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I think there is clearance, just this was meant to be a budget build and I already had these guards around wasting space so it felt churlish to not make use of them.

They are on the possible future upgrades list though.

Cheers

Like that!

A pair of cheap Chinese brake levers have donated their clamps to hold a large light in place. Somehow. Details not quite straightened out yet.

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Its taken me 15 years to find this... the correct forks are currently sitting in caustic soda... doesn't quite look as expected. Yet.

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Easier than I thought

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Can you send me the Lin k to the levers? thanks

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F153327363171

a pengy?

Just bought some rattle can baby blue.

Looks a bit weeny. Couldn't you have found something larger?

honestly wtf is it

guerciotti pista, gipiemme pista group set, Cinelli finishing kit including priest bars. Just needs a lick of paint.

New pub bike.

Looks a bit weeny

Get used to it, it's the front light CTT are mandating for 2021

Well, as long as they've managed to draft a decent rule which actually works for a change, and provides a level playing field, I'm fine with that. I won't be holding my breath though.

priest bars

dibs

I have a Vitus 979 fork that's got broken threads, does anyone know where I might get the steerer chopped and extended? My lbs sent it to Argos for a normal steerer replacement but apparently it wasn't possible because of the alloy fork crown :(

The steerer is glued to the crown, as are the fork legs. Any kind of hot work is going to weaken or destroy the glue joints. It would be hypothetically possible, but uneconomic, to take the old steerer out and make a new one to bond in. The actual sensible solution is to find a monobloc carbon fork and switch the headset and stem to AHead.

That's why I want to get the steerer chopped and extended rather than completely replaced. Threadless carbon would be the easiest solution of course, but it wouldn't fit the look of the frame at all. I'm on the lookout for a new fork too, but they don't come up very often and usually too short.

A chromed, steel fork could be a good middle ground?

I have an aluminium 1" fork that comes from a 58 cm Merckx frame. Any help?

What size is the frame. I have a spare 979 fork.

It's a 56, with a 15cm headtube.

wouldn't fit the look of the frame at all.

You could paint the main tubes black and pretend it was a TVT 😊

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Haha! Honestly I probably would go carbon if the frame wasn't white.