Bike Building - Flow Drift Part 1

As Mathew has the jumping bug now,he's upgraded his clunker jump bike to a flow drift frame, so we struggle to get it together. If I never see a set of 3 piece cranks that have been bodged into place again I will be happy! 2 Hours to sort out the correct spacing, make the spacers, put everything back in the right order - what a palaver!

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• flow
• drift
• jump
• bike
• build

[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,,!

[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!

[gojiraotep]

Cool janis joplin in background music

[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?

[mrsteelyboy]

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

[rolloMARTIN]

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