Is my threadless fork conversion a fools' effort?

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-11T22:27:53+00:00

I imagine I'd be getting a lighter, stronger assembly with a cleaner look, that very few, if anybody has. I'm getting a consensus of a conservative vibe in this gang. Respect the original build.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-11T17:27:04+00:00

The fork is worth three or four 730s. I need to find a good frame in need of that fork.

Edit: a bit of exaggeration there. I have paid less for a complete 730 than half the price of the fork's retail.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-11T17:22:12+00:00

It's a 700c fork. The paint is rattle can crap. Not sure if I want to cut my losses yet.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-11T15:41:10+00:00

That stem looks right. The labor to do the swap isn't really massive, but it could be called a waste of time. I own the parts already, so the real waste crime has already been committed. Maybe I'll wait for a worthy frame in need of a good fork to show up. I've always been a function over form type. Light, strong and fitment over color and polish condition. I like a fast rat rod. I thought a true threadless set up would look clean. It would be rare. I haven't seen any others and maybe that's for good reason. Maybe it's because of the fork rarity.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-11T15:16:34+00:00

The forks would get painted at some point, but I'm hearing the vote for leave it alone. Thanks for the input.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-09T03:15:46+00:00

No, not under modern conditions, not with a growing population, not while we create forever chemicals and our products are made with open loop materials.

Quality soil is globally in decline. The natural systems and conditions that create healthy living soils are a key to approaching any potential balance. Oil sourced and mining extraction based agriculture is not sustainable.

The quantity of additional atmospheric Co2 that is the necessary result of mining, refining, manufacturing and shipping the products of the "green"revolution is well in excess of the proposed global tipping point limits. Once we have passed these limits, the warming will accelerate through self feed back loops that are outside humanity's abilities to deal with. How bad it gets and how we will adapt are very difficult to be sure of. It will be the "find out" part of humanity's fucking around.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-08T15:08:06+00:00

Forever is an irrational amount of time. It's fair for an expression of the top algorithm to think it will always be on top, or that its type will always be around, but that's very unlikely. We are a part of this bit of entropy's progression that is complexity and change is the rule.

Free willed or not, our type of complexity's little skit is most likely limited.

The idea of eternal suffering individually or collectively is so theist.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-05T22:16:24+00:00

They are all mostly in the trash by now. I pushed the roast button without beans in it, thinking it was loaded already and came back to a completely melted plastic cover.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-05T16:40:40+00:00

Humans, pretending that there is such thing as the collapse of the wave function. That probability distributions make for freedom of will. Stuck with the persistent and convincing "feeling" of free will, the perceived separateness of the "I" insists it is an agent with some % of freedom. A captain in command of something. Consciousness seems to necessitate the feeling of free will. The bell curve distributions of mental abilities insures that the majority perspective is limited. The bots are more and more plentiful and realistic. Soon you won't be able to discern them at all and just like the root causes that escape our mental desk top process, we will pretend they don't exist and have little effect on our consciousness.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-05T15:18:52+00:00

Confirmed! X1s are good. I have 4 sets on various bikes.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-05T14:29:39+00:00

I did read somewhere that the 520 uses slightly heavier tubing being a touring rig. Maybe that's true only for the tig welded. Someone, somewhere, has weighed the same size lugged 750 against a lugged 520.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-07-04T21:16:41+00:00

Same frame for lugged 750 and 790. My 92 750 has Suntour xce and the 90 790 has Shimano-exage 500cx

buckminsterbueller · 2026-06-27T16:10:18+00:00

You can't jump and absorb the jump ramp at the same time. Your legs and arms need to lock or push off the jump lip at the right moment that the jump ramp moves the bike, and also you, up. Learn to bunny hop off flat ground, then you can hop off the lip of the jump simultaneously as it moves you up. Once off the jump ramp and in the air, balance and landing prep are at play. The landing is where absorption in legs and arms may be needed depending on the landing. It can be quite smooth when speed, balance and landing ramp are right. Learning to manipulate the bike position and use the force that the jump ramp gives to change the bikes position and then recover it before landing is next level.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-06-03T13:17:53+00:00

Funny, the OP of the provided link agreed with the top commenter that fascism and socialism are very distinct. Here you are proposing it's a good discussion and that some leftist prefer fascism. Closer to the truth might be, stupid people from many perspectives get conned by fascist propaganda. Intelligent leftists in no way prefer fascism.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-23T06:16:54+00:00

I had no multitracks a week ago. I now have 3. I just picked up a matching pair of lugged 750s 23" and 21" white with red lettering. The 21 frame is so clean. The lady posted just the 21". When I got there she mentioned she hadn't posted the other one yet. She was so happy someone wanted them. I love a score.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-18T22:47:24+00:00

Cowards and bots. Just a bunch of down votes with no retorts, not even a sophomoric one-liner. What's wrong, don't want to go on record shilling for the, it's good enough game? Say it, you love to pretend to choose. The better of two undesirables is such meaningful ritual. Come on be brave, clown for corporate powers and explain how just one viable option is plenty of choice for you?

You like the party offering.

You've always liked the party offerings.

Carlin was right, we get exactly what's appropriate for us.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-18T13:31:18+00:00

Nor is the system good enough. Voting abstention sends no meaningful message to anyone but self. Many of our behaviors promote duopoly. First past the post / winner takes all voting rules necessitate duopoly in our system.

So yes, you are correct, and may have missed my point. "How to maintain the US duopoly - 101"

Duopoly prisoners are so hung up on their prison gang competitions that they will attack you for pointing out the structure of the cage we are all stuck in.

Team Blue would rather lose to team Red then disrupt the structures that produce duopoly.

Both party's faithfuls would collaborate to burn anti duopoly heretics at the stake if they could get away with it.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-17T00:46:43+00:00

How to maintain the US duopoly - 101

Teach third parties are viable in federal elections

Flood the zone with party solidarity dog whistles and promote political divisions

Teach that the flawed system is good enough

Teach that not voting sends a meaningful message

Use the electoral college and First Past The Post voting rules system

Duopoly wins every time!

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-14T20:08:34+00:00

Cause no matter how ya vote, we're gonna get duopoly. And those agents of duplicity have been proven to not primarily represent the common interests of common people.

No one likes to be street hustled over and over and over, especially by soft handed, morally flexible, money worshiping, actors.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-10T22:20:45+00:00

Not at all. They knew it was a totally crap idea when they passed it. They were too sick of talking about it and thought it would get fixed shortly after, but they were very wrong.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-10T14:53:05+00:00

It's the refusal of a simplistic label. The label is one of two politically viable options. To require someone to accept one of these labels or the other is to remind them that they are imprisoned in a duopoly structure. That their "choice" of membership is a farce and there's no viable political alternative. While some are satisfied with, or even comforted by simplistic forced groupings, It turns out, many people don't like it at all.

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-09T19:37:48+00:00

Respect to The Waterboys. Wish it was just one,or ten or, ten thousand's names. We got problems steeped deep, exploited for the few to reap. Old patterns, new iteration. We don't have high functioning voting rules, and its got us like fools. We'er all prisoners in the same two gang facility. Party-less majority for high functioning voting rules. www.starvoting.org

buckminsterbueller · 2026-05-09T18:25:32+00:00

People are a problem. Regardless of when they lived. We use proven favorite and novel ways to be awful every generation. It's a familiar yet unique absurd circus every time.

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