Current Projects chat and miscellany

Just checking the freewheel had a standard fit?

Any idea how deep a 7spd freewheel is?

Might see if it's possible to space the hub to the left and redish it so there's room for chain like.

Try it first. I just put an extra washer in on the drive side and left it at that - if it does interfere, it won't be by much, so an extra 1mm of spacing on one side will fix it without the need to get your nipple key out and discover that all the nipples are seized :-)

Cool, thanks Tester!

Few of mine, mostly vintage:

Carlos super pista:

Daccordi Pursuit:

Superb Sprint: (need an other crank, Campy, Suntour Superb or Dura ace)

Faggin Campione del mondo cromovelato (unfortunately short for me):

Cyfac custom track (guilty version):

I've already post the Somec and the Bertin track.

great collection.

I've got a fluted sugino grand mighty, any good? Been looking for some of those stronglights for my corima...

These cranks.

You definitely need to sell TM those cranks.

Hey! Did I sell you this frame?

If so you've done a lovely job with it :) And I see the nice but worn campag headset is gone?

Very possibly, I got it off ebay and met (you?) in stratford station to pick it up, the headset was completely fucked so I replaced it with a Campagnolo gran sport.
I went for a blue and white theme with a (nearly) full NR group with cobalto brakes (shown in the linked pics back a page).
I think it probably was you who sold it to me and at the time you didn't know the tubing, I'm 99% that it's SL 1% of hope that it's SLX haha

I'm glad you got to see what I've done with it, took me ages, with loads of weird issues... I had to file down derailleur hangar so that it would take a nuovo record rear mech, and it needs a huge BB axle to stop the inner chainring from running on the chainstays. Despite all of this i love it, so thanks :)

That's me! Ahh yes I totally forgot I sold it on eBay, just assumed it was on here and deleted the thread!

And yeah I didn't have a clue of the tubing, apart from it being columbus, but that's great news :)

Sounds like all the hallmarks of a proper project haha, surprise issues left right and centre, bodge jobs to sort them back out again.

Again you've done a real justice to it, nice work man

rear wheelbuild valve positioning fail

^^ how did that paint get so ratty so quickly?

Faggin' lovely that...

he tries really hard to make them ratty to maintain his rat king reputation

it's not that ratty

bonor is this you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAWzCmkJqpc

Faggin' lovely that...

He suffered in the past...

You've got v brake levers to calipers. You can get full power?

Lovely frame BTW.

Didn't they come in V and non-V versions?

bonor is this you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAWzCmkJqpc

i look pretty similar to wiki

He suffered in the past...

That's awesome. Got anymore pictures of it?

Edit: of the finished one haha

i look pretty similar to wiki

can u rhyme like him though?

yes

Would removing anodising from hub affect threads that are anodised?

so hooked on ratking

http://i.imgur.com/qokCO5W.jpg

Well Lads, that's my beast there, only got her very recently. After realising the TT is too long :(

Just wondering would a smaller stem and compact bars be an acceptable option, stem is currently 110mm. I be needin around i'd say a 50-60mm taken from that.

and do compact bars and modern/short stem look daycent on old frames?

any stem shorter than 110 looks shit.

throw it away, start again