Natty old ride

[erniemadden]

I have just bought a wethepeople 4 seasons from ebay.
Only £30 so I thought I would put one together for a bit of fun...something different from my old skool  bike.
Might even ride it 
Anyway i digress. The bottom bracket looks a bit manked. I can't work out if the cup that the bearings fit into are replacable or not?
Also how do I know what size and type of BB do i just measure the diameter?
an ok buy or have i dropped a bollock?

cheers...Steve

[subversion]

US BB - what cranks do you plan to put into it? You may be able to get some bearings the same size from a local trader...

[erniemadden]

well i took a bit of an uneducated guess and bought
Primo Powerbite Cranks with a 22mm axle

do you think they'll be ok 

[Bigfrawg]

yup 

[erniemadden]

sweet 
is there any other gotchas waiting to F*** me up?
Or can I just go out and buy stems forks etc and expect them to fit?
Sorry for all the questions but as green as f*** when i comes to new school. 

[Bigfrawg]

as long as you buy the right size 1 1/8" forks and stem.
if in doubt ask before buy,plenty of help always available on here.

[subversion]

Do you have the tube spacer to fit between the bearings on those Primos dude?

[erniemadden]

Cheers for the advice, there will be plenty of questions coming 

Tube spacer errrr don't know? they haven't arrived yet only won them the other day ...important i guess 

[subversion]

Stops side loading the bearings when installed

[erniemadden]

thanks for the heads up. can they be bought easy enough?

[subversion]

Hopefully you'll get one with the cranks!

[erniemadden]

just emailed the guy and he has got one....thanks 

[magna13]

A Good Buy IMO 

[erniemadden]

Now I am struggling...you try your best to be down with the kids and your sprung with a word like IMO 
Does that imitation?
If not please educate.
If it does how do i tell diffrence between that and a real one? 

Cheers...Steve

[erniemadden]

   just found out the meaning of IMO. a young whipper snapper in the office told me...old gits i hear him quip 
Cheek must go know and smoke my pipe and take the wait of my hemarroids.

[magna13]

  just found out the meaning of IMO. a young whipper snapper in the office told me...old gits i hear him quip 
Cheek must go know and smoke my pipe and take the wait of my hemarroids.

what does it mean then?  just so we get the right meaning 

[erniemadden]

IMO - In my opinion.
I like your opinion 

Just bought some second hand wheels and tyres for this bad boy. Don't know about the quality, but particulaly like the sound of the front tyre - its called gusset Pimp  back in the day my mum would have slapped me black and blue for mentioning them two words together 

[erniemadden]

Bought these to add to the new ride, learning a bit not now but still a long way off.
Any good? Left hand drive G-Sport Homer and Monkey hubs - Built by George French of G-Sport BMX.
They are 4-cross stainless steel spoked into a Oddysey Hazard superlite rim with Gusset Pimp tyre on the front and a Sunn rim and Snafu 2.10 tyre on the rear.
Sounds good and look alright...are they any good?

Anyway the update was not to talk about my wheels, it is about a stem and bars.
Just advice please. I notice bars and stems come in a couple of sizes is this personal preference or is there an exact science for choosing this sort of stuff?

Steve