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.

🫨

 

[irie]

@RustyIron Nice backpedal. Brah.

 

[steve_sordy]

............. Any interest in pictures of old men from the days when mountain bike riders wore lycra bib shorts with matching jerseys? I

Your wish is my command.

This is a DH bike vid from 1994

 

[steve_sordy]

I received an excited Whats App message this morning from my grandson. He was chatting about his bike project with his boss and mentioned that the only thing he was stuck on was the EDC cap in red. The guy told him "I've got one of those! If I can find it you can have it!" Let's hope he is clear on the difference between an EDC threaded top cap and the standard top cap for star nuts.

 

[irie]

Your wish is my command.

This is a DH bike vid from 1994

Love the rider at 2:35 who got so pissed off with his bike that he chucked it into the bushes.

 

[RustyIron]

Your wish is my command.

The only thing worse than the clothing from 1994 is the bikes from 1994.

 

[steve_sordy]

The only thing worse than the clothing from 1994 is the bikes from 1994.

Isn't it interesting how bikes have developed in the last 30 years? That section of trail was considered DH and now it's just a grassy bit of XC. OK we don't know where they went after they turned left into the woods, but they seemed to be having a lot of difficulty with that grassy slope.

 

[RustyIron]

That section of trail was considered DH and now it's just a grassy bit of XC.

Right on. Here in 2025 with my fancy bike, I wouldn't even consider that a mountain bike trail. It's just a patch of dirt to ride to get from the truck to the trailhead. But we need to be careful about deluding ourselves into thinking we're as good as the riders in the videos. If we were riding those clunkers, we'd probably need to be carried off on stretchers. I've climbed routes put up by guys like Royal Robbins and Yvon Chouinard. One might be impressed by such a claim, but it was thirty years after they did it, and I had the most advanced equipment available. Anyone can do it. An average rider on modern equipment should be able to outperform most pros on thirty year old clunkers. But even if they were better athletes, they still looked like tinkerbell.

 

[whitymon]

Well they were really using the right tool at that moment either. Saddle too high as no dropper so they keep it that way for dh, slack angle well, not slack at all, it would be scary.

You could also say that these athlete today with our current bike would be extremely good too, in the past even few decades ago, picking the right line was the rule number one.

It is still the case today but in a less magnitude, in the past take a wrong line you were dead, now a lot of time you see people "trust" where the bike goes and succeed. This is also why we have so much crash, people think they have some skills due to these success where in reality geo/bike/suspension/speed does most of the job and save them .. until they do not.

If you think about it, it is the same in tons of sports too, like ski, I started with ones close to 220cm, hard to maneuver etc, now I get 175cm max, crazy.

 

[Tepi]

Olen ostanut käytetyn haarukan pojanpojalleni ja paras, jonka löysin, on kierteinen EDC-muunnos. (Jos tiedät, tiedät).
Sen mukana tuli sininen päällinen ja kaikki hänen blinginsä on Hope-punainen.

Onko kenelläkään punaista jonka voisin vaihtaa siniseen?:epävarma:

Tai tiedä mistä saan sellaisen maksamatta 23 puntaa + toimitus yhdelle sekä kaikki sen mukana tulevat paketit.

Red spray paint or rubber paint will eliminate your proplemm.