Current Projects chat and miscellany

Very nice!! Where did you find those hubs btw?

any major cons about using a road chainring instead of track specific

If it has full sized teeth all the way around, it's fine. Roadies use thin rings all the time, and they don't even have straight chainlines.

Nex sram omnium and Tubular omega

Long gone I'm afraid, to the Finnish Brooklyn mafia iirc.

Sold my Pompino sort of unexpected.... So new fixed Ti commuter, and track bike for the "running late" kind-of-days...

Those wheels look amazing on that frame. Nice job:)

Built this up yesterday, very fun! Going to look out for a silver seat post and possibly a Nitto Jag stem

Full House.

Last pictures of this bullshit felt in this thread :), I think im done with this one now, superbudget roadbike for curierwork and weekend rides. 7.44kg with ATAC xc8.

Sellers picture.

whats the wheelset?

40mm chinese / novatec tubular..

promoted

So rad

this may sound stupid but does anyone know how to tell if a metal is steel or aluminium, for example bicycle forks?

thank you, but what about magnets, does ones of those metals have magnets?

Yeah, the tubes on steel frames are actually held together by big rare-earth magnets inside the frame. The lugs/welds are just for aesthetics, really.

You really shouldn't put computer hard drives or automatic watches near steel frames.

Almost all steels used for bicycle manufacture are ferromagnetic, so a permanent magnet will be strongly attracted to them. Aluminium alloys are paramagnetic, so permanent magnets are only very weakly attracted to them - you won't be able to feel the interaction.

oh, that is very helpful. thank you. so, i need to take a magnet and press it against the forks. if the magnet attracts, that means it is steel forks.

i need to take a magnet and press it against the forks

If it's a steel fork, you only have to hold the magnet close to it and the fork will pull the magnet out of your hand if you're not careful.

sounds like a sex game

Put it in the garden for a week , if it rusts , it's steel. Simplz

Here's a fun trick; to tell the difference between a carbon steerer and an aluminium steerer, drop a neodymium magnet down the tube. In carbon fibre, it drops as you would expect, but in aluminium it is slowed by the current generated in the metal which creates an opposing magnetic field.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8RiIPi5OB8

I remember doing this in physics, good fun

This is fun !
SLR>>>>But waaaa 7,44 !bottleless ?