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I wonder if it's the case that this post/clamp is designed to fit inside the mast should it need to be cut down all the way? Giant do a similar thing

https://www.bikeonlineshop.net/dedacciai-frame-and-forks/seatpost-1

Otherwise maybe compromise? 175 cranks would mean you only need an extra 1cm of stack on a replacement saddle

dremeled 108g to 79g

Come on, I have real world work to do also. :)

What is real ?

How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real?

Only poetry and illusions are real.

Only poetry and illusions are real.

And numbers whose square is positive.

Back from its appointment with the hacksaw, this is now fully operational! And they didn't fuck it up and all.

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Fuck, that looks sweet.

Nice ride, man!

A plethora of tweaks to the daily...
A quick wash, destickered front wheel, fitted new saddle & a rather nice stem (120mm Profile Lava for 99p on the ebay)
But it's the little things that brought the greatest joy - finally got some nice crank dustcaps and fitted a hefty seatpost clamp that solved my creaky saddle.... It used to be an 8mm wide clamp with M4 screw and the seatpost creaked with every pedal stroke - I'd always assumed it was the USE alien that was creaking but when I broke it and replaced it with the Alpina the same creak remained and I realised it was the clamp after all.

Stem looks great!

On my battle front here, things have been a lot more positive tonight, some good progress achieved.

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Alfine circlip has made its way to the slot it will abide in the coming years, and the belt line has miraculously healed itself - well at least as far as I can tell. I guess yesterday just wasn't my day (night). @Turkish couldn't get my head around actually 'measuring' the belt line as seems like too many different items all around (starting from uneven Alfine body). Will settle for this until at least finally tightening the belt (Yey for the belt phone app lol) and setting up the Alfine. Thanks for the tip anyways!

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That is lovely.

What the chainline of the SRAM crankset?

I have good result using the Shimano Alfine chainset with the belt in the past.

edit - didn't see second pages, glad it work!

Yes, Ed, I believe it's because Alfine chain set is made specifically for super narrow Alfine hub chain line, but they do look shit imo.
SRAM doubles should be 41/46mm for inner/outer respectively, with Alfine at 44 it shouldn't have worked. But with front sprocket in inner position belt line was clearly at the angle towards frame / bb, so moving sprocket out seems to have fixed it

Where did you read 44mm? I got 42.7mm from Shimano.

Looks dead straight to me but in future:
-take the wheel out the frame
-pen marker on the hub 67.5mm (assuming your frame/hub is 135 spaced) from either of the locknuts
-wheel back in frame
-measure from pen mark to the edge of the belt
Compare that figure to the distance between the centre of the DT to the edge of the belt at the crankset. Hope that makes sense...

Haha cheers! Wasn't thinking to measure from dropouts...

Lots of gates manuals, I guess it has to do with belt rather than chain

I got this Corratec Formula (Cromor) frame last year on eBay. The original Columbus chrome fork which came with the frame looked so 80's so I was looking for a 1" carbon fork. I was outbid but got Terry Dolan cr-mo fork as a backup for only 6.5 pounds (plus über teuer EU shipping). To my surprise the fork's original peal paint job blends so well with the metallic gradation paint of the frame and is much lighter and stylish than expected. I decided to go Campa 10sp to make it compatible with my another steed but on the cheap by using bar end shifter. The original stickers looked so messy on this small frame (510 C-T 520 C-C) so I removed them. I will get modern Corratec stickers.

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bar end shifter

Nice frame but wtf? Can't the shifter go in the end of the drop bar rather than using that thing?

Hits my knee when turning right and also it's closer to my right hand than DT or bar end.

You knee what ?