EDC threaded top cap swap?

[steve_sordy]

I have bought a used fork for my grandson and the best one I could find has the threaded EDC conversion. (If you know, you know).
It came with a blue top cap and all his bling is Hope red.

Has anyone got a red one I can swap for a blue one?

Or know where I can get one without paying £23 + delivery for one, plus all the kit that comes with it.

 

[irie]

I have bought a used fork for my grandson and the best one I could find has the threaded EDC conversion. (If you know, you know).
It came with a blue top cap and all his bling is Hope red.

Has anyone got a red one I can swap for a blue one?

Or know where I can get one without paying £23 + delivery for one, plus all the kit that comes with it.

Tell him that it'll cost him at least £23 to satisfy his itch for matching bling. Job done.

 

[steve_sordy]

Tell him that it'll cost him at least £23 to satisfy his itch for matching bling. Job done.

That absolutely will not work! I told him it would be £33 and he didn't even blink!

 

[irie]

That absolutely will not work! I told him it would be £33 and he didn't even blink!

Then tell him that I'll buy him a red one on the cast iron condition that for at least the first 10 rides with his mates he also wears the red dress with bare legs that I'll also send him. Will require photographic proof of course.

 

[steve_sordy]

Then tell him that I'll buy him a red one on the cast iron condition that for at least the first 10 rides with his mates he also wears the red dress with bare legs that I'll also send him. Will require photographic proof of course.

My Mother used to say "Never dare a fool!"
She was not often wrong.

But if you are serious, I will tell him. But you must be prepared to follow through, because he might, he just might for the laugh of it.

 

[irie]

My Mother used to say "Never dare a fool!"
She was not often wrong.

But if you are serious, I will tell him. But you must be prepared to follow through, because he might, he just might for the laugh of it.

Oh yeah, I'm serious. I'll even send some girlie knickers he can wear over his boy bits. Pics will have to be published here as proof of course.

 

[RustyIron]

Here we have a grown man trying to get a little boy to dress up like a little girl and send him pictures. This thread has taken a disturbing turn.

 

[steve_sordy]

Here we have a grown man trying to get a little boy to dress up like a little girl and send him pictures. This thread has taken a disturbing turn.

That is actually very funny. Except he's not a little boy. He weighs as much as I do and I suspect that he can lift me with one hand! Really, no kidding, one hand.

 

[steve_sordy]

@irie Ref your red dress offer. I have just forwarded your offer my grandson. His reply?
"That's not happening!"

 

[irie]

@irie Ref your red dress offer. I have just forwarded your offer my grandson. His reply?
"That's not happening!"

So there is hope for him after all!

 

[RustyIron]

That is actually very funny. Except he's not a little boy. He weighs as much as I do and I suspect that he can lift me with one hand! Really, no kidding, one hand.

Whew! I was more than a bit concerned. It sounds like the kid would be able to protect himself from weirdos who want him to dress him up like a little girl. Just warn him against accepting a glass of Jesus Juice.

Regarding the color problem: The anodizing on the part can be removed. Maybe it will come out looking like bare aluminum, which can be polished out for the "bare" look. Or maybe you guys could reanodize it in red. Getting a good red color might be really difficult, so coloring it black might be more practical. The cost and labor involved might be more than just going out and buying a new one. But doing it yourself might be fun and educational.

If you found a friend with a lathe to make you those hub spacers, maybe you could talk him into to making the new threaded top cap.

 

[irie]

Regarding the color problem: The anodizing on the part can be removed.

To remove anodising put the part in sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) solution until it bubbles then immediately get it out and rinse it with cold water. Wearing rubber/nitrile gloves obviously.

 

[steve_sordy]

So there is hope for him after all!

You were too needy, he might have gone for it for just one ride in a red dress. Now we'll never know!

 

[irie]

It sounds like the kid would be able to protect himself from weirdos who want him to dress him up like a little girl.

As Steve said, his grandson could pick him up with one hand so it's entirely reasonable to deduce that even if wearing a red dress his grandson wouldn't look "like a little girl". As father/stepfather of 7 and grandfather of 9 I was pretty certain what the response would be when the deal was put on the table.

 

[RustyIron]

As Steve said, his grandson could pick him up with one hand so it's entirely reasonable to deduce that even if wearing a red dress his grandson wouldn't look "like a little girl".

No judgement here, brah. It's unfortunate that you lads couldn't make a deal. Any interest in pictures of old men from the days when mountain bike riders wore lycra bib shorts with matching jerseys? I'd really like one of those new Fox Transfer Neo seatposts.

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