Tmackstab
- Member since Apr 13, 2010
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Tmackstab seb-stott's article
Jun 20, 2022 at 17:49
Jun 20, 2022
First Look: Actofive's CNC-Machined Signature Cranks Are a Work Of German Art
@chrod: I just tossed in 5 bucks

Tmackstab edspratt's article
Jun 17, 2022 at 18:10
Jun 17, 2022
Video: 2022 EWS-E Petzen-Jamnica Race Highlights
@AFunFox: yeah like just imagine a mass start race up to the top of Mt St Anne via the access road and then down the dh track.

Tmackstab seb-stott's article
Jun 17, 2022 at 12:02
Jun 17, 2022
Pinkbike Poll: How Do You Decide Which Bike To Buy?
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Tmackstab edspratt's article
Jun 17, 2022 at 6:49
Jun 17, 2022
Video: 2022 EWS-E Petzen-Jamnica Race Highlights
I'd watch E-bike racing if it was a mass start format and the climb was up an access road and down a dh track for laps. THAT would be entertaining.

Tmackstab seb-stott's article
Jun 16, 2022 at 11:53
Jun 16, 2022
First Look: Actofive's CNC-Machined Signature Cranks Are a Work Of German Art
@OnTheRivet: correct, as per my above comment about my time at Race Face. We're all just talking in circles at this point lol

Tmackstab seb-stott's article
Jun 16, 2022 at 11:14
Jun 16, 2022
First Look: Actofive's CNC-Machined Signature Cranks Are a Work Of German Art
@Bro-LanDog: OK so a Billet is just an alloy that has been extruded into a bar or tube. You can find this stuff easily at any metal supplier usually in 6000 series off the shelf.
Forgings are pressed into a rough shape of the finished part and can be of any alloy. They are generally much stronger because of the immense pressure used to make them. They are also $$$ and have to be ordered in greater quantities generally.
Cast is just molten metal poured into a mold and cooled. Low end crap usually.

Tmackstab seb-stott's article
Jun 16, 2022 at 9:39
Jun 16, 2022
First Look: Actofive's CNC-Machined Signature Cranks Are a Work Of German Art
@chrod: and Race Face back in the day. When I worked there in the late 90s we would get forgings delivered that were the rough shape of cranks. We'd have to manually straighten them to within a tolerance so the machine could hold them and then they would get machined.

Tmackstab seb-stott's article
Jun 16, 2022 at 8:37
Jun 16, 2022
First Look: Actofive's CNC-Machined Signature Cranks Are a Work Of German Art
@schlayer: I'm amazed you were able to find the time during your 3km 100m single lap of SFU to write that comment