Current Projects chat and miscellany

A bodge something like this? But can obviously be made prettier.
(Just a pic off the internet)

Thin nose pliers

absolutely buggered it completely, now the dust cap threads are stuck in the crank with no way to remove at all

If it's dead then just dremel a slot and use a big screwdriver

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My girlfriend has been commuting a few miles a day on this passed down halfords mountain bike that weighs a tonne and takes a load of effort to pedal.

I bought this frame on here and I'm only really just getting around to putting it together. Wheels are just some spare for now, it'll get its own set

Excuse the pink anodised bits, they'll be replaced. So I'm just looking for some Sram flat bar shifters and some small town flat pedals, then it'll get a cassette, chain, cables, grips and be done. Maybe a rack too.

Probably, it is now currently build as a retro-inspired MTB with road-like geometry (I fitted a fork with more rake than the original).

Full 8 speed groupset with cheap microshift thumb shifter, LX brakeset, rigida ceramic rims, son front hubs and phil wood rear hubs.

Still need to attach the front dynamo light.

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^^I seem to need a 5.5mm allen key for the seat binder bolt, interestingly.

Might be imperial not metric?

I seem to need a 5.5mm allen key

Have mine, it's a bloody nuisance picking it up thinking it's a 5 or a 6 and I have no use for it :)

It's from 1977, so quite possible - I wonder what imperial size I should be looking for?

Might be imperial not metric?

7/32" is close, but 5.5mm is actually a thing.

7/32 is within margin of error if he measured with non digital verniers. A friends old track frame used an imperial seattube bolt, which is why I suggested it. Although the difference between 7/32 and 5.5mm is 0.05mm (50 micrometers), so I imagine both would work

A T-35 and a bit of care did the trick.

7/32 is within margin of error if he measured with non digital verniers.

Given the trouble he had with the 7mm stem bolt, it's well within @Dammit 's margin for error whatever instruments he used :)

Tape measure from a Christmas cracker

Nice frame, are you going to run it single ring at front? If so what's the plan, narrow wide or some sort of chain retention?

Nice, very simple and efficient

Yeah 1x10. I'm gonna see how it runs with the ring on there. It's a shimano inner ring from a double so doesn't have ramps or pins. But I will replace with narrow wide soon yeah.

It is, it's kinda hard to look at it and go "how can it be made better?"

Mudguards :-)

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What @Heldring said about mudguards! Otherwise it looks like a real cracker.

I'm building a specialized at the moment 1x10. But it's a sram rival crankset and the chainrings are full of pins and ramps. So I need to get a new ring I think. Haven't rode it yet due to I haven't finished the build just yet, but should be done mid this week so I can see how it rides!