Current Projects chat and miscellany

noice - just did 170K (with 2500m vertical) on this bad boy which has just had a service (does that qualify it for CP?) love this bike

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Tidy

Finished one of my lockdown projects, which Ive been working on for the last 8 months - New GF bike. Started life as a genesis borough bridge, I ended up replacing everything exceptr the handbars, seatpost clamp & rear rack (even the forks, new ones are from a Masi Rando).
I had a load of bits hanging about from my old bike, but still took me a while to get the rest togther, my fav highlights include:

• New forks with panto'd flat crowns
  
• Freshly powdercoated Shimano Deore FC-MT60 cranks ( AKA god tier square taper cranks.)
  
• Super tidy dynamo routing
  
• The eyelets I got added to the split TT renforcements becuase I noticed they're exactly the same size as a bottle cage.
  
  

She seems pleased, which is great, becuase I really am - its actually a delight to ride.

That’s a beaut, must be a bit of a relief that she’s pleased as well : )

So clean and tidy - full of carefully considered decent quality details.
Excellent work

does anyone have a spreadsheet knocked up for all of the 26" project bikes atm?,

struggling to keep track and would help a lot

would also accept a pdf

Speaking of which, can anyone think of any good CP threads of the obligatory rigid 90s 26ers that have been converted to disc brakes? @t0-ster I'm looking at you :-)

Handwritten on engineering paper pls.

really nicely done that

Sublime!

Where does one cop those reflective pizza slices?

Thanks, If you are in London, Clever Mike has stock

1991 Look Mi90 Quadrex

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Lovely!

Thanks, @SideshowBob. The frame was high on my wanted list and a couple of weeks ago, I got this one as a gift from someone on the RB-forum. It's a 1991 frame so this bike fits my 30 th anniversary collection (I'm older but I started biking 30 years ago ;-)).

Mine here: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/354753/

Thorn xtc back from the goff after BB repair and respray.

Fork is oversprayed need to sort it... going to get xtr cantis, hollowtech 2 cranks and then the usual practical old deore MTB gears with old road stis.

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Cycle the rainbow, that's nice :)

Very nice, stylish and practical.

Amazing! That build is several orders of magnitude swankier than I would be going for :-)

Current version of my Russian steel machine.

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Waste of time talking with you as you're set in your ways. Lower pressures result in lower rolling resistance and greater comfort = faster. Learn it.

Yes I was running those pressures 15-20 years ago. Probably before you were born, too.

Check my user name, I’m pretty old as far as this forum is concerned.

Waste of time talking with you as you're set in your ways. Lower pressures result in lower rolling resistance and greater comfort = faster. Learn it.

Eeek, you are Dunning–Kruger incarnate.

The ppl at Silca made a free calc that’ll help you ... er ... learn it.

Lower pressures result in lower rolling resistance and greater comfort

Up to a point, m'lud. In fact, lower pressure increases hysteresis loss in the tyre carcase, but may reduce suspension losses by more if the reference pressure was excessive. Any decision about tyre pressure is a compromise between these opposing factors, and the optimum solution will depend on the terrain.