Spotter's Current Project Collation

into the nice bike folder it goes

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Thanks chaps

What's the frame? Looks excellent.

A genesis high latitude, looked like this to start

You should host some sort of bicycle makeover show

That is not a totally shit idea. Sort of like youtube Dream Build / From Trash to Cash channel.

@spotter is both good looking and has a way with words

That is not a totally shit idea

High praise indeed ;-)

Went for an epping spin the other day, was very muddy still

Luckily, as mentioned before, I am now the happy owner of a Mobi V-15 portable washer, it works extremely well, which I was somewhat suprised by. I have to fill mine from the shower as I dont have an outside tap, warm water is a great idea as it gets the muck off better, and your feet dont get cold when you use it to wash you're shoes. There is easily enough water to do two whole bikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDyZ9ArUlDg

A neat little coincidence is that my exo-rail saddle bag support is exactly at the right heigh to clip into the van doors latch to hold the bike upright for washing

your wahoo is wonky m8

I was a bit annoyed how floppy my carradice bag was, so I did a little soft modding to add some internal support. After checking with my friendly plastics expert @Hulsroy got a sheet and cut it to size, and then two notches it the top to hook in around the zipties that hold the dowel on.

The front end sits under the lip of the front seam and seems to naturally sit inplace with no extra fassening

If you remember that mount snapped it was just sat on there with only gravity holding it.

If you ever get tired of this frame I would be happy to re home it 😉

Innnnnnteresting....

Your High Latitude looks great. I'm gonna have to set up an eBay search for one of these I think. What's the difference in use between this and your Vagabond? I'm finding the reach a little short with a flat bar, but converting it back to drops seems to involve at least £500 or some compromise in braking performance so something like that HL seems like a good direction to take it. Ironically swapping out the frame is probably cheaper than changing components by quite a bit.

I need to do this! Looks perfect! Is there a plasticsheets4U.co.uk where such thing can be bought?

[Edit] should have googled this first, plenty of choice on eBay!

I ordered mine from directplastics. Co.uk

I will post photos soon but; mudguards, non knobbly tyres, dynamo and racks are the main ones.

Obviously the Geo is different too, I would still like some bouncy forks for the High lat, and 120mm will mean I can probably get away with no spacers.

I got mine from ebay a 500mm square sheet of 1mm was enough to allow for mistakes

Yeah I think something like that it would work well for. I'm trying to push mine in to being a rigid MTB and it's not for the geo for it, too upright when things go up, too twitchy when things get technical. Might accept it's going to become another dad wagon and just get a proper MTB when I can afford it/ have time to ride one.

/\ /\ Thanks both, have ordered stuff for my saddle bag...

would subscribe

GF's bike is back from Steve, looking forward to unwrapping it and see the cranks particularly.

Is there a zoom link for the unwrapping session?

The cranks look good, Steve is really good at what he does; Before:

After:

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