Lynskey Custom / Enigma/ Moots

Ah ... bikes in the house rules, don't give ground, it's vital for the rest of us.

Sorry, missed this. Pretty much my thoughts/what I had ascertained from reading many accounts of using Campag... new mechanical 12sp stuff is supposed to be really nice but I’m not financially recovered from buying the Seven yet 😂

Still tempted to give it a go given Potenza shifters and mechs are so cheap and I can use them with a Shimano chain, cassette and brakes, just to determine if I like them. But then, Shimano is ye olde reliable. Gonna wait till I have new bars before deciding whether I still dislike the ergonomics. I miss 10sp SRAM ergonomics. Thought they were stupendously comfortable....

Do you have a special technique for switching saddles with that simple but (imo) annoying clamp? I have something similar though bit less distinguished on my mxl, a VanNicholas post. Bloody PITA to get a saddle on there, even more so or next to impossible to get it off. I've found instructions online how to do it: you apparently have to 'open' the cilindric ti clamp as much as you can (where the two bolts sit, after removing them obvs) with whatever the fuck you can (there's no special tool for it), without forcing it too much, so you can push out the lower of the two alu half cilinders et voila. Please note: not a good idea to put on a cf rails saddle.

I'm very much hoping you have a better alternative or perhaps the design of the moots post differs and is less flawed. In that case I'm even more happy for you than I already was considering all those nice bikes and garden :)

ahoy! yeah the seatpost cradle mechanism isn't at all user friendly, that said with the use of a flathead screwdriver it was very easy to open up the bolt area to slide the lower then upper cradles into place, the extra faff I'd introduced by drilling the lower cradle to take the di2 wire was fiddly, but I'm hoping its a job I'll only do once!

Liking your Gazelle! big fan of them myself...

Small update, the PDW fenders wont sit happily under the ultegra caliper on the rear so the Moots is getting the EE's and the Parlee has the ultegra... the dis-benifit of this is that I need to rethink the dynamo light position...

I have given the ground, we're 5 weeks away from baby 2... I'm doing all I can to keep the peace!

Yeah, loved SRAM 10 speed, but kept breaking the right shifter paddles... apparently this has been sorted on the 11 speed stuff so I'm keeping an eye out for used force to try...

I didn't do that, but I do have a distinct memory of having to regularly pull over to manually shift back into the big ring because the front derailleur couldn't move across far enough no matter how well they were set up. Was a nightmare. Also remember the brakes being total horseshit. Perhaps it's a fond feeling of nostalgia for my youth rather than actually liking 10sp SRAM 😂

Perhaps it's a fond feeling of nostalgia for my youth

I'm old, Pete. I don't know why everyone keeps making me out to be a kid. I'm so old Pete. Shit. I think I am having an existential crisis.

Kidding. Of course. It reminds me of riding my first road bike(s) though and I do have fond memories of falling in love with road cycling.

Kidding. Of course

Good good. It's bad enough listening to @HoKe talk like he's 80 years old!

I would need five hands to count the number of times I've heard @HoKe say 'Asian don't raisin' in the last decade!

Aah so I was not alone fiddling with the srewdriver. Tho I was probably a bit clumsier, judging from the eye to detail of your wee project here :)
And thanks for the compliments on the gazelle, it's my best and longest commute friend ever 🙏

I’ve put most miles on my Gazelle AB, including a great Paris Roubaix sportive thing, plus pub jaunts, plus locking up in town, bloody love it - I had an AA super lo pro prototype that was superb and I used and abused it, then I got a credit card and fucked with titanium and over time the money I’d spent was ‘normalised’ somehow... now I’ve ticked off owning a Moots I’m back to Marktplaats for some excitement...
Use, abuse, rinse and repeat... Got to love gazelle 👍🏻
I’m actually getting my gazelle/campag/vredestein jersey framed for my birthday, I’ll be 34 (I think)

Externally I looks fine, internally I'm slowly rusting away XD

https://gosforth.cc/store/titanium-road-forks

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32464506985.html

Is putting some surly steamroller forks on this with brazeons for low-riders and internal dynamo routing, painted ral 9007 a daft idea... I’m very tempted to try it out... hmm...

This is getting carbon wheels as it should have done in the first place...

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Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it's winter. Where did your mudguards go?

On the winter bike...

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Side project for this is modified forks for guards, dynamo and racks...

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Sick sick sick. Gosh I'm such a trendsetter.

Parlee looks amazing.

I had carbon wheels on there with shouty logos, which I never liked. Yours look so much better

As me nicely and I might already have the forks you need to this?

Yeah, keeping a close eye on your thread, are the forks in yet?

I’ve been wanting to scratch this itch since getting the dynamo on the Enigma - I’m planning on routing the lamp cable through the weep hole in the dropout into the underside of the steerer and also trying to work out if I can stash the cache battery up in the steerer as well...

I'm hoping for 30mm tyres front and rear with guards as well...

@zephyr26 is this a wind-up!? (Insert other Wound-up joke here...) I’m starting to see the logic in the mullet brake setup... 😬🤦‍♂️what have you got?

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Oh that’d be sweet if you can get it to work.

Forks are here. At the shop waiting to be cut.
They look a little out of place with relatively wide Ti tubes and Zonda’s but I knew that would be the case.