Current Projects chat and miscellany

I assume it’s for riding with tri-bars... or an extreme t-Rex...

Geometry by a cycle lane painter. Love it.

Much as I love a turbomatic, that new saddle matches the look stem really nicely

Edit: just spotted the matching bidons too.... very nice

Cool !

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Gravel bike has been moved onto the road while I sort out parts for the Saffron. Might swap seatpost and saddle to something a bit more lightweight tomorrow

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commuter, eklektisk, retired style of bike
part bin also

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Love your Eloi frame Gaston, as @SWijland said a few pages back, French paint jobs can be amazing. Yours reminds me of this Roger Roche one that I've always drooled over:
https://www.pedalroom.com/bike/roger-roche-32560
Also can I ask you and @SWijland as you've both got awesome collections but I can't remember off the top of my head, do you have, or have you had any Mavic starfish cranks? I'm just trying to confirm what BB they use for an use in an 80's steel frame with an Italian threaded BB, and from my internet googling it appears Starfish need a square taper 113mm width ISO BB, but the thread I saw seemed to have some disagreement so thought I'd try and ask someone who actually had one. Also my brief lame googling could only find 113mm JIS BB's and not any ISO ones, so wondered what BB's you had used? Thanks in advance for any info.

Hey there, was hoping to get a little help and advice on a couple of bikes I have and am new to this. I have put the questions below, but if I am better putting this elsewhere please let me know?

1. I have an old langster frame, which I would like to do up, so in need of forks, but also not sure of BB or headsets.
   
2. A neighbour has given me an old Peugeot bike (carbolite 103 frame, I think), which would be a fun project. Where would I start?
   
   

Cheers

Amazingly hideous colour combination, love it.

thx, didn't have different paint for that fork and deanodizing process was half way through, now i have limited edition sturmey archer cranks.
also no fixed gear since 2015 here, so stoked on this one!

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The genesis I bought from @Samwize lo these many moons ago is finally all built up!

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Going to do a super traditional tourer, the kind of bike I wanted when I was touring on a £20 mountain bike. I got my late 80s Galaxy powder coated, this speckled carbon grey which is impossible to photograph.

The question is, should I just get a triple? I know its not en vogue but it's going to weigh 50 kilos anyway

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should I just get a triple?

Yes.

Love the 3-speed setup on this one. Bonus hipster points for the Hite Rite. :)

Hite rite and Bullmoose - love it

Subcompact double IMO

The question is, should I just get a triple? I know its not en vogue but it's going to weigh 50 kilos anyway

Nothing wrong with a triple, but unless this is the one bike to rule them all, and you like to turn a big gear, I struggle to see the point in a triple over a double. If it's definitely a tourer (not just a commuter with the odd trip thrown in), and you plan on some long mountain pass descents, then maybe you'd want the big gears.

I have an old 105 triple crankset on a 26" steel "tourer", the bike weighs a ton even unladen. But it's a great town bike and with big tyres and racks can take all the luggage. I took off the 52 outer and just have a 39 and diddly inner ring. Have never wanted the bigger ring in any scenario since riding this bike that fast isn't worth the effort.

should I just get a triple?

Probably not. In the olden days, we had 5 or 6 sprockets and the biggest one was rarely over 28T, a 2:1 range. Without even going nuts you can now have 10 sprockets with a 3:1 range (e.g. 12-36), which pretty much eliminates both credible arguments for a third chain ring.

Good facts, thanks all. Have an 11-34 spare that I was going to use so it probably is unnecessary (hopefully).

Tester, I think you'll know. Have bike24 said anything about resuming shipping to the UK?

Have bike24 said anything about resuming shipping to the UK?

Last time I looked they hadn't even said anything about not shipping to the UK, they just mark everything "not shippable to Great Britain"

It’s great fun and I definitely never think about 12 speed :)

Spend the weekend building this up. Need to re-wrap the bars really and try it out tomorrow. Hoping the long cage derailleur will work ok with a double (as apparently it's for triples only). Might also need to shorten the chain, which will necessitate a new quick link, and the will fit some PDW guards.

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Really nice. Love it