Current Projects chat and miscellany

you crash them?

A couple of small falls and I'm pretty sure in the 7 or so years it's been ridden on the street I'm not the first to do so.

I've finally got round to finishing off the build of the frame and I forks I got from @Jingle_Jangle.

The frame may or may not be a Witcomb (something @Jingle_Jangle was totally up front about) and the fork's not original either way, but I rather like it. Spec is:

Shimano 1051 series dark-anodised calipers, brake levers, gear levers, front and rear derailleurs.
Shimano 105 Golden Arrow crankset
Shimano UN55 bottom bracket (spaced to give the correct assymetric spacing)
Cinelli 1A stem, Cinelli Criterium bars and Cinelli white bar tap
SR Laprade seatpost and Selle Italia Turbo saddle
1050 hubs on Mavic rims with 25c Clement Strada LGG tyres
Arundel bottle cages
5700 SPD-SLs.

The brake calipers, wheels, stem and handlebars came off the Hetchins which I also got from @Jingle_Jangle.

Don't you mean Clement Strada LGG?

I did yes - thanks. Now fixed. Pretty obvious given the bottom photo!

New 28mm "Challenge" Strada LGG tyres (after leaving it at 120psi all day and deflating back to 40/60psi to stretch the damn thing from 25mm to 28mm), 110mm stem, SMP Composit and compressionless housing.

Tiny bit of room left, wonder if it's possible to fit the actual Challenge Strada Bianca 30mm tyres in it?

Brake still feel a little crap, possibly the cheap Veloce brakes not being great, waiting for the Shimano 5800 brakes to replaced it soon.

Very impress with budget wheel, Fulcrum Racing 7 CX with wide rims and buttery smooth hubs.

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those clement strada's the accepted go-to winter tyre these days?

In term of budget they're pretty good, a little stiff and got a rather narrow contact point, latter not so good on wide rims with sidewall more exposed when cornering.

Might put the Continental Grand Sport Race back on again, that was noticeably more comfortable for some reason with a slightly wider contact point.

gotta ditch those cages. nice otherwise. x

cheers man, thats brilliant ill check them out

^^^ cheeky dibs if you sell those tyres on

Lookin' real smart Scoble.

yeah this and surprising lack of spacers! Perfect spring bike.

Thanks for sharing

somewhat longshot

Anyone here got a spare shimano octalink V2 bottom bracket, english thread, 68 shell in 113 or shorter? As the 118 i have atm,won't probably help my chainline, etc,

That Genesis looks really really decent Ed.

#eatshat

Yeah, I thought they'd look good with the bar tape and saddle. I'm starting to think that, once again, I was wrong...

Nice turbo Danstuff ! how old is it ? It's noted underneath

Can't see a date. It's a modern repro one though, like this one.

New year need help on improvements

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kill it with fire?

New frame for those wheels, build this one up with 29er tires and then joust it medieval style against saarfs alan and watch it cramble to pieces :)

lol!

In other words here is my current bike kitchen project. The ultimate goal is to tour on this bike around Toscany, since I am near here. Since I was given this bike by nice people at Ciclofficina AmpioRaggio I fixed the BB (this included the almost impossible search for a BSA cup in Italian bike kitchen), changed the brakes and a laid back cockpit for this (old steel swept back bars crudely bent to a bullhorn and wrapped with a cut up inverted inner tube), changed the 6-speed casette to a 7-speed MTB one, changed the rear derauiller, mounted a friction shifter and centered the chainring. Thinking of changing the crankset for a MTB one and grinding of the granny ring, this way I could use the middle ring as a back up plan (I don't really need it in town for commuting).
Future plans include nicer tires (something wider, because commuting through cobbles in the old town of Bologna is a nightmare even with this 35c tires), tape over the current cut up tire (bars are skinny), mounting the guards properly, building a rack for the front which will take my Dakine backpack and figuring out how to mount a tent and a sleeping bag on the back. I plan to return the bike to the bike kitchen before leaving, so untill now I spent 6 Euro on the correct size seatpost, 5 Euro for a WD40 Spray and 1 Euro on a set of Chinese allen keys.