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useless rear light is useless
Yeah you noticed, I need a shim or rubber collar to make it fit on the seat pole. I'll get it sorted soon.
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I put a shout out on a local bike forum for a rear track wheel, a guy offered me this, never used before for a good price so I took it. Rides nice, hope its not too fragile, I am over the recommended weight :P
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Heres my new daily, finished building it a few weeks ago, Alu frame from China cost me SG$160 new (I think that works out to about 70 quid) Bargain.
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Hi Guys,
Thanks for the replies, tommy, cheers for the offer, I'm actually living in Singapore so I think the shipping would cost more than the forks are worth, but after hearing about Indra's misfortune with the spokes through the calf and concussion, I think the best option is to get new forks, there is a really good 2nd hand market here with unused forks popping up all the time, I'll find something there.
Yeah and taxi drivers, I think its something in their genes, Assholes no matter where they are in the world.
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is it a real 3t for or a chinesebay one?
Hey Dan, they are Chinese. Carbon steerer, Carbon dropouts, carbon fork.
Update, I hit the forks with some wet and dry, first on the side where there was a split in the paint, after rubbing back there appeared to be a seam where the dropouts were bonded to the fork then sealed with resin and rubbed back to a smooth finish.
If this were the case there would be a seam on the opposite side, so I rubbed back the fork above the other dropout and sure enough there was a matching seam.
The split in the paint occurred directly over the seam, so to double check, I bound the forks at the dropouts with some zip-ties and pulled them together to see if the seam separated under tension.
There doesn't appear to be any flexing, the seams seem very solid. I'm thinking that the paint might have had a weaker adhesion to the resin seam than it did to the carbon fork.. So when the hard knock happened it may have split the paint at that weak spot. I'm gonna ride them again and do the same check after a short ride.
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Shit nuts. Thanks guys, I'll try the wet and dry and peep under the paint, cant believe it was literally my 4th ride on this new build.
I'll post some pics when I rub it back.
Cheers guys.
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Hey guys,
So yesterday morning I was riding to work, long story short a Taxi jumped on the brakes in front of me to get a passenger that he noticed late, I had little time to do much, over the bars, into the cab and bike went flying.
Bike took a hard knock on the front quick release, damaged the bearings which is an easy fix, I inspected the forks and found what looks like a hair line fracture. I don't know if this is a stress crack in the paint or if it is a crack in the carbon.
Is it ok to sand the paint back to see if the carbon is cracked ?
Cheers.. Ben.
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Hey guys,
Aussie living in Singapore. Currently building a Single speed cheap ass China import parts HHSB. Intention is to make a super light bike as afford-ably as possible. I'll share on current builds when I graduate from the nursery.
Cheers.
Haha, no its rare, just thick humidity, I'm living in Singapore.