Foffa Bikes

I've seen much worse.

Was meant as sarcastic hence the poop. 😙
It's a lovely foffa, probably the nicest there ever was.

But is it a foffa anymore?
I think just a frame does not foffa make.
Foffa is something more profound.

Well done anyways.

Who's running the book on how long it'll take Dani to arrive and tell us his cranks are made in the same factory as Rotors or something?

Mine was a really early one with a generic crank (well, generic chinese everything, really). Once he started getting his own cranks in, they were alloy and better - I replaced my duff one with one of his and had no trouble since. I suspected when I got them (installed them myself) that they're made wherever Lasco and Sturmey Archer get theirs, as they're identical to the SA track cranks I've got in a box for a project I never got around to.

That's pretty much the story with all the parts, really - I've replaced the bb, headset, brakes and brake levers, cranks, pedals, hubs, rims, handlebars, saddle, cables and outers, and I would have replaced the seatpost if it hadn't been forced into the wrong size seat tube and frozen there (I've replaced the clamp twice - once when I over-tightened it and stripped the threads, and once when the saddle was nicked).

Perhaps Dani has been trying to educate me on the philosophical question of the Ship of Theseus/Trigger's Broom?

Triggers Broom,as in this this Foffa bike has had 5 new bottom brackets and 3 new headsets for example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl6PooveJE

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Triggers Broom,as in this this Foffa bike has had 5 new bottom brackets and 3 new headsets for example

That's the idea - is there a point where it stops being a Foffa? And if you took all the cast off and broken parts, and used them to build up another bike, which bike is the Foffa?

Foffa = Shit of Theseus? I mean ship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

What the hell's going on with the front brake?

Foffa = Shit of Theseus? I mean ship

Same page repost, but I'm leaning towards them being Trigger's Broom.

It's a stupidly long drop because the fork crown was not the one I ordered so when put together it made the drop HUUUUGE so rather than wait for another fork to be built I just put on my spare super long drop brake.

Long drops are what you have to visit at Glastonbury when you're desperate.

I want that bog roll holder.

I think I'll make one at work.

Please show the results once is done!

please post progress in current projects : )

@snottyotter please make them in batches...

dibs

Someone has made one out of the back of an old Harry Halls frame while I was sat at home, I'll get some pics of it when I'm in tomorrow.

Is it true that the amount of loo roll you can use depends on the width of your rear dropouts?

^Yes, but if consumption is excessive you can remedy the problem with the use of spacers.

or an inverse shim