Nimble9's Secondhand Parts Build

Haha that's a funny conundrum...lazy about the car's appearance, yet want to paint the wheels. Hopefully it works out, if not then you get to have some urban camo tires!

 

hahaha it will, and yeah, i care, but not enough to like prep and stuff. there is water in the DS headlight, i hate the chrome tail lights, but truly this thing is mechanically sound (after all the maintenance and parts I through at it) so i'm trying to keep it for ever haha

 

Sounds like the perfect platform to play around with some retro stuffs. I plan to retro up my gf's Xterra with her head lights although I have done them a few times now.

 

I'll get to that eventually lol! too many home and truck and bike projects as is

 

Haha besides the home Im glad that my bike and most of my truck projects are complete! Allows me to mess around with other stuff I probably shouldn't be.

 

You have so many bikes lol!

 

Haha I did the same when painting my trucks wheels! I figured the paint is black, and the tires are black, so no big deal. I had some overspray but after a week or two it worked itself off.

 

Hell yea man, that's what the first 3 years of working helped create! Crazy part is Im almost done paying off the girl's Cannondale trigger (nov it will be done), first bike I have bought completely built that is new. Normally I just piece my stuff together from good ol' PB since I tend to change up the components anyway and buy the frame a year or two after its been out. DH is not forgiving on things, so no need to buy something new when its gonna get scratches and the like pretty early on.

 

Home will always be a project, we are renting it from my gf's parents, so i'm fixing it up lol

N+1 my friend

N being the amount of bikes you have

but balance S-1

S being the amount of spouses you have

exactly!!

 

Ah trying to turn this into a calculus equation I see. Yea true Im not official, but likely will be soon enough. Im not looking forward to the days of having to keep the pad alive, but partly why Im accumulating the fun stuff now before I wont be able to buy stuff on the fly anymore. Once I get a solid pad though...trailer for jet skis, dirt bike, and possibly a side by side when the time comes.

After that, just don't die on any of them.

 

that's the goal! survival. I rode blue last weekend and that's what my friend said to me, he thought he was fast, but when we were there he was just trying to survive lol

 

Nice man how did you do there? I remember rolling down king tut and the rock garden was so loose that I kicked up a softball sized rock as I was rolling through the bottom section. Glad I wear my knee/shin guards cause that bitch would have hurt. You riding anywhere else this season? Looking to hit up shoe on the 25th.

 

I rode the rip9 and rode only easy trails (still chunky and rooty) and had so much fun. It poured the whole time too lol no flats, no dents, pretty happy lol

 

Flats are the biggest thing there to avoid...all of us got atleast one flat.

 

yeah, so many knife edge rocks, so many pinch flats lol! I over inflated my tires a little to make it all work

 

Tubeless FTW

 

Always. except my buddy punctured his casing so bad he had to use a baccon strip

 

You getting pinch flats on tubeless?

 

not me, my buddy did when we rode DH at blue mountain lol. it was far too big of a hole for just sealant!

 

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