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Bike Check- DJ/Street/Park/Bmx- READ FIRST POST!
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flag hwipwill
Posted: Dec 9, 2013 at 7:13 Quote
Black is best. I'm trying to build up a DJ bike now, either trade one for my trailbike or build one up slowly.
flag steezydozit
Posted: Dec 9, 2013 at 7:25 Quote
Steel or Alu? Get my brothers ticketWink
flag crs-one
Posted: Jan 8, 2014 at 12:19 Quote
Feel free to contribute, I'm deleting the bad posts as they arise.
flag BSal
Posted: Jan 8, 2014 at 12:45 Quote
You're right CR. I'll do one up on my void. I've had it long enough to do a detailed check.
flag hwipwill
Posted: Jan 8, 2014 at 18:19 Quote
Said 5 posts. Where's the check lmfao.
flag Charge262
Posted: Jan 9, 2014 at 2:40 Quote
hwipwill wrote:
Black is best. I'm trying to build up a DJ bike now, either trade one for my trailbike or build one up slowly.

For the love of f*cking christ.

Please, when he has questions about his new DJ build... nobody answer them. NOBODY.

complete waste of time.
flag crs-one
Posted: Jan 19, 2014 at 12:27 Quote
Alright well I've deleted a bunch of useless posts from this thread so I might as well try to get things going in a positive direction, don't believe I've posted this bike yet.

My bike these days.
Little update AKA I don t know how to frame a photo
So here it is, a Deity Streetsweeper V2 proto with a go-backwards-without-pedaling hub. 24.8 pounds, 24.3ish with cassette wheel.

Frame: Deity Streetsweeper V2 proto, sans graphics. Almost as soon as the V1 came out I was already talking to Eric about possible improvements. Some two years later and here it is. To me the changes (shorter back end, smaller drops, slightly higher BB) were exactly what I wanted, I doubt I was the only one to provide that kind of feedback though. There's a few small differences between mine and production I believe, but all of the important numbers (BB height, CS length, head angle, etc.) are the same. For a while I'd been after an army green type paint job and it happened with this one. Since there's no graphics on mine, until it was officially unveiled I just told people I painted my yellow one. Luckily I didn't have to keep up that facade for too long, but barely anybody caught on. As you might imagine given the fact that everything I wanted came to fruition, I love this thing.

Fork: 2011 Fox 36 Float R. Pretty self-explanatory. I firmly believe this is the best fork available for my needs. My old one still works but I got a great deal on this one so I jumped on it. It saved me a bunch of weight, and I saved even more and cleaned things up a bit when I replaced the QR on the lowers with two simple steel bolts. I'd like to switch to aluminum bolts to save some more weight. Why not?

Headset: Rant integrated. Nothing much to see here, it was the cheapest one I could find. I stole some carbon spacers from sherbet in exchange for escorting him across the city to buy a bike. Probably going to grab an aluminum bolt here too.

Stem: Kore Repute. I've burned through a LOT of stems. I'm a weight weenie and I prefer shorter stems, which as it turns out is a pretty hard combination to nail. Tried Chromag, Straitline, Easton, and now this. This one is really light and looks pretty good, but it's only got 4mm hardware which is mildly scary, and it slips a bit. Not as much as the Chromag and Straitline ones, but still. If/when it dies I'm gonna suck it up and switch to the 50mm Deity Cavity.

Bar: Deity CZ38. Love these things. Normally I'm all about the Dirty30 because they're so damn strong and light, but with the BB being a bit higher on this frame I decided to raise my front end a bit to compensate. No regrets, it's barely heavier but it looks and feels absolutely amazing. You really have to see the black-on-black finish in person.
Grip: ODI Longneck + Par Ends. I know, they look like shit. I had Odyssey grips but they inexplicably tore in a weird way, and my shop didn't have any black grips whatsoever. Unfortunately because I'm cheap I bought the super long version and cut it in half, so it'll be years before I'm back to black grips. Sigh. The Par Ends are amazing though.

Seat: Deity Divot. I love I-Beam, I tried it out on a whim thinking I'd be switching back to pivotal but it really does kick ass. Roughly the same weight as a pivotal combo, but waaaaaay more comfortable, presumably because you have way more adjustment both in terms of range, angles, and also finesse. This seat is roughly equivalent to a mid pivotal seat but it's definitely fat seat comfort level.
Seatpost: SDG Micro I-Beam. Nothing to see here. Normal I-Beam post, that I chopped as short as I possibly could. It's a lot heavier than a pivotal post (though that weight is offset in the seat) because there's actual moving parts. I thought about grabbing a titanium bolt for the post, but it requires a LOT of torque so I don't know about that.

Cranks: Deity Vendetta 3.0 170mm, VTI spindle, 25t Gusset Woodstock spline drive sprocket. So these cranks have the comic book graphic on them which should give you an idea as to their age, along with the shoe rub. I've been running these (along with the titanium spindle) for years and they're golden. I'd like to grab some titanium bolts if I come across the right ones. The BB is a standard Spanish BB, but on an 83mm shell for tire clearance and such. It's still alive obviously. Because my coaster has the driver tucked all the way in, I had to get creative to get a decent chainline. With my Hadley wheel I was fine, but with the coaster being all the way in I was burning through chains and my sprocket like crazy, so I switched to a spline drive unit and tucked it as far in as I could. So far so good. The sprocket I picked was a Gusset Woodstock. I thought it looked cool and the price/weight were legit. I got it in blue and spray-painted it black. Again, so far so good.

Chain: YBN 918. A week or so prior to buying this chain (and switching to spline drive, see above) I snapped my old Cult chain on some rough pavement and just wrecked myself. Palms were missing lots of skin despite wearing gloves, it was all around a bad time. The day before I got my new drivetrain stuff I was cruising around downtown and just had a bad feeling, so I stopped at a local shop and bought this bad boy. Theoretically the fact that it's a halflink should reduce the stress a bad chainline creates, since it has twice the bending points. That said my chainline is fine now so it's sort of a moot point. Going to switch back to the SRAM PC-1 once this guy is toast.

Pedals: Deity Compound. I loooooooooove these pedals. They kick ass. I hate plastic pedals because of lack of grip, bearing problems, and most of all thickness, but riding street on metal pedals annoys me because of the noise they make when you crash. Best of both worlds here. Thin, light, metal pins, sealed bearings, but extremely quiet.

Brake: Shimano XT, 160mm Ashima Ai2. This brake gets excellent reviews, deservingly, and I like it. The lever shape absolutely kicks ass and I love that it's basically a light switch. My biggest issue is the insanely dumb clamp. Not only is it really bulky and prone to ripping your hand up, but taking it off is a pain: you have to insert a little allen key to unlock the hinge. I've got an Ashima Ai2 on there, just to try out. It's really really light (66g) but it's still 160mm so hopefully it performs well. I've only got 5 rotor bolts in because one of the mounts got ripped off the hub. Hopefully that doesn't negatively affect things. You'll also notice there's no cooling fins. When my brake pads wore out, I bought random ones off eBay with no fins. It's lighter, looks better, and honestly who is heating up the brake on their street bike so much that they need external cooling? Definitely not me. Again, titanium/aluminum bolts would be nice but I'll probably just grab a lighter brake and work from there.

Front wheel: Sun Inferno 31/Atomlab Pimplite DJ, Tioga Powerblock 2.1". I usually plan on lacing up new rims once a year, and I try to switch things up. I picked this rim because the width and weight looked good, and the ERD was the same as my previous rims so I could reuse my previous (double butted, DT Comp) spokes. Only issue? When the rims arrived they were white, which is way heavier. So I stripped the paint and sprayed them black. It's still heavier than a normal black rim, but that's life. The spokes are good, never broken one. I'm thinking of switching to Supercomps with my next wheelset. The hub is excellent. Tall flanges (with my cassette rear wheel, it works out that the spoke length is the same front, rear, left, right), extremely light, classy looking. It's the oldest part on my bike by a long shot. The tire is brand new so I don't have much to say about it, but it makes awesome noises during sliders and it rolls fast. Good enough so far. If I could run fully slick tires like the Cult Dehart or Fit TA I would.

Rear Wheel: Atomlab Pimplite/Affix Rhea coaster, KHE Mac Street 2.1". this is where things are interesting. So I have wanted a coaster for a long time, and I finally got tipped off to this one being on eBay. When I bought it it was a struggle to find the wheelbuilding info but eventually I got it. I didn't have any spare 36h rims so my friend gave me his old Atomlab rear wheel with a toasted hub. To my great surprise, the spokes on there were exactly the right length, so I just reused them along with the nips and the Pimplite rim. So right now I've got a rear rim that saw years of abuse under my buddy. It's still doing really well (a bunch of dents aside) despite a half-assed lacing job by yours truly. But that's what you'd expect from a ~620g rim, really. When it dies I'd like to replace it (and sub on the spare hubshell I've got) with a Supra D and some Supercomps. As for the hub....as soon as I got it I chopped the excess of the axles off. I cannot figure out a female axle. I tried and absolutely destroyed the hub, had to buy another and start over. Not my proudest moment. I've been kicking around ways of "building" my own out of a few different hubs. Hopefully NS or PS or someone comes out with a modern disc-ready coaster hub, it's like torture seeing all the awesome developments in the BMX world. The Lama dudes gave me the tire at one of their street jams, because my Specialized CC 2.0" blew off the rim a few times (I took the subway home, stole a tube and tire from my Spitfire, and sprinted back down to meet back up with the guys in about an hour which if you're familiar with where I live in relation to downtown Toronto is really impressive). It's a great tire, I see where the fanboyism comes from. I don't think I would pay for one because I don't think it's THAT much better than Tioga or Specialized's efforts.

So what would I change? Well I'd like to grab a new Circus for it down the road. It would save some weight, I'd finally have warranty coverage, and apparently they feel great. I'll be switching back to black grips and a SRAM PC-1 but that's normal wear and tear stuff. Lighter rims (thinking Supra 28 front, Supra D rear) and spokes whenever these ones die, and a lighter brake if I can find a good deal on one. I'll keep trying out different tires as these ones wear out though I really do like them. If someone comes out with an awesome spline drive sprocket I'll probably try it out. I've been doing this for years and I've got the basics dialed in but I love trying new stuff.
flag dkidd
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Posted: Jan 19, 2014 at 14:40 Quote
Do you have two left side pedal bodies?

Great bike check btw.
flag crs-one
Posted: Jan 19, 2014 at 14:42 Quote
dkidd wrote:
Do you have two left side pedal bodies?

Great bike check btw.

I'm impressed that you picked that up but people who rode it didn't.
flag dkidd
O+
Posted: Jan 19, 2014 at 14:50 Quote
crs-one wrote:
dkidd wrote:
Do you have two left side pedal bodies?

Great bike check btw.

I'm impressed that you picked that up but people who rode it didn't.
I know my HT PA12's
flag chrisbeazer
Posted: Jan 20, 2014 at 10:51 Quote
crs-one wrote:
Feel free to contribute, I'm deleting the bad posts as they arise.

cheers mate :/
flag Mrkomodo
Posted: Jan 22, 2014 at 5:18 Quote
crs-one wrote:
dkidd wrote:
Do you have two left side pedal bodies?

Great bike check btw.

I'm impressed that you picked that up but people who rode it didn't.
I'm not sure if I would feel that but I despise the feeling of backwards cranks. Left pedal on the right and vice versa. That was a great check though! I'd love a review for a circus from you

 


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