Any question answered...

is there anyone out there who collects crappy-but-serviceable bike bits? I mean all those crafty types that make belts out of old tyres, clocks out of chainrings etc. I need to get rid of stuff prior to moving house and I can't bear to throw this stuff away but it's not worth anything and I'm never going to use it. anyone want a pair of old wheels, two dried up 5-speed blocks and a bunch of tyres?
what does the forum do? straight in the bin?

Someone could make one of these: http://www.goodshomedesign.com/diy-bike-rim-trellis/ A bike wheel trellis! Good if you are growing peas or beans.

I think to Clara. although she only took them from me as a favour (old french-threaded set) so she may still have them.

no worries :)

^^ oooh. maybe I will do just that! we're going to have a garden :)
I had been wondering whether I could make some kind of exciting lampshade, but it seemed a bit unlikely. although keeping this stuff... what I was hoping was that if I got rid of some bike stuff I could safeguard the obsolete printers and various other things.

^ ask her. seriously, I can't imagine they would have proven useful.

But it's one thing to jump on a piece of clutter that's catford-bound and another to actively seek it out. The latter being 'too much'.

Since most hub manufacturers use proprietary freehubs, you'd have to hope that a manufacturer who makes your 150mm hub also makes a 135mm SS hub with the same freehub interface, at which point you might as well just buy the 135mm hub :-) That would certainly save the trouble of making a 135×10 axle to fit a 150×12 hub.

Yes, I'd Hope (ba dub tish)... but they're not cheap and I was hoping for nice wide wheelbuild based on a niche (low demand, low competiton on ebay) hub.

Plan would be a 142x12 rather than 135x10(5mm qr).

The easy option is a DMR Revolver disc SS hub, but wide-foot cassette sprockets are cheaper to keep as options and are less risky to change than a standard 24x1.37 freewheel.

Shimano DXR FH-MX71 body http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/shimano-dxr-fh-mx71-complete-freehub-body-3dw-9803-prod29219/

has a similar interface to 3CN 9808 (M970/M975/DA...http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/shimano-xtr-fh-m970-cassette-titanium-freehub-body-3cn-9808-prod29201/

Not saint or zee though, so no wide hub shells.

And DXR isn't a thruaxle as far as I know.

^^ any enthusiasm for obsolete printers, scanners etc? I've even got an old proper b&w photocopier kicking around although that at least has gone to work.

Am I correct if I assume that the above stem is an older version which I can no longer buy new?

Am I correct if I assume that the above stem is an older version which I can no longer buy new?

You wouldn't have wanted the carbon wrapped one anyway, but you're right, the puzzle clamp has been around for a couple of years now so you're unlikely to find stocks of the old (and possibly better) 4-bolt one.

I have a 110mm Pro Vibe 7S 4-bolt in my parts bin, good as new, but I'm in no hurry to get rid of it so I'd want the £45 I paid for it.

computer shop

How do you get essential data off of a totally destroyed hard drive that it is impossible to get data off of?

#rhetorical #fuckthis

From your backups :-P

At the limit, a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_force_microscope can, in theory, recover from any sector which hasn't been pretty much vaporised.

if you've got a spare tub rim going, I'll take it...
/start of unhelpful potential dibssings.

I have one you can have if you like. Was using it to stretch tyres and now surplus to my requirements. It has a big old split in it though, but its also a zipp which obviously negates that

Q
has anyone converted a bolt on front axle to quick release?
have an ellipse i will never take to track, would lock up in london, so want to save carrying an extra lock.
is this madness?

is there anyone out there who collects crappy-but-serviceable bike bits? I mean all those crafty types that make belts out of old tyres, clocks out of chainrings etc. I need to get rid of stuff prior to moving house and I can't bear to throw this stuff away but it's not worth anything and I'm never going to use it. anyone want a pair of old wheels, two dried up 5-speed blocks and a bunch of tyres?
what does the forum do? straight in the bin?

Bikeworks might be grateful for some of the bits?

so the hard drive is not totally destroyed?

the confident ones in this department are the ones that probably don't know what they're doing.

if you're data is worth thousands you can try kroll ontrack. If its not quite 'essential' then try somewhere local that offer free diagnostics and no recovery no fee.

is this madness?

Yes. Buy a Cosmic Elite for road use. If you only need one wheel, you can almost certainly get more for your Ellipse than a similar condition Cosmic Elite will cost, so you're quids in and you don't have to do the conversion.

Bikeworks might be grateful for some of the bits?

knew there had to be something, thanks, I'll give them a call. googled them and found this useful page: http://lcc.org.uk/articles/donating-a-bike

By damn good you mean he deleted a virus of your laptop for a beer once

Use this calculator: http://bb2stem.blogspot.ca/

Thanks, did that.

Pompino?

Thanks, but after calculating, the Pompino seems to have a ridiculously small stack for its frame size - so not what I'm after.

So this question still stands:

Does anyone know any reasonably cheap frames with the following specs:

• 120mm rear drop out spacing, track dropouts
  
• 400mm A-C on Fork, 1 1/8" steerer
  
• slightly "relaxed" geometry, high stack, low reach
  
• should be suitable to be ridden fixed
  
• should take fat tires (35+ something?)
  
  
  

Thanks all!

If you intend never to have spacers under the stem that is.

Your other option is to get a CX frame with BB30 and run an eccentric BB init.

If you intend never to have spacers under the stem that is.

That is actually... true.
Well okay, I think what I need is a shorter frame, stack can be adjusted with some spacers. But it would be nice, if the spacer-stack didn't reach olympic heights...

Use a steeper stem than 5 degrees?

What high street shops have publicly accessible printers for printing office documents (pdfs / word etc...)

Use a steeper stem than 5 degrees?

Got a 30° on. Only 50mm though, cause my bike seems too long. Looks proper shit.