Bike Building - Flow Drift Part 1

[gojiraotep]

Cool janis joplin in background music

[infernodood3]

whats the frame on that bike at 0:22

[blumpher]

@infernodood3 we don't know,....it was handpainted crappy brown!

[IgotitIgotit]

You have to have grease in the bottom bracket! Good lock taking that part out the next time you change parts! Dont go metal against metal whitout grease!

And the fork... You should bang the track on the stem before putting it on the bike mate.

[blumpher]

it was greased, perhaps I didn't show it.Don't understand what you mean by banging the track on the stem?

just built up one of these for me to use, will be a case of all the gear, no idea,,!

[mrsteelyboy]

i just built a sarecen mantra its got marzochi forks, blackspire cranks does it sound jump bike worthy i am a begginer

[Blumpheroni]

don't know...it's normally the rider nit the bike! I've seen really good riders do drops on xc style bikes and not break them, but they know what they are doing.Why not go down your local jump site and have a look?

[tomb1272]

I'm new to mountain biking... Is a Kona scrap jump bike frame(£160) with Rock shox with 100mm travel (don't know name but their worth around £150) any good for dirt jumps/downhill?

[blumpher]

umm...if the fork is a pike, probably...

but if it's something like a dart no not really!

mind you it's mostly the rider not the bike!

[rolloMARTIN]

hehe, i guess i might be asking for help along the way then.

[rolloMARTIN]

what headset did you use?

and what type of bottom bracket does it take? the bmx sizes confuse me..

[blumpher]

It was an fsa pig headset, we took off the label as it was damaged a bit. The bottom bracket was some unknown make that was in the previous frame and it was a sod to fit properly as there were a motley collection of shims. I made a new one out of an old aluminium motorbike handlebar that was the correct length and it was fine then.

I don't know the difference between the bottom brackets either!

[rolloMARTIN]

ok thanks alot, i'm gonna have a go at building a flow drift up myself, i'll attempt a video when it gets going.

[blumpher]

ok, cool. I'm actually building one up for myslef, so far have the frame, seat, seatpost, stem, handlebars, disk brakes and a set of pikes ...all secondhand bits but it stilll seems to be mounting up!

[callumlecomte]

the camera man sounds like pritch off dirty sanchez =]

[blumpher]

it might be him.......

or there again.....!

[asobermindisawasted1]

Hi blumpher, I have a Skyway TA with an old school profile crank on it. The problem is, the arms are froze on. I've tried soaking them before in a rust penetrator with no success. Any more suggestions to get them off before I beat them with a hammer.

[blumpher]

Try heating them up and cooling them repeatedly, use a hot air gun or blowlamp and a bucket of cold water. Just don't get them too hit it is more important to keep heating and cooling the seized bit as the expansion and contraction will eventually free them off if you are lucky. Don't give up, it took 20 cycles of heat/cold to get a seized broken bolt out of a fork leg, but it did come out in the end. Good Luck! You could try leaving them in diesel for a couple of weeks as well as that sinks in

[bikeman7990]

they obviously dont know what there doin coz when ya build a bike ya strip everythin off old bike and service it and when he put bb in he dint even grease it....that and he just called a flow drift (which btw i own 1) shit and they far from it he dint grease 1 part when he was puttin it 2gether thats a sure way he's gunna fuck bike up........he is completely ignorant and obviously dont know shit bout bikes

[blumpher]

I think I've built enough bikes in my time to know what I'm doing, thanks....

ps I was being ironic when I dissed the frame at the start as I normally ride mtb or now and again road

[bradbiker]

riding with him today up newport

[blumpher]

and was he any good? If you listen to him talk he's the next big thing!

mind you he loves his jump bike most of all and it must be well built as I haven;t had to do a thing to it...

[taius20]

nice vid. is it always as much hastle building a bike?

[Blumpheroni]

if you're using brand new bits, no!