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I'm not being very helpful today. I'll stop.

Cant move past that. If I use a pressing tool the delrin sleeve buckles.

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Yup. I've very barely managed with some welded Salsa-style stems + coin method + 45min of cursing, but the last time the lady friend and I tried to get a pair onto a forged quill for her tourer we bent the clamp badly and it wouldn't close again.

Turns out it was a 25.4 clamp but I'd nonetheless be a bit worried about getting compacts onto proper quills.

"the lady friend and I tried to get a pair onto a forged quill"

euphemism?

Very complex maneuver right there.

Too lame. I had the same issues with the adapter i went with from the start. LBS installed the plastic threaded adapter instead. But will probably be looking at alternatives later on.

That sucks :(

I got piegas in a 25.4 pearl. Anything is possible if you set your mind to it

Shimano chain/cassette in a sram MTB rear mech a-okay? 10 speed all round

Nah man! I live in Birmingham

Yeah I know that, I seen your other bike on KH high st before. Wood gate valley is other side of harbourne!!

Oh yeah word. Nah man it's somewhere in Yardley wood, just off the canal!

Oh ok. Bike looks spot on anyway 👍🏻

Sure does!

Yep that should be fine.
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yea I guess it's one of those things where I wouldn't be too surprised if it worked, but also wouldn't be too surprised if the stem or bars wound up pretty busted up.

I know, right? She's a keeper!

Anyone else had difficulty getting a quill stem round the bend on compact drops? It's driving me bananas!
have had no joy with the penny method so far

it's all about the angle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKWb9MGtVmw

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Nearly Neo Nearly Retro Rush Budget Build - Look KG243

I was going to start a separate thread for this, but in the end it was started and finished before I got around to it, as it had to be ready for a (taller than me) friend to use for l’Ardechoise last Friday.
So a quick summary here instead…

Look KG243 frame (1998/9?), bought a couple of years ago on leboncoin here in France.
Plenty of paint chips, someone appears to have removed a strip of paint along the top tube, and there’s a tiny ding on the inside of one of the seat stays. Lovely frame still.

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Gritty old headset, seized stem extender and carbon forks removed.
Hard work and involved lots of swearing.

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Been keeping an eye out on and off for some original Look chrome forks, but not found any as yet, so finally went with BLB ones, courtsey of @MCamb.
Originally cut them down to fit a nice Record headset I had, but found the threads didn’t match, so went with a less glamorous old 105 headset. In case I change again later I didn’t cut them down again for the shorter stack height of the 105 headset, but added a filed-down spacer instead.

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Black Easton seatpost and stem, both from parts bin.
Cheapo stem adaptor (will replace later).
New Deda compact bars.
Old Flite saddle, which I think was forum-bought a year or so ago.
The groupset and wheels were bought on here from @Scilly.Suffolk a few years ago, put on another bike originally, and now stripped off that and used here.
2007-2010 black Veloce groupset, 10sp, 50/34 compact.
Spa Cycles-built wheels, Rigida Chrina rims on Centaur hubs.
New 12-29 Veloce cassette.
New Conti Grand Prix tyres, 25mm.

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