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Figured we needed a big and dandy one for the bike builders out there.
Anyone have any advice on getting the Mongoose Crush built? At my store we literally haven't constructed one in months because when we did make them we could never get the rear brakes to work correctly. It would either be too tight in the rear or the hand brake would be too loose. Any tips?
I think it might just be a problem with the side pull caliper brakes in general, because the Schwinn Falcon was giving me a lot of trouble last week.
Today as I was building, I had 45 min left on my shift. An ETL asked if I'd be able to make one more and then switch over to reshop. I look at my potential builds--the Huffy, a Crush and a Women's Great Divide.
I groan and choose the Great Divide. I tell him that if the bike flows together well, I should be able to get out and do about 20-25 minutes of reshop. Open up the box and immediately know I'm not doing reshop. I don't know how the bike got so mangled, I mean it's been sitting in a box. But the brake lines were all twisted amongst each other and looped into places that made absolutely no sense. Had to detach almost all of the lines just to get them out of the mess they were in.
Not only that, the pedal wouldn't even screw in correctly. I tried it for several minutes before grabbing a new one from the box and working that one in. After everything that could go wrong did go wrong, I had had enough. I took the half completed bike (brakes still need major tweeking) tossed it up on the repair wall and went to do 10 min of reshop to close out the shift.
Anyone have any advice on getting the Mongoose Crush built? At my store we literally haven't constructed one in months because when we did make them we could never get the rear brakes to work correctly. It would either be too tight in the rear or the hand brake would be too loose. Any tips?
I think it might just be a problem with the side pull caliper brakes in general, because the Schwinn Falcon was giving me a lot of trouble last week.
Today as I was building, I had 45 min left on my shift. An ETL asked if I'd be able to make one more and then switch over to reshop. I look at my potential builds--the Huffy, a Crush and a Women's Great Divide.
I groan and choose the Great Divide. I tell him that if the bike flows together well, I should be able to get out and do about 20-25 minutes of reshop. Open up the box and immediately know I'm not doing reshop. I don't know how the bike got so mangled, I mean it's been sitting in a box. But the brake lines were all twisted amongst each other and looped into places that made absolutely no sense. Had to detach almost all of the lines just to get them out of the mess they were in.
Not only that, the pedal wouldn't even screw in correctly. I tried it for several minutes before grabbing a new one from the box and working that one in. After everything that could go wrong did go wrong, I had had enough. I took the half completed bike (brakes still need major tweeking) tossed it up on the repair wall and went to do 10 min of reshop to close out the shift.