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It's so simple 2 old hubs (smooth ones helps) and L brackets. Go for if you have a hour spare.

Go for it

With caveats. You need a rigid fork support, tiny rollers wreck tyres, and at anything like a decent pace the hubs will be spinning at >10,000 rpm, equivalent to about 750mph in 700C wheels. The grease will melt, and cageless bearing balls will wear out very fast.

It was best I gave up then .Wow 750mph .

Wow 750mph

I've had my Tack rollers up to a roller rpm which would be 450mph if they were wheel bearings (75mph wheel speed, and the rollers are 1/6 of the wheel diameter), but only for very short excursions and they are caged ball cartridges, which tolerate high speeds better than loose balls.

Does anyone use Deda 35mm carbon handlebars?

Scratch that, I’ll just get normal bars. Just would like 3k weave and most bars seem to be UD these days

my best mate had a gut feeling (something with his wheel build didn't add up) about my spoke tension meter being off.. so we set out to fix the problem:

1. create contraption and prepare weights + scale.
   
2. fix hanging device.
   
3. hang the precision calibrating tool.
   
4. call in measurement expert.
   
   

the tension meter is now calibrated :)

This is so great. Was it far off?

How did you calebrate it? Out of interest?

@tuiloui - not that much. we got a bit scared when we misread the table.. :D

@Josh - suspended the spoke and added enough weight to our device (nissan rim) and measured the tension. cross-referenced the measurements with the park tool table and turned the spring preload screw a few times :)

Waiting on a few more items for my Marshall and progressing on my other project frameset purchased recently off ebay.

New black stem for the piegas hopefully arriving soon and then just needs cables, bartape and some new cages.

Colour inspiration? 90's neon, celeste, silver/grey or more black? WWYD?

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Installed an Alivio RD-4000, brand new, nearly same issue occurs. Upper and lower limits are seemingly perfect, cable tension has been fiddled with, and it just won't shift down to 4th and won't shift up to 8th speed. I bought the derailleur from a bike shop, mechanic guy clamped the bike on a stand, eyeballed the hanger and said it should be straight—I don't see any sort of deformation either. Brand new shift cable and housings btw.
Shifter is crisp and feels great in general, but is rather old and used, can by any chance that be the issue?

Shifter is crisp and feels great in general, but is rather old and used, can by any chance that be the issue?

If the indexing detents were worn, I wouldn't expect it to affect the upshifts at all, and probably not the downshifts either unless you short stroke it.

You haven't said which cassette you're using. Is it in good condition? Is it of the kind where you might have accidentally slipped an 8-speed spacer into the stack instead of a 9-speed one in one or more positions?

I would go for neon pink or a turquoise/blue type tape

Brand new SunRace 9 speed 11-36 casette, on an XT 737 hub and its stock freehub. Casette has no removable spacers anywhere, 7 largest cogs are mounted on a spider, 2 smallest are loose and have spacing on them, and they're installed right for sure, triple checked during the installation.
Brand new chainring and chain too, so there's literally no worn parts basically right now (bar the shifter itself).

Edit: went through the whole RD adjustment again with the help of a Park Tool vid, now all gears are borderline fine, but the performance is just not there.
At this point I'm just gonna believe there's a minor bend in the hanger and fuck all. Also, I guess the cheapest possible casette, chain and chainring combo paired up with a mediocre shifter and RD just aren't capable of my high standards of shifting, I'm stubbornly used to old 7 speed XT-level stuff...
There's noise, especially on the 1st and the 9th gear, which I expected on from a cheap, almost ghetto level 1x conversion. Chainline couldn't really be better though.

I'm gonna stop overthinking and overtinkering and proceed with riding now I guess.

Dug Hellas out of garage and had a quick blast at weekend. So good.

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fixies were back 2 weeks ago melayshiun

#RIPPanasonic

Oh I missed it already?

It’s alright, hung up again now. Till next time.

Hellas > Panasonic

Do STX, I think, canti brake levers work with v deore brakes or do the levers have a different pull ratio or anythink?

I am doing a budget budget build for a friend and thats all the parts bin currently provides

Thanks!

Do STX, I think, canti brake levers work with v deore brakes or do the levers have a different pull ratio or anythink?

They won't work (properly), because they have different pull ratios.

Supernajs!

Do STX, I think, canti brake levers work with v deore brakes

You should find the part number marked on the lever somewhere. Use that to search for the SI PDF. At least some STX cable brake levers have adjustable pull to allow use of either cantilevers or v brakes.

Awesome, thanks so much

So I bought this random frame from Deeside cycles which is associated with Graham weigh and it had Graham weigh stickers on it but it’s definitely not hand made by him. It had a made in China sticker on it and the welds are not exactly perfect. But it does seem to be butted from the nail pinging on the tubes test.

Anyway after trying some wheels and tyres on it seems rather like it would work well with or was designed for 650b. That’s a 43mm tyre at the front. Won’t quite go all the way into the fork dropouts. And at the back it’s a 42mm tyre with the axle almost right at the back.

I’ve been looking for a steel canti frame with big clearances to build into a 1x gravel/off-road thing but can’t find anything at the moment. So I was thinking, since I had the frame, I could get rear derailleur, canti posts, cable guides etc brazed on and build it with 650b wheels.

Any reason not to use a fork with such a low offset off-road? The wheelbase is about 1030mm so it’s not super short.

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There were two of these on eBay? They were very interesting I did wonder if they were speedway frames