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Chilli Rinse:
Oh no man, hope it's not covid and you're better soon, take it easy for a bit fistblump Those cranks look factory fresh, nice job indeed.
Yeah I got the forks, I think they are the right ones for the bike. No cable guide though, so not 100% sure.
Midschoolfool:
Yeah pretty sure mine are the same. Will have a look later. Your down tube decals are done, as are the small ones.
A few years ago I bought this really expensive printer and scanner. Like, pro series. A3 printer. Every time I scan it basically ass fooks your image. First their app only scans to 300 DPI, which ain't great, but secondly the only image option to save it out is JPG. Which was shit at the best of times. So basically whatever you scan then gets compressed and ruined before you can even start on it which is frustrating to say the least. What I like to do is image trace which converts them into vectors, meaning I can scale them and alter the DPI increasing it to insane levels. Problem is if the image is shite you end up with what you saw in the pic I showed on everything BUT the down tube decal (because it is much larger. So as an example here look at the two small round decals and look at what it has done to the text.
It has mullered them basically. That said, whoever drew these decals either did not draw them in vectors (because the aliasing is awful) or, the printer wasn't great. I think it was the former.
Any way. So I wondered if my scanner was actually a good one in disguise, or, truly limited to 300 DPI. Meaning it is a shite one. Didn't sit well with me due to what it cost, though. I know scanners are no longer anywhere near as good as they used to be. I know that for a fact. I have one somewhere that can scan at 9000 DPI. It is a SCSI interface, and uses a PCI card. Which I can no longer run. So 300? you can see just how shit that is in comparison. Any way, I figured I would poke the hardware using something else. Sure enough, if I use Photoshop? I get a 1200 DPI option. Four times higher resolution. As such look at these compared to the ones above.
BTW that mock up you did?
Midschoolfool:
OK sweet so the washers were actually alu. Meaning I could do this to them. And assemble.
Mind blowing !
explosion
All they needed was some company.
Chilli Rinse:
First of all, that crank set up looks friggin awesome. Top work man, this ride is gonna to be insane explosion
You have to chill soon though, bmx burnout is imminent fistblump
The decals you have produced are bang on, I'm now going to have to upgrade my build from tank rat to as good as I can afford :LolLolLolLol:
Seriously though, thanks for all of your time, effort and RADSPIRIT man
:bow:
Midschoolfool:
I'm going to send some parts with the decals, so don't buy anything yet. That part will be a surprise.
So earlier I thought I was going to have a headache on my hands. Though it turned out to be the opposite.
It's hard to put into words just how heavy that Mosher Fork is. IDR who I got it from. Was it Pickle? god it was so long ago now. But it's easily the heaviest fork I have, and I got some seriously heavy forks. Even heavier than those Kink Empires. Any way, I realised there is no brake hole. So, I armed myself with my punch set and some cobalt bits and.... First punch literally exploded when I hit it. I thought "Oh god, this is going to eat bits and take forever" but like I said, the opposite happened. Bits went straight through, brake now on.
The second part I thought was going to be more brawn work was getting the shit writing off the pegs. I like the pegs, but nothing screamed "I DO NOT BELONG ON A MID SCHOOL BIKE" quite like the crap printing on them. By total accident as I was cleaning the fork ready for cutting and wax I spilled some isoprop on the peg, and the writing started coming off. Sorted :LolLolLolLol: five minutes later I have a lovely set of plain pegs. I then cut and buffed the fork, which they needed bad.
I even logged onto Facebook, and noticed some guy was offering these up for sod all.
I already have a Ride decal for it (in some of the pics) but I do not have any Dragonfly decals. The frame has a few chips and scratches, so I am going to partially sticker bomb it (tastefully) to hide said scratches. As such those DF decals were like gold. Result.
I then realised that I had a lot of money in the bank. What I mean is, as mum was going away I paid into her bank account about two weeks ago for the shopping I wanted to order now. Mostly because I couldn't be assed adding all my payment details to her Iceland account. I got paid today and yeah, forgot I had done that.
So I bought a set of wheels :LolLolLolLol:
Because of the finds with the seat, post and etc I started to realise that this bike is going to be killer. Those cranks coming out the way they did (mostly because I busted my ass working on them) was testament to that. Blue new school wheels? ugh. Now I knew I had seen these on Ebay a while ago, was effing praying there were some left. There were :LolLolLolLol:
NOS Sun Big city rims on NOS Prolite hubs. I had to. For the sake of a hundred quid I just couldn't have lived with myself putting those wheels on there. I mean, that really isn't a lot of money tbh. Especially when it will make the build rather than break it.
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