Current Projects chat and miscellany

Yeah a week or so ago, it was covered in black grime so just cleaning that off made a big difference. The listing was pretty accurate, it had been ridden into the ground. The paint was a bit battered and the drive train needs replacing but the seller knocked some money off for the stuck seatpost which he hadn't noticed, so in my opinion is was quite good value overall.

Its seriously rad too

Got some new hhsmtb materials

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After little dilemma and advice from forum this got new silver wheels.

http://www.pedalroom.com/bike/barrosi-track-17106

this is going to be reaaallllly good

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Great looking bike! Silvers wheels look good.

Straight fork and it would be perfect imo

Done I think.

If you put the speedo sensor on the other fork it'll be out of the way for driveside photos and more importantly facing forwards, so that if it goes into the spokes it'll just ping back rather than the motion of the wheel dragging it through the forks. Potentially damaging stuff and making you do sweet endos. Less aero of course.

Thanks for comments!
Always have this tingling feeling when I see 1'' carbon. Sadly straight ones are even more rare and quite long steerer is needed. about 23cm.

Good shout, think I'll do just that. Cheers!

So nice!

Now awaiting collection..

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fafferi/17135416809

Is it me or does it seem like the wheels don't have any nipples? The Veloflex logo also looks really weird. Might the rims be Photoshopped on? Can't tell at this point.

You're looking too hard into it, there's nothing wrong with the nipples, they are just inside the rim, aero and all that..
And the veloflex logo probably got displaced when the tub was glued..

Hehe, yeah you're right. If it was Photoshopped they did a pretty good job; there is a reflection of the chainstay on the rear rim!

So are the rims kinda like these Mavic Cosmics?

Where the rim is more like a cover than the actual structure to which the spokes are assembled?

I'm not an expert but I believe that almost all carbon rims are designed like that..

I don't think they are. Take a look at these Mavics for example:

Don't most semi-decent deep dish rims have the nipples on the edge, whereas those Cosmics I posted earlier are just a low end carbon rim?

Someone please help us D:

I'm not an expert

Good of you to admit it

I believe that almost all carbon rims are designed like that..

Even better of you to prove it incontrovertibly.

The common rims which are an aluminium structural rim plus a carbon fairing are Mavic Cosmic Carbone clinchers, Hed Jets and Flo60/90. There are probably others, but stuff like Shimano, Zipp, Campag/Fulcrum, Reynolds and pretty much everything else has the spokes anchored in the carbon at the inner diameter of the rim, just like regular metal rims.

Generally clincher section harder to achieve with carbon hence hybrid / alu ala Mavic etc. excl. zipp etc.

There are a fair few full carbon rims with internal nipples (ostensibly for strength and aeros) but they're a royal fucking pain and you should avoid them

excl. zipp etc.

hence hybrid / alu ala Mavic etc. excl. zipp

There's a difference between a hybrid rim (old Zipps or current low-end ones, Shimano Carbon Laminate rims etc.) where the carbon is the load bearing structure supporting the spokes and the aluminium deals with braking and tyre problems and a 'faired' rim (Cosmic Carbone, Flo etc.) where all the loads except aerodynamic ones are dealt with by the metal bit.