Current Projects chat and miscellany

What grade are you going up to? I've just stripped the paint on my capo and can't decide between paint or polish

Don’t know, I’m on P150 whatever that means. It’s pretty fine and is leaving it smooth rather than scratched or brushed. I might leave it at that for a uniform silver finish or get some finer for polishing.

Need new brake pads for my Batavus: best upgrade for Veloce spider calipers?

mirror or gtfo. It's not hard to get down to autosol levels

My current Foco daily

After 18 months, it's finally painted and built up.

What post is that?

A Fox Doss which somehow still works beautifully despite being utterly abused getting it out of the Orange P7 it had formed a very strong bond with.

Swissstop. I like the blue ones.
If you have carbon rims, campagnolo.

Kool Stop!

About to order a new rear derailleur and cassette. What are my options on shifter/brifter compatibility. 9 or 10 speed preferably. Would like a clutch mech.

Which groupset?

I'm replacing a 3x8 Deore lx on my Marin for 1x9/10 and would like the ability to swap my loop-bar for drops. So out with the old in with the new I guess.

would like the ability to swap my loop-bar for drops

SRAM 10-speed is you friend. Flat bar or drop levers work with 10-speed MTB rear dérailleur, including optional clutch variants.

Thanks! The exact actuation. I had it in the back of my head somewhere. Thanks for your replies :-)

Will use either XT or TRP cx9 vbrakes methinks.

Still on the road after 4/5(?) years. Still never want to sell. Around 7.5 kilos in current guise

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Will use either XT or TRP cx9

CX9 are pretty, but BR-R353 seems to do the same job for under £30 a set. You will probably want to switch to the XT shoes after you've worn out the OE (shoeless) pads so in practice they're half the price of TRP not a quarter.

The Veloce are pad and block combined. Swisstop will be compatible ?

Sweet fixeh

Veloce are pad and block combined

See my post above about the R353 V-brakes - cheap brakes (Sora, Veloce) use shoeless pads to save money on initial purchase, you should pretty much always buy separable shoes and pads the first time you need to replace the pads as loose pads are cheaper in the long run, and you have more options regarding compounds. I've used Tektro shoes in a cheap Veloce before, but pretty much anything will work, and most of them will be Shimano pattern which again widens (and usually cheapens) your options when it comes to pads.

2007 called...

I like it so much, I need it in my stable of Rychtarski ....

I love this bike, always have xoxo

#burn

Ive taken some proper #35mm images just for you