New Addition to My Garage
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Liquidmantis
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Park truing stand, dish tool, and bottle opener. Username checks out.
NegroTundra
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Don't forget the CO2. Good to know there are some mtb'ers here
mtbtim
Elite Member
You must know how to build wheels too. Great skill to have.
mtbtim
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One of the greatest sports ever invented.
LittleCaesar
New member
I just want to know what is in the GoldStar fridge. My parents had a Gold Star VCR at one time; the user could manually tune the channels.
I used to know how to lace wheels and tru them. Not anymore. I lost confidence in my building when the flanges on my Ringle hubs cracked due to being too tight, as per Ringle.
I used to know how to lace wheels and tru them. Not anymore. I lost confidence in my building when the flanges on my Ringle hubs cracked due to being too tight, as per Ringle.
mtbtim
Elite Member
The fridge holds beer and water but mostly beer.
I've seen rims crack from too high spoke tension but never a hub. If I remember correctly, Ringle didn't have the greatest hubs. I've been using Chris King hubs for my mountain bikes since the mid 90's when I got them to sponsor my team. I've got a set of Phil Wood hubs on my Ibis Tandem. Phil Wood hubs are built in San Jose, CA where I live.
LittleCaesar
New member
I believe they were laced to Mavic 231s, which were heavy but indestructible. The Ringles were bad, but not as bad as White Industries whose rear was awful. The best hubs were easily old XTRs. I got out of the sport just as CK was branching past their headsets, which I still have two NOS 1" ones lying around. Purple and red if I remember. Also have a 22 year old tube of PW grease that still gets used today.
To keep it Yota friendly, how closer is Sean to getting another tranny (I see the tranny jack manual on the fridge)?
Mark_BC
Senior Member
I've heard of Rohloff hubs cracking at the spoke holes
MN4runnerman
Senior Member
When I read the title I thought you got some new doohickey tool thing, this is still cool.
fblainen11
New member
Looks good!
I have a mtb and road bike. Mountain bike mostly sits now. I moved and no where near me has decent trails. I plan on moving again within the next year or so, so I'll keep it.
I have a mtb and road bike. Mountain bike mostly sits now. I moved and no where near me has decent trails. I plan on moving again within the next year or so, so I'll keep it.
thinkCooper
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Do you ride with any of the folks from MTBR? Ever get out to Emma/UCSC/Wilder?
frodiesel
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Ive never trued a rim. Curious if the park tool is better than this stand.https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00H...1_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3V68ZFVW9JDWCQBQXBDY i was about to buy it to true my roval clx 40 road rims. Theyve somehow survived a few wrecks.
Love the toyota flag. If u were closer I'd pay ya to true my rims.
Love the toyota flag. If u were closer I'd pay ya to true my rims.
mtbtim
Elite Member
Yes and Yes. I know the owner of MTBR, Francis Cebedo, and have ridden with him a bunch of times.
I've been riding since 1985 so I know the trails in the Santa Cruz mountains very well. I was riding UCSC and Wilder before suspension was invented and well before disk brakes came into being. We rode down technical descents back then but you didn't have the luxury of 5 inches of travel front and rear and disk brakes to get you out of trouble. If you jumped or dropped off something and landed front wheel first, you usually went over the bars. If you rode in wet conditions, your cantilever brakes didn't slow you down all that well. The technology today definitely has made it easier for people to jump into the sport and have a much less steep learning curve.
In the 80's, it was rare to come across another mtn biker on the trails, and when you did, you usually stopped and chatted with them to see what kind of gear they were using. The sport has definitely come a long way since i started. I started racing in 1987, dropped out for a year or so between 88 and 89 and then started back into racing full boar in 1990. I was a member of a bike shop team in Los Gatos and when it looked like the team would fold since the shop was closing down, I took over management and brought it to the next level. I kept myself and 5 friends sponsored for 4 years. In that 4 years, I managed 4 mountain bike teams and 1 cyclocross team. For the first 2 years, Alpinestars was our title sponsor and the next 2 years Schwinn was our title sponsor. When Alpinestars was our title sponsor, we were called Alpinestars California. The Schwinn team name I think was just Schwinn Homegrown. At the time, Schwinn sponsored many teams across the US and we were their NorCal team. Salsa was the title sponsor for the cyclocross team and we were called Salsa Crossbones.
I raced until 1997 and then gave up racing for a while. I reached the semi-pro class. I picked up racing cyclocross racing again around 2004. I joined the Rock Lobster team based out of Santa Cruz a couple years later and have been a member off and on since. I race the 45A's. I've had tons of injuries over the years and I screwed up my hip last year at the Harbor High cyclocross course. I took this cyclocross season off and just worked a shit-load of overtime instead. Lately, I've been wrenching on trucks more than I've been riding which is kind of weird. I might be done racing for good but I could easily see myself racing again as well.
I'll be cycling as long as I can. Cycling, mainly mountain biking, has had such a positive impact on my life and I couldn't imagine not doing it. Most of my vacations are trips to go mountain biking in different areas out of state. It's the main reason I bought my 3rd Gen because I wanted a reliable truck to take me places and can handle some off-roading.
I also help build and maintain trails to give back to the sport I love.
Anyway, that's my cycling resume.
mtbtim
Elite Member
That truing stand will work fine. A Park stand will run you a lot more. Truing wheels is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. You have one set of spokes pulling one direction and the other set pulling in the opposing direction. If your rim is out of true, tighten the spokes that will pull in the direction opposite the way the bend of the rim is and loosen the one that pull in the same direction of the bend.
I bet you could find plenty of YouTube videos on how to true rims.
mtbtim
Elite Member
You have to do a road trip then. Maybe Moab in the spring. You could mountain bike and 4wheel.
fblainen11
New member
Was just looking through a few places. I have a buddy in Greeley, Co that I've been meaning to go visit. He does drive a Jeep though.
mtbtim
Elite Member
I've never ridden in Greeley. Are the trails suppose to be pretty good there?
Ha, the first thing that caught my eye was the 'no bikes' flag and I was like **** you man but then I saw the truing stand as well :bravo:
Ouch. That would hurt.
Low spoke count radial wheels is a good way to crack your hub flange!
