Hacks / Bodges

Much aero and brave.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OMG8TUfnD7Q

i know i'm not the first, but managed to make a Campag UT bearing puller out of a cheap machine mart puller with the arms ground and filed down. saved me 30 odd quid.

My rear disc brake caliper used a stack of those for a year or more of bikepacking until I bought the proper adapter.

anyone have any advice on adapting a hydro so the cable routing come out at 90 degrees. I await the day when this setup final fails me.

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On One Marys, & hydro hoses, & basket/bag in the front...I have exactly the same conundrum which I am semi-ignoring at the moment. I intend to try a pizza rack to hold my basket, to see if that changes the heights/interference etc., and I also have a set of On-One MollyMawk bars which might help. But I love the Marys. Hmm.

It's impressive that those juicies are carrying on at all.

A simple stand off would do the trick no? Foam, rubber, alu, ...
Is that bag on a rack or suspended?

running a pizza rack at the mo with the shortest stem I can run.

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Stick a long stem backwards on the bars to push the bag forward? Would do the job until you came up with a more elegant solution

You could maybe get a good ridge kit with a right angle, although it would look hideous

I've done it once.
You change the connection to a banjo.
I think most bicycle hydraulic brake stuff is the same thread sizes so it should be relatively straight forward.
You will need to rebleed ofc...

Edit: not much info, but a photo mid process...
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/12214724/

exactly what I was looking for! thanks man. awesome rawland btw.

You're welcome. In the photo it looks like I fitted some kind of reducer, that I have forgotten about.
I was fettling on close proximity to a well equipped bike shop that led me rummage their gubbins boxes.

Ok this is barely a bodge at all, but it’s made indexing gears so much easier than using the piddling little brass thing at the down tube stop on my CDF. I seem to recall you can buy adjusters for adjuster-less mtb mechs, but I really wanted to stop faffing with this bike and ride it.

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Interesting! I was just working on a bike with an SRAM X-3? with no adjustment and of course the shifter was gefucked. I ended up replacing it with an old friction thumbshifter because it was for a friend who just wanted to make it rideable.

Nice one! Bleedin obvious, yet I have never seen it before.

@HarmanMogul @withered_preacher
Yeah it seemed an obvious solution - if anything it's easier to adjust than the normal barrel adjuster attached to road mechs. I did think it might clatter against the frame, but the loop of cable is at a much shallower angle with these mechs, so it stays in place nicely.

Nice work. Very tidy.

Nice. I put a Ritchey barrel adjuster at the stop to solve this:

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Yeah got one of these on my rat bike for the same reason, and to join two bits of outer I cut by mistake...

https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/GXSRIN/sram-inline-gear-cable-adjuster

That's a very satisfying cable curve you've got there!

Don't tell anyone, but it's a camera trick. ;)

Trust that your secret is safe with me.

Same. I lent it to someone on here and never got it back.