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Sheet, I haven't posted anything in here this year!?

Have some brand whoring...

#cleanme

Changed bars from drops which made room for a basket on the beater.

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Nice what frame is that?

It's a Felt Breed sscx. Rattle-canned a few years back.

After a good bit of cursing, two broken drill bits and a small fire (Gamoh steel is real) I've got my commuter rack sorted. Took it for a quick spin, handles really well. Here's a crappy phone pic

Nice

nice !what bars are those? cheers

Looks like you used the little washers on the bit where the stays meet the underside of the rack, I've just been putting one together but used the big washers there. Have I gone wrong? Not getting on well with instructions... Are there any decent ones online? @apollo @roboto any tips?

I just used the instructions with the pack. I think (bike is in the bike store at work at the minute) the way the legs go on is important (i.e. the elbow should be pointing inwards and the legs bolted to the inside face of the plate) does that make sense? Have you got pics of yours?

One extra thing I had to do as a brklss setup was add a washer between the brace from the fork crown to the silver hanger. I used an old valve screw thing off an innertube as a spacer and it worked a treat. Can add pics later if you need.

You drilled out the mounting tabs then? Nice work. The real handling test is when it's fully loaded. :)

@TPR Cheers, they're USE Atom Carbon Risers, I picked up a pair second hand locally and cut em down to size

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/ie/en/use-atom-carbon-xc-riser/rp-prod2740

@TM I know man, the instructions are terrible I couldn't find any better instructions online only a PDF of the ones you get with it.

As far as I can tell the bigger washers are for mounting to the brake hole.

Yea man, thanks for the suggestion. Tried first with a hand drill, no use. Ended up getting a mate to sort em out for me. He said it was the toughest steel he's ever come across!

The plan is to pick up a Chrome Porter bag when I get a few bob, it'll be bungees till then so we'll see how it handles

Just pulled the trigger on this. It came up on my eBay front page and I couldn't resist. It's got everything I wanted. nice tubeset, fillet brazed, internal cables, sexy skinny wishbone, and obviously sick fades.

Only issue is I've never owned a proper roadbike and I've definatley never built one. I'll start a thread when it arrives and hopefully get some advice of you lot.

Subtractive primary colors. Will definitely notice.

Nice - is it a concept '90?

I have no idea, any tell tale signs I can look for?

I saw that when it came up a while back, listed as something ludicrous like 'raleigh racing bike'. Going by the length of the rear wishbone it looks to be 650c? Don't think it was explicit in the listing, only reason I didn't have a go.

Yeah, possibly 650c, which could be abit of a ballache. The listing was fairly basic but judging by the measurements given and the size of the headtube I think you might be right.

@birofunk

What am I doing wrong? Doesn't seem to be enough bolt to go through my eyelets... Think I need to order some m5x30 bolts

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Whenever I've done them, there hasn't been a nut. The bolt has just screwed straight into the fork, which would make the length about right.

@TM You're doing that exactly right if you're using the supplied mount, it's a tight fit. Not sure about mounting to eyelets though...

Yeah I've realised it's just long enough to screw into fork, the fork is old steel though and the eyelet threads are rusty, I'm also planning on fitting guards to the same eyelets (vo fenders with folded/flat steel fittings) so have ordered some 30 mm bolts to replace the 25, then will screw through the eyelet and add the nut at the back as well for extra security.

@TM You could use the supplied mount to mount both the mudguards and rack, or would your eyelets get in the way?