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great 80s colours!

This is hot!

Lovely colour that!

Got fed up of the summer bike clogging up the hallway so dug it out, not like it's ever summer here anyway.

Aesthetic downgrades this year, classic drops are gone (Deda please make a Zero100 in 38/36cm, you'll sell at least 1) and tanwalls binned as they looked worse.

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excellent

Some progress on @cake old Pinarello.
Cables & pedals added.

Fitting a 3 × 9 groupset I had lying around unfortunately the wheelset is a Shimano 105 on Araya clinchers. The RH-1055 is 7 speed only, original HyperGlide so can't take a 9 speed cassette.

I'll be looking for a replacement wheelset unless someone wants to swap.

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The RH-1055 is 7 speed only, original HyperGlide so can't take a 9 speed cassette.

If it's FH-1055 7-speed UG/HG, it's 126mm OLN. I'd probably keep the hub and modify a CS-HG50-9 cassette to make it 8 sprockets at 9-speed spacing.

Ordered a Secan at the start of the year and it came through in just a few weeks. I finally got it fully built up last week and have a few rides on it.

Mostly gonna be set up like this with 700x42 Rutland tyres for forests, mud, gravel:

And I was thinking to have a second wheelset for winter road riding with tyres ~35mm:

It's incredibly boring looking :) But a lot of fun to ride.

I was thinking to have a second wheelset

Many people have thought this thought, though far fewer have thought it was such a good thought after they've thought it through🙂

Why? I’m having this thought too. Or have had it and I’m implementing. Dry summer: Chonky off road. Wet spring: guards and slicks.

Why?

Weather doesn't happen in two big uniform blocks. More often than not, you have to change wheels because the ones you had on the last ride are wrong for this ride. That gets old fast, especially if you haven't got gears and brakes matched on the two wheelsets to a very high precision. Not many bikes feel great on two completely different tyres, and you really notice that when everything else is identical.

I live in Toronto. The weather does change in big uniform blocks. If the hubs, rotors and cassette were identical (and used to a similar amount) then there should be zero faff swapping.

“Not many bikes feel great on two completely different tyres” is an interesting statement. If the bike is being ridden on different surfaces…why would that not be the case?

I'm just preparing you for possible disappointment. Maybe your particular use case is one where "Two wheelsets, one bike" is a success 😊

Haha thank you. Fingers crossed! I’ll provide an update once I’ve tried it out.

Sell me the simoncini 🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thanks Tester - I had read something like that on SB.

I am looking to fit a 9 speed cassette so I believe I can use 10 speed spacers but will have issued with the pre-spaced 2 smallest sprockets.
Or just 9 sprockets of a 10 speed cassette...which I don't have!

If you're using 9-speed STI shifters and a 9-speed RD, the sprocket spacing needs to be at the 9-speed pitch of 4.3mm, not the 3.9mm 10-speed pitch. "8 out of 9" should fit on the short 7-speed spline of the existing freehub. With the HG50 cassettes, the big sprockets are pre-stacked and held together with either rivets or bolts, but they're all full sprockets with individual splines so pulling the stack apart and binning the biggest sprocket and its spacer works. The higher end cassettes are more problematic as they have groups of sprockets riveted to aluminium carrier hubs - not impossible, but you need machine shop skills, not village blacksmith skills 😀

You can lose a sprocket near the top end without modifying anything, but you have to keep the top one or two so you end up with a horrible big jump right where you don't want it

^ I can confirm you can do this. Have done it with both an 8 out of 9 and a 9 out of 10 on a 7-speed freehub. If SRAM PG 950 cassettes have the ratios you like, they even have screws instead of rivets.

Something a bit different, my daughter's first pedal bike. Was loathe to get a Disney princess one so I feel this is a decent compromise. 14" Wheel Kink BMX with accessories from Decathlon. The little Hornit light/horn makes burp and fart noises too, perfect

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fart noises

Link please

https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/hornit-nano-bike-light-and-horn/rp-prod210745;jsessionid=QGxdl2MKzOWVuuG9gyEVtTwX.d495b5d1-2d6a-3a07-a9f0-e7a821388d5a
Burp, siren and Indian Premier League cricket trumpet noises also included

Like the superman cape on the seat, looks fast.

Can't unsee now!

£8.50 spent
entertainment on the commute
£priceless

Was loath to get a Disney

 FTFY
Common error, might be autocorrect, but I wouldn't want you to go through life without learning the difference🙂