Current Projects chat and miscellany

I guess that's the joy of running a friction lever for my front mech. Thanks for all your advice!

Looks great! Your shifters are the wrong way around I guess, or are they pantographed on both sides?

Here is my olmo competition, very similar, at the moment also with a brown leather regal!

more: http://www.pedalroom.com/bike/olmo-competition-special-16983

Cheers, went for ultegra after all. Now i only need to hear back from rychtarski and i can start my project 8)

HA good spot! They are definitely the wrong way round, easy fix though

Yours looks pretty damn impressive, you've set the bar high sir!
Just trying to get my hands on a panto record chainset. Not happy with the Victory one i've got as ideally want to have a complete group on it.

Got some Daija compacts I'm sellin. Message me if interested

I don't like the bigger jumps between sprockets on the 11-34 8spd cassette.

Hence 10spd, jump is much shorter on the 11-34 cassette.

Get a Sram IGH+Cassette hub and run 1x at the front, voila no cross-chaining, epic range and less clutter.

Cheers!

Thanks !!!

After doing a lot of reading this morning I think I will end up going with 10spd Sram rival group, 12-32 cassette, 50/34 compact, with indexed bar end shifters. Thanks for help @mdcc_tester and @edscoble!

Tidy :)

Hey all, looking to convert my old and creaky steel langster into a porteur/shopping bike, with the help of a King Gamoh rack.

I've already sorted new wheels (A119s + 32 Paselas) but was wondering what's the best way to rack up at the front? I was looking for something like this , but can't find them for the life of me. Axiom do axle eyelets but I wouldn't feel confident putting a rack on aluminium mounts.

Would any of you recommend getting eyelets brazed on, or a rack suitable for fitting directly to the axle (Old Man Mountain etc), or even going down the route of getting a more suitable fork (1" threaded with eyelets), P-clips etc.?

Start cheap, see if you like the lifestyle...

New Gamoh racks come with axle eyelet things in the packaging.

:O you are a saint!

Thank you so much!

Nitto M106 have the same overall dimensions as Hwy 1 AFAIK but also have a very comfortable squared-tube profile on the transition section from tops to hoods. I love 'em, but you're paying a premium to get them in from Japan unless anything's changed recently.

I had a pair which @6pt now owns, im sure he'll agree that they are really fantastic quality.

PMP rear hub Dura ace front hub...fast EL/OS

Il a été réparé ce Ferappy ?

What ?

The beginnings of some sort of new road project:

La douille de direction n'était pas fissurée ?

New road bike, needed to get a picture before all the paint will wash off in winter

_23_00304 by Puke Lenny, on Flickr

_24_00305 by Puke Lenny, on Flickr

_25_00306 by Puke Lenny, on Flickr

^ sweet jesus you need new inner cables.

I'm pretty sure they are coated with something and not just rusty.