Nimble9's Secondhand Parts Build

I'd be pretty bummed if I bent a tie rod. I should probably carry a spare because it's cheap and packs small, and can really ruin a day.

 

Yea they cheep but also anytime I replace a part I hold onto the old one as long as it’s not fubar. A woah’d out trail spare is better then no spare. I know have new spare hubs but I held onto my old ones for a while cuz they weren’t gernaded.

 

Those some funny looking SCSs..













Look gewd doe

 

Yeah I try and do the same. Unfortunately for me most my stuff is fubar’d by the time it comes off lol

 

You do a lot of free advertising for mobclowns, tell them to pay up and stock you up with some supplies, though they probably don’t even know what a tie rod is

 

Thanks! I always think things through before I spend the time or money on making it happen. I honestly can't think of anything off the top of my head that I didn't buy / install that I currently use, or has been replaced due to wearing out lol

Thanks man! I'd love some SCS wheels, but being on a budget as always I had to snag these when they showed up. I have some plans for them yet

 

So I noticed that the new wheels had a different offset / backspacing and that kinda bothered me.

i was thinking about snagging some .75” bora spacers, but I knew that my wheels would need little “pockets” for the hub bolts to go into.

I couldn’t remember what they looked like, so I took a wheel a wheel off only to find out that they wouldn’t work.

No pockets


So since I had one off I decided the throw on one spidertrax spacer to see how it’d look

No spacer side (not settled spring)



spacer side (not settled spring)



needless to say it looks way better so they’re staying

 

We bike brothers yo!

 

yeahhh man!!!! dude how fun is this bike? I love that color on yours, however I'm weary of carbon after cracking a few frames myself lol

 

I just got it 2 weeks ago. It rides around the block just fine, but not dirt time on this bike yet. I did demo an identical one in Bellingham last fall though.

As far as the color goes, the orange is all fanatik bike co graphics and my steady hands. No doubt which college I went to!

 

yeah man!!! Get that thing on dirt and get ready for a permanent smile!!

 

Shoulda kept the spare shocks I had lol



And my timberen bumps have seen better days with a literal chunk missing lol

 

https://www.headstrongoffroad.com/s...Extended_Length_Rear_Shock_(PAIR)_-_B110.html

 

That is what I use for backups while getting a rebuild. The length is good but a little squishy if you're loaded. They're not too keen on sub zero temps and pothole combos, I've killed one in Pgh a few winters ago.

 

I think that's what killed mine this winter lol

I noticed the back end started getting bouncy, and at first I thought it was the weight of the full gas can on the swingout, but i'm pretty sure this is why.

for $206 you can't go wrong

 

Is that what died, a b110? That’s why I left my boots on. Iirc on shocks with an exposed shaft there’s an extra seal designed to clean dirt and stuff off the shaft as the shock compresses. So taking the boots off and exposing to mud and salt es no bueno. Not definitively saying that’s what caused it but maybe

 

Wiper seals are a god send. If the 110s do indeed lack the wiper seal, the internals may look the same as that corrosive material would potentially be allowed to ingress to the internal bits as well.

 

The boots tore off after like a month of being mounted. I don’t know how anyone got theirs to stay on lol

 

Before I installed mine I warmed them up with my wifes hair dryer and kinda massaged them so they took a normal form. Then used hose clamps to hold them to the body. Worth a shot at least, mine lasted like this as long as I owned them. And they saw some flex lol