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Lego Valve Caps!
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Posted 14 years ago #
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damn ebay blocked at work - post pic on flickr please?
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imagine a wee square black lego block stuck on top of a valve cover (presumably schraeder?).
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Eep. Probably best just to imagine having them for the mere day or so they'd stay in place before falling off, as all valve caps must. Imagine Lego® strewn all over the path... probably worse for punctures (wheels) and skidding (wheels and feet) than existing hazards.
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buy /borrow / steal a few bits of 1x1 lego and just glue it on to an existing valve cap and trim it to size. Job done!
Posted 14 years ago # -
@Kaputnik, available in yellow..... ;-)
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@kaputnik - that is what the guy has done isn't it? Lego bikes with lego wheels and lego tyres with lego valve caps. (not suitable for presta valves)
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@gembo, difficult surely riding on lego wheels, are they not a bit square? Or is that me, and lego actually do produce round things?
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I have seen some valve caps shaped like bullets, in different colours. My son had dice valve caps on his bike. Novel valve caps seem to be for schraeder valves only not prestas.
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"Novel valve caps seem to be for schraeder valves only not prestas."
But if you really wanted to you could add an adaptor -
Useful in 'schraeder world'.
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My research shows that you can actually buy lego wheels. Alternatively four rounded corner bits that could make a circle or wheel.
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I saw on a BBC science programme that you can cycle with square wheels, just as long as the road surface has an appropriate geometric form.
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Here's a link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A30334880Posted 14 years ago # -
Square wheels-I have to ask why?
Valve caps-I love the skull ones on TBC website. Daren't ask for them in the shop though hehe!
http://www.thebikechain.co.uk/Brand-X-Skull-Valve-Caps-Gold-201011190302/
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There was that YouTube clip thing someone posted somewhere (possibly here, possibly BoingBoing or b3ta) showing a bloke who cut cogs in strange shapes which meshed with other strange-shaped but perfectly-aligned cogs.
You'd need elegant cam-work to get the brakes to work on a square wheel, but it'd be interesting to try.
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Disc brakes?
Posted 14 years ago # -
The brake discs would have to be square too or it'd be cheating, though a disc brake mechanism would be easier to move to and fro up and down the fork.
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Fixie then
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I can't imagine stopping would be too much of a problem somehow..
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wingpig: cogs in strange shapes which meshed with other strange-shaped but perfectly-aligned cogs - http://www.naden.de/blog/bbvideo-bbpress-video-plugin -->
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