Recent content by bigb

Around here you're never more than a few minutes from a convenience market.

Thanks for the list of suggestions! Is that a stainless steel workbench you have there?

I thought about CO2 but for my fat tires it would take 5 cylinders just to get 15 lbs!

Thanks, looks like I'll be putting one together. Right now I'm riding my Soul Stomper with 3" wide tires and the tubes are pretty big, at least the thorn proof ones are. I'll see how big a regular one is.

I've started to take some longer daily rides and realized I need to start thinking about buying a road kit or putting one together mainly for fixing a flat tire but maybe a few other things like common allen wrenches, anyone know of a decent quality kit or did you just get a bag and make your...

If you decide to drill it and need help keeping it centered here is a cheap way to center a drilled hole on round tubing using an electrical ground clamp for pipe. Just remove the screw and size the bit to match the hole in the ground clamp, you can always enlarge later if needed. The hole in...

Looks cool, let us know how it works!

When I bought my cast iron 20 gallon dual voltage Campbell Hausfield I figured it would get me by for a few years until I was ready to buy a big 2 stage 60 gallon upright. The guy at the tool supply said I probably wouldn't ever need to upgrade. About 32 years later he was right, it has served...

It ain't happening. I have concluded that factory made handlebars are not intended to be re-bent. I could neither open or close the factory bends, I even stuck the bender handle which is rigid threaded pipe in my receiver hitch and instead of the handlebar bending the bender handle started to...

Yep that's where I learned about it, just wanted to share for those that didn't know.

Pretty hard to beat the HF pancake, on clearance it's even cheaper than my hand pump! https://www.harborfreight.com/3-gallon-13-hp-100-psi-oil-free-pancake-air-compressor-61615.html

I learned a great way to remove and install grips using air pressure. I use a hook tool to open a slight gap to shove the rubber tip of the blow gun in and hit the trigger, the grip will practically fly off. To install just plug the opposite end of the handlebar and put the tip of the blow gun...

I presently have a 20 gallon shop compressor that I bought in the eighties when they were still US made cast iron, a Specialized Air Tool hand pump and my latest addition is a Milwaukee M-12 Inflator Tool. I really like the Milwaukee as you just set the pressure you want and hit the power...

Good to know that Andy, I just though they looked thinner, I'll measure my el cheapo HB. If the chrome flakes I can always do tape.

I am thinking of doing some slight bending on a handlebar with an EMT bender. I have bent miles of EMT so the skill to get the bend I want won't be a problem but preventing a kink might be as the bar is thinner than EMT. The crude picture shows approx what I want to do, I want to close the first...