#wheelsets

[night-dark-woods]

OOOH someone outside the city is selling An Entire Raleigh 3 speed for $40... and my mom is visiting so I'll have car access!!! ozzy bike era beginning now!!!

[nepestsports]

Exploring the Versatility and Performance of Carbon Gravel Wheelsets

Introduction:

Gravel riding has become really popular lately. It's when cyclists ride on rough paths instead of smooth roads.

Bike wheels are really important for riding smoothly. Lots of riders like using carbon gravel wheelsets because they're strong, not heavy, and can handle different kinds of ground.

We'll discuss why carbon gravel wheelsets are excellent for gravel biking in this blog.

The Advantages of Carbon Fiber Material:

Carbon fiber material is perfect for bicycle components that need to be both lightweight and strong. This material is used in carbon gravel wheelsets, which are sturdy, stiff, and light—all very helpful when cycling on gravel, uneven terrain, or mixed surfaces.

Conclusion:

The best dirt wheelsets are made of carbon because they are incredibly sturdy, lightweight, and versatile. These wheels enable you to travel farther and faster whether you're racing on dirt tracks, traveling on lengthy bike vacations, or riding on bumpy roads. They are extremely durable and add to the enjoyment of gravel riding for riders worldwide.

[jenny-qaybike-blog]

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[bicyclebuysllc]

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[guoguoliu]

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[acebmx]

Wheel Replacement DM30 BMX DW Black 9T 10mm

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[cunts-bad-fur-day]

I don’t know what I’m doing on this platform.

[anarkoceng]

Princeton carbonworks wake 6560 x lemon

Lemon.. itu yang pertama kali terlintas dalam pikiran saya ketika pertama melihat wheelset princeton carbonworks dimana kontur rims ini bergelombang, sangat mirip dengan bentuk lemon ketika diiris, sayangnya karena bahan rims ini terbuat dari karbon jadi hanya ada warna hitam saja, jika warnanya putih pasti benar-benar seperti irisan lemon atau irisan jeruk pada teh kampul anda. Gambar ini mengisi kegiatan saya di bulan puasa dengan kucing yang selalu mondar-mandir berpatroli di atas meja dan memencet keyboard secara acak atau malah tidur di atas keyboard, mungkin dia ingin segelas teh kampul.

[1863-project]

As a Guy who Fixes Machines for a living, but unfortunately doesn't have Much experience with engines, *but* has read a Ton about them: please tell me about steam engines and/or their Repair Quirks and Logistics. Infodump Away :chinhands:

I'm going to be honest with you - this is one of the most flattering asks I've ever received in my 14+ years on this website.

Steam locomotives seem pretty overwhelming at first because, as you'd expect, there's a lot of moving parts, and they're actually huge. Like many large animals, people often don't realize how big they can actually get until they're in the presence of one. The one I drove, Strasburg #90, weighs in at 212,000 lbs - and she's smaller than a lot of the active steam locomotives operating today. 106 tons is nothing to sneeze at, and she's still considered smaller.

You probably don't need this in layman's terms, but I'm going to try to keep the explanations easy to understand in case anyone who doesn't work with machines reads this.

How do the beasts run?

Continuing the metaphor of these things basically being really large animals, you have to feed and water them. Early steam locomotives ran on wood, but as time went on the most common fuels became coal and oil, and today some can even run clean on vegetable oil or torrefied biomass. The fact that they need to be fed and watered fairly regularly is why there's always at least two people in the locomotive cab - you've got an engineer driving and a fireman keeping the beast fed and monitoring the water levels in the boiler.

This is a diagram of a fire tube boiler from Wikipedia. Steam locomotives generally use this type of boiler, which gives them their familiar shape. The fuel is thrown into the firebox on the left of the diagram, and the heat from the fire flows up to the tubes in the boiler. The water in the boiler becomes steam (specifically what's called "wet steam" because it's saturated). The steam rises to the highest point in the boiler, the steam dome at the top. From here, the steam is sent down into a superheater, which dries it out and produces superheated steam, and that's what's directed down to the cylinders to get everything moving. The smokestack on the right of the diagram is where the exhaust gasses are released, giving off that plume of smoke everyone expects to see.

Now that the steam is at the cylinders, the pistons can start pumping and moving the driving rods on the driving wheels (the big ones). Here's an animated gif of that process, again from Wikipedia.

At this point, it's basically like any other engine with pistons - the pistons get pumping and the machine starts operating. This whole section of the locomotive is referred to as the running gear, and includes the valve gear, connecting rods, brake gear, wheelsets, axleboxes, and springing.

Essentially, it's a steam engine with wheels that is capable of pulling incredible amounts of weight if everything is done correctly. Your average steam locomotive is still stronger than your average diesel or electric locomotive is. Depending on what you needed your steam locomotive to do, the size of the driving wheels would differ - locomotives built for high speed tend to have really large drive wheels, whilst locomotives designed to go slower but pull more weight have smaller drivers for better adhesion and traction.

Maintenance?

As expected, since they have a lot of moving parts, steam locomotives need a lot of active maintenance. They're checked frequently, have mandated annual inspections, and are required by the Federal Railroad Administration in the United States to have a more thorough inspection every 1,472 days of active service - so it's basically 15 years or 1,472 days of operation, whichever comes first. 90, the locomotive I drove at Strasburg, is currently undergoing her 1,472-day inspection as I write this post and she'll hopefully be back in operation for her 100th birthday next year.

One of the things that's unique about steam locomotive maintenance is that the boiler regularly has to be cleaned out, which is why the boilerplate on the front has hinges - that thing's a door! This job was more dangerous historically because boilers were often insulated with asbestos, but pretty much anything operating today has had any asbestos removed or wasn't built with it in the first place. This website has a really good explanation of the process of cleaning out and fixing up a locomotive boiler for a 1,472 day inspection, complete with photos!

In terms of steam locomotive shops, I'm biased towards Strasburg because I grew up going there all the time, but they really do perform incredible work. Late last year, one of their locomotives, #475, had a run-in with a crane left on the track due to a misthrown switch, and her smokebox took some damage. Fortunately, the damage was minor, and they were able to get her repaired in a mere 96 hours.

She now looks like this:

They opted to braze weld her and didn't smooth it out as a reminder to crews to stay vigilant, so she now has some really cool battle scars.

I'm not as well-versed in repair since I don't have hands-on experience with it (yet), but once I can start volunteering I'll hopefully have some more stuff to talk about since I'm hoping to learn to work with these machines more closely! (And drive. Drive all the time. Drive forever.)

[viofitz]

Review: Fujimi Super Tune Up F Series

Introduction:

Fujimi Mokei Co., Ltd. is a Japanese model manufacturer based in Shizuoka Prefecture. It produces plastic model kits of a variety of vehicles, including model aircraft, model cars, model ships and model armored vehicles along with historical structures and science fiction kits. Since "mokei" means "model" in Japanese, "Fujimi Mokei" is often called "Fujimi Model(s)" in English. Due to the popularity of Formula One cars, they also produced their own 1/32 scale F-1 cars. Judging from their respective boxarts, the cars were seemingly based on the 1989 Formula One season. Which probably also released that year, a year earlier before Tamiya or ARII released their own F-1 cars. It seems like there're 2 versions of this series, since 2 of them I got has variant colored boxarts. The white boxarts version, they're included with large rear velgs, small front velgs and plastic tires. While the dark colored boxarts was included with gold plated wheelsets and sponge tires.

No. 01: Mclaren Honda:

Once again due to the popularity of Mclaren, many toy companies including Fujimi took the chance to make their own product for money making. The car was based on Mclaren MP4/5 judging on the artwork and the year they released this line. However, this conversion wasn't inspired from the Legendary Ayrton Senna version but, rather Alain Prost.

Design thoughts: Unlike Tamiya and ARII, this representation of Mclaren appeared to have blocky shape on it's side fairings and the nose is very thick. I like Fujimi's representation of Mclaren car as well.

No. 02: Benetton Ford:

The car was based on B189 and most likely based on either Nelson Piquet or Emanuele Pirro version and unlike Tamiya & ARII, B189 has bright green colored bodyshell. Although, the actual car has 5 color schemes.

Design thoughts: Also digging on this. Perhaps, out from all release, this is the most colorful livery coming from Benetton Ford since both Tamiya and ARII made B190B and B192 versions which only got less colorings on their livery.

No. 03: Leyton House March:

Well, pretty unique Fujimi actually released something different than both Tamiya or ARII. The car was based on March 881 driven by Mauricio Gugelmin and has turquoise colored bodyshell.

Design thoughts: I gotta admit, despite being underrated, this is one of the cool yet unique. Unfortunately, the side part of the rear nose was made to be quite narrow, thus hinders fitting into it's chassis since the battery locker will blocking the bodyshell's side rear nose. You'll have to remove the battery locker of you want to fit the bodyshell into the chassis

No. 04: Ferrari:

Well, other than McLaren, Ferrari is the 2nd that caught attention to even Fujimi to make their own. It was based on Ferrari 640 and like every Ferrari cars it has red colored bodyshell and it was inspired from Gerhard Berger's car instead of Prost, since Prost is still on McLaren team back in 1989.

Design thoughts: I like how this car appeared to be the slimmest of all but, it's nose is quite bold. This is pretty different representation since both Tamiya and ARII made the Ferrari cars looking very broad.

No. 05: Black Special

Unlike the others, Black Special is a fictional car made by Fujimi and after a close inspection from me, the black special is literally McLaren Honda bodyshell in black color. It seems like it was meant to be a special release from Fujimi.

Design thoughts: Well, despite being a recolor but, this car is looking pretty wicked and badass, I love how Fujimi also went wild on producing their own original design instead of referencing another F1 cars.

No. 06: Lamborghini:

To be frank... I couldn't find an actual car that has livery like this but, since it was called Lamborghini, it can be assumed the car was inspired from Lola LC89. However, the bodyshell wasn't even based on Lola but, it was a reused of Leyton House March bodyshell in navy blue color. I guess this is just another one of Fujimi's special release. Unlike the others, the car's livery doesn't even have any numbering.

Design thoughts: I personally like this one most, it's simple and I really like the color, eventhough it was loosely inspired from a certain F1 car. Like Leyton House March, it's bodyshell won't fit if the battery locker is attached on it's chassis.

Super Tune Up F Series Chassis:

The chassis was build similar like the old class tamiya mini 4WD chassis however, despite the looks it doesn't have any 4WD features. Even the kit only got 2 gears to attach, and each kit was included with 2 types of gear, red for standard run and black for speed run. The gear box appeared to have exposed view on the motor and gears. The terminals are silver color, I gotta say the chassis mechanism was designed to be way too simple. Each kit were included with 2 types of keylock; the standard one and the one with rear bumper. I know the photo contents are inconsistents, since one of them were already half assembled and the Ferrari one was already fully assembled while the rests were still in unassembled condition but, to tell you the truth it took me 3 years to complete this Fujimi kits. They're way harder to find than Tamiya or ARII, which I don't really care anymore getting them unassembled or fully assembled or even what versions that I got.

Thoughts:

I love the colorful bodyshell of these compared to ARII which mostly only got 4 colors although, it surprised me a little that some of the bodyshells are simply a reused from certain previous kits. But, the variable colorings helps to hide their similarities vaguely. And... I never expected that they're not designed for mini 4WD despite they looked like one. Gotta admit the driver cars they picked are nothing famous except Alain Prost. It's no wonder the line became so underrated and not many people know this but... Atleast, I'm happy enough to be able to complete them all. The main problem from this kits, several kit with white boxarts suffered breakable plastic tires, I guess it's pretty understandable since they've been aged so long thus making them brittle eventhough I bought them brand new unassembled. And the Leyton House March/Lamborghini bodyshell would be reused by Academy Model Kit (Korean plastic model company) to make their own Mini 4WD car called Hot Wings with slight alterations, mainly for fitting their own Super-1 chassis.

Paintapp and decals by Archyd

[tracksterman]

But a rear wheel with 24 proprietary straight-pull spokes isn't going to last forever, so I've taken advantage of the reduced price Hope hubs currently for sale on Merlin. I've been swapping the 135QR Pro 2 between six frames for the last 17-18 years; the original aluminium freehub got chewed up within the first year, replaced by a steel one that hasn't skipped a beat since.

This new Boost 148 hub has 32 spoke holes and a steel HG freehub straight out of the box (I've no interest in the expense and anecdotal faff of 12 speed). Of course, even at sale price this one hub costs more than my current Mavic wheelset! But, built into a strong rim, the resulting wheel should see me out. Buy cheap, buy twice...

[bikebound]

Desert Hooligan: “Bajarley” 883 Sportster from @richsilva221 of @goodtimesracingfamily, built for the Hooligan class of the Mint 400: “Riding a Sportster in the desert is like riding a brick, no matter how much work we do to the suspension. The rear only has 4 inches of travel with a stock swingarm. That’s the fun part about riding this bike — it was not produced from the factory to do the things we put it through. If I was interested in a smooth predictable ride, I would race a dirt bike.” Highlights include a CRF450 front end with @racetechinc internals and @scottsperformanceproducts stabilizer, @racetechinc 17.5" Piggyback rear shocks, a custom 21"/18" wheelset from @dubyausa, a @stealthpipes HHP (Hoops High Pipe) exhaust system, @saddlemen @virusmoto_ seat, @uncle_donnie paint, @ohz1 lettering, custom skid plate and rear sets, and much, much more. Rich and teammate Joey Elms (@dirtthrower) have finished the Mint 400 twice on the “Bajarley,” placing 5th (2021) and 3rd (2022). What’s more, Rich returned after an early crash in the 2021 @Biltwell 100 to take 3rd place in 2022. Says Rich: “I am 100% proud of the end product. My goal was to make it look like a show bike and be a go bike.” Photo 1: Brandon and Carlos / Photo 2: @mulligan4130 / Photo 3: @cameron.allsop. Full story today on BikeBound.com! ⚡️Link in Bio⚡️ https://instagr.am/p/CjkvWK3uN_V/

[raeuberkotzenrotz]

Why do cycling manga bitches always put this insane amount of effort into the bikes

I can tell which fucking wheelset that is. I could go into the focus archives and probably find the exact fucking MY.

[greatnorthernofficial]

⚠️warning- noisy as hell, turn down your volume for the video ⚠️

Picked up an antique Tri-Ang model set from the UK. How wonderful! She's growly as hell but runs fine. Might get a little quieter when I clean and oil it...

The only big issue is, the Tri-Ang models have huge wheel flanges- sometimes they don't play nice on switches/ turnouts on modern HO/OO track. The only problem child is the dining car, which is the oldest of the models. Might look into replacement wheelsets.

The coaches seem pretty light, too- Might add weight to improve smoothness

Back on the floor again, as the new train table is taken up with a Lionel project. Adds British realism (cough cough Sam's Trains)

[seannesruins]

Sunday morning ride. Been a while since I last went on a trail. My wheelset weren't too happy, so were my knees. 🤣

Found Popeye's on my way home, just in time for lunch.

[xenopoem]

Armando Fragale

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