home made stuff.

[gorno]

does anyone here make there own stuff for there bikes? what did you make and does it work well?

[Tomas]

I made my own chainguide roller out of acetal on a lathe. Works perfect. Having said that its not on ma rig at the mo :oops: .

Ive also made a bashguard, numerous spacers and a seatpost. Well, i used the head off an old seatpost and fitted it to new tube. I cut the old one too short.

[spinner]

Headset spacers , a bashring and backing plate , various spacers for disc mounts , shock bushes etc. and I converted my old xc bikes pivot point from bushes to bearings.
And a bike trailer , if that counts.

Pretty handy working in an engineering shop. :wink:

[dromana7411]

bar ends, a bred board bashy, and some forks for my chopper...

[THRILLHOUSE]

yer i made a bashguard in my woodtech class at skewl... didnt work out the best :twisted: now my giant chain guide acts as my bashguard 8)

[mtb_man]

Several bash guards, various spacers, chain tensioners, valve caps and other bits I've forgotten.

[Dane]

check out the bread board stuff at mtbfreak.com, not that exciting but its all home made (sort of).

[t]

I made a 10mm/12mm thru axle so I can run a 12mm hub without modifying my dropouts

[Tomas]

ooo t. you just gave me the beeeeeest idea. Thanks.

[naz]

I made a 10mm/12mm thru axle so I can run a 12mm hub without modifying my dropouts

so did i, but mine didnt work, my hub is cracked in 2
but i had a 12mm axle and grinded down top and bottom so it slotted in 10mm horiz dropout. not smart

[t]

bugger.

I lathed 2 notches out of a 12 mm medium tensile bolt

[Tomas]

I made a 10mm/12mm thru axle so I can run a 12mm hub without modifying my dropouts

so did i, but mine didnt work, my hub is cracked in 2
but i had a 12mm axle and grinded down top and bottom so it slotted in 10mm horiz dropout. not smart

You actully filed down the dropouts on the 125 didnt you? How does that work?

[sawtell]

talking about home made stuff, i am right now, makeing me self a deralliuer hanger (beacuse you can not get mine any more), and am going to try make some rollers useing the jokey wheels of my old derilliuer tonight or tommorow....

btw the way does any one have a link to a picture of one of those bread board bashies, i searched mtb freak but coudlnt find any?

[Rik]

btw the way does any one have a link to a picture of one of those bread board bashies, i searched mtb freak but coudlnt find any?http://www.mtbfreak.com/sidewall_bread.php
I might give something like this a go in the near future.