On One Pompino owners...

Been tinkering a bit recently, now has Velo Orange mudguards, Surly Disc Trucker fork & Hy Rd at the front. Backed down from plans to go dynamo on cost and not-really-needing-it grounds.

Cowbells and Sturmey 3 speed hub are staying, both have been excellent over the last year, and make it a lot more functional - did a 3 day mini tour with a fair bit of off road in the Mendips & Dartmoor that I would never have managed single speed.

Next up is a front rack / basket of some sort. Fork has all the eyelets so anything should be possible - keen for something that doesn't weigh 2 kilos tho as is this already a beast.

Something like the Rawlands Demi-porteur or smaller Pelago commuter look good, wondering whether having a basket / rail round the edge would be a lot more practical though...

Will take a less ugly pic soon now it's rideable again

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Excellent. Getting the same forks for mine soon. Keen to see how this progresses.

What's the rear hub and its OLD? Ta.

It's an S-RF3 - https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/hubs-internal-hub-gear-brake/sturmey-archer-srf3-3spd-aluminium-freewheel-hub-36-hole/

Says 117mm on that link but it fits perfectly on the 120mm Pomp. It's heavy, but it shifts well and the gear range is very good - I have it set up so the top gear is 70ish, which was my fave when I ran fixed/ss, then middle is the uphill gear and low is for seriously steep/offroad/heavily loaded/lazy.

+1 for the disc trucker fork and HY/RD. Currently got that on my pompetamine. Is that the 26" for or 700? Looks like 26" to me.

I also rewrapped my bars in blue the other day and for a second thought you'd got a pic of mine! Will post one when I get a chance to take one.

Wouldn't the axle to crown distance be off if it was the 26"?

That's the 700. It's probably roomier than it looks in the photo too, 35c tyre, guard and there's still plenty spare space.

Time to replace the bar tape, it's worn and been wrapped and rewrapped too many times, but Fizik metallic blue is defs my fave colour so far for the white pomp.

I wouldn't call it off, but yes it is shorter. From memory it is 376mm which is less than the standard for the pomp/pompet (390 or 395 depending on where you look) but similar to a normal road fork. I've been using a few forks of that length for a while and lots of other people have too. I measured the head angle on a medium with it and got 72 degrees which is in the range for a normal road bike, so handling is totally fine. Have a trundle back through the thread and you'll find lots of examples.

Thanks. Looks interesting for touring. I note Sturmey Archer's site also lists some fixed three speed hubs. Unsure if that is what they really mean though.

Yeah, gear shifting but no freewheel from what I gather. Not sure how that works with the 'stop pedalling to shift' nature of the normal hubs though.

I have a 3-speed in my pomp, its awesome. Gears for the road, for the tow-path, and for pooling around with the girlfriend when she's on her Pashley.

Salut! New handlebar, carbon fork and bling fenders for my Pomp v4:

The initial version of this Pomp 3 years ago (not the black one): https://www.lfgss.com/comments/11777316/

BTW we have a similar "Pomp owners" thread on a French forum and I tried to trace a genealogy of the Pomps & Kaffenbacks family - most can be understood thanks to the dates and photos? Comments more than welcome!

http://forum.velotaf.com/topic/22815-un-kaff-a-cote-de-ses-pomps-on-one-pompino-planet-x-kaffenback/page__st__543

Crashed the pompino catastrophically at a junction and wrote off a rib/the noodles that were acting as handle bars. On with the Monkey Risers!

Both look good, black is tidy, grey looks v. functional +1

Lots of excellent bikes again! It's the amazing the variety of builds that people come up with for this humble frameset. I see lots of fenders in the most recent posts.

Sadly, my SKS longboards recently cracked where I had drilled a hole through them to screw into the downward facing hole in the seatstay bridge on my v4.

Other than ensuring that tension on the fender is at a mininum, does anybody have a smarter suggestion for attaching fenders? It seems strange to me that the hole faces down on the seat stay bridge, as it makes installation and removal more difficult than necessary!

I've got to say that I just wrap some bar tape and electrical tape round the bridge to stop it knocking and rely on the mudguard stays to keep it in place.

I've had SKS guards fail at that exact place as well, and if you email them with your receipt a few pics, they'll send you out a new set for free under warranty.

Fantastic customer service, especially as they're DE based.

I put an o-ring round the bolt between the mudguard and fixing hole in the frame.

Thanks for your replies Cranky and seager. I am in Australia so making a warranty claim may be tougher. Plus they are a couple of years old. Why on earth does the hole in the seat stay bridge face down? is that common or normal or sensible in any way?

SKS paid for all shipping for me and they were also a couple of years old - I think they cover for up to 5 years so you might be in luck.

I've never been able to fathom the downwards facing thread either.

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Narrow(er) tyres and bigger gearing for summer, feels so damn fast now. New fork coming up from orlowski, might take a while though

I'm unsure if you could make a warranty claim if the mudguard has been modified ie drilled. On the V3 and earlier models the downward facing hole on the wishbone stays made sense to me, it certainly made the mudguard attachment neat. Now the wishbone stays have gone I'm not sure.

This little Pompy went to Amsterdram, and despite an unwinding spoke on the rear wheel and a cocktail of Dutch rain and/or headwinds, it was ~200 miles of great riding on both sides of the channel. Braintree -> Harwich -> Hook of Holland -> Amsterdam (beers, frites ... etc ... ) then return.

Got nailed side on by a convertible Mercedes the weekend before last, which resulted in a severely crunched ankle / wheel / front rack etc. but luckily was all clear on the frame / forks. So for the trip all I did was changed up the bars from riser / extension combo to compact drops and threw on some 28c gators and a rear rack — felt great.

Windy/10 — would recommend to a friend.

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650b on a pomp frame- doable?

If you're planning on riding brakeless (or have welding skills to move brake studs lower), why not

Was thinking fixed with a disc fork. So I'm only really bothered about frame clearances. Wonder what max tyre size the frame would take? I've seen a Kaffenback with 26x1.75 knobblies, so imagine similar clearances to the Pompino

Pomp takes 700x42's, but because of the chainstay design i reckon you won't get much more clearance with smaller wheel, so probably 1.75" would be the max.