10-31-2016, 06:05 PM | #181 |
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I've been enjoying the Postal Trek quite a bit.
It rides great and looks great up on my wall. It cleaned up wonderfully, near new condition. Only a few slight blemishes. I feel bad the seller's son never really got a chance to use it before he died and the bike sat since then. It seemed odd to ride it but it's just a thing. Still, I felt a 'connection' there somehow.
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Nothing like having a piston aimed directly at your bells though...
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10-31-2016, 08:33 PM | #183 |
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LOL
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11-14-2016, 07:02 PM | #184 |
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Dude rode his mountain bike to the South Pole. I enjoy getting bundled up for a brisk ride, but not all the way to 90 degrees latitude.
http://reviews.mtbr.com/the-first-tr...the-south-pole
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11-14-2016, 07:04 PM | #185 |
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Hat's off to the guy.
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12-17-2016, 08:25 PM | #186 |
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Assembled a Diamond Back 'City Bike' for Mrs. C's former boss today. It's a Christmas present for his youngest son. Jack is a heck of a nice guy but could cut off his hand with Jello, so I was volunteered.
We are in Chinabike territory with a Diamond Back, though I was pleasantly surprised when I spun the wheels in my hands and the bearings were well adjusted. Then I checked the fork and crank. Ahhh, now I am in familiar territory. Both are so tight that neither turn. Pulled the headset apart and I figure the assembler must have dropped the bearings in his grease can because there was actually some there. Bottom bearing spindle was a sealed unit and just needed adjusting. It just took a BFH to do it. The assemblers must use an impact wrench to tighten the cup and lockring. Brakes were a pain to set up. Derailleurs, no picnic, but not as finicky as the brakes. Both, out of the box, were awful. So, a job that would take me maybe 45 minutes took two hours to get to Cheesy standards, and I even let a few things slide. I will recommend that Jack replace the awful steel crankset for low end alloy crankset with steel rings. Even with steel rings, the new crankset will weigh less than the left crankarm.
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12-18-2016, 10:28 PM | #187 |
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We bought fat tire bikes for each other for Christmas since we got a weekend place near the beach. Walmart bikes so they are pretty heavy. They came out of the boxes in pretty good shape. The front wheel bearings were way too tight on both so I had to find my coning wrenches. The headset on the red one was way loose so I had to adjust it. Otherwise it was easy assembly.
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12-18-2016, 10:58 PM | #188 |
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where are the engines?
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12-19-2016, 12:12 AM | #189 |
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They are good candidates for them. Correct frame,no rear shocks.
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12-19-2016, 06:05 AM | #190 |
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12-19-2016, 07:31 AM | #191 |
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Here's my chinarider . But the engine will not fit on those bikes. with out a good bit of modifications. I know I looked at doing one myself.
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12-19-2016, 08:22 AM | #192 |
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People have put those bike engines on the Wally World fatties ,there is plenty of YouTube videos of them running around
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12-19-2016, 08:46 AM | #193 |
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I tried putting one on a Mongoose. I could of made it work but would of taken a good bit of modification. I would of had an issue with the chain alignment. I guess it depends on what engine you use.
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