank arm further up onto the taper than it's designed to go, thus compromising the crank arm. A crank puller threaded into a crank arm should always remove the crank given the amount of pressure exerted in the process. You might have had a steel/steel crank arm/BB interface, which might've led to corrosion, but it's highly unlikely an aluminum crank arm would seize to a BB spindle.

Correct, you aren't supposed to grease the spindle or cranks. Aluminium and steel can corrode together, but a bit of penetrating oil and a crank puller should always get the job done. I've had a few that were a bit tough, but have never lost the battle. If they were cottered cranks, you did the right thing by cutting them off.