Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
Please can you add a banana to the photo for scale.
LEGO Road Bike
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Please can you add a banana to the photo for scale.
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
Have you ever built a wheel? It either goes well and is a pleasant relaxing task or it doesn’t and it makes you angry.
really really angry. I mean really friggin angry! You know… ANGRY…
GRRRRR… SPIT SNARL WOOF GRRRRR FRIGGIN SPOKES FRIGGIN DAMN RIM CUT FINGER BLOOD ARTERY SPIT GROWL ARGH….
sorry about that, fond memories.
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
I must have done something wrong…
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
The optional Tomos decal set woukd finish that nicely.
Tautology actually 🤓
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
Tomas! There’s a name I’ve not heard in a while! They sold those here for a bit. I used to see the occasional Tomos dolled up as a cafe racer, full power launches to assure leaving them for dead off the line at a traffic light with the Kawasaki Ninja wasn’t sporting, but is was fun.
Of course you can. It's rare to find a truly custom brick in a kit, unless you count exterior bricks with printed designs instead of stickers.
My son has built lots of kits and most of them he's dismantled and built loads of other things.
One of the pleasures of building the kits is seeing the clever ways the designer has approached problems reusing existing bricks. The lightsabre handles for Star Wars minifigures are used as architectural details in buildings or wands in Harry Potter sets. Minifigure hair pieces were used as birds nests, car wheel arches are used as petals. etc etc
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
You are correct. The shame of it!
figbat
Former slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Which seems extra fitting in the case of a wheel builder. Nobody wants slack spokes.
Well played sir!
BrumJim
Forum Stalwart (won't take the hint and leave...)
- Location
- Selly Oak, Birmingham
Tautology, much like mixology, does sound like the art and science of building spoked wheels.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Not as bad as a slack rim though.
Plenty of comments re space stations etc on Lego forums re the wheels so doubt this will be only use of them. Quite likely once the set is heading for retirement they will ill release it in another colour with the odd tweak. Beyond the basics many Lego parts hve been specifically designed for a set then found other uses.
Ditto, I've commented on the main Lego thread that Lego are missing a big sales opportunity by not making half height bricks and thinner exposed edges so allowing the bigger sets to offered accurately at around half size.
