Jokke_A's endless stream of projects

I used to feel the same way.
I worked for a couple of years as an apprentice commercial photographer and we shot mostly 40mp Phase One digital medium format and 24mp Canon 5d Mark II.
These days I'm more than happy with 16mp M43 and transferring the photos to my iphone or printing 13x18 cm prints.

The Cervelo is waiting for the correct seat post. I went for the cheap ebay auction with little-to-no specs, which of course ended with a seatpost that doesn't quite fit the frame. Luckily seatposts are quite readily available.

What was difficult was finding the seatpost clamp, the correct one seems to be sold-out everywhere. I bought one that should work, but I can only be 100% sure when I get the seatpost.

By now I should have all the other components, including a disc rear wheel just for fun. Big part of these projects for me is sourcing nice parts for not that much money, on Cervelo specific components this is turning out to be quite difficult.

I've been lucky enough to gain access to some pretty cool camera gear but this has led to a habit of sometimes looking at the details too closely. Right now I'm quite happy with the X-Pro 2 and TTartisan 50 mm f/2 for taking pictures of bikes -use case.

Love the Gunnar build: perfectly aligned Campag Ergo hoods and drop hooks - it’s the details, isn’t it?

Thanks! Coincidentally this is one of the bikes that is kind of dissapointing to take pictures of, as in my opinion it has never looked as good in pictures as it does in real life.

Some internet fame for Kona Band Wagon:

https://cog.konaworld.com/kona-dream-builds-joukos-custom-fixed-gear-cx-band-wagon/

A while ago I ordered a pair of Masi's for my wife and me. Her Randonneur is still waiting for weather warm enough for a backyard paint job, but I had some time to build up my Speciale. Parts are mostly off of a crashed carbon road bike I parted out, Sora R3000 / Tektro etc.

I do have a few options for nicer wheels, but I won't feel sorry using these during the wet spring days. I'll also try to unleash my Inkscape skills and create a decal set for this.

Absolutely love this bike. That neon tape works so well on it.

Thanks, I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I actually built and installed a set of new wheels with gold coloured On-One hubs this week, now I think the bike is spot-on.

Future project, got a cheap 2008 Kona Dew Plus frame and a fork off a Pelago Saimaa. I'm planning to build this into my next winter bike, likely with 650b wheels and parts mostly off the Marin Bolinas Ridge.

Hey. Could I ask what the 4-arm cranks on your Marin are?

Your bike are really nice and you take great photos.

Thanks! The cranks of the Marin came with the bike, I don't think there was any visible branding. They are seemingly low-end and don't feel as high quality as even basic Shimano ones.

Masi is now only missing bottle cage screws and decals, it's been snowing again so I'll have to wait a bit before I get to ride it. When the weather improves I think I'll change the wheels to a set of Soul Kozak / Archetype's.

BLB Hitchhiker is back on the road after a while. The rear hub of the old wheelset gave up, and I got these Syncros ones from a friend.

I think I'll replace the broken hub and use the old set in the green Kona Dew Plus.

Damn that's nice, amazing job! <3

Thanks!

Also, Kona Band Wagon got some internet fame on The Radavist.

This made me laugh a lot:

brakes of the future – cantilevers, the whole rim is the brake disc and braking doesn’t actually affect the speed

great pack of bikes.
your bandwaggon rules.

had a green dr.dew when i started cx racing some years ago. ok, more a dadbike form current view, but good times...

+1 haha

Thanks for your comments, article was a bit of a rush job with a lot going on at work and at home.

I've been keeping my eyes open for good cargo bike deals, as my minicargo is better suited for transporting cargo than small people. I found this Bakfiets Classic Long, electrified with an aftermarket kit, Nexus 8 gears, rollerbrake rear and disc front. The bike is roughly 9 years old but has only 2500 km's on the clock and is near mint.

The sad part is that I'll have to sell the minicargo for this to make any sense, but on the other hand now I have a bike that I can use a lot more.

Today was a good day. I picked up a cheap beat-up OCCP cyclocross, after a new drivetrain, cables, seat and bar tape it turned out quite nice I think. Also, I've been gathering parts for the Cervelo P2 track conversion, today evening I finally built up the bike. It's not completely finished yet, but damn it's fast. It's difficult to discribe without swearing, I mean, it just wants to go fucking fast.

While I was out I had to take a picture with risers as well, there's some good HHSB potential there. I also have a bullhorn and tt-bars for the bike, which might be the most appropriate setup, but let's see. Chain is slack, but I'll need to get a halflink to fix that.

I guess it's time for a bit of an explanation why this project has taken longer than usually. The correct seatpost clamp seems to be sold out everywhere, based on comparing the pictures I ordered one that might fit, it didn't. With the seatpost I didn't realise there's two similar models with a bit of a size difference, one is roughly 5 mm too big for this frame, guess which one I ordered.

Well, anyway, it's always easier to make things smaller than larger. I grinded the clamp a bit and it now fits, the clamp is still too maybe 1 cm too tall to fully slip into the frame as intended.

My plan was to order the correct seatpost, but I realised I'll never be able to sell this one, so might as well cut it to fit. I was quite surprised to see that the rear part of the post is full carbon and not hollow, I only managed to make one small hole to the post that I filled with some epoxy.

And yes, I know the above images aren't perfect examples of health and safety...

This Trek 5000 with Shimano 105 5800 popped up for sale, with the nice weather I decided to get it with our Bakfiets. I mounted a front hub to the rack, and bolted the bike there. I think I will build a more permanent solution with less zipties to tow bikes.

Anyway, I think the bike is from around 2007, it came with a mint 105 gruppo and overall pretty nice parts, I was going to install a Dura-Ace 7900 Di2 set on this, but I have my doubts that I'll ever get around doing that. With a new stem, saddle, wheels and a bit of adjustment I quite like this one.

That turned out really nice (maybe a bit more bdhu), love those black rims

Thanks, I'm noticing now that you may have a point. I'll do something if I notice it while riding and it starts to bother me enough.

Also, apparently there's a bike I've forgotten to post. A few months ago a friend of my wife brought us this:

It's a 12" Pyrkijä / Minor. Pyrkijä is an old Finnish brand, but my gut feeling is that this bike is imported from (possibly) The Netherlands. The bike is probably from the late '50's or early '60's. Seat, tyres and tubes were all from the continental Europe instead of the Nordics. Bike was in quite a sorry state when it arrived, but based on the components I don't think it's actually seen much use. I believe inner tubes and tyres were original. My biggest worries were the wonky Lepper leather seat and ripped chain guard.

Anyway, during the Spring I've slowly been servicing the bike. I was able to salvage the leather seat, leather was badly dried and front part of the leather part had somehow jumped out of place. I softened the leather by soaking the seat underwater and bent it back to its place. After it had dried I of course waxed it. For the chainguard I had all sorts of plans to make a sort of a bandage out of copper or brass plate, but because of time constraints I ended up covering the ripped parts with some epoxy for now.

All the bearings needed a good service. Non-driveside bottom bracket cup was loose, it's already been a while, but I'm pretty sure I removed one crank, greased the BB and adjusted the bearings. Rear hub was a Torpedo, it's been a few years since I've opened one of these, but the design is quite simple and service is rather easy. Rear hub was made in 1958. Old grease was already quite dry, so I cleaned the internals and regreased the hub.

Also, notice how the hubs are laced to every other spoke hole. I'll use this bike as an excuse sometime when pairing 36h hubs to 18h rims.

Old inner tubes were sadly past their prime and had to be replaced. I'm pretty sure these were original for the bike. Rim bands are pretty cool with stitched leather valve holes, I'm sort of surprised any American boutique brand isn't offering bands like these today. Oh well, I guess they're not exactly vegan friendly anyway. I cheaped out on tyres and tubes and got the cheapest, Chinese'st option locally available. Apparently there would have been a Finnish made tyre available in this size, but I decided to skimp on these as rider will most likely outgrow the bike quite soon. Tyres were a pain to install, I needed to take a pause and continue after my assistant had gone to bed.

In addition to tyres, handlebar grips were the only part in need of changing. There a Finnish option by Herrmans was luckily available for a rather reasonable price.

I did'nt address the patina of the bike, other than rubbing some rust of the handlebars & stem with steel wool. I think I'll try to at least wax the frame as this will likely spend most of the summer outdoors. All in all, I think this is one of the prettier bikes that have gone through my hands. Before handing this over to its owner, I'll need to replace one of the front wheel nuts due to stripped threads.

Today I built the Kona Dew Plus. I really liked the Marin Bolinas Ridge, but I always wanted something a bit more modern, mainly with disc brakes and tubeless tyres.

I parted out the Marin and ment to build this with the SRAM 1x9 set I had on the Marin Bolinas Ridge, but apparently I've managed to loose a part from the rear derailleur. Luckily I found a Shimano Sora derailleur, D-A barend shifter and a Velo-Orange thumbie adapter.

At least based on my short test rides, this setup seems to work pretty well. It's nice to have a bike with mudguards and a rack again.