>>1498492>>1498496>>1498502This is where machining skills come in handy. You could fix a pitted cone yourself real fast with a lathe and the knowhow. The poverty alternative is to chuck it up in a drill, lock the drill down in a vise, and use a piece of sandpaper on a rounded stick you jig up to give you control over how deep you go.
Going more ghetto risks weird concentricity errors but can fix if its skipping on the pits. You can buy taiwan-made new cones on ebay but they cost a lot more than finding them at an LBS.
>>1498528Axle stickout matters if you have barely enough room on the drive side with your adapter claw stacked on top, or if you want to pull a trailer or have a rack/fender that is axle-mounted.
>>1498815I have an old murray-made sears bike that I fixed up recently and need to re-tune again but it has weird narrow axles as well. The fork is just some stamped gaspipe so I jammed the new wheel in (old steel one had a big rust patch and was fucked).
>>1499225dualco grease gun my dude, it's like 20$
or use disposible chopsticks to apply. Or plastic chopsticks if you care to wash and reuse them. I don't pry dust caps off, I always feel like I'm going to bend them beyond repair.
>>1499250some of the chinkshit is OEM for walmart-to-entry-level tier brands. A lot you'll only see in asia because of different marketing styles. Kent, Hyper, and so on in the US seem to just pick options from chinese manufacturers, while pacific/Mongoose has their shit custom with semi-proprietary oddball parts.
Singapore should have plenty of used bikes though.
>>1499344Stepthrus are cheap as shit but usually tiny, so maybe a sleeper third in the "OTS and 90s MTB w/Slix" category.
>>1499835jar with kerosene or petrol, shakey shakey. jar with degreaser, then jar with soapy water, rinse, dry, then jar with isopropyl.
>>1499852Headsets are the least critical bearings on a road bike. You turn the handlebars within about a 60 degree range (30 on both sides).
