Current Projects chat and miscellany

Yeah same, segmented fork? Think it’s in my top 5 fave fork designs 😎

It does feel much less twitchy / lively than a conventional fixed gear. It’s heavy too - I did think I could make it feel a bit snappier by lowering the gear inches but quite like the balance between accelerating and top speed it offers on 42-16. I also like the contrast from riding this then going on a light and fast bike :)

Fun to ride still and nice to chuck it around with no worries.

Does feel like shit though when I’m using it with stuff in the panniers.

finally found the time to put a cassette (with the correct lockring...) and tires on the Shamals.

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Next build will need a quill stem, but very comfy on my current bars, 31.8 options?

Are those Factory 5/J&L stems any good?

The Nitto and Velo Orange options look similar to each other, not as slick as the Titan obviously but more robust.

Aye, my thoughts as well

Nice tubes!

Stick with it, I’m just grips and a saddle away from finishing my wife’s.

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Boy, that's nice!

I’m getting there, your post has inspired me to at least get it out tomorrow

Dope!

Building my wife a mum bike.

I need a groupset for it.

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If brake levers are described as being suitable for Linear-pull and cantilever that’s not right is it?

Cool af that.

If brake levers are described as being suitable for Linear-pull and cantilever that’s not right is it?

It can be right - Shimano at least, and maybe Tektro and others, have made levers with adjustable ratio to allow use with either kind of brake.

Sounds promising. They’re Shimano Alivio 3x7 integrated canti rapidfire shifters I’m looking to replace. It was an OEM Shimano modern replacement I was looking at, but I can’t find it now.

my shimano tiagra levers (flatbar) do this. When you pull back the lever there is a little switch to flick between the two.

Ah excellent thanks.

Wow i like that a lot!

Whats the headset?

Says Koga on it, like the Dutch brand I guess?

Hmmm

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Anyone know of somewhere that does custom milling services or cheapish aluminium or steel sheet?

I need a really weird size shim for our tandem stoker stem, and it looks like custom is the only way forward. 26.8mm seatpost needs to fit a 1 1/8" stem, so looking at 1.2mm diameter/0 .6mm thick.

I'd really rather not go down the coke can route - if anyone has any suggestions they'd be warmly received.

Ordinary seat post shims are flexible enough to work in this application, that's how I got a 28.6 stem on my 27.2 post.

You actually need 0.9mm wall (28.6-26.8=1.8), so the shim which is designed to fit a 25.4mm post in a 27.2mm tube. The end gap opens up by about 4.5mm but that's not really a problem.

0.9mm is a bit thick to bend at home without proper tooling, it will end up 20p shaped, so I'd probably avoid that.

Your local machinist can make a custom turned and slotted sleeve, if you can find one who can be arsed with very small job shop work, or there are a couple of people on here with home lathes who might help.

0.9mm aluminium strip should be easy enough to roll neatly by hand round a seat post as a former. Pull it round a slightly smaller seat tube and it'll probably spring back to the size you need.

E.g. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111912004219

That stuff looks like it's guillotined sheet so it'll be even softer than rolled section.