Routine Check

littleman said:

Ever since I paid 260 dollars for my new torker dx I've been really
nervous that somethings going to break, so usually every night after
I'm done riding I check it over. But I'm not sure I'm checking over
everything. What are some areas that I should really look over, that
tend to break easier than others. Thanks.

Don't say that the torker dx is like a tank either and isn't going to
break. For one I'm over cautious and two I'm 100 pounds, a beginner,
and have had it for 5 days and I'm already beginning to see the rim
tweak.

I'm 140 have the same rim horrible form and have taken mine off a
picnictable and it did nothing. Maybe you should start with your spoke
tension.

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I have had the crank bolts come loose a bit. Tap the spokes and tighten
any that sound real flat. If the whole wheel seems a bit loose, tighten
each spoke exactly 1/2 turn, that will tighten it up without changing
trueness. Once you start idling or riding backwards, your pedals may
get loose.
Because of the way the cranks always power the same patch of tire on
the down stroke, your tire will wear uneven. So once you start to
notice that, remove and reinstall the cranks about 90 degrees to even
tire wear.

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The rim on the DX is accepted as being one of the strongest trials rims
out there, something is definitely wrong (loose spokes?) if you at 100
pounds are tweaking it.

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Yeah, don't say 100 lbs like you think that's a lot. 😄

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Yeah I weigh 170-180 and have taken that same uni off 5ft drops with bad
landings when learning. I have also mess up 180's down a 6set and hit
the crank of the step and I run at a kind of lowish pressure so when I
mess up I bottom out and mine is fine. The only thing you will break on
a dx probably is the seat post and seat, but that is just about if not
every stocky unicycle.

If the spkes are fine there should be no problems.

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Ducttape said:

not gonna show you it tonight becasue I am going to play with it until I
go to bed to get it just right.........

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So when a spoke is loose what kind of sound does it make? I don't really
understand what sounding flat means. And I know the torker dx rim is
very strong thats why I couldn't figure out why it was tweaked.

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littleman said:

Ever since I paid 260 dollars for my new torker dx I've been really
nervous that somethings going to break, so usually every night after
I'm done riding I check it over. But I'm not sure I'm checking over
everything. What are some areas that I should really look over, that
tend to break easier than others. Thanks.

Don't say that the torker dx is like a tank either and isn't going to
break. For one I'm over cautious and *two I'm 100 pounds*, a beginner,
and have had it for 5 days and *I'm already beginning to see the rim
tweak*.

you are either
1)paranoid
2)doing something really wrong to tweak it(and define "tweak"😉
3)you are taking it off 10ft drops with no form

on the dx nothing really needs to be checked more than weekly.
spokes, frame bolts, 2 crank bolts, seat bolts, pedals...
the only thing that really breaks on a dx is the seatstiffener(nothing
you can do about) and the frame (also nothing you can do about but find
a welder to weld it back together when it breaks.)

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gordito8me said:

it's like running across the highway at rush hour. Dangerous, stupid,
but not really that fun.

Unicaw89 said:

Koxx rapes Torker hard!

skianduniaddict said:

never give 4 teenagers a camera... they go crazy

johnfoss said:

Yes, being old makes you stupid.

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littleman said:

So when a spoke is loose what kind of sound does it make? I don't really
understand what sounding flat means. And I know the torker dx rim is
very strong thats why I couldn't figure out why it was tweaked.

flat in pitch. which means that it isnt tight. you dont want them
flat but you want them all aout the same pitch when you stike them with
something like a screwdriver.

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gordito8me said:

it's like running across the highway at rush hour. Dangerous, stupid,
but not really that fun.

Unicaw89 said:

Koxx rapes Torker hard!

skianduniaddict said:

never give 4 teenagers a camera... they go crazy

johnfoss said:

Yes, being old makes you stupid.

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Take it to a bike shop and just ask them to see if the spokes should be
tensioned.

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Man, I wish I had 100 local bike shops. That must be really convienent.

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habbywall said:

Man, I wish I had 100 local bike shops. That must be really convienent.

why?

all of our local ones suck. i can do better work on my own stuff and
it is free. of course i have a friend, and my dad can do that stuff so
i learned as opposed to payed for it.

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gordito8me said:

it's like running across the highway at rush hour. Dangerous, stupid,
but not really that fun.

Unicaw89 said:

Koxx rapes Torker hard!

skianduniaddict said:

never give 4 teenagers a camera... they go crazy

johnfoss said:

Yes, being old makes you stupid.

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feel the light said:

So once you start to notice that, remove and reinstall the cranks about
90 degrees to even tire wear.

Or take the tire half off and rotate it. IMO a lot easier. Eventually
you will have four worn spots, so then rotate it 45 degrees and then 90
when it wears again.

torkerdx said:

the only thing that really breaks on a dx is the seatstiffener(nothing
you can do about)

and the frame (also nothing you can do about but find a welder to weld
it back together when it breaks.)

Get a GB 4 seat stiffener, or CF base. Or make your own stiffener out
of aluminum - lighter and stronger.

If it's new it should be an '07, the frame won't break. Even if it
does it has a lifetime warranty.

I broke one of the four bars that go across the pedal to the outside
pretty easily on mine. Replace them w/ ones that reinforces this area,
like these 'Snafus' (http://tinyurl.com/dhea7). Pedal protectors will
lengthen the life of your pedals (but didn't help at all on my stock
ones because where they broke), plus it's a lot less noisy when it
falls.

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to check your spokes grab 2 of em next to each other with one hand and
try to squeeze them togeather, you should not be able to move them much
maybe 1/8 of an inch. and you cannot have your spokes too tight, as
when sideways force is applied the spokes are going to be pulled tight
anyway so why not have em tight so there is very little give therefore
for your rim to buckle it has to stretch or break spokes.

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I weigh 185 and bend the rim alot. That's why I'm buying a K1 wheelset.

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So that nipples break, parts break. That is much like saying a bolt can
never be to tight. Maybe not, but threads can strip etc. The stretching
of "not to tight" spokes is an important part of wheel shock
absorption.
When I said tighten flat spokes, I did not mean you should become a
piano tuner (no offense Terry). Tapping spokes with a metal thing will
make them "ping". I don't try to make them all sound the same. "Good
enough", is ok. But if a spoke is loose enough to sound way lower (in
musical pitch) , tighten it a bit. There is different things that can
effect spoke pitch. You just want to find the ones that don't go ping,
near as high pitch as the others. You can be very tone deaf and do this
well. Tighten spokes that go plah instead of ding.
Telling someone that they can fix their wheel tensioning problems by
taking their wheel to a bike shop is about as helpful advice as you
could get asking Paris Hilton. Why not buy a new KH and have your
butler take it somewhere to be painted pink. If thats to difficult, get
a better butler.....
Some of us need to learn to do things ourselves. I always do this
basic stuff myself.🙂

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Be careful with spoke tensioning. feel_the_light is right--you can very
easily overtension spokes, which will lead to them snapping. There are
even tools you can buy (I don't have one, though) that measure the
tension in a spoke so that if the "musical" method doesn't work for
you, you can assure relatively even tension in your wheel. I tend to go
with the musical method myself.

But a word of warning. If you go around tightening some spokes and
leaving others alone, you very well may mess your wheel up big time and
end up needing to either buy a set of truing calipers or taking your
wheel into the LBS for truing. I'm not a wheelbuilder, so I don't claim
to know all, but I've been advised by bike mechanics that if the wheel
is true but there are loose spokes, you should go around the entire
wheel tightening each spoke a quarter turn until they're all
(relatively) tight. This will keep the wheel true and get your spokes
tensioned. Those same bike mechanics have said that people tightening
their own spokes without knowing the rudiments of wheelbuilding account
for more customers needing truing than anything else at their shop.

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pkittle said:

There are even tools you can buy (I don't have one, though) that measure
the tension in a spoke so that if the "musical" method doesn't work for
you, you can assure relatively even tension in your wheel.

Yeah, I checked into these at one point, but I was really disappointed
to find out that they're like $60!! :eek:

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Geeze, im 190 and havent done anything to that rim except put it a
little out of true. Ive rode my KH for maybe a month and the KH rim is
already out of true. lol

I wish the Alex DX32 rim wasnt so tiny, cause if it were wider, that
would be the only rim I would ride.

Im not sure how you guys are going through the DX32s like that. I do
trials, and big sets. Jump off walls/ledges that are 8 feet tall, some
taller, and land to flat, and when on trials, cause its mainly on all
rocks, there is no flat landings, everything is on a point, in a
crevice, or on a slope, I hit my rim tons, and there isnt one flat spot
on that rim.

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100lbs?
wow, you've really let yourself go mate🙄

imo its the spokes

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