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10-09-12 | 09:35 AM
#5851
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 26,053
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From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
USPS Parcel Post w/ insurance for $400 will be between $25-35 depending on what part of the country it's going to.
Go around to bike shops asking for frame boxes and don't skimp on bubble wrap unless you want to waste two months of your life filing a damage claim with USPS.
Go around to bike shops asking for frame boxes and don't skimp on bubble wrap unless you want to waste two months of your life filing a damage claim with USPS.
10-09-12 | 09:36 AM
#5852
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 4,852
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From: Ithaca, NY
Bikes: Click on the #YOLO
Scrod,
Do you, or do you know anyone, who has built up a wheel with a BMX cassette style hub? The gearing options of a 9t are fascinating. I know the spacing is 110mm and I know you'd have to grind out the dropouts, but nothing seems all that prohibitive. Especially if someone out there is making a flipflop with a bmx 9t cassette and a regulation track cog. though, that's a lot of chain to take up, even with a 13t cog.
Do you, or do you know anyone, who has built up a wheel with a BMX cassette style hub? The gearing options of a 9t are fascinating. I know the spacing is 110mm and I know you'd have to grind out the dropouts, but nothing seems all that prohibitive. Especially if someone out there is making a flipflop with a bmx 9t cassette and a regulation track cog. though, that's a lot of chain to take up, even with a 13t cog.
10-09-12 | 09:37 AM
#5853
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 26,053
Likes: 100
From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
Scrod,
I'm considering buying a Swift for my Bareknuckle. I have long arms for my body so I went with the 56 frame. I'm concerned as to what would happen if I use the Brooks on the bike. I used to have a B17 and noticed it was much taller from the rails to the top of the saddle than most. I didn't know if this was also the case with the Swift and if so, how much lower do you think the post would have to be moved to accommodate the height difference. Thanks.
I'm considering buying a Swift for my Bareknuckle. I have long arms for my body so I went with the 56 frame. I'm concerned as to what would happen if I use the Brooks on the bike. I used to have a B17 and noticed it was much taller from the rails to the top of the saddle than most. I didn't know if this was also the case with the Swift and if so, how much lower do you think the post would have to be moved to accommodate the height difference. Thanks.
10-09-12 | 09:41 AM
#5854
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 26,053
Likes: 100
From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
Scrod,
Do you, or do you know anyone, who has built up a wheel with a BMX cassette style hub? The gearing options of a 9t are fascinating. I know the spacing is 110mm and I know you'd have to grind out the dropouts, but nothing seems all that prohibitive. Especially if someone out there is making a flipflop with a bmx 9t cassette and a regulation track cog. though, that's a lot of chain to take up, even with a 13t cog.
Do you, or do you know anyone, who has built up a wheel with a BMX cassette style hub? The gearing options of a 9t are fascinating. I know the spacing is 110mm and I know you'd have to grind out the dropouts, but nothing seems all that prohibitive. Especially if someone out there is making a flipflop with a bmx 9t cassette and a regulation track cog. though, that's a lot of chain to take up, even with a 13t cog.
10-09-12 | 09:43 AM
#5855
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2012
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From: Ithaca, NY
Bikes: Click on the #YOLO
Just asking because I already have the tubular profile cranks for a euro bottom bracket and a microdrive (25/9, about the same as 44/16) steamroller seems like it'd be a pretty sweet thing.
****, wait, would I be stuck with a half link chain to get around the 9t?
Oh, and answer my question in the RG thread.
****, wait, would I be stuck with a half link chain to get around the 9t?
Oh, and answer my question in the RG thread.
Last edited by IthaDan; 10-09-12 at 09:47 AM.
10-09-12 | 09:47 AM
#5857
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USPS Parcel Post w/ insurance for $400 will be between $25-35 depending on what part of the country it's going to.
Go around to bike shops asking for frame boxes and don't skimp on bubble wrap unless you want to waste two months of your life filing a damage claim with USPS.
Go around to bike shops asking for frame boxes and don't skimp on bubble wrap unless you want to waste two months of your life filing a damage claim with USPS.
10-09-12 | 09:51 AM
#5858
Senior Member
Joined: Jan 2012
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From: Ithaca, NY
Bikes: Click on the #YOLO
10-09-12 | 10:26 AM
#5859
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 26,053
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From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
https://www.paypal.com/shipnow
https://tools.usps.com/go/ScheduleAPickupAction!input.action
If you don't have a PayPal account, you can print the label from the USPS site
https://cns.usps.com/go
10-09-12 | 10:30 AM
#5860
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No need. If you have a PayPal account, you can print the label online and schedule for USPS to come pick up the package.
https://www.paypal.com/shipnow
https://tools.usps.com/go/ScheduleAPickupAction!input.action
If you don't have a PayPal account, you can print the label from the USPS site
https://cns.usps.com/go
https://www.paypal.com/shipnow
https://tools.usps.com/go/ScheduleAPickupAction!input.action
If you don't have a PayPal account, you can print the label from the USPS site
https://cns.usps.com/go
10-09-12 | 10:45 AM
#5861
We win all charity rides
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,369
Likes: 0
From: Central Michigan University/ GR, MI
Bikes: BMX, fixed gear
10-09-12 | 10:52 AM
#5862
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 26,053
Likes: 100
From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
You've had a chain for three years?
10-09-12 | 10:54 AM
#5863
Fixie Infamous
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 10,480
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Nah scrod, reread that.
That was just the last time he had issues with it. He's probably had it longer.
That was just the last time he had issues with it. He's probably had it longer.
10-09-12 | 11:10 AM
#5864
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 26,053
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From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
10-09-12 | 11:25 AM
#5865
We win all charity rides
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 3,369
Likes: 0
From: Central Michigan University/ GR, MI
Bikes: BMX, fixed gear
Its on a BMX bike, so it doesn't get a ton of distance on it. And being so beefy, it has a lot of life to it to begin with. Its hardly even stretched since I bought it. The one downside is how damn heavy it is.
10-09-12 | 02:52 PM
#5866
Painfully average.
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 2,304
Likes: 4
Bikes: Caad10 / All-City SP
Do you think they're worth the gargantuan price jump from other hubs? I'm 100% happy with my Novatec hubs (so far you have not steered me wrong on any advice or recommendations), but I see myself as one of the few who actually like the way they look.
Last edited by calv; 10-09-12 at 02:56 PM.
10-09-12 | 02:59 PM
#5867
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
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From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
A Chub really doesn't cost that much more than a Phil Wood. It also weighs a hell of a lot less and has huge flanges, which offer more than just looks.
And because crabon.
And because crabon.
10-09-12 | 03:45 PM
#5868
Painfully average.
Joined: Jun 2010
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Bikes: Caad10 / All-City SP
You're right. Not as far off as I thought, just $20 more... Haha I guess it'a because in typically in the novatec price range, and never had interest in Phil hubs.
Is the quality/durability just as good?
Is the quality/durability just as good?
10-09-12 | 03:52 PM
#5869
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 26,053
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From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
I've never used a Chub but The Hive doesn't mess around when it comes to overall quality.
10-09-12 | 05:02 PM
#5870
Magnets, how do they work
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 1,299
Likes: 0
From: Buffalo
Those chub road fronts have been on my wish list for waaaaay too long.
10-09-12 | 06:01 PM
#5871
Painfully average.
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 2,304
Likes: 4
Bikes: Caad10 / All-City SP
Yeah, man. I think they look fantastic.
10-09-12 | 08:36 PM
#5872
Senior Member
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 244
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Scrod, do you know of any "quick-release" front fenders? I guess the front-fender equivalent of the SKS xtra-dry.
10-09-12 | 11:33 PM
#5874
Riding Heaven's Highways: In Memoriam
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 678
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From: It is North.. of Florida
Hi Scrod,
I have one old '89 Specialized Stumpjumper ..It is already SS but i want to change the chainring from 46 to 36. To make it SSCX.
It has old 5 arm Deore cranks.
<<Vintage Sugino Japan 36t 110mm>> chairing would work?
Do I need to make a picture?
Thank you
I have one old '89 Specialized Stumpjumper ..It is already SS but i want to change the chainring from 46 to 36. To make it SSCX.
It has old 5 arm Deore cranks.
<<Vintage Sugino Japan 36t 110mm>> chairing would work?
Do I need to make a picture?
Thank you
10-10-12 | 06:43 AM
#5875
Thread Starter
Your cog is slipping.
Joined: May 2009
Posts: 26,053
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From: Beverly MA
Bikes: EAI Bareknuckle
I ended up handing her over to a friend of mine who works at a veterinary hospital because even though she wasn't sick, she was much to young to be away from her mother and needed constant care. She's doing well and will be released in a field when the time comes.
BTW - dat sig.
BTW - dat sig.