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Manuel The Bandito. 2001 S&M Dirt Bike NG
Midschoolfool:
OK grabbed these for Justin. It was these and Ame I rode back then.
Just in case yellow looks off. I also found these whilst searching.
lol so cool must have. I got the schrader ones.
Midschoolfool:
Headset finally sorted.
I found the correct shim for the Onza (it was all chucked in a box) but I was right about the pre load star washer. It had pulled up to the top cap (about 1/2 out) and was preventing me pre loading the bearings properly. So I said I was going to order an allen bolt? no chance. When I got up into the loft to grab that heffer old bolt it turns out it's some weird yank shit.
That will be why it's a big stainless bolt then. What I hated was that it had numbers on the top, making it look proper ghetto. So I did what any sane person would do, spent about an hour filing that shit off. And then sanding and then, just to top it off, (badum tish !) I masked it up with fine line tape and painted the top.
We're nearly there.
bobafett:
Nice touch on the bolt detailing :coolsmiley:
Midschoolfool:
I'd like to have polished it but sadly all I had up to was P800. I only painted the top because if you paint a bolt then take a spanner to it the paint will just come off. So it was sort of a happy medium.
I love the original SNAFU top cap. It's like a whacking great bolt made out of alu, with a pott's bolt cut into it. You do it up with the massive great bolt. Unfortunately the head on this bolt is way too big to sink into it, and the bolt with the SNAFU stem is too small to fit into the thread in the fork. It's something S&M did alone by the looks of it. It should have this on it (not mine, but a NOS example owned by a guy on the BMXM)
It looks like any other pott's bolt but the thread is almost the same size as the bolt head. It's bloody huge.
Maybe at some point I will get my buddy with the machines to machine down the head of my bolt to fit into the big old SNAFU thing? IDK. Maybe that *is* over thinking it a little.
I picked up another project bike today. I've been thinking about getting something chrome for ages and something came up. So I might do that next, as it's literally a clean and build without all of the OCD lol.
bobafett:
--- Quote from: Midschoolfool on July 10, 2020, 09:21 PM ---
I picked up another project bike today.
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Spoken like a true RADster :LolLolLolLol:
:radbmxsmilie:
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