Varonha Frameworks winter bike / FW Evans 650b conversion rat bike fun

You can say that again! I also started my first proper job after graduating.
I’m still waiting the pile of expensive bike parts that I dream of, but all in due time :D

Congratulations on the new arrival!

Thanks a lot!
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I was enjoying the derail!
Congratulations : )

Thanks!
I'll keep my eyes peeled for excuses for further derailings :D

Finally bothered polishing the other arm and putting the chainset together and back on the bike.
It's not perfect but it's 5 bolt, 110bcd, modular and has shiny arms, so it fulfils my criteria!

I quite like the black extractor bolts so they've been saved from the Oven Pride... for now!

Here's a before and after photo:

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It's booked in at Seabass tomorrow morning so it should be ridable by the evening....!

I must say,it's turned out really classy!
I like that the finish looks more brushed than polished and I also think it works really well with the black hardware.
I'm quite excited to see the whole thing.

And if I ever find enough bullets for my money gun, I'd quite like to hunt down a pair of Ingrid cranks, which I think share a similar aesthetic with the rotors in their current state

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Is this rear brake bridge designed for the mudguard to be bolted directly up to it? If not, what's with the shape? Apologies if I missed a discussion on this. Bike looks great.

Looks like a TA Carmina now (with the added fun of home polishing !).

Very nice!

Very nice job, looks awesome, good choice persisting with the polishing and black rings.

Yes - mudguard is attached to the underside. The thing on top is for the rear rack, which will be a Tubus Fly with a custom strut. They usually attach via the brake bolt but I wanted to avoid having to remove the brake every time I took it on or off.

Winston will help out with the strut once I can get the bike over to him.

"fun"!

I looked into getting some Carminas for this a while back.. You can get 100 / 74 bcd spiders for them (which is the dream) but nobody could tell me what BB length I needed to run it as a double, and therefore if it would increase the Q.

I was emailing back and forth with Peter White Cycles, who seem to be the main experts on such matters, but they didn't seem to understand what I was going on about.

Eh?!

If you want to go ahead with it in the future just let me know and I'll ask them directly.
I would have thought PW would have been able to tell you though, he uses them on his own builds after all.

unnecessary but pedals need to be A600

They're nice!
Is there a similar double-sided option?

Almost certainly my failure to explain things properly as opposed to their failure to understand!

nah, single sided on road bike ftw! Lightest SPD shimano has ever made.

I have recently discovered the incomparable joys of double-sided pedals on a road bike and I am never going back!

100% this. It's Shimano double-sided SPD pedals on every bike for me. Other than the snobbery of people thinking you should ride road pedals on the road there are no downsides. Decent carbon-soled shoes are more than stiff enough.

I have the A600 (Ultegra) pedals and XT, just serviced and cleaned the XTs, definitely double sided for winter. The A600s are very nice pedals, but it's very easy to not catch em right and end up with your cleat on the bottom of the pedal, they could do with balancing a little better, so that they sit right side up.