Current Projects chat and miscellany

Seems unlikely, doesn't it? Oddly it was wrecked at 180° to that too, but I'd have 16 skid patches if I indulged in that kind of behaviour.

Nice forks too. What tubing is that? Looks great btw

Thanks!
It's got Columbus max forks and seatstays with Cromor everything else

So much fun.

Well the bike is done and riding fucking sick, need to take it somewhere more gnarly next and really get the suspension dialed in.

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Poor technique, as Mr Tester kindly said to me when I confessed tonne struggling with a corsa speed on Thursday!

Is there a relatively easy way to remove paint from an anodised aluminium frame?

My CAAD10 has the blackinc paint scheme and I'm thinking of losing the gloss black and gold detailing. Don't want to damage the anodising behind. If there's a precise way of removing the paint I'd consider masking off and only removing the gold details. I'd repaint the forks.

This scheme:

I've never had a white bike before and I just bought a pearlescent white frame to build up. What's the forum approved cable housing colour for a white frame? Black might look a bit too contrasty, but I'm worried white might look weird next to spangly white.

Southbank cycles?

Black looks fine in my opinion! See mine and other halfs bikes.

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I'll probably cable it up with black as i have a load, then see how i feel about it. Can always go fluoro pink at some point in the future :-)

Funny enough, before I painted the misses it had pink cables, but with blue frame. She didn't want the pink on the white! I thought it would look ace though.

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Trial and error; cheap (weak, like Wilko own brand) paint stripper or maybe even acetone. Neither should harm the underlying anodising, but try on a small, inconspicuous area first (may require some light abrasion first).

Sub £200 beater is now SS

How can that be sub 200 quid? You work in the bikingbiz?

Santa cruz waaawww !

got loads done on the Day One today! (ignore the half fitted tyres and the taped on guards)

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Parts bin innit

After a head on collision wrote off the holdsworth this morning, I had to bring the rumrunner out of retirement.

seriously?! bummer man! that was a beauty! what happened? brklss to have anything to do with it?!

It's reasonable easy if you don't need to build in a rush. There was 6 months between me getting the frame and wheels, kept my eye out for bargains and snagged free parts bin bits where I could.

Mountain bike came charging at me whilst another rider boxed me in, blam. Wheels fucked, forks 10mm closer to downtube. Hopefully able to cold set at a later date but for now it's more work than I'm capable of.

Neo retro in progress, need to score some 10 spd brifters (does anyone haz for sells?) and wait for some packages to arrive.

Abandoned the idea of spray-stenciling a silly play on the old Specialized logo onto my wheel, instead going with the equally silly idea of painting my own name (although, obviously, my alias is not all in caps and has no full stop...) in a 'HED' style.

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Also, mad props to my friend Zak's grandad (don't think he's on here) for machining me a proper bearing insert (to replace 8sp UG/HG hybrid freehub body on older Spec/HED trispokes), after years of using a flexy plastic FDM prototype.
#tootighttobuyafront

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