about 2 years ago - 2 comments
A few months ago Eighthinch sent my team and I a set of their new mallet heads. Zach was the first to build his up. He just said it was too heavy to use. And this was after he cut it down to the shorter length, removed the protruding sleeve and drilled it out [...]
about 3 years ago - 6 comments
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Cycles for Heroes sent me one of their MO’s Mallets a couple months ago. I am very late doing a post about it. But in that time I have been playing games with the mallet every week. I have never made a mallet this nice. I kind of wish [...]
about 3 years ago - 3 comments
Polipo is making a top tube pad for polo players. This works well, it has buckles for when you are riding with mallet in place and hook and loop to secure the straps while you’re on court. It comes in two sizes. Standard and over-size (for bikes with over-sized tubing). Comes in five colors, Off-White, [...]
about 3 years ago - 3 comments
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Hold Fast is a small, rider founded company making a “Foot Retention System”and is based out of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
For a couple months I’ve been wanting to try out their FRS thinking it might be good for my speed on the court. I normally, and have since the beginning, played with flat [...]
about 3 years ago - 2 comments
First is the Mechanix Original Glove. They say it’s all purpose and I’d agree. The thing I like most about this glove is how it fits my hand. It fits. I have large hands and the fact is most gloves do not fit my hands. With most gloves, when I curl my fingers the part [...]
about 3 years ago - 7 comments
ZACH may have a lot of tools on his peg board at Trackstar, but this past weekend Ben Schicago gave me one tool ZACH doesn’t have. One of his custom made spoke wrenches. It’s made to fit onto a spoke nipple without the need of removing a wheel cover. Pretty cool.
Some things that are [...]
about 3 years ago - 3 comments
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I had to put this Velocity B43 wheel set on my work bike because last night there were a couple late night street races. All bikes had to be fixed and brakeless. I did some 200m sprints on this bike after swapping out the platforms for clip-in’s, losing the 18t freewheel for [...]
about 5 years ago - 11 comments
I went to Paragon Sports to check out the different types of street hockey balls that Franklin makes.
This is what I found.
Hot Weather (above)
This is by far the best street hockey ball made by Franklin. I’d say for use in any temp over 45°F. Red pink in color. Cost $2.99
Warm Weather (above)
When the hot weather [...]
about 3 years ago
nah dude its CASTLEVANIA!
about 3 years ago
Thanks Choms, I’ll fix that right away!
It’s called the “Simon Belmont Special”
about 3 years ago
fuck yeah castlevania iV for SNES was the shit!
about 3 years ago
These look great. Nice work Jarrett & Zach!
Doug, I’m in Dayton.
about 3 years ago
thanks for the press, Doug!
Tempered 4130 cromoly steel, water-jet cut then wire brushed and oiled by hand. Each one of those tools is a labor of love. I had a ton of fun making them, I hope you all enjoy using them.
-j
about 3 years ago
Great tool, but no bottle opener?! Nice work to TrackstarNYC, and great blog to HCBP.
-DS