Now this paint had to dry, cure, have a cocktail, whatever, I had to wait. I actually got paid to watch paint dry one time but that is a whole other blog and a bottle of Ridalin away from ever being written.
Now to the parts and their installation. Bottom bracket please step forward your time has come.
Pretty vague looking little contraption isn't he? Well without this little guy shit ain't happening people. Besides the rider this is the heart and soul of the bike in my book so buy a good one. Figured it out yet........
Yeah that's right, gotta have a place for them thar pedals to connect. But they come later. Head set is next. The head set is kinda the brains of the operation. It helps the bike figure out what direction it should take in life.
And it came with these instructions....
Yeah Yeah Yeah the picture sucks but let me tell you they were as confusing as this picture is blurry ipso facto shito the out of focus shot. Anyway, some where in the beginning it explains to use this special frickin tool to seat the bottom bearing cap to the fork.... (people, fork.. fork, people, okay introductions over)
and some other thing to the steering column top and bottom using 250-1500kg psi of pressure. OOOOOHHH PRESSURE I see.
4 ton press should due. Everything got pressured into becoming part of the bike....
Fork gets his stuff and then gets attached to the frame. Oh by the way, you gotta grease the shit out of this or it do not work so good.
Its missing something though.
THis thing needs a stem
and handle bars
and now it looks like this
That's about all upto this point. I gots me a high performance crank and some cool pedals on the way. Until next time, think about how you want your bike to look. Wait wait... My other single speed want's to say hi....
Anyway this is what I do and the little sticker under the handle bars says it all, "Life is Good."
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