Current Projects chat and miscellany

This one?

No, this one

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Panaracer Pasela ain't bad, not too heavy and quite puncture proof.

I don't know if they survive fixieskidding long...

& nice 'Dale ^=^

Any chance of a picture from a more zoomed out and different angle? The shadows and are messing with my head and I cant figure it out 3d wise, like an optical illusion painting and it's going to irritate me.

I love those things. #Winning #Berlingolyf

That martelly looks amazing! Good job on the plume too, obvs

Received my mbk frame yesterday, looking pretty good although a bit heavy. Gave it a clean and sprayed the inside with linseed oil, will be building up in a week or so. In the meantime I did a bit of research on the "inexternal brazing" that's written on the top tube. I'd never heard of it but was apparently popular in the 80s-90s with a few manufacturers. Makes for very smooth joins anyway. Might be of interest to someone, here's a pic:

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Lots of framebuilders use this technique. Sachs, Llewellyn or Yamaguchi just to name a few.

Lugless Peugeots from the same period used a similar system, but without the external fillets. They sold it as a benefit for customers, but I think it was mostly a benefit for Peugeot to use what were essentially solder-ring fittings instead of brazing rods, I bet they saved a bunch of money by making automation simpler.

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Well, there you go. News to me, standard practice to others. Here's a pic of the frame anyway. Paint chips here and there but good enough.

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I'll see if I can find it later. But there is footage on YouTube of a brazing machine used for this building method. Basicly it is very fast, as you just assemble the frame in a jig and heat all joints up simultaneously.
It is pretty smart, but there might higher probability of joint failure in the long run.

Feed something thin and relatively narrow gauge into the hole like fishing mono-filament or similar. Block all other holes up except the hole you want the line to come out of then apply a vacuum cleaner to that hole. It should suck the line through then attach the other end to whatever cable you wish to go between the two holes and gently pull it through with the fishing line. If the line snaps do it all again but then attach it to something stronger or slightly thicker. Pull that through then attach that to your cable.

This isn't the film I was thinking about, but it shows the same thing almost...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZPS_iwoeJg

Got this shiny new Saracen Avro disc road bike, felt awesome to ride, next step is 650b thru axles wheels to run 38mm, maybe 42mm (currently 32mm max on 700c).

Brakes felt great, power not so, will be replaced with BB7.

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could of sworn i saw a scoblesque character (uside down head look) on a pink frame with gumwalls, brixton rd region last weekend

That'd be me on a Charge Plug, I live there.

past tense? be careful, If I keep seeing you about ,I may have to stop you to buy you a pint

still there, wrong word.

like it!! thats a cool position for the seatpost bolt!! nice

f'kin axle stripped... time to replace back wheel and think about a new axle....

and now the bike

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Spring clean.

That looks lovely.

There are 2, measured at the end of the drops end to end/centre to centre - 41.5/39.5 & 44/42.

The P of the Pista for the 44 is slightly rubbed off while there is light scratches on the 41.5 which can easily be polished off.

Ping me a message with your email and I'll send the pics over.

user47620 knows the veloflex truth

Saddle needs levelling but this is darn fun

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