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The bike’s developed a bit of a creak and I’ve found a hairline crack on the bb down tube lug
Not really sure but think I can make it move a bit by flexing the cranks
I’m going to sand back the paint to see what the metal looks like but if it is a crack is it fucked?
Can you just fill something that that or is it new bb and tube/ weigh it in time
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That’s the one, much more wholesome now I’m sure and everyone wears helmets
I was skinning up when one guy on a bmx asked me when I last skated and I said 05 or something and he said oh I wasn’t born then. Deadpan. Had to go for walk across the other side of the field to bun felt like a fucking nonce.
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I went skating with a mate who’s kept it up last year, he’s moved to Reigate and they’ve got a class concrete park with bowl sections and big boxes and a bank of quarters and flats, miles better than the council offerings we had
He’s casually dropping into the biggest bits, 50-50ing the coping round the curved section and pulling big shuvits and kick flips over the boxes, all stuff I could sometimes do at 15 but terrifying now, after spending an hour remembering how to balance I was popping up onto a tiny 18” box and building up to manualing across it when I see the bastard pumping round at speed, big no grab air at least a foot above the coping on the quarter next to me then pops up off the box and does a perfect board slide along the top of the box rail and then down the other side, lands flawlessly and just circles away
There were half a dozen local kids banging their boards on the ground and shouting fuck yes, a 12 year old on a micro scooter asked him if he was sponsored
Pretty sure he would have taken 100 tries to do it again but I was so happy. King of the skatepark for an afternoon and I the prince by association
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Ended up getting this
Excuse the shit picture and the mess
Wethepeople envy circa 09, quite a nice bike in its day with some decent parts, fairly good nick, just a few rusty bolts
Pottered down to the little skatepark in West Norwood merrily hopping over the speed bumps, perfect landings every time, did a little footjam endo at the lights, hopped up the curb and by the time I got through the park gate my back was spasming and my knee throbbing from getting banged by a crank or something.
By this point I was exhausted, nostalgia turning rapidly to ptsd, but there were youths vaping on the quarter so I felt I had to do something and with the bike growing heavier every moment I discovered in quick succession that I can barely bunny hop 12”, have not the gumption to even attempt a little box grind, completely forgotten how to fakie down the bank let alone turn around and then I hurt myself 4 times in a row trying a footjam tail whip which was once a party trick, and then I went home.
Need to put some hours in or this might be a for sale thread soon
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How not to sell your bike locks
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw2WgUcMT9r/?igshid=NzZhOTFlYzFmZQ==