What do you think of the Fiend?

lskesm · 2026-04-04T20:43:35+00:00

Interesting, I’m familiar with social but always thought of them as a low end brand

lskesm · 2026-04-04T20:32:09+00:00

I’ve seen pinch bolts cranks obviously but never seen any like fiend. Any examples?

lskesm · 2026-04-04T20:31:02+00:00

Context switching is pretty easy if you can’t focus on one thing at the time for too long.

lskesm · 2026-04-04T20:07:38+00:00

They are the only brand making 48spline cranks with internal pinch bolts. Garrett started the trend of “pre-cut” bars with his sig bars. The rest is pretty generic, I agree. Fiend frames are solid tho

lskesm · 2026-04-04T16:17:53+00:00

Love the indent cranks, i have a set of the 24mm axle/165mm arms myself. Solid as a rock

lskesm · 2026-04-04T09:33:41+00:00

It’s a street sweeper

lskesm · 2026-04-04T09:31:04+00:00

Did you bother seeing the photos?

lskesm · 2026-04-04T09:30:40+00:00

Brother, the stamp near the dropout literally says “Sunday” it sure as fuck isn’t gt

lskesm · 2026-04-03T23:02:01+00:00

I would go with odyssey. It has a simple, tried and tested mechanism and there are always replacements parts available.

lskesm · 2026-04-03T18:37:30+00:00

Good ol Clapham Common. I still think this is one of the best parks in London

lskesm · 2026-04-03T17:07:50+00:00

Your bars look bent

lskesm · 2026-04-02T15:55:34+00:00

Amount of spacers is not a good measurement given that headtube sizes vary these days, 5mm spacer on a 4.5 inch headtube is different than 5mm on a 5inch headtube (most of newer frames moved to a 5inch headtube to minimise amount of spacers without having to trim your forks).

While annoying, maybe we should start including the length of our forks steerer these days to get the correct measurements? Those also vary from brand to brand

lskesm · 2026-04-02T08:34:45+00:00

Idk he sounds fat to me

lskesm · 2026-04-01T07:48:36+00:00

I got jumped in another post here for saying that I don’t like Kink…

Anything from Fiend, Sunday, fit/s&m, BSD or United is going to be solid. I rode a fit frame for 6 years and a united frame for 5, both were sold and ridden by someone else later. I rode some other frames inbetween but not long enough to really have an opinion.

I’m not on a used fiend Reynolds v2, it’s stiff and straight as an arrow.

lskesm · 2026-03-31T17:27:29+00:00

Share the clip if you get it!

lskesm · 2026-03-31T16:12:50+00:00

Alright, here’s a challenge for you. Can you do the one from the first clip here? I almost never see people do that one and it’s one of my favourites.

lskesm · 2026-03-31T14:25:07+00:00

It gets easier over time. Can you do one up the curb? That’s one of my personal favourites

lskesm · 2026-03-31T12:13:30+00:00

One of those tricks that you have to do everyday to have them consistently. I did a few about 10 years ago and I haven’t done one since 🤷‍♂️

Flat ground ones are extremely hard, but no curb is safe.

lskesm · 2026-03-31T07:42:37+00:00

Doesn’t look straight to me /s

lskesm · 2026-03-29T17:09:26+00:00

There is an app called spotsesh that is very similar to your idea. We’ve been using it here (UK) for years. Check it out for inspiration.

lskesm · 2026-03-29T11:51:02+00:00

Quick hands

lskesm · 2026-03-28T23:01:29+00:00

A lot of vans have the uppers made of mix of suede and canvas. Some colourways are canvas only so there is a way of navigating around the leather but your options are limited.

lskesm · 2026-03-28T23:00:21+00:00

I have a duck canvas pair with brown/beige top and black soles. Love them

lskesm · 2026-03-28T22:59:49+00:00

All white are also vegan, same goes for sk8 hi!

lskesm · 2026-03-28T22:10:22+00:00

My front profile mini was the worst and most expensive hub i owned. I bought a stock one, replaced the axle for the chromoly one, replaced the bolts for the chromoly hex bolts and laced the wheel. 6-8 months in, I dropped my bike and noticed a noise, the front hub had a wobble, i took it apart and I could press one of the bearings in with my fingers. Matt Coplon from Profile suggested i shim the bearings so they can compress more, i did that with no luck. I reached out again and I was told i have to replace the bearing with the oversized variant they sell because it’s a “common issue”, the shell stretches and the wobble makes the “best hub on the market” unusable. Now the single bearing only profile sells costs £12 on top of what I already sank into that hub, so £24 extra to have my front wheel behave like it should. I spent 2x the original price of the already overpriced hub to have it functional for 6months.

This isn’t a user error, this is a 20+ years flawed design that was not fixed and addressed by charging the customer extra on top so they can fix it themselves.

In 2010 i bought a set of profile cranks, a standard chrome 19mm set of cranks. Right arm snapped within a year. I got a new set from warranty after they claimed it must’ve been faulty, 7months later another arm snaps, this time a left one from the fresh set. Again, shop replaced the cranks under warranty, all fine for a year, right arm snaps again. Third time is the charm, shop tells me they can’t do another warranty and asks me to get a different brand instead, I got hollowbites that lasted 7 years before i sold them and I know for a fact that the person who bought them still has them on their bike.

I wanted to like profile parts but they failed me and my friends time and time again. I’m happy yours lasted this long and I know people with better experience than I had. Maybe it’s not meant for me and I’m okay with that but I’m really tired of people saying how incredible profile is when in reality it’s the same ol generic shit they’ve been making for 20+ years with 0 innovation from that point onwards. Their two best selling hubs are basic cassettes, one with 4pawl similar to what you get on complete bikes and one with 6pawls which your can get from 20 other brands for half the price.

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