TomvanHalen's tourer - Raleigh 853 (sick flames ITT)

Got them from @andy_k, kudos to him and his enormous stash of fancy bike parts.

Planning to get a Shimano CX70 double mech. Comes in top-pull flavour, rated for big tooth jumps and optimised for smaller ring circumference

Planning to get a Shimano CX70 double mech.

That's actually what Hub Jub suggests. Good to know, cheers.

Jan's been banging on about them for years now: https://janheine.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/trouble-with-sti-triples/

I've got them on a couple of bikes with similar size rings and it works well.

Thats impressive. I've been meaning to do something similar for a while. All my camera bags are really spoddy though. That one looks the part.

Thanks. Definitely needs more work to be suitable for hanging off the bars though. Thinking a dowel across the back like a Carradice, then webbing or such from the ends of that to the front of the base-stiffener to stop the whole thing sagging

Moar flames?

Also any 8/9 speed derailleur work with 10 speed as long it's not those shadow/clutch one.

So 11-36 will work? Says max 34t on Velobase for M730 XT

Not sure, it could work, only way is to find out, even something cheap like the Shimano Altus work well.

Got some lovely gutted Rival levers from le forum so next stage is a go! Leaving the mudguards off for a bit to enjoy a bit more sprightly fun times while I acquire some 60mm replacements. Not sure if I should rearrange the cable order on the top tube, the bosses are all a bit close to the vertical tubes for really smooth routing.

Just flicked through all this, also my first post on here, I have a frame that I won on ebay that I am building up.

Reading this makes me impatient ha

Tell me about it ha

These SRAM levers work so well with canti.

^ Can confirm this is true. New cable routing is so good also.

Couple more position tweaks and emergency brake toe-in over lunch (because mental cable judder) and the bike is riding better than ever. Very sprightly. Chain does rub on the big ring in anything but the top 4 sprockets when shifted down to the 30, but don't really need it except as a bail-out.

Weirdly the speed-shimmy has gone too

Gutted in what sense Tom?

Always like to see more retro-mtb conversions!

All the shift gubbins has been taken out, presumably was broken. Cheap S900s, essentially!

Depends. I bodged a 9 speed cassette to test out 11-36 on 8 speed. It shifts....but that's not saying much really. It shifts badly. Could probably be adjusted to a degree, but frankly, I was happy with the range offered by 11-34.

You were using a 9 speed cassette with an 8 speed drivetrain?

Chain does rub on the big ring in anything but the top 4 sprockets when shifted down to the 30.

Isn't it fricton? as in you can trim it to stop it from rubbing?

No, I mean it rubs on the big ring, not the derailleur

Chainset seems to have bedded in a bit so with the help of the 10sp chain I can use most of the gear combos. Instagram-approved Thomson bits and gnarly tyres for winter have been acquired. Bit of a snag getting the right mudguards though, Gilles Berthoud are completely out of 26x60 long fenders. Didn't really want to have to purchase a whole new complete kit from SJS.

Still dithering about pizza rack

I thought they'd stopped making those size of GBs, although it does say stock due on SJS.

Ugh, I hope they haven't stopped making them altogether. The email I got back from GB just said "we currently do not have them in stock". SJS had an expected date on the long ones, it just shifted to a generic "stock due" message when the date passed

Couldn't find them on the usual Dutch websites either :(

Gilles Berthoud are completely out of 26x60 long fenders.

Are the Velo Orange ones no good for you?