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[W3H5]

For my latest project: a dirt cheap mountain bike upgrade.

Bars £3

40 teeth, single speed crank & arms £3.50

Saddle £4

Grips £2.50

Tyres £3.50 each

Stem £4.50

Travel arm covers £1.50

Speedo £4

Crank tool £2

 

[TheDabbinDave]

Side 1&2

Side 3&4

Amazon edition

 

[terminator363]

Bike parts.

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[W3H5]

 

[Dooblewasur]

Not to offend the Factory Nation but really, Shem, will that new gear be safe or any good in 5 years? Some parts I've bought for electronics from China are crap (and I do realize that I'm comparing apples to oranges there, but China has a reputation for it's goods.)

 

[W3H5]

Not to offend the Factory Nation but really, Shem, will that new gear be safe or any good in 5 years? Some parts I've bought for electronics from China are crap (and I do realize that I'm comparing apples to oranges there, but China has a reputation for it's goods.)

No offence taken by the Chinese, they know these parts are crap.

The bike is a stock mountain bike and I just want to make it a bit better looking and it's not going to ridden hard so these parts are more just to change from mountain to road going bike.

Taiwanese companies are now making some of the best bike gear available but it's reflected in the price, I've done over 3,000km on my Giant in the last year an not a single problem has occurred because I paid for quality.

 

[Dooblewasur]

No offence taken by the Chinese, they know these parts are crap.

The bike is a stock mountain bike and I just want to make it a bit better looking and it's not going to ridden hard so these parts are more just to change from mountain to road going bike.

Taiwanese companies are now making some of the best bike gear available but it's reflected in the price, I've done over 3,000km on my Giant in the last year an not a single problem has occurred because I paid for quality.

Haha! Unless by stock you mean dept. store I don't think that's an upgrade.

 

[W3H5]

It's aesthetics really, making the bike look cleaner. Plus it's for a friend so I'm not spending a fortune on a bike for somebody else, I got my own bills to pay.

 

[gtuned]

So excited.

 

[TB]

^ I opted for these two.

 

[nick09]

2x Carhartt Men's Twill Work Pants 36W x 34L - $53

 

[Minty]

So excited.

I've got one of these on my Blazer, actually.

Get's more comments than I'd have thought.

 

[FoolKiller]

A soda siphon and CO2 cartridges. I like to make my own drinks. I found its actually pretty easy when making sno cone syrups last summer. I've been making red cream, root beer, cream soda, lemon-lime, and various fruit flavors (kind of like you can get at Italian restaurants). I finally decided buying a liter of seltzer water for $0.75 to $1 wasn't worth it when I can make it for roughly $0.35. Plus, if clowns ever invade, I am armed and ready.

And a recipe book for Kindle.

The ultimate bonus is that I can pronounce all the ingredients in my sodas.

 

[Omnis]

Can you use those like you can use the iSi cream whippers to make infusions?

 

[FoolKiller]

Can you use those like you can use the iSi cream whippers to make infusions?

The siphon manual says you should only use water, but then the cleaning instructions say that if you just use water you rarely need to clean it more than occasionally. The recipe book has a way to make every drink either infused in the siphon, mixed with seltzer, or actually brewed, when the recipe will allow it.

Basically, if your stuff won't mess with soft plastic or rubber gaskets it should be doable. Once I try it, I'll let you know. I want to just because I know it will hold its carbonation better than mixing seltzer and syrup/powder in a glass/bottle.

 

[Omnis]

Try cocoa nibs and ethanol charged with N2O. Don't use the spout though. Decant the choco-booze through a strainer and good luck cleaning out the leftover nibs. Lol. You may be able to evap the booze in a water bath to get nice chocolate flavor isolate/crystals. Haven't experimented with it that far.

 

[FoolKiller]

Try cocoa nibs and ethanol charged with N2O. Don't use the spout though. Decant the choco-booze through a strainer and good luck cleaning out the leftover nibs. Lol. You may be able to evap the booze in a water bath to get nice chocolate flavor isolate/crystals. Haven't experimented with it that far.

N2O might be risky since the excess pressure release valve is calibrated for CO2. My basic chemistry says they would be the same density, but I don't know if the different composition would require pressure differences. Looking at their site's instructions for infusions, I don't think the soda siphon will work. Too big. The N2O is for a 0.5L container. You wouldn't get enough compression in my 1L soda siphon. And with the pressure release valve you couldn't add more pressure.

That said, if I charged it but didn't attach the up spout tube that doubles to put the CO2 into the liquid, it would pressurize it some and just need to sit longer to properly become infused.

Further research is needed.



Plus, using N2O just draws all the huffers. I had friends in high school that did that and that would hound any kitchen supplier dumb enough to sell them N2O chargers.

 

[Pagey279]

Not on PS2, but the downloadable version on the PS3.

 

[Fazerfan]

Idiot safe CupCake ingredient box. Ended up really good tasting.

 

[chaztor]

$.99 Subi

 

[Vince]

One of my favorite games, picked it up the other day for $9.99.

 

[ItsAllAboutWins]

Obutto oZone cockpit, BenQ GL2450HM MLG monitor, G27. Picture of my dad trying it out after he helped put it together.

 

[Vince]

Obutto oZone cockpit, BenQ GL2450HM MLG monitor, G27. Picture of my dad trying it out after he helped put it together.

Oh, sweet! I bet you Pa got a better lap time, eh?

I'd like to set something up like that one day. Was it difficult?

 

[ItsAllAboutWins]

Oh, sweet! I bet you Pa got a better lap time, eh?

I'd like to set something up like that one day. Was it difficult?

Lol he almost did the setup wasn't to bad to assemble. The hardest part was getting the seat mounted to the frame. Everything else was pretty straight forward. The monitor feels closer than what it is.

 

[Phoenix]

Mmmm yummy!

 

[Tzun]

Where are you from?

 

[Speedy6543]

 

[Phoenix]

Where are you from?

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[C_Raccoon23]

I'm going to have such a blast with these.

 

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