Current Projects chat and miscellany

What should I do with it?

If it's pretty light, and the frame is decent, then a single chainring would be great like this;

http://www.cxmagazine.com/2016-lost-and-found-peugeot-city-express-gravel-bike-conversion-bike-profile

tout mavic shhhhex. looking fwd to the finished article!

My Foots-cray is now built up. Needs bigger tyres for off road but I'm happy with how it's turned out.

I'm sorry to be 3 days, 2 pages and 1 order too late for this, but given the setup in your picture you still had the following option: take out the spacer from between your NDS bb cup and put it next to the spacer on the drive side. The reason this may have worked is that GXP cranks rely on the NDS end of the crank axle/spindle to lay itself on to the bb cup bearing. Meaning your chain line ( and in this situation, the clearance issue ) will depend on the position of the NDS bb cup relative to your frame.
If placing both spacers on drive side wouldn't have helped, you could also face few mm from the NDS side of the bb shell, but that I guess would be taking it to the extreme...
Let us know how you got on, please!

Let us know how you got on

He ordered an MTB crank :)

Hub question, I had my Mavic track hubs laced to 700c rims, while I already had a 650c Mavic wheel. Now I found out the front wheel has no thread, so it seems it can only do quick release, wich is not the nicest solution. Is my only way to getting bolts on to relace the hubs?? shite.

Just use this?

Frankly a better solution.

Hubs which have a 5mm cylindrical bore for a QR skewer and which don't rely on the skewer to keep the hub together can easily be tapped M6 for suitable screws without affecting the QR function. There's more detail and pictures in my T3 thread.

ThanksT will look into both options. It's just that I have these pretty mavic bolt covers.
Tapping the hubs might be it!

Ok so yesterday I test rode the legor with some parts that were lying around the shop, it felt too short with a 120 and too long with the 130. I think I'll end up wth the 120, a layback post and some wider, compact drops because I hate the shape of these.

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Get new bars first, some with shorter/longer reach, before you start messing with your saddle position

Dat motorcycle ..

sky have stems in every mm increment, get friendly with the team mechanics

^ watched that yesterday.
A drawer full of PRO stems in 1mm increments on the team workbus.
Nuts, and a serious amount of value in stems.

Zipp makes a 125mm, at least I've got one of those.

a serious amount of value in stems

If you look at the output of a stem forge, it's likely that "1mm increments" just means they've measured them and sorted into five times as many boxes as usual. A "100mm" stem is one which comes out of the forge between 97.5 and 102.5 for retail customers. Getting 1mm increments is just like the old fashioned way of assembling machines where, for example, pistons were sorted into boxes depending on how far off the nominal size they were and then selected to match cylinder bores with the same deviation.

just got this for supercheap....can't decide what to do with it. definitly needs new ahead forks.

klunker or big tire touring bike? might be too long for me to use drops though......

big tire touring bike

Yes!

Nice colour and seat stay junction. 26" wheels?

My Muddy Fox tourer:

jup, 26er. yeah i fell for the monostay :)
somebody on here had a sick muddy fox monster touring bike, can't find the picture though. help!

edit: haha ok, cheers!

+1

That is awesome!

I have just bought an Easton frame.

1" headtube, BSA BB shell, 27.2mm ish seatpost. Believe to be early to mid 90's.

It looks very well made so I fitted a full 3x8 Campagnolo groupset and some threadless 1" Kinesis alloy forks I had in the parts box.

It needs a black stem & bar tape then we be rollin'

Anyone know about Easton frames? Not much online about them

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I think they were caad10 of their time ..

I might be building this beauty. Had a test ride and it fits!! I can't afford a snazzy build so i was thinking primato.. would it be an in justice? I think it would look good.. can't wait to ride it again.

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Huge injustice! Why not just second hand sugino or DA bits?