Current Projects chat and miscellany

Bought another old MTB today to play around with.

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I have some HYW bars going spare and same Graham weigh although different colours :) might have to marry the two. Although frame is a bit small for me so it would be quite a drop.

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Might want to let that cool down for a few millennia.

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I've only owned it for eight hours and all my hair and teeth have fallen out.

so after a puncture on the cyclepath due to a shark's tooth flint, discovered that a year of no maintenance has resulted in a variety of near fatal component flaws - other half says, maybe time for a new bike?!!! - and am now heartily disappointed at lack of easily available components and frames, or even full builds, for single MTBs - what's going on out there - I thought we were going forwards not back into the arms of shimano!!! scarcely any WI's ENO hubs around, my favoured DMR hubs gone, suitable cranks and external BBs, a general dearth of SS and suitable componentry - bear in mind I'm talking MTB and 29er rather than road…but as a 60 year old hacking through the woods daily, a bit of respect please!

Sell your Soma to Bankiren and Woooow is it Max forks ?
Magnificent bike can you take outside photo please ?
Cheers sir !

You can easily knock up a SS MTB! Are you buying new or used parts? What kind of budget? Already have a frame?

Been making progress with the Hellas. So far have changed saddle, chainring, pedals/cages/straps, stem, bars and grips. Currently rebuilding the wheels - originally came with mismatched suzue promax front, radially laced with black spokes to a cx14 with brake wear. Rear is da7600 on cxp10. Tried to find a suzue 36h rear to have matching but no joy so just sticking with the mismatched hubs but rebuilding into silver velocity aeros 3x with silver spokes.

Awful moment when I popped the front wheel from the donohue in and realised black rim looks pretty good... can always swap wheels around.

Bars are nitto jitensha, popped some grips on but think i will bartape once I've ridden it and know stem is right.

Really excited to get this finished and rolling.

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Hell yes! What's the plan?

Strong bar choice 👌🏽

Dunno. It's pretty much as it would have been in 1991. New BB, new headset and new tyres already there so will use as is for the time being. There's nothing to do as far as I can see apart from a respray of the bars as they've faded on top, if I was going down the concours route. May swap my Wald basket over in a couple of weeks and see where we go from there. Open to suggestions.

new turbo and late night front wheel build

Love it !

Damn, this bike gets better and better. The turbo world champion is ace! I suppose you don't remeber the bb spindle width on the salmon either, do you?

Hey Sig. I've noticed a couple of yours posts in various threads and just thought I'd chip in and say I've been running the 632 Mavic Starfish with the sealed unit 111mm Token ISO BB for the past three years, with no troubles yet. Can't imagine the taper would change between the 631 and the 632, so I'd go with that if you ever find any!

Thanks a lot! That answers my first question about the chainline. What makes matters more complicated is the fact that the bike in question has a french threaded stronglight 118mm iso bb in it. Since the starfish is designed for iso, I could temporarily run it with 3mm spacers between the spiderarm and the chainring. In the long run, I'd like to run the cranks without spacers which means I have a couple options on which I need some forum expertise:

1. Getting the BB refaced to BSA or ITA threading. I read somewhere that it's possible to get it refaced to one of the more common threading types, don't remember which one it was atm.
   
2. Replace the spindle with a shorter one. I figure it would be really difficult to find one that checks all the boxes.
   
3. Get one of the velo orange bb's. They are jis tapered but according to sheldon it's unproblematic to put an iso crank on a jis taper. The only difference is that it sits 1-2mm further out. Which means I would probably have to go for the 107mm jis version.
   
   

Any input and advise is appreciated :)

It's a Miche ? and on my rat it's a Dura Ace NJS cages and ???... Sorry

I might just have a solution... I'll PM you.

cheers, I'm very excited to hear from you :)
@vaast cheers, appreciated!

25£ freestyle frame, aiming for a €100-150 fat tire lockup build

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Please keep the fourspok on when you put the fat tyres on.

suggestions for a bombproof stem with c.35-36mm steerer clamp stack height? Currently rocking a X2 but a bit worried that it's not gonna last long with 680mm risers.

looks like fun!