The Mayor’s new wheels

[GregMember]

Here Mick the finished product, I finished them last night sat out the back deck, bundy, Ipod and the rain coming down
New spokes in the front happy days

Will bring them up for the poker run and get mine back as I need them now after the kenda

TB

[Mick DMember]

Thanks TB they look trick.

[DamoMember]

How do you go about putting in new spokes, what’s the trick to getting it true?

[Jason GreenMember]

Hey TB I will require your services in the future such as wheel repair and xr400 bling additions how many bundys required for wheel rebuilds?

[Mark BuntingMember]

I wouldn’t mind some nice bling hubs. Does The same place do those TB??

[Mick DMember]

kram140 wrote:

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I wouldn’t mind some nice bling hubs. Does The same place do those TB??

To quote TB “there is no substitute for billet”. Billet will stay “blinger” for longer.

[ChrisMember]

Hey Kram… I painted my hubs myself.. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts… I rekon a good powder coat or anodize is the go.. If you have the coin just buy Talon pre-colored hubs.. for some reason the Anodizers we used didn’t want to do our hubs just the rims..

[Craig HattonMember]

c-e-l wrote:

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Hey Kram… I painted my hubs myself.. It will be interesting to see how long it lasts… I rekon a good powder coat or anodize is the go.. If you have the coin just buy Talon pre-colored hubs.. for some reason the Anodizers we used didn’t want to do our hubs just the rims..

were the hubs already anodised, If they were, this would be why they did not want to do again. When you re anodise you have to double etch for a longer period, this will actually reduce the wall thickness, which in turn will prob make bearings Etc not fit as well – if you wanted to change the colour this could not be done

hatto

[GregMember]

I was told by the anodiser that hubs are cast and cast from crap alloy and when anodised the rough casting is full of pitting and the anodising then looks like crap

Billet for strength, mine are powder coated and haven’t been to bad. I am now looking and have priced Talon billet hubs this morning for the strength more then looks. I will then lace them with extra heavy duty spokes

RipnShred wrote:

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How do you go about putting in new spokes, what’s the trick to getting it true?

Mate I dont know really how to explain it :blush: I know when you have off set wheels its real hard. I will be doing a video tuition in the future

XRTRAILHACK wrote:

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Hey TB I will require your services in the future such as wheel repair and xr400 bling additions how many bundys required for wheel rebuilds?

I will give you a quote at the time :laugh:

TB

[Mark BuntingMember]

Trailboss wrote:

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I was told by the anodiser that hubs are cast and cast from crap alloy and when anodised the rough casting is full of pitting and the anodising then looks like crap

Billet for strength, mine are powder coated and haven’t been to bad. I am now looking and have priced Talon billet hubs this morning for the strength more then looks. I will then lace them with extra heavy duty spokes

TB where did you get them powder coated and was it $$$$?

Just out of interest rougly how much for the Billets?

I haven’t seem Husky Sal Since my stack and am not sure what she needs to fix her but I reckon it’s time to bling her a bit 😆

[GregMember]

kram140 wrote:

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TB where did you get them powder coated and was it $$$$?

Just out of interest rougly how much for the Billets?

I haven’t seem Husky Sal Since my stack and am not sure what she needs to fix her but I reckon it’s time to bling her a bit 😆

I am going down now to look at your bike :laugh: Billets speak with Mal he got me an awesome price yesterday

Mine got powder coated OS

TB

[scott bockingMember]

kram140 wrote:

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Trailboss wrote:

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I was told by the anodiser that hubs are cast and cast from crap alloy and when anodised the rough casting is full of pitting and the anodising then looks like crap

Billet for strength, mine are powder coated and haven’t been to bad. I am now looking and have priced Talon billet hubs this morning for the strength more then looks. I will then lace them with extra heavy duty spokes

TB where did you get them powder coated and was it $$$$?

Just out of interest rougly how much for the Billets?

I haven’t seem Husky Sal Since my stack and am not sure what she needs to fix her but I reckon it’s time to bling her a bit 😆

Hey Kram

I would start with fork seals. It looked like you may have sprung a leak on your get off.
I hope your recovery is going well mate.

STM

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