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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Monday tech tip: Setting up a gyro
Here is the first installment of my Monday tech tip since you shred all weekend and destroy stuff monday is normally a good day to check up on everything and adjust the stuff.
Alright I honestly think one of the reasons sooo many of you kids ride brakeless is because you don't know how to set up brakes. Thought about this the other day when I was thinking about my days back working at a shop and always had to fix kids home done brakes set-ups daily (for free by the way). Anyways heres my tips on setting up a gyro (with dual lower cables, if your not running this style gyro set up get up to date son!)
Step 1:
First put your removable mounts and tabs in place, when screwing in the tabs get it just tight enough, if you over tighten it you will ruin it and have to retap some tabs :/
Step 2:
Take off your stem and put on your gyro and gyro plate
Step 3:
Place your brakes on and as your screwing the allen bolts in be sure to clamp on to the spring bolt and spin it in a direction that causes the pads to go up against the frame hold it their and tighten down that allen bolt, make it as tight as you can! This will help your brakes spring back!
Step 4:
Put your cables on with NO tension (I.E. have all the bolts screwed all the way in on all your tabs and cables.)
Step 5:
Now its time to adjust the brakes, the most annoying part of it all!
Okay if your brake pads are not evenly spaced from the rim on each side then you will have to adjust this bit pictured below. How you adjust this is tighten the cable corresponding to the brake arm until its as close to your rim as you can get it!
Now that those are even you may need to tighten up your upper cables to make it less squishy to do this just tighten these cables below
Then if that still wasn't enough you can go ahead and tighten the cables going into your gyro plate also, pictured below
Now you have dialed brakes! Time to get those abubucas and fufanus! Bring em back!
Next week how to true rims!
Alright I honestly think one of the reasons sooo many of you kids ride brakeless is because you don't know how to set up brakes. Thought about this the other day when I was thinking about my days back working at a shop and always had to fix kids home done brakes set-ups daily (for free by the way). Anyways heres my tips on setting up a gyro (with dual lower cables, if your not running this style gyro set up get up to date son!)
Step 1:
First put your removable mounts and tabs in place, when screwing in the tabs get it just tight enough, if you over tighten it you will ruin it and have to retap some tabs :/
Step 2:
Take off your stem and put on your gyro and gyro plate
Step 3:
Place your brakes on and as your screwing the allen bolts in be sure to clamp on to the spring bolt and spin it in a direction that causes the pads to go up against the frame hold it their and tighten down that allen bolt, make it as tight as you can! This will help your brakes spring back!
Step 4:
Put your cables on with NO tension (I.E. have all the bolts screwed all the way in on all your tabs and cables.)
Step 5:
Now its time to adjust the brakes, the most annoying part of it all!
Okay if your brake pads are not evenly spaced from the rim on each side then you will have to adjust this bit pictured below. How you adjust this is tighten the cable corresponding to the brake arm until its as close to your rim as you can get it!
Now that those are even you may need to tighten up your upper cables to make it less squishy to do this just tighten these cables below
Then if that still wasn't enough you can go ahead and tighten the cables going into your gyro plate also, pictured below
Now you have dialed brakes! Time to get those abubucas and fufanus! Bring em back!
Next week how to true rims!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Support Your Local Bike Shop
Do it.
I'm not going to lie I didn't realize how big of a deal this was until I was about 16 and started working at my local hardcore bmx shop. We would throw huge contests, host video premieres and help out all the local rippers. The most annoying thing in the world while working at this shop was when I would have kids come in everyday and ask me a million questions about what part they should get and stuff along those lines. Then the kid would show up at the shop with a brand new frame that he ordered off of Dans Comp! This would piss me off more then anything in the world! I spent hours with this kid a week talking about which frame he should get, telling him how different geometry affects your riding and the kid comes in with the exact frame we had picked out and he said he would buy it when he had the cash saved up! What was his reason for buying it off of dans you ask? Because I would have to charge five bucks more then dans to help cover shipping costs! This is ridiculous! Does Dans sponsor local riders? No. Does Dans throw jams in your local parks? No. Does Dans let you come into their shop and let you just sit on their couch and what bmx DVDs all day on rainy days? No. So why are you supporting them kids! If you have to and I mean have to, as in your local shop doesn't carry bmx or charges a rediculous mark up (Like 25% over dans price) then go ahead and order from Empire, Goods, Staff-bmx, or Albes. Why those four shops? They are all rider owned! They all do stuff for their local scenes! They all help out the industry and local riders! So think twice before you buy.
I'm not going to lie I didn't realize how big of a deal this was until I was about 16 and started working at my local hardcore bmx shop. We would throw huge contests, host video premieres and help out all the local rippers. The most annoying thing in the world while working at this shop was when I would have kids come in everyday and ask me a million questions about what part they should get and stuff along those lines. Then the kid would show up at the shop with a brand new frame that he ordered off of Dans Comp! This would piss me off more then anything in the world! I spent hours with this kid a week talking about which frame he should get, telling him how different geometry affects your riding and the kid comes in with the exact frame we had picked out and he said he would buy it when he had the cash saved up! What was his reason for buying it off of dans you ask? Because I would have to charge five bucks more then dans to help cover shipping costs! This is ridiculous! Does Dans sponsor local riders? No. Does Dans throw jams in your local parks? No. Does Dans let you come into their shop and let you just sit on their couch and what bmx DVDs all day on rainy days? No. So why are you supporting them kids! If you have to and I mean have to, as in your local shop doesn't carry bmx or charges a rediculous mark up (Like 25% over dans price) then go ahead and order from Empire, Goods, Staff-bmx, or Albes. Why those four shops? They are all rider owned! They all do stuff for their local scenes! They all help out the industry and local riders! So think twice before you buy.
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