Any question answered...

Are you going to be walking or riding? If you're going to be riding, get road pedals. If you're going to be walking, get SPDs. If you're going to be doing both, with more walking than is strictly necessary to reach a lavatory or a place selling coffee, get SPDs.

I commute in SPDs, but I train and race using road pedal SPD-SLs. Different job, different pedals.

Good man

Will have to watch the trailer and get back to you.

Does anyone ever have a suggestion?

One day I'm going to get my dad, who is gradually collecting all of them, to lay them out. Trouble is, he'll then give us a guided tour of the country with lots of anecdotes.

Just remembered what that reminds me of
https://vimeo.com/42826812

Looking for a bit more stack height on my MTB. Any suggestions for a cheap +50mm rise handle bar for 31.8mm stem? Something like Kore Rivera but either used or cheaper. Prison bars would be rad, but I can not find anything OS.

@spotter you might enjoy http://www.whatismymovie.com

On watching some footage, I don't think it is sorry.

@CYOA will try there thanks.

Edit: found it through Google

https://youtu.be/1IbwMLgeo3w

Anyone seen something like this before? i tried to undo the cog and in doing so the entire hub including threads started turning, on both side of the hub. There do appear to be some sort of notches for a lockring tool on this side. Can't tell if it is meant to do this or if it's fucked. When I turned it, the metal plates around the hub started bending apart.

The disc is Russian, probably a fluidisk

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it's fucked

Correct answer. Not all that surprising for something made under the Soviet regime (not that Russian industry has improved that much in the succeeding quarter of a century)

Just messaged the guy I bought it from, he says it's intentional. He says that by spinning the hub you can increase or decrease the tension of the Kevlar

Lol

When it is spinning, the threaded sections are effectively moving across in and out of the hub so there has to be something it is doing?

In fact, I'd go further and say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6tBdovAgO0

Who can do this promptly?

If a frame builder can't work from that amount of detail, do you really want then building a frame for you?

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Who can do this promptly?
If a frame builder can't work from that amount of detail, do you really want then building a frame for you?>

True say.

Problem is finding any frame builders that do alu minium.
They actually messaged me back yesterday [after my request here] saying a they actually could draw up something afterall. I wonder if some of it is due to how cheap they are. They're not charging anywhere near £1.2k for 'bespoke'.

Thanks for all the replies, people. I'll make a note of all recommendations incase there's a hump further the road.

He says that by spinning the hub you can increase or decrease the tension of the Kevlar.

Brilliant.

Just brilliant.

You've been mugged.

Dimensions stems?

Then what are the notches on the thread for?

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Thomson X4 31.8 / 10 / 80mm

For this one...

Lastly, have you seen Omnium CXC?

I've just spoken to the importer, but it isn't clear whether the dimensions given for the CXC are for the mens version or the mixte.

Alu frame builders are rare.

It's Russian so could be anything, having said that, it doesn't look great.

Then what are the notches on the thread for?

Probably for holding the hub while you try to remove sticky sprockets, so that you don't have to resist the torque by holding the rim and thereby rip the hub free from its moorings :-)

There doesn't appear to be a left-hand lock ring thread, so the notch may be for a right-hand threaded lock ring with some sort of detent mechanism.

It could be a jigging point used during assembly which has no purpose for the end user.

Hmmmmm possibly...

I feel like there is still something to it, I mean the way it spins doesn't feel like it's broken. Like there must be something its threading through on he inside

Okay, so whether the movement of the hub is intentional or not, it can ve overcome by having a cog on both sides which which stops it from being able to move.

This is probably going to be greatly disapproved, but I'm going to loctite the cogs on along with a bb lockring on the side I'm going to use and fingers crossed i don't die