I have posted this frame before. Very little to no love for it over here. I was running a freewheel until it fell apart. Now i got a new rear wheel (have had it for a few months now). Today i got the rear cog (which is a little loose for my tastes) and a BB cause the last one was horrible.

I will be ordering one of those beefy surly cogs but first i need to find the right ratio. So i got a 6eu 20t cog.

Everything is in place, other than pvc pipe (spacers), and a BB tool. (yes they are bad, phone-pics)

Bit loose


Ghetto cranks and chain ring




Look at the left side (right side of pic) of the BB it doesn't go all the way in, i think its just to long, gotta cut a few mm off.


10eu of used cranks

what part of the bb are you planning to cut?

i'd try having a shop chase the threads before i started cutting stuff.

The plastic screw thing...

I did the same thing with a rear wheel that I found in the dumpster. Works really well but I used the cassette that was on the wheel. I popped it off and it was an old worn out Shimano cassette but the 12t cog was fine so I used that. Here is how it ended up:

Looks like some tough ratios. Nice bike though. I might try painting the frame, the cheap way. Just clean it and sand it down, cause i can find aircraft paint striper, and norm paint striper doesn't work. i tried it on the fork, looks ok.

Is that a 73mm mountain bb in a 68mm shell?

is that possible?

I might explain that plastic thing... right?

Now what?!

check the bb itself, it should have a 68 or a 73 on it.

its 68, just checked.

You found a Shimano 540 wheel in the dumpster????

Cool, now I can tell everyone I have dumpster wheels on my SS.....

It's a 535 but yeah, I couldn't believe it either. Two spokes were borked but that was it. Nice bike, I wish I'd found the front as well

I got a used cassette from this other lbs, it looks like they specify in offroad and "COOL" biking, for free!

So now spacing is not a problem, who needs PVC (well actually i couldn't find any!).

I have a feeling the chain isn't perfectly strait, is that a problem? also how tight should the chain be... at high rpm (pedaling, cascade or what ever) the chain flops... Its also cause it has some really sticky grease (factory).

I've got a name for your bike...SuperCog.

That is the coolest unicycle I've seen in a long time.

If only it were fixed.

i need new bearings for the head set (fork), and gotta get some grease too.

Oh and a BB tool.

snap ring pliers.

FOR....? i could get some, but why?

Oh yeah...Guess a freewheeling unicycle would be hard to balance.

uh, SS is not exactly cheap. This bike is using the cheapest ***** ever (cheap parts), and it looks like crap. and its costing me over 100eu!

Rear wheel was 45eu (with a 7sp cassette)
A new front is going to be 30eu (but im going to the used bike place to find a cheaper front)
Cranks were 10
Chain was 12
cog was 6 (i want a surly one for 27eu)
BB was 27
tires are going to be around 40 (both)
saddle and seat post are going to reach 20eu
bearings...

i need to find used bars and stems, even a fork! (cause i don't like mine)

This isn't cheap at all... and the crank is not ideal, i'm sure i will have clearance issues under pressure.

oh AND THE TOOLS...

it would have been cheeper if you just found something used on ebay or locally ... then just modded a few little bits here and there...

I have a similar problem with a spare frame that I tore down a few months ago, I just can't see myself spending $ 200 + to rebuild it !!!





She now hangs in my garage completely bare of almost every component...

Yes it is, you just didn't do it on a budget. Mine was cheap as free.

you can use them to remove the BB.

Yeah i thought so, thats why i went to check them out, they didn't open wide enough for the BB... im going to go to my closest lbs and let them tighten it up...

How did i not do it on a budget?

Yeah, i guess i messed up...

Next build i should just get a used bike and strip it, and run SS or suicide(sp?) FG.