voodoo hoodoo bantu frame is it worth?

CUBEical

Hi there been looking for a smaller mtb frame and i have seen a hoodoo bantu frame in my local second hand bike shop for £40 its aluminium see it here http://www.thebikelist.co.uk/voodoo/bantu--2011 was just wanting to know is it worth that amount ? thanks

The Rookie

No.....

The Voodoo frames are pretty heavy, a used Carrera frame would cost about teh same and be about 400g lighter (about 1750g versus about 2150g).

CUBEical

thanks man will keep y eye out when i get some cash , how you been ? think i might re bleed my brakes there is allot of space between any brake at all when i pull the leaver is this normal ? think it getting worse to maybe got a leak. need to grease my pistons so will check then

cooldad

This can only go horribly wrong.

cooldad

ps don't go anywhere near your brakes with grease.

Chunkers1980

Would that mean you'd changing your name to BANical?

CUBEical

cooldad wrote:

ps don't go anywhere near your brakes with grease.

well im sure some one like you been in the game allot longer than me knows that its good to put red rubber grease around the calliper seals .... do you not know that ? i thought you were cool

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rubber-Grease-C ... B006J5I0EI

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic ... ntraptions

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic ... copperslip

im getting bored of proving you wrong now, as i said in many threads the mtb community is full of ignorant people who think there way is the only way zzzzz getting a bit tiered of it now

Chunkers1980 wrote:

Would that mean you'd changing your name to BANical?

well no it does not work come on seriously CUBE is all in there BAN is not it , it would have to be BANTUisitbecuaseiisblack ....work it out

cooldad

The bit about using a bit of brake fluid I agree with, but good luck dismantling the calipers - I think you misread your 'evidence' of my ignorance.
And I think you are mistaking me with someone else.
But WTF does this actually mean?

CUBEical wrote:

there is allot of space between any brake at all when i pull the leaver is this normal ? think it getting worse to maybe got a leak.

supersonic

MTB caliper seals generally do not require greasing, unless is specifically says so with a specific compound. They require periodic cleaning by way of exposing the pistons, claning with fresh water, and a dab of whatever fluid is in the lines on the piston, before pushing them home and wiping off the excess.

Many pads have holes in the back of them - and grease simply absorbs into your brake pads. Plus using stuff that is not compatible with your seals can cause them to swell, or rot, or both.

CUBEical

cooldad wrote:

But WTF does this actually mean?

CUBEical wrote:

there is allot of space between any brake at all when i pull the leaver is this normal ? think it getting worse to maybe got a leak.

well it simply means when i pull the brake leaver there is space where there is no brake coming on at all then it works, i have already bled them thanks to a legend on here but i wont begin to go into that,but the bleed kit i used was diabolical and i did it the best i could. i also think maybe the seal has gone on the brake calliper in question because it feels like it getting worse. I was led to believe its good to grease your sills stops anything getting in there and keeps them running smooth..... :!:

cooldad

Your apology is accepted.

CUBEical

cooldad wrote:

Your apology is accepted.

]]that was a cool thing to say made me laugh.....

The Rookie

Have you looked at advancing the pads?

CUBEical

not to sure exactly what that is please explain ? is it taken the brake disc out and pulling on the leaver a bit then putting the disk back in ?

The Rookie

Yes....

Can you decide if it's disk or disc?

cooldad

It's a rotor.

Chunkers1980

I've got a floppy.

CUBEical

"brake disc" i have decided to call it that lol. cool dad its a rotor only if your american , according to Wikipedia,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_brake

Chunkers1980 wrote:

I've got a floppy.

i should hope so in a room full of men :oops:

cooldad

It's a rotor.

CUBEical

cooldad wrote:

It's a rotor.

are you american ?

here it is as i am pretty sure you would not do your research

"Disc brake
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A disc brake is a wheel brake which slows rotation of the wheel by the friction caused by pushing brake pads against a brake disc with a set of calipers. The brake disc (or rotor in American English) is usually made of cast iron, but may in some cases be made of composites such as reinforced carbon–carbon or ceramic matrix composites.

cooldad

It's a rotor.

CUBEical

so your English American ?

cooldad

My English American what?

Hint check 'your' on Wiki.

The Rookie

A brake disc is a rotor, but then strictly a brake drum is a rotor and so it a rim brake a rotor.

In cars they are always discs in English and rotors in American (thus proving how stupid they are as the drum is a rotor to!), but as MTBing is American biased 'rotor' has stuck over here for the less educated.......

The disc brake as we know it is a British invention, so be proud to be British and call it a disc!

cooldad

It's a rotor.
Discs are what this guy loved

And I refuse to discuss educated with the illiterate.

CUBEical

thats vinyl lol , well i am sticking with disc....because I am English

cooldad

Obviously it's vinyl. Where do you think the term disc jockey and discoteque come from?

Chunkers1980

There is an h in the nightclub word.

cooldad

Disco is good enough. And it's rotor.

The Rookie

It is a rotor, but it's also a disc, your wheel is a rotor, so every bike has rotor brakes, even road bikes, only a few have disc brakes.....and why say you need a new rotor for your disc brakes, that souns very American (and stupid....)

cooldad

What a silly argument.


Ps rotor