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Oink oink.
Midschoolfool:
Result. These cranks also use M8 stem bolts for the pinch, and they only need two. This means I can bundle up a full set and a ti axle and sell the red Primos.
Glorious.
Midschoolfool:
OK here goes. I am having to resize and edit every pic now, and I am stupid busy. So updates will be less frequent but bigger when I can find a moment.
OK, so I will skip out the several hour fight with the cranks. I knew it would happen, because the axle is long. I could see that in the auction pics, so I knew I would have to fabricate a sprocket spacer for the bolt. And I was right. This meant putting them on and removing them about 20 times. I got them on around 8:30 last night and by then I was exhausted. But on they are. Sadly I did not have the spacers for 22mm I thought I had, so the non drive side needs to come off one more time when these arrive.
That said I was very relieved to get away with just buying that, and not another complete BB. So, after slicing my finger open last night on a star nut and bleeding all over the place I rested up and got back to it today.
It was finally time to bust out the Ti. First up, the stem.
As you can tell (because the fork would not be on the bike now if not) the star nut and top cap I bought arrived also.
Gorgeous. Obviously the Ti pinch bolts are in the crank arms now also. So, seat clamp Ti bolt.
There was one left over for the brake lever too, which was awesome.
And of course the 990 got two.
Then I made the cables for the dual pull. I am waiting for new cable cutters as you get one shot at this, or it's ruined.
They are coming Saturday. But we are close. Very close.
I have put the Standard away as I have two other bikes to work on.
Midschoolfool:
Finally.
It's actually amazing how well it works tbh. Didn't get any more pics yet, as I started digging out stuff to get rid of.
Midschoolfool:
OK so I ordered a decal for the seat post yesterday. The seat post is a DMR, not a Rod. Even though they are absolutely identical. Thing is? the Pork is a weird size any way, and I couldn't be arsed with shims or paying more than the tenner it cost me new. So this will work lovely.
Then a very strange thing happened. If you cast your mind back to the decal I redrew and sent off for printing?
The "NY 99" thing was bugging me. Basically the history of the fork is someone I know bought it new in 98. He then rode it til it broke, and put it away. When I say broke the welds gave out on the steerer. Any way, he took it down to Leroy Maidment last year and had it pro welded. At which point I stuffed it in my loft, and forgot about it until recently. I then restored it etc. But something about that decal just did not sit right with me. How could the fork be made before 99 and have that decal on? The fact is? it shouldn't. So it is probably for the best my mate hasn't done them yet.
What made me realise this was finding pics of two Kink Empire rev A from 97 and 98.
At which point not only did it dawn on me that the fork I was trying to copy was a Rev B (there is no physical difference btw) but it was also wrong. They should not look like this.
At this point I looked in my stash. And guess what? sometimes things are just meant to be.
So with that done all that is now left to do is to put a sticker on the seat tube. And then file the gyro balls down as they are hitting each other (easy) and also take the seat off and reglue the top. As it is loose and saggy.
You can see there why the cranks were a ball ache. Worth it, though.
Midschoolfool:
OK so the penultimate post on this. Next time you see this it will be finished.
When I replaced the seat clamp bolt for the Ti one I thought "Let's drop the seat just enough so the new decal fits". Thing is, it was clacking. At the time it had no front end on, and I was holding it up by hand. So I just did the bolt up and left it.
Last night I took it out to glue the seat cover back down (now done) and realised the post was seriously long. It was actually hitting the BB shell :LolLolLolLol:
All I had was a Jr hack saw. 30 minutes later.. It snapped. FFS. By this time I was getting angry, so I snapped it off and finished it up by file. BASTUD.
And sorted.
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