Current Projects chat and miscellany

That’s a HED disc, isn’t it? I don’t think that’s a cassette, I think it’s one of those Chinese 9-speed screw on mega freewheels. If you slip that aluminium axle off, I think there might be splines down the bore. It might be smaller than the usual Shimano one though.

Weld it up and chainwhip, if in doubt!

I love the fork! The build might be functional and efficient, hope your friend will enjoy his / her ride. (put mudguards on it :p)

Thank you

I always find it tricky to build bikes for non-cyclist as they are always astonished at the price of parts.

£20 for a "cog"??, JESUS I am in the wrong line of work

So if I mention mudguards and the costs associated, they'll flip.

Barry the Beater.

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Now hurry up and get back to work on that Somec ;)

Waiting for some bits to arrive.

I reckon it will be early next week.

Yep its a hed disc

Many thanks for your insight which is very helpful

Disc should arrive next week so i will see what i can (not) do

Look forward to that, were you putting 10 speed silver Campag on it? Decided on wheels, and tape and saddle colour yet?

I've just bought the Max Nikor that was advertised on the forum, which I plan to dress with silver Campag. Summer project is go!

I built up this Guadrini from bits in the cupboard of doom under the stairs, the saddle rails are a bit thick, hence the jaunty angle, and the stems a couple of cm too short.

Bars rotated round a bit as I like riding on the hoods, but lined the levers flat with bat bottom. It's campag Daytona and some rather fab hope ti, wheels I picked up on here off a top chap. It's not really a 51, as it's 49 c to c. it's a bit small for me but it's a lovely thing made from Columbus Genius. The top tube could do with another cm or so.

I was going to sell the frame, but thought, what the heck... Let's have a play! The more observant amongst you will notice I cut the back brake sleeve a bit short - again!, it rides just fine, it's just an annoying thing I do.

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Thought I would share my current project:

DIY/repurposed bag for bike packing.
https://www.srbnr.com/blog/it-probably-wasnt-made-for-this

I just ordered another bag to make one for the front as well actually! So cheap but so effective.

It will look like this but with some minor changes to the straps

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Strong work!! Love this.

Thanks @Josh for the headset

dreamy. What's that tubing gaston?

Thanks, Columbus Thron Custom

Although I have no interest in bikes with tyres smaller than 35mm I really want a Concorde one day, lush.

Love the bike! And bag suits it well

Groupset is 9 Speed Chorus. Wheels will be Shamals, or maybe some carbon wheels that are incoming. Bar tape, black.

Look forward to seeing the Nikor being built up.

I'm looking for some all-road forks, carbon, room for 35mm tyres, flat mount disk, thru axle, isn't £400. Anyone got any recommendations?

Have you checked Planet X?

Yeah, there's some Selcof ones I may buy but they're 1 1/8 - 1.5'' tapered which is a bit unusual, I'd rather get some 1 1/8 - 1 1/2'', also they don't list the rake and IME contacting PX for info is pointless.

but they're 1 1/8 - 1.5''

I'd rather get some 1 1/8 - 1 1/2''

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hahahahaha, well, that solves that.

Just to add, these are the only ones in stock at PX,
https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FOSETDF380/selcof-td380-carbon-flat-mount-disc-fork
They have a max tyre width of 38 and a axle-to-crown of 380mm. Also they have a weird Thru Axle threading apparently.

In contrast to the Kinesis ATR
https://www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/Catalogue/Forks/Adventure/ATR-DISC-FORK
Which has a max tyre of 45 and an axle-to-crown of 398mm

These are just about the only 2 forks I can find in stock that isn't Columbus or Enve and I'd like some more options, I don't need clearance for 45mm tyres, maybe 40mm for mudguards and I'd rather not have forks with proprietary threading.

I've also searched for this for a long time, ended up getting a relatively cheap OPEN U-Turn via the forum. bike-discount.com used to have one at ~€200 but that has disappeared. You used to be able to get the Arkose fork, but that's out of stock too. Quite some people are resorting to Chinese forks, but I didn't want to risk it.

Lairy Columbus Futura here if you haven't seen it already.