Current Projects chat and miscellany

Looks like it's supposed to run with shorter travel fork, no?

Wheels and frame look great! Can't see the rest due to tree shade... Are you a professional bike photographer? :)

pictured 'un-locked' , here's how they looked on the old model, I'd cut steerer tube to fit this,which is smaller than above frame, so put an extender in pretty much down to fork crown, and couldn't cut top down any shorter, hence stem stacks

Lookin o-some. Love the plum purple

Not uncommon, handy for roadside repairs. Great place to keep them. What held them in place? A cork?

No they where just dropped in with abit of tape around them, and the bottom bracket had a homemade plastic sleeve around it!

Pretty common for cyclotourist to carry spare spokes, modern bike tend to have spokes holder on the chain/seatstay.

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Sorry if big pic is big

That looks cool, haven't seen that before.

Workshop/bikeshed is fully built.

Just gotta organise it now and get rid of some more stuff.

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Modern bikes do?

Mounting spare spokes on the chainstay is as old as the hills, as your picture illustrates.

Can you point to an example of any modern bikes that have this bar one off custom frames?

I'm not suggesting you're wrong, just that I've not seen it before (on modern bikes) and it was relatively common on mass market cyclo-touring bikes in the 70-90s ish.

Its a lovely feature but its only really any use on a bike where you know what wheels are going on it (so you know the spoke lengths). You're kinda stuck with wheels that use spokes that length from then on too. I don't think I'd bother personally. Just bung em in the seat tube.

Surly LHT, Genesis TDF, Cinelli Hobo for example

Purple 3rensho identified... why is it not built up?

Jamie aurora also come with it

Interesting. LHT is available as frame only too (others possibly too). What length spokes fit the braze ons? I imagine a fairly short range that fit but also that covers probably most touring wheelset. Buggered if you want to run something with high flanges (ie: Rohloff) and deepish rims. Also is it a different length in the 26" model?

Chorus 1st gen project

have to unveil the fork, build the Omega V wheels
find pedals, seatpost nut and campag 8v chain...

Brakes are waw !

Chorus 1st gen project

working on one too! Didn't first gen Chorus was 7 speed?

7 Speed yes !

If someone have thoses...

All I'm missing is chainring bolts for a ride. Still waiting on @Miitch to build my sheriffs stars up which will be my classy wheelset

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All I'm missing is chainring bolts and a not squashed flite for bike Porn .

I'm keeping the Look pedals on this bike. It's an end eighties bike so lots of riders already used them.

I has chorus 1st to complete on the esa !

HED sticker on the front wheel?

No - but would you like to commission me? make my dreams come true?