Sunday Updates

Hi

Been real busy of late so just going to run a sunday update of what's happening.

The Fly is finally all built, i had some trouble getting the rear wheel to run true but the local bike shop LBS tightened the spokes for me and it seems good now, now i believe you should learn to do as much bike work yourself but some times you have to admit your out of your depth like i was with wheel true, get it into your LBS and get it fixed and whilst your there ask how to do it, try and have a chat with an engineer, even if it's still something you wouldn't attempt to do yourself  at least you will understand it a bit better.

Running a SRAM chain with powerlink and a 48/18 gearing with sr apex cranks and a sturmey archer cog, the commute to work took about half an hour for 4 miles, the gears span out on the big downhills but i can coast so it's o.k, commute back sucked, there is a load of hills, i stayed seated for most of them but theres on near my house i had to dismount and walk the bike, i think my legs where fried after the other hills but i will get there.

First things first, this is purple not pink and it's a boy's bmx! O.k now we got that out of the way, i picked this up 2nd hand, one crank arm was missing and she was a bit rusty but the engineer i spoke to about it infoorms me the top tube was about the right size for me and she was only a couple of years old, she hasa Velocity 44 sticker on her which is based in Stirling and i think has only been open a few years.

Another thing finding 3 piece crank arms is pretty hard when your looking at going cheap, even Ebay wasn't much help, Velocity 44 supplied me with crank arm spares, they where going to charge me £25 but the nice fellow let me talk him down to £20, cranks are mint condition and with all the bolts, not sure if the chain ring will work with these cranks if not that's another purchase.

So new crank arms, pedals and chain and she run good, i need to get the bottom bracket checked at the LBS, when i removed the crank arm i had to pull it off and it looked like a washer from the BB went flying off into the nether never to be found again, i have zero experience wiith BMX BB's so i'm getting it checked withe LBS before the cranks go on, no point putting them on to take them back off if the BB is messed up.

So why BMX?? Well mostly just fun, i have my bike to commute and that's fine but bikes are a source of joy and i wanted something that i could chick around and not worry about breaking stuff, i plan on tearing up some dirt trails with it and i to learn some basic flatland stuff with it, i'm too old for the crazy stuff but i'm hoping the BMX will be a challenge and will maybe improve my bike skills in general.

TNT