Does the A23 rim come in Ti Grey?

Your shop is by the water right? Do you get a lot of beach crazies?

One of the regular passerbys stopped in for some quick adjustments. America Dan, a lean tan Korean guy riding around with an american flag motorcycle helmet and thong. Cool guy though.

We're across the street from a huge marina, a fishing pier and the Harbor Master's headquarters so there isn't any crazy beach traffic happening here (thankfully).

I love that the Crazy Korean guy's name is America Dan. It reminded me of when I worked at this tiny record store back in the day and there was an Asian guy who would come in all the time who idolized Stevie Ray Vaughan. He would sometimes carry around a Strat knockoff guitar with mailbox letters stuck on the pick guard that said 'PONG' (his last name) - just like the 'SRV' sticker on Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar. Naturally, we called him Stevie Ray Pong.

/coolstorybro

what's that plate do exactly (serious question)? As I'm about to buy a second pair of SL pedals

It prevents wear and tear to the actual pedal. It's what your shoe is touching. If you've run through the plate, and started eating at the pedal body, Shimano doesn't warranty the pedal anymore, and they advise getting new pedals for safety issues. For $20 it's cool to have to worry about the plate anymore, and to shave a few grams.


They also look cooler.

mechascrodzilla, should I used the supplied fizik finishing tape or electrical tape? idk if the finishing tape is too logo-y.

edit: also, is it ok to only wrap up to the curve on track drops? or is that some faux pas? cause I may be able to use one roll on both bars, which would be nice.

The finishing tape that comes with most bar tape sucks. Use electrical tape.

Just use electrical tape. I find the finishing tape to be highly over-rated.

doneskies. half wrap or full?

I usually wrap around a few times.

Half or full was referring to the edit in my first post, guess you missed it.

Oh. I would wrap the whole thing but they're your bars.

So when I get up to speed(fast or max for the gearing) I feel this weird what feels like loose crank or pedals but they are both tight. So then when I started to play with the crank and spun it forward and then back I noticed that there is some play in the bottom bracket. Its tight, the bottom bracket but it has some play from forward to back. So my question is, is this how some are or is something wrong with the bottom bracket, can it be tighter or have no play? Oh I have a stock SteamRoller fixed.

There shouldn't be any slop at all and if there is, it means one of three things.

1: Cups are not as tight as you think they are.
2: Bottom Bracket is shot and needs replacing.
3: Something is screwy with the bb shell.

Ok, thanks I will have my shop look at it..thanks much..:thumb:

Chances are, it's not your BB or crank at all (this is a common misconception when "slipping" occurs). It's much more likely that your cog is loose and slipping on the hub.

Scrod, have you ever finished a bar wrap like this (about 2:30-2:45 in):

I have.

For customers, yes. I would never bother with cloth tape (I hate it) and twine on my own bike.

Is it as simple as it looks? I'm building a townie for my wife with honey brown saddle and faux-leather tape and I thought finishing it with twine and then shellacking the twine dark would give it a cool look (same for old wine corks instead of end plugs).

Could very well be that as well.

It took me a couple tries the first time, but it's really not too bad. It's worth a try.

Guy sucks at doing bar tape. Can be done with just notching the cloth/cork where the friction shifter housing protrudes from instead of cutting it off and restarting.

Seriously!

Now that I have finally found a tire that works for me, should I stick to that tire or continue with my habit of trying different tires?

If it were me, I would stick with it.

Dear Scrod,

Today I was removing a bolt from a bottle boss and the head of the bolt broke off leaving the body of the bolt still in the hole

-_____-

What do you recommend that I do to get that out of there?

Easy-out extractor kit, hardware store
http://www.socaltrailriders.org/foru...1&d=1263144146

/notscrod

+1

and don't use alloy bolts.