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aikinetic:
--- Quote from: FlatlandNoob on July 14, 2010, 08:40:46 PM ---so i take it nobody has ever bought a knew bike.
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Nobody buys new... Why would you want new? Seems like an odd concept to me... I always thought old broken parts were much better to use :\ hm...
Of course we have had new bikes and put them together, you just gotta be patient on your response. When i got my new bike (2006 WeThePeople Sinus from flatland fuel) It came basically all put together already, all I had to do was put the handle bars on and the pegs. This involved a ratchet with a couple inch extension and deep socket of the correct size, a crescent wrench to tighten the compression bolt holding the stem onto the forks and a 6mm allen wrench to tighten the bolts in the headset. I ride brakeless so i just tossed the brakes to the side and was all set with a few other minor adjustments.
If you plan to work on the brakes I assume they will come with the correct size cabling and you really just need a 5 or 6mm allen wrench to get the lever on and to tighten the calipers onto the forks. You will also need that adjustable wrench handy or the correct size regular wrench to adjust the spring tension on the calipers.
I really cant think of anything else I needed to use, but heres a list below to sum it up.
- 5 and 6mm allen wrench
- ratchet, extension, deep socket(size of the nuts on your axle)
- crescent wrench
- adjustable wrench
FlatlandNoob:
--- Quote from: aikinetic on July 17, 2010, 09:58:37 AM ---
--- Quote from: FlatlandNoob on July 14, 2010, 08:40:46 PM ---so i take it nobody has ever bought a knew bike.
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Nobody buys new... Why would you want new? Seems like an odd concept to me... I always thought old broken parts were much better to use :\ hm...
Of course we have had new bikes and put them together, you just gotta be patient on your response. When i got my new bike (2006 WeThePeople Sinus from flatland fuel) It came basically all put together already, all I had to do was put the handle bars on and the pegs. This involved a ratchet with a couple inch extension and deep socket of the correct size, a crescent wrench to tighten the compression bolt holding the stem onto the forks and a 6mm allen wrench to tighten the bolts in the headset. I ride brakeless so i just tossed the brakes to the side and was all set with a few other minor adjustments.
If you plan to work on the brakes I assume they will come with the correct size cabling and you really just need a 5 or 6mm allen wrench to get the lever on and to tighten the calipers onto the forks. You will also need that adjustable wrench handy or the correct size regular wrench to adjust the spring tension on the calipers.
I really cant think of anything else I needed to use, but heres a list below to sum it up.
- 5 and 6mm allen wrench
- ratchet, extension, deep socket(size of the nuts on your axle)
- crescent wrench
- adjustable wrench
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Thnx but i got the bike 2 days before this post. I wanted to know what i needed BEFORE i got the bike so that i can go out and buy the tools and be ready to set up the bike when it got here.
clarey:
im getting the dk random wrench v2 to assemble my bike also gonna get some grease and lube as pat suggested anything else i need im sure i got it if i look hard enough
freestyle19722:
soon at flatland fuel http://www.bizhouse.com/
Andrew Tarrant:
--- Quote from: freestyle19722 on December 09, 2010, 08:06:16 AM ---
soon at flatland fuel http://www.bizhouse.com/
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Actually pretty epic, always ruin my grips when I accidentally hit the bars to the ground hitch hiking
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