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got the forks today, totally rad tapered leg chromoly fork. 1 1/8" threadless, thick drop outs, tig welded. very pleased for the ~40 bucks they cost ordered the wheels from the LBS today, they'll be in tomorrow. now i gotta think about tires. LBS has some Kenda K-RAD tires that look pretty...

Yeah. It won't likely matter. If I did change it, it'd have to be to some rad polished high flange hub like I used to run BITD, like a JP, or crupi or the like. I won't sweat it for now. It's not gunna be a beater, but it's also not gunna be a high end anything, just solid decent components.

i thought i had seen them with a silver front hub as well, but you are correct, black in front, silver in back....... not sure its worth the hassle of unlacing either wheel and changing color/hub.

I think I'm gunna support the LBS on this one. He's tellin me 120.00 for the weinmann/shimano/12g wheelset. It comes with a chrome low flange joytech hub. I'm gunna go at lunch break and order em. I know chuckz are cheaper, and I like the wide flange, but with everything gunna be NEW, and the...

Being in so cal, the sky is the limit as far as bike stuff goes. The LBS has 26x1.75 weinmann with 12g stainless spokes and shimano CB hub. Can get black hoop, or silver ano. Then there's BWW, and they use alienation 26x1.75, 14ga spokes and either KT hubs, or shimano for a up charge. Rims are...

Yeah. I wanted that sprocket so bad. It taunted me at the bike shops for a while. Then poof. Gone. I was scheming colors etc and was pretty settled on gold anodized bits, but kept changing my mind. Thought back to the "old days" and what I wanted, google-fu, bam, for a twange I'm on it. Kinda...

Here is where i will post/document the build of my worksman INB. I'm calling it "the jerk". If you haven't seen it, its an old Steve Martin movie..... in it, theres a quote " God loves a working man, don't trust ......". This being a worksman, and me being a (white) working man..... i thought it...

great replies the last couple days, i especially like the 1 1/8" threadless recipe. I'm not sure what exactly ill be doing, just waiting for my frame before i start buying parts. once i see the frame, ill be able to pull the rest together and at the house before it comes back from powder coat...

I dont remember, it's the first step to chrome, so less than chrome, but I think it was more than 150 or so. It's been too long, kids all grown up now.

(the pic isn't upside down, its hanging from the rafters) my younger brother got heckled and ridiculed so bad a few years ago in middle school when he rode a beach cruiser to school, a kick butt electra even, because all the punk nosed brats had fixed gears. he'd come home bummed out etc cuz...

^all great options and way easier than what i was thinking...... but i don't get to make any metal chips that way.

yup. im not sure what I'm doing with the headset, or fork for that matter, if i use stock fork, ill use stock headset, I've got some kinky ideas about tapered roller bearings like a motorcycle, and have a mill and a lathe to make whatever i need. just depends on how crazy i wanna get. last time...

yeah, i get it..... I'm a big dude, always have been. at 13 yrs old, i was 6' and 200 pounds..... a bit of a monster. when i was 18, i broke my knees... bed and food for 6 months... and i was suddenly 275..... years go by, got as big as 340..... I'm down around 310 now.... working on it...

this was a cool moped. i built this moped for myself, it was to be my last final hoorah as far as building a moped goes. the frame cross member was an original exhaust pipe. had a 75cc cylinder kit, dutch expansion chamber, and a 24mm mikuni flat slide, full roller crank, and all the engine...

ive got a frame coming from chuckz already. the rest will be bought/built as I want it. thanks for the offer though.

Thanks, I'm in contact with him, will be using just the frame and fork, and the rest will be bmx kinda stuff.

see, heres what happened....... I've been a bike guy, always, from the time i was little. had the gamut of rad bmx when i raced bikes BITD (I'm 31 years old) mach ones, interceptors, elf double cross, auburns, robinson, etc etc..... i know what the style is. the other day I'm getting out my...

id like to have my former '64 riviera back, and have some $$ to finish what i started before the economy took a dive.

Ordering up a worksman frame from chuckz. Thanks for talking me out of buying a new worksman...... back to the regularly scheduled thoughts of 3 piece cranks, anodized wheels, chain wheel, and stem.

nah, motorized bicycles, gas, electric, propane, or otherwise..... do nothing for me.