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Im curious if the stem he posted could be used for the same purpose
It might work if you rotated the angled inserts by 90°, so they canted the stem sideways rather than changing the stem rise angle. I don't know whether the inserts are indexed to stop you from doing that. Would a choice between 2° and 4° camber be enough? In fact, that's really the root question which you have never answered - just how precisely does the camber have to be dialled in to make a NoFork bike which can be ridden without having to lean over on the straights?
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aha... wasnt aware of that,I thought all that was clear... :|
Headtube angle..Ive been using some rregular frames, peugeot Y10, Koga gents racer and a Romany custom build. headtube angles are slightly different but all are in the usual range. The make of the triple triangle frame i dont know. The headtube angle seems a bit slack.
Depending on the hight adjustment of the wheel-stem the headtube angle may vary a few degrees.
Rake... Ive used a couple of different stems but i tend to use a relatively short one, its about 40mm. If i sweep it forward its about 50mm. Another I use is 60mm, which makes steering a bit more responsive. Downside of the longer stem is that the trail offset needs to be considerably larger.
Rims.. Used various for those as well. Started with Kris Holm 40 mm wide in order to move tyre contact patch more to the middle, kind of wrap the wheel around the hub. Rigida was so kind to make me a couple of asymmetrical rims (i believe they are 25mm wide) to accomplish the same for more narrow tyres.
The Tires... it get dull, Ive used various as well. From Big apple 2.35, regular 40mm, now there is bontrager 25 mm on there, but my fav are the continental 30mm..
The thing is, the system is adoptable to a wide variety of choices.
The adjustable camber axle is the only real requirement which I had to make myself. I will try and make some pictures later on.. but its basically what Tester has pointed out already. Im curious if the stem he posted could be used for the same purpose. Then (?) anybody can put it together with off the shelf parts