Current Projects chat and miscellany

Paint really is bad, will post some pics of the peeling off process once I get around to it. :)

Quill stem will be there in the test setup, If I can find a nice steel tigged stem in the correct angle I could keep the quill, something like the Nitto UI-12. But would actually prefer an ahead setup in terms of simplicity and availability of nicer Nitto stems.

Yes probably, it's a flip flop hub and I switch sides occasionally

Finished off a Roberts, nicely dialled in now. The HT has such a high inbuilt stack but I still seem to pretend to get in a fast position fairly easily. An excellent summer bike!

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That's bloody lovely!

I'm a bit stuck on my All City build. The 105 brakes I have on there don't quite reach the rim (please excuse awful photo to try and illustrate this). Does a product exist to solve this problem?

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Does a product exist to solve this problem?

TRP RG957, accept nothing else

In more positive news, headset is fitted, just need to cable it up, sort the brake issue and it should be good to go! This is my first time building a geared bike from scratch and it's been a fun/frustrating learning experience.
Oh, also I got carried away after selling a couple of frames and bought an unnecessarily posh titanium seatpost...

or Paul Racer Medium ;)

Yeah but then I have to buy a new custom frame right?

File the brake caliper a bit?

The 105 brakes I have on there don't quite reach the rim (please excuse awful photo to try and illustrate this). Does a product exist to solve this problem?

Yes, the other 105 brake:
https://bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/105-5800/BR-R650.html
Or, if you want black
https://bike.shimano.com/en-EU/product/component/shimano/BR-R451.html
but you'll almost certainly want to buy cartridge shoes/pads to replace the monoblock ones
And of course amey is right to draw your attention to Tektro, who make their living from brakes. R737 is half the price of the #tartmode TRP ones he suggests, and benefits from the long travel QR which is nice if you are using larger tyres.

I put trp 957 on that Roberts (@amey is right they are awesome) but have some spare long drop tektro 539? You can have them cheap

Is it definitely a job for new brakes then? There isn't a fun little adaptor that'll allow me to move them down by a couple of centimetres?
@youramericanlover I might take you up on that! Will have a ponder and send you a DM

There isn't a fun little adaptor that'll allow me to move them down by a couple of centimetres?

There are Drop Bolts, but I'm not sure whether anybody is still making them for Shimano dual pivot calipers, since Shimano (and Tektro) make perfectly good medium drop calipers, and people who want that amount of drop usually also want a decent amount of tyre clearance, which you don't get by lowering a shallow drop caliper.

I hadn't thought about that. I've got 23c on there at the minute, which is fine for now, but hoping to go more like 32c when it starts to get a bit wetter out. New brakes it is!
Thanks all.

There isn't a fun little adaptor that'll allow me to move them down by a couple of centimetres?

Offset pad holders do exist. Never used them though

My girlfriend uses them on her Aurelius. They work pretty well. Hard to find though.

Hard to find

I'd want to be hard to find if I'd ever sold any of those. The braking load exerts a torque about the bolt axis. On one side, that will lend to tighten the fastener, so you might get away with it (but beware of precession). On the other side, it tends to loosen it, rotating the pad up into your tyre wall and slicing it open.

i did, they are shite, flexy, just shite

Funnily that did happen to a friend once on at the bottom of a descent - nasty cut in the tyre wall.

Thousands of miles in & it's not been a problem for us, but this friend is currently on his third stuck seatpost so perhaps he's missing something maintenancewise.

I decided to take @youramericanlover up on the offer of those Tektros! Might go posher eventually but just want to get this fucker on the road now.

Good call

Problem is in the single bolt design. 2 bolts would solve it but I'm not an engineer, what do I know eh?

2 bolts would solve it

Yeah, but then you have almost no adjustment range

So I had Xt 737 cranks and thought I would try to get them to work as a sub compact double with a 103mm bottom bracket.
I knew that it might not work as with chainline and pull, and looks like it doesn't.
ST-R 685 Shifters and I tried FD 5800, old road triple and some funny 9 speed xt mtb front derailleur.
Will put a stopgap on and prepare to either do the no outer ring thing (which I find ugly) or give someone a lot of money for white industries/sugino 901.
Any better Ideas?

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