Page 1 of 2 1 2 LastLast
Results 1 to 25 of 50
  1. #1
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    Treading Water
    Posts
    6,683

    Off Season Projects - Tinkering & Overhauling

    Whatcha got brewing?

    Currently building up a new wheelset. DH fork might need more love than I can give it. Just spent $200 bones replacing suspension linkage bearings on a 4 year old bike. Finally cut the black sleeve off our CCDBCoil shocks and they're FINALLY quiet!!! After they refused to acknowledge it's an issue and insisted the shocks will self destruct without the protective sleeve. Mrs Jm2e's trail bike needs a new drivetrain and not in love with Eagle enough to make the decision easy.
    It's definitely feeling like an expensive, labor intensive sport. Worth every penny though.
    However many are in a shit ton.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Nov 2005
    Location
    Down In A Hole, Up in the Sky
    Posts
    35,358
    Taking the GX eagle stuff off of the new Yeti, putting what fits onto the fat bike.
    Replacing the GX on the Yeti with xo1, then selling off the new 10 speed stuff off of the fat bike.
    And building up some light bicycle rims with DT 240's, and replacing the 120 Fox 34 air shaft with a 130.
    Should keep me busy for a bit.
    Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Aug 2010
    Location
    Park City
    Posts
    1,857
    Trying to decide if I take a replacement frame or go Chinese-carbon Trying to decide if I go 26 and roll with what I had, or go 29 and start from scratch.

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Posts
    5,013
    I've got a dozen bikes and no projects. Life is good. Stock bikes from Spot are so good that I rarely need to upgrade anything. Got some parts lately but will use as spares for racing enduro. Just finished a vintage mountain bike restoration that was pretty easy. Considering finding another but prices are too high now and no market for flipping unless super rare.

    It would be fun to build a paint booth and spray a few of the steel bikes I have.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Location
    CA
    Posts
    2,902
    Dropping Vorsprung Luftkappe air pistons into my Yari fork....

    https://vorsprungsuspension.com/prod...hox-pike-lyrik
    sproing!

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    Central VT
    Posts
    4,806
    Strip down, clean, rebuild my trail bike - really going to try and squeeze a fourth (and final) season out of it without dumping more $ into it. (Anyone want a beat but functional large Hightower frame next year?)

    New 35 mm bar/stem combo for my hardtail and fix sagging KS dropper.

    Attempt to drop weight off my heavy ass fat bike by attempting to make it tubeless using non-tubeless wheels and non-tubeless tires. Maybe add a dropper post to it.

    Clear coat my DIY painted gravel bike, replace the tires.

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    livin the dream
    Posts
    5,761
    Trying to decide how to breathe new life into an OG 2013 Bronson. Maybe a new fork. Maybe a 1deg headset. Maybe a new shock, thinking CC IL Coil.


    Sent from my iPhone using TGR Forums
    Best Skier on the Mountain
    Self-Certified
    1992 - 2012
    Squaw Valley, USA

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    slc
    Posts
    17,889
    Quote Originally Posted by meter-man View Post
    Dropping Vorsprung Luftkappe air pistons into my Yari fork....

    https://vorsprungsuspension.com/prod...hox-pike-lyrik
    I'm tempted to put one of those in the wife's Pike RC along with a full V-Spec tune, but she probably wouldn't even notice.

  9. #9
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    slc
    Posts
    17,889
    Let's say you're still rolling on a 2011 Reign, which has had the frame, fork, shock and wheels all replaced in the last year and is generally still kicking ass. New bike is 2-3 years off. What would you do to it?

  10. #10
    Join Date
    Dec 2006
    Location
    Your Mom's House
    Posts
    8,296
    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post
    Let's say you're still rolling on a 2011 Reign, which has had the frame, fork, shock and wheels all replaced in the last year and is generally still kicking ass. New bike is 2-3 years off. What would you do to it?
    If you haven't converted it to 1X yet, that's what I'd do.

  11. #11
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Eburg
    Posts
    13,243
    Quote Originally Posted by jm2e View Post
    Whatcha got brewing?
    Setting up the jig for a new lugged road frame. It'll be frame #4 this year

  12. #12
    Join Date
    Feb 2015
    Location
    nj / 'dacks
    Posts
    454
    Breakdown/clean/regrease of my '17 Troy to hopefully get rid of a few minor creaks that are starting to develop.

    Got a new chain as well for next season to install when it's back together.

  13. #13
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    slc
    Posts
    17,889
    Quote Originally Posted by adrenalated View Post
    If you haven't converted it to 1X yet, that's what I'd do.
    Oops, yeah, forgot to mention that. Haven't run a FD for years. Got a AB oval NW, MX3 11-42, and RAD cage last year. Drivetrain is pretty set.

  14. #14
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Posts
    5,013
    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post
    Oops, yeah, forgot to mention that. Haven't run a FD for years. Got a AB oval NW, MX3 11-42, and RAD cage last year. Drivetrain is pretty set.
    Then get new tires and grips then leave it alone.

  15. #15
    Join Date
    Jan 2004
    Location
    North Vancouver
    Posts
    6,457

  16. #16
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Eburg
    Posts
    13,243
    Quote Originally Posted by shirk View Post
    Same design? Gonna go thicker wall than .035 for the new ST? Or sleeve it?

  17. #17
    Join Date
    Jan 2004
    Location
    North Vancouver
    Posts
    6,457
    New design.

    That poor frame got fucked on it's first ride. I had tacked my rocker mount to the seat tube and never dropped proper welds on it. First ride I blew them off and the seatstay cross brace put a good sized dent in the seat tube. Hindsight I should have put a gusset in after I damaged the seat tube, but I didn't. I went back and brazed it on proper. The ST was a 0.035 straight gauge that had a special bend in it. It was plenty strong, but not once dented.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BljbePtB...ken-by=earle.b

    This frame is a new design. The suspension rocker is a pull link, kinda like the old GT RTS back in the day. Some more complexity in the front triangle of this one.

  18. #18
    Join Date
    Nov 2007
    Location
    Eburg
    Posts
    13,243
    Ha ha. You aren't the first guy to test ride a frame with a tack braze on a critical joint. Doh!

  19. #19
    Join Date
    Jan 2004
    Location
    North Vancouver
    Posts
    6,457
    No doubt.

    I think I was struggling with heat control on the thick to thin joint and decided to just tack and move on to come back and do it later out of the jig. Just never went back. I was working in this frame early mornings, getting up 4:30am and building till the family got up at 7am. Likely a couple coffee deprived moments in working on it. I had actually designed it's replacement before it broke. Something about the aesthetic bikes with the shock stuff down in on top of the bb I've always liked.

  20. #20
    Join Date
    Oct 2003
    Location
    slc
    Posts
    17,889
    Quote Originally Posted by simple View Post
    Then get new tires and grips then leave it alone.
    No geo tweaks via angleset/offset shock hardware/etc.? Custom suspension tuning?

  21. #21
    Join Date
    Dec 2010
    Posts
    5,013
    You'll never notice the geo changes. It is all in your head. Are you really heavy or really tiny? Extremely fast and loose? If no to all leave your suspension alone.

  22. #22
    Join Date
    Feb 2013
    Posts
    2,620
    New bearings in my linkages and maybe rebuilding my pike or more realistically
    shipping it off.

  23. #23
    Join Date
    Feb 2014
    Location
    NorCal coast
    Posts
    1,944
    No such thing as offseason in NorCal. That being said, I'd love for it to rain one of these weekends so I have an excuse to bleed my brakes. And then I can go do some trail work. No point in digging if the corners you dig just blow away as dust. One of my buddies and I have a laundry list that's probably a good few months worth of digging, and that's just fixing existing trails that were either ruined by the parks service or neglect.

  24. #24
    Join Date
    Jan 2009
    Location
    Saratoga Springs, NY
    Posts
    1,629
    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post
    No geo tweaks via angleset/offset shock hardware/etc.? Custom suspension tuning?
    If you're keeping it for 2-3 years and think you would appreciate a slacker headangle + ever so slightly steeper seat tube angle, then yes.. get a Works angleset for it. 1 degree is going to be a somewhat subtle change.. 1.5 or 2 degrees you will notice.

    Custom suspension tuning would not be a terrible idea when the time comes for a service.. what do you have on there for fork and shock?

  25. #25
    Join Date
    Dec 2006
    Location
    Your Mom's House
    Posts
    8,296
    Quote Originally Posted by Dantheman View Post
    No geo tweaks via angleset/offset shock hardware/etc.? Custom suspension tuning?
    Having owned and just replaced the same bike as you I wouldn't bother with any of this stuff. New tires, new grips, maybe replace all the linkage bearings if you haven't done that recently.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •