Hulsroy's Hustle

Several strong cups of tea, large bowl of porridge with lashings of honey dolloped on top, soon see you right.

I am fairly certain I have decided on a colour for the GT.

I am going for grey perl RAL 7048.

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Nice and classy. It works well against black.

Rattle canned and sharpied. Yours if you want it for something though.
Will probably only clear a 32c tyre

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Thanks man. I'd love to take them off your hands. I don't have a specific project tho if you want to sell them to someone?

Meh. They came on a prototype genesis frame I used to have. Bought the frameset for 40 quid and sold the frame alone for 40 quid on eBay, the guy didn’t want the forks so they don’t owe me anything. I’ll hold onto them but you can have them when you want them

Thank you.
I'll make sure karma gets moved on

prototype genesis frame

Now that I think about it, that frame was basically a Mr. Pink before they existed

Yeah pretty much. It was a nice frame with the Ritchey dropouts and skinny stays etc but not what I needed at the time.

Looks like the new V60 Pebble grey, maybe a bit lighter, works really nice with black and silver too.

Yeah :)

Another GT has popped up on ebay!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-Retro-1997-GT-Edge-CX-60cm-Cyclocross-Handbuilt-Bicycle-Reynolds-853/202440471337?hash=item2f22647329:g:kTkAAOSwqIhboCYj

Thanks but no thanks :-)

After a shit day at work where I at least got to go home early I find the the fucking asshole who sold me the GT Ruckus ssmtb frame including fake Chris King also stripped both threads that holds the BB shell in place. This makes the frame unridable and now I have to faff around with removing paint and brazing some inserts or something with fresh thread. Fuck this shit!

What an arse 😢 can you bosh a tap in there one size up or does it need a specific fitting? Rivnut maybe?

It will then be M8 which is way to coarse a thread for the material thickness.
I will fix it with fire. I am just disappointed in humans. That's all. Rant over.

In other news. I am am selling this frame set to make space for other bikes. Get in touch if you fancy it.

I will fix it with fire. I am just disappointed in humans.

You ought to "fix" that seller with fire too

Please don't.

Well, I got the GT coming back from paint soon and I want to use the parts on that. And it will make somebody else happy. It is not like I am destroying it.

Logical reasons are logical etc. That GT's going to be maaad

Ive been riding it this week, sadly too big for me, but god is it nice. Whosoever buys it will have a hell of a great ride.

Thanks Jack. I'll make you a smaller one :)

That's a bummer ... no chance to fill, drill & tap?

edit ... or helicoil?

Nah. I might as well do it proper. Paint job is shit anyways