your custom/homemade parts thread
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zac watson
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yer my aluminum wons have gone to the shits prity quick so next year i will make four steel wons
dude what type of metal did you use and it is ridgit and strong? thinking about making one similar
Gritter
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Awww, Heck Gnaw, Dog! (I realize this is old but...) How did you compress the headset bearings with that one-piece bar/fork!?!? That's the most amazing thing I've ever seen! That's what I want!
It just doesn't make sense to me. If the bars and fork are one piece... is it a perfectly sized sleeve, that fits over the fork's steerer tube from above the head tube - to the stem, and compresses the headset?
Please tell me! Freaking amazing ingenuity, whatever it is!
Gritter
Member
Ahhh! Dang! It's forever a super mystery? He took the secret with him? I am really impressed and he'll never know of my mad props. (I don't really talk like that) Well, if anybody knows... Or if anyone can figure it out from the pics...
If he doesn't ride anymore, maybe he'll sell me his old rig. Let it be known that I want it. Respect.
Nate Rita.
Steel Member
He used stainless steel. It weighed a shitload.
It was held together with ICS.
Gritter
Member
ICS (up through the bottom of the fork) would still require the bars to be a separate piece from the fork. It pulls the bars and the fork together when you tighten it. So... are you saying the bars and fork are two separate components in Pete Pachota's custom example? Thanks. Respect.
Bartek Pachota
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guys you're all wrong! I'm his brother and i was riding this setup for a while on my phoenix deck 
It's like that. Theres long fork tube and a piece of tube like HIC shim on it and it's about 1-1.5inch shorter than fork tube. You put a lower piece of stem on fork tupe and screw the bolt to the starnut in fork so Gritter was right. It looks like that
Green-forktube, black-headset,red-headtube,blue-piece of tube on fork,yellow-starnut,grey-top cap,pink-stem,brown-crossbar
I hope i helped you
It's like that. Theres long fork tube and a piece of tube like HIC shim on it and it's about 1-1.5inch shorter than fork tube. You put a lower piece of stem on fork tupe and screw the bolt to the starnut in fork so Gritter was right. It looks like that
Green-forktube, black-headset,red-headtube,blue-piece of tube on fork,yellow-starnut,grey-top cap,pink-stem,brown-crossbar
I hope i helped you
JUSTDOWORK
Member
I see but does it run nice ? is your scooter dialed ?
Bartek Pachota
Member
It isn't dialed because of brake It didn't loose and it was pretty nice untill i bent it. It is 3 years old and Pete used bad materials. In the future he's plaining remake it with better tubes.
It didn't loose and it was pretty nice untill i bent it. It is 3 years old and Pete used bad materials. In the future he's plaining remake it with better tubes.
Anthσny
Steel Member
I ❤ your pegs because the back one is shorter. More companies should do that.
Justin Vogelsberger
Member
soa does^
Gritter
Member
guys you're all wrong! I'm his brother and i was riding this setup for a while on my phoenix deck
It's like that. Theres long fork tube and a piece of tube like HIC shim on it and it's about 1-1.5inch shorter than fork tube. You put a lower piece of stem on fork tupe and screw the bolt to the starnut in fork so Gritter was right. It looks like that
Green-forktube, black-headset,red-headtube,blue-piece of tube on fork,yellow-starnut,grey-top cap,pink-stem,brown-crossbar
I hope i helped you
THANK YOU!!!! Your set up rocks my buttocks. Mad Respect to you and your bro. I might just do a regular HIC, cause it's painless - but this will always haunt me. I will eventually have to copy your design.
You guys should hurry up and patent this and get rich. I would patent it first, but that would be so cold, and I'm not like that - but you should seriously patent that sleeve and sell it as a kit with the fork and stem...
When I do copy your design (for my own personal rig - not to sell) I will always give you guys credit for the design. Respect.
Jacob Alexander
Steel Member
wouldnt this make the forktube bend a shitload?
Drew Kelly
Member
so what homemade forks?