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Offline Bri-jon

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Indoor riding parts...
« on: June 04, 2010, 01:05:11 PM »
I've been lucky enough to be able to ride at a village hall near me. The only thing is they want my bike not to mark the floor.

Its a wooden varnished floor so I was thinking...

white plastic pedals
white plastic barends
4 g-sport white plegs
and some white tyres (khe or suelo)

is there any parts you lot know work well on wooden floor?

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Offline EZChris

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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2010, 01:47:00 PM »
Primo comets dont mark

buy some sequence plastic pegs or precision products - gsport plegs are a horrible peg, really fat and short - horrible for flatland i'd say.

id also tape some sponge to your barends and pedals, just to be sure.

electrical tape over brakelevers/where bars touch the floor for screwed hikers etc
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Offline Bri-jon

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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2010, 02:27:34 PM »
well I like wide pegs as they dont hurt my feet as much, but they are short?... hmmm maybe not plegs then.

how do the commets not mark!?
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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2010, 08:21:00 PM »
Get some pedals that have rubber, plastic pedals will still scratch a wooden floor.

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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2010, 10:44:34 PM »
 Just a word of a caution: my primo comets marked the HELL out of the floor at first.  Once they were worn a bit it was fine though.  Carve up some asphalt to break em in a bit.

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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2010, 12:04:37 AM »
Get some rubber chair tips that have a large enough diameter to fit in your peg. They wont fit all the way in (sticks out about an inch) but they will help not beating the sh*t out of a floor. They are about 2 dollars at a hardware store and surprisingly last for awhile as well as staying in your pegs. Ive done it before and works pretty good.

Also +1 on Plegs sucking ass. Too damn short.
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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2010, 02:29:54 PM »
Get some pedals that have rubber, plastic pedals will still scratch a wooden floor.

I have never seen any pedals with rubber.

But the rubber stuff on the end of chairs is a good idea for pegs
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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2010, 05:41:29 PM »
Wellgo has some models, I see if I find some pics

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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2010, 05:50:51 PM »
This is the most floor friendly pedal they have:

model C145
Cage: Aluminum overmolded kraton
Spindle: Cr-Mo
Weight: 284 g/pr
Option: Sealed bearing as C145B

   


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Re: Indoor riding parts...
« Reply #9 on: June 08, 2010, 08:10:32 PM »
looks good. At the moment I'm looking at making some rubber barends and something for my pegs, maybe making them out of walking stick ferrules (rubber bit at the end)
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