Current Projects chat and miscellany

Built up a 26” wheelset to replace the 700c that were on my GT.

Fixed / free rear and dynamo front.

First time setting up a U brake and a bit worried about tyre clearance. might downsize to 2”, which will hopefully leave some room for mudguards too...

Tried out the original stem as well but the rise is absurd! Will keep it on for a bit but do like to have a bit of saddle to bar drop :)

Looks sick!

Nice, what size tyres are they currently, they look massive? Currently rebuilding a road frame version

I guess they're 2.3" DTHs.

@MCamb if you want rid of those tyres, I'll take them!

Picked up a battered Trek alpha 1.9 to build for my brother, the forks are in bad shape with wheel rub on both sides (!). I've stripped the paint back to have a look as it was in terrible shape anyway. On one side it's gone through the carbon, does this look terminal? Have some nasty steel forks that weigh about 3x as much as the frame if so

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terminal?

Only for anybody who rides it in that condition.

Cool, I'll stick them on my bike then!

Awesome, reminds me of my beater. (Shorter stem now)

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This looks real nice

Deda what ?

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Cosmic? ;)

Just finished off rebuilding my Dolan FXE.

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...And my retro Orange P7 too.

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Love these, is it a 26er?

I love the colour - what RAL is it?

It looks like the rake of your forks is not right, unless the photo angle plays visual tricks.

That front tyre should nearly be touching the downtube.

Hi, yes 26” wheels! Exotic fork, Surly Singleator, running 32:16.

Great ride, I love it!

First track tarck build in 6 odd years. I am excite! crossposted from CP thread

track

Not track

tarck?

..fixed to tarck, which ofc is completely true.

NOS frame? Looks super fresh.

Is that album ‘the right stuff’ ?

Anyone got any loctite suitable for a bottom bracket in the n19 or surrounding postcodes that they coule lend/give/buy? Dreaded italian thread bb issue of cups unscrewing after x amount of miles on my mates bike

It's not NOS but it's well kept. Some storage marks and some small scrapes but pretty mint.

Is that album ‘the right stuff’ ?

Keen eye, it is indeed. Bin find. Just for the Sueno Latino track. I wish it was the extended :)

It is not RAL, it is "absinthe metallic C99", a car coating used by Renault from 1999 to 2003. The coating contains a lot of metal flakes, wich are the reason why the dents in the frame look more impressive than they really are.

@rake of the fork
Yes, there is plenty of room between the tyre and the downtube (25mm), I need to fix it....