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Project "Get Off Your Fat Ass & Get Outside Riding This Winter" is almost complete. Project "GOYFAGORTW" is a financially restrained, so to save $$ and in attempts to lighten the build up I choose to drill out my own rims instead of going for the pre-drilled, much easier, less stress, non-hair pulling, my drill is a piece of crap, Rolling Darryl rims. X marks the spot. |
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A little pre-drill to line up the centre, use my handy dandy 1 1/4 hole cutter dealie-o, and ka-blooo-eee . . . rims are drilled out. Wasn't exactly that easy nor that quick. As I said above, my drill is a piece of crap and drained both batteries in 15 minutes each allowing me about 30 mins to work. |
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Rims weight pre-drilling: approximately 1030g. Post drilling: approximately 860 g. Once the holes were drilled I filed out both sides of the rim to make them smooth and pretty and ready to go for the big ass rim tape. |
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Might be able to use these in vending machines. |
Rims were dropped off at
Phat Moose late last week and I pick everything up tonight to be built. Whoot! If all goes well I'll be riding with Fritz on the Secret Trails Thursday night.
5 comments:
Will they let you on skate ski trails with that beast?
Good question - NCC and their mindset? Not a chance.
However, there's no doubt these bikes can *easily* float along skate-ski trails with only a slight track as evidence. These bikes can open up a HUGE number of new winter riding possibilities.
IMO, I'd stick to Greenbelt, KL and Gats snowshoe trails until you build up the speed & stamina to ride away from potential angry skiers once you hit 'their' trails - and even then I'd only venture to Gats ski trails at night and under ideal/cold/firm conditions. ;-)
Either way, Fatties rock and have completely erased any winter blues I used to experience.
Fritz
Easy with the acronyms fatty, your not in the military.
Looked Friggin' Cool, that thing is going to roll nice.
good idea br. I've got a set of these heavy darryl's myself. never thought to drill them out.
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