Thanks everyone! I'm familiar with assembling and installing most parts on a bike (except BB and derailleurs), but I feel much more prepared after you all have shared tips, advice and insight from your personal experiences.
BTW, I live in San Diego. I'll be building the bike with my buddy the first weekend in April, but if anyone here lives in the area and wants to help out/hangout eat some pizza and drink beer...let me know. Cheers, Max On Friday, March 17, 2017 at 8:57:34 AM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:42 PM, Max Bergen <berge...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> My Hunq is being delivered in a few days and I plan on building the bike >> myself. I was hoping some folks would have helpful resources on process >> and tools for installing: >> >> -BB: I think Rivendell uses Shimano bbs, no? So, splined BB tool and big >> crescent wrench. >> > > >> -crankset: To install, 14 mm socket, but to remove, get the Park bb >> removal tool. >> > > >> -derailleurs: 4 and 5 mm allen wrenches >> > > >> -chain: Me, I always use a master link, but you'll want a chain tool to >> cut the chain to length. >> > > >> -brakes and levers and cables: 4 or just possibly 5 mm allens. >> > > >> -thumbie shifters and cables: 4 mm allen; possibly Phillips screwdriver. >> > > Also: cable and housing cutters -- I like separate tools, but Park makes a > combo tool. I *have* cut cables and housing using a chisel and hammer, > but then you need a file to clean up the cuts on the housing (you should > clean them up in any case). > > You also need some way of holding the bike upright and still while you > work on it. I've assembled and disassembled many bikes simply lying flat on > the floor, or else leaning against a wall (held up by my head as needed) > but believe me it's much easier of you have a stand. You can get by with > hooks hung from the ceiling, though these won't hold the bike still. > > (As a expat teenager, I did complete teardowns and build ups using nothing > more than vise grips, hammer, chisel, screwdriver, and pipe wrench; these > bikes had old loose bearing bb assemblies and I used the hammer with a nail > to adjust the movable cup and lockring -- a fraught process indeed. The > nail, with a big nut as anvil, also broke and re-assembled chains.) > > >> Thanks! >> -Max >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the > world revolves.) *Carthusian motto > > *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart > > *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle > > *Le sacre est la projection du Centre celeste dans la peripherie cosmique, > ou du "Moteur immobile" dans le flux des choses. *F Schuon, *Le Sens du > Sacre, *Etudes Traditionnelles, 1r q 1979 > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
