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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on February 09, 2025, 03:46 PM »

Well I can't believe it.

So the first guy who does my machining. Close friend. Like, real close. His mum is dying  and she just went into a care home. So cool I asked my second  friend. Forgetting his wife had fallen  down the stairs and  broke her foot.

Got talking to the guy who sent me the hub and decided I was going to fookin  go for it. At first I laced it 3x, before realising after  about three hours the spokes  were not long enough. Soul  destroying. So I spent the  next three hours  pulling it back apart and doing it again. I could barely walk this morning having spent several hours on the floor.  Got out my truing  stand and started tightening the spokes. There is literally a 1mm buckle in it I can't seem to get out but I am fine with that. I have NOS wheels much worse.



Dear god, what a set of wheels.





Into black bags. I am tired of wiping off finger prints 

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on February 08, 2025, 05:26 PM »

Tyres on.



I had to drill  out the valve hole which was scary AF. It was .3mm too small and yeah, screwed my fingers trying to push it through. The hub also arrived, and sure enough the guts  fit it beautifully.



Stripped the red off the shoulders, it  looked shite.

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on February 06, 2025, 02:00 PM »

OK so another big push to the finish line. First though a friend of mine saw my new wheels and then told me he had a NOS front Fishbone blowfish. He bought it to rob the parts from, which I have. So it's going to be that "one day" thing. IE, one day I will send off the front wheel to be rebuilt onto it.



The icing on the cake, if you will. Another thing that has been driving me insane is finding a BOA for the front. These were everywhere for about 40 quid for ages and ages and then they dropped off the face of the earth and are now LOLprice. Like 80-100 quid.

Put the feelers out and not only found one but it is 6mm, not the daft 10mm. Needs stripping and anno gone but was very reasonable.



It's minto, one of the NOS ones that were going around no doubt.



So yeah, caustic bath and a polish and sorted.

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on February 05, 2025, 01:43 PM »

OK so I think this is the last thing. Obviously the chain will need to be longer to use the larger freewheel. Not great gearing, but who cares when you won't ride it because it is a tank?

So sticking with that theme. Wanted one for ages but usually go with Shadow Supreme. Finally got one.

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New School Racing / Re: 2025 Race Blog - Year 9 - Still Lunging for the Line!

« Last post by Mikku on February 04, 2025, 10:00 AM »

So I switched out the Renthal bars on the GT for the larger Cult ones from the Redline and not only do they look good (the gloss black finish goes better with the rest of the bike than the matte black Renthals) but they feel good too. The flatter backsweep (6 degrees versus the 12 of the Renthals) I think is as much of a factor as the increase in rise. Whatever the case, I'm going to leave them on there, at least until I can give the new set-up a track test. I may even race it on the 16th.

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on February 03, 2025, 04:14 PM »

Just couldn't get over the unsealed hub 



And.



Measure. I wasn't sure about the difference but my mate reckons the taper is impossible to machine being so tiny, so it doesn't need it. Any way, I fired this over to him.





So wossit four? well this.



Two birds one stone. Ordered tubes and strips, then ceramic coated the rear after a lot of polishing.



I bought a freewheel also. It is one of the new 30 point of engagement ones, so it is nice and loud.



Hub needs the same polish, though it will no doubt hurt my fingers so I left it for now.



When I get back I will strip the red anno off the shoulders. However, a mate donated a NOS front blowfish with no axle, so I may get it relaced we will see.

For right now the axle is just in there to stop any of it getting lost. So it's flopping around lol. I fitted the Gsport strips and they are now in black bags to keep the dust off 



You can also see the seat post has been restored. It arrived to me with gouges all down the back (you know? always happens if you put one into a dirty seat tube with no grease). So I sanded it all back and gave it some satin black. It too will be fitted. I also got a new bar decal to go with the S one, and the clear coat has now arrived with mum.

At this point I was going to end up fitting the SNAFU tyres I scrubbed up. But when looking for the rim strips and tubes I found these. At 50 quid it was a lot of money but I mean FFS look at those wheels. They deserve nothing less than NOS 2.0 MS4s.



So those are ordered also.

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Old School Freestyle (frame stands and kickturns galore!) / Re: Magazines download

« Last post by Johnny Ringo on February 03, 2025, 02:15 AM »

American Freestyler - September 1987 - Now available for download at https://Oldschoolmags.com
With thanks once again to Sebastien R.

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on January 31, 2025, 05:33 PM »

Front wheel arrived. Spokes were dull  (they are stainless not chrome) hub was  filthy. So I gave the spokes a good going over  with a brillo and then cleaned everything else before applying some ceramic coating.







Rear is coming tomorrow. It will get the same treatment.

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BMX Chat / Re: Mk2025.

« Last post by SDF on January 29, 2025, 10:08 PM »

I will get my tickets an hotel sorted by Friday.  What a great experience this will be.

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on January 29, 2025, 05:16 PM »

Bars off.



It's hard to see how bad  they are but they have numerous chips down to the metal and a strange  texture to the clear.



The rest of the bike is perfect. Like, filthy AF,  but nothing a clean won't  sort.

So whilst I was up there Profile BB met Pork, as did the new pedals with Ti axles.