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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
Not too long ago John Childs said,"The trick is finding a good local wheel builder." I understand most shops don't have the necessary equipments. I know several local bike shops; would it be wise for me to even approach them if they can handle such big wheel? Has anyone found a local bike shop guy who can actually build/upgrade/fix your Coker? -- leadpan - OC Cokeur ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leadpan's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9751 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
I am also thinking about finding a wheelbuilder, but I don't expect much. -- heavy metal unicycling - Loveland Unicycling Club People who throw stones at you are quietly saying, "shoot me," they're just not being verbally expressive enough. -harper ------------------------------------------------------------------------ heavy metal unicycling's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9857 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
A guy at my LBS built my coker wheel. I gathered from some remarks made that it was a long annoying process, but it was done -- The Yang - Everything with practice "Dude, I once saw a unicycle breastfeed a flamingo back to health" -Random drunk rantings of a drunk man ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Yang's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9517 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
The Yang wrote: *A guy at my LBS built my coker wheel. I gathered from some remarks made that it was a long annoying process, but it was done * How long? -- bugman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bugman's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3812 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
leadpan wrote: *Not too long ago John Childs said,"The trick is finding a good local wheel builder." I understand most shops don't have the necessary equipments. I know several local bike shops; would it be wise for me to even approach them if they can handle such big wheel? Has anyone found a local bike shop guy who can actually build/upgrade/fix your Coker? * Ask around to find out where the local freeriders go to get their wheels built. There's should be a couple bike shops around that are known for their wheel building. Those are the ones you want to ask. Then ask if they'd be willing to build a big wheel. Some will be excited about doing something new and others will say no way. Generally it will probably be the smaller shops that will be more open to building an unusual wheel. The two local shops that I liked for wheel building have both closed in the last year or two. Bad luck for me. I'm now on my third bike shop. I hope I don't jinx them too. -- john_childs - Guinness Mojo john_childs (att) hotmail (dott) com Gallery: '' (http://gallery.unicyclist.com/john_childs) ' Unicycling Bookmark List' (http://backcountry.unicyclist.com/) :: 'World Clock' (http://tinyurl.com/a99y3) 'Click Me' (http://tinyurl.com/963jr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ john_childs's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/449 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
I may be getting my Coker wheel built at my LBS. I mentioned that I wanted to get my spokes from the unicycle factory, but they said to get it from Phil Wood instead. Do any of you have experience with Phil's spokes? Also, what price is reasonable for a build? The shop wants to charge me $50. -- daino149 - On Vacation - till i find a job OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ daino149's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/933 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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$50 for 36 incredibly long spokes? sounds more than fair. -- markf - movie nerd stuck in iowa and unemployed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ markf's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/8102 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
I got my 24" Muni built at the LBS, it wouldnt fit in their stand because of the width of the KH hub so they built it by eye then put it in my frame to spin it and check it ran true, you might be able to use this approach, and normally it's £25 over here so $50 seems reasonable, especialy as it's far from a normal build. -- kington99 - I HAVE figured out how to change th Dave - what a thoroughly post-modern subversion of the cycling genre - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kington99's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/9417 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
I took a 20" rim/hub to a bike shop and the guy took 3 weeks to do it with me phoning him every other day to check on progress. When it was finally done he said he would never have started it had he known what was involved and also said that I couldn't bring it back to him cos he wouldn't fix it again. It broke, I took it to the bmx shop, they have a wheelbuilder who comes in once a week, he saw the uni wheel sitting waiting, got all excited saying "I've been dying to do one of those!" and put it to the top of his list and did it in 3 days! And it's still like new!! I guess it just depends on the shop/staff. T. -- DarkTom - Off the wheel again! Why do bones break so easily? It seems its because I don't know how to fall properly! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DarkTom's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6515 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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upgrade your Coker at local bike shop?
PM or email me if you want for a quote; I do this stuff all the time and have special tools for it. If no custom parts are necessary, the turn-around time is not bad at all. -- U-Turn - As long as my feet keep movin'... Weep in the dojo... laugh on the battlefield. 'LiveWire Unicycles' (http://www.livewireunicycles.com) 'Strongest Coker Wheel in the World' (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albup39) '29er Tire Study' (http://u-turn.unicyclist.com/29erTireStudy/) 'New York Unicycle Club' (http://www.newyorkunicycle.com) -- Dave Stockton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U-Turn's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/691 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/41078 |
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