Recent content by jsudar

All finished up. Didn’t quite make the sub 30 pound weight goal. Got it down to 30.66 lbs which really isn’t bad considering it started at 37.98 lbs. I spent about $120 on it, in addition to the $75 I paid for the bike. I used a lot of parts from my “inventory” —most of which came from 90s...

Due to my inability to properly operate a measuring tape, I had to extend the steerer on the fork I got from the Bicycle Collective for my daughter’s Schwinn. Here we go again. I just MIGed this one since, I’m between TIG welders right now. Then I got tired of filing the welds down, so...

Here is the finished product. It’s almost like it never even happened. Extenz for bicycle forks.

It seems I’ve been doing quite a bit of machine work on crank arms lately. Since they’re forged in weird, not square shapes, they’re difficult to clamp in a vise. Made this little guy help hold them. This is an M22 x 1.0 thread. My lathe is old school and can’t make metric threads without a...

While we’re on the topic of steerer tube extensions— here is one I’m doing for a friend of a friend who cut his steerer too short. The fork was paint matched with the frame and the factory isn’t doing this paint scheme anymore, so it ended up at my place to get fixed. In the pics it still...

This stem originally came off a low end Specialized. I needed it for this build because I am running some old Answer Taperlite bars with a 25.4mm clamp. I don’t think it had any post-casting machine work done that was not absolutely necessary to be functional as a stem. It was practically...

That’s a pretty sweet ride. Especially at that sale price. Lucky kid. I have all the parts— carbon fork, already built custom wheels and 1x9 drivetrain ready to go. I have all the frame tubes and even the powder coat. I’m really just not feeling doing a frame build at the moment.

My nine year old had a really nice custom 20 incher that I built for her a couple years back. Then she had a growth spurt and it didn’t really fit her any longer. So I promised her a custom 24 incher and gave her 20 incher to her cousin for Christmas. I have most of the parts to build the 24...

Got the other pocket milled out and the set screw holes drilled and tapped. Trans is located and mounted. Still need to countersink two of the trans bolts. However, I’m using metric bolts and they require a 90* countersink. SAE bolts require an 82* countersink which is the standard variety...

Finished the rest of the slots of the suspension arms. Still need to drill and tap a few set screw holes to retain the repurposed 1/8 scale buggy A arm pivot pins that the rods ends ride on. Milled out another speed pocket to maximize acceleration. The one on the other side of the chassis...

Baby crawlers FTW!! I’m glad this place is alive again! Building one from aluminum has crossed my mind… but after seeing the damage my kids have done to my brake line tube chassis, I don’t know if aluminum tubing would be strong enough. It certainly won’t have the dent resistance at .035 wall...

Really? I heard they tore it down and destroyed their fancy CV axles so none of the other kids could play with them. Interwebs rumors… That’s awesome it’s still in action.

I read somewhere Walker said the Rock Spider worked excellent on 9 out of 10 obstacles. However, on the tenth obstacle it was so bad, they lost whatever advantage they had gained in the first nine. I never saw the real one in action, so I figured it was probably worth a few hundred dollars and...

Got a set of four of these Motoworx beadlock wheels on eBay. Two of them have broken off M2 screws in them. Sadness. Why they used stainless hardware I’ll never know… it’s only 70k psi tensile and freaking 2mm! The black oxide coated stuff is good for 170k psi. So I’ll be changing out the...

This is the main chassis plate. Most everything will attach to it. Started life as a 300 gram chunk of 3/8” aluminum bar. Hopefully it will be half that weight when I’m finished machining out my “speed pockets” Can’t do speed holes on a skid plate, I’d get hung up on ALL the rocks. And look at...