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This looks really fun

Who's bike was this again? I still dream about it sometimes<3

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@Tychom

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Ah yes thanks!
@Tychom any updates on it? Are you still riding it?

Didn't get ridden much over the winter - spent more time off road riding and then some knee injury, but hopefully it will get out more in the next few months

As for updates,

well I switched bottle cages recently from the 'ti' coloured Minoura Dura-Cage seen above to a set of King Cage stainless.

I also switched the wheelset back to a set of DT Swiss Oxic PR-1400, the low profile wheels look better IMO and the Bora are on another bike.

The stem bugs me a little, the Nitto Pearl is 71° and the headtube 73° so it angles down a little. But there's not a lot of quill stem choice out there though these days. There's the Cinelli 1A which is 73° but I'd prefer to keep things Nitto.

Not sure there's any other plans right now but the ¥ is cheap so I have to think of something!

Oh man I’d forgotten about this, such a banger

Stem is spot on IMO, silver wheelset is gonna make it ace though!

I like the look of this stem.
Do you have pictures of the bike with the different wheels?

It is. Great contrast to the city beater with all the stuff on.
But the new owner needs it even more upright. Desk workers have difficult neck and wrists.

Trying to stop abusing the anything answered thread, how does this all go together?

Its the barrel adjuster for a Red derailleur. Have I pushed it in enough?
Its the right part, I did get it wrong the first time. I dont know how to get the retaining ring on, its sat on top of the bracket in the pic.

Edit, Ive just realised, the jockeys should be tight up against the mech with no chain. Right? Why aren't they sprung back? Can I fix that?
Ffs....

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Have I pushed it in enough?

I think the metal part goes flush with the plastic knob when you wind it all the way in, that should give room to fit the circlip

Does this help?

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Vélo orange piolet upgrade next step 11/42 10v
I'm really happy with that set up just the breaking.

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Here's how it's looking now

Exceptional

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Sooo good<3

the only road bike i would ever buy - outstanding frame!

This frame didn’t get much traction in the classifieds so I decided to build it instead. Couldn’t get the compact bars through a nice Cinelli stem so I had to use the piece of agricultural equipment pictured instead, while 25s were a nono under the front caliper, but otherwise I’m pretty happy with it.

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New project time. I've spent the last week sorting out our fleet of hire bikes at work. Had a grand old time loading several hundred heavy bikes with locks out of one storage unit, into a van and then in to another storage unit. I set aside this one which is too old and battered to go out to a customer. The plan is to strip it, transfer any decent parts to another hire bike, give this a paint job and build the frame up with all of the parts from my Pompino, pictured below. That'll include the disc fork. I like the Pompino as a fat tyred fixed gear but I'd like something that takes even bigger tyres (the new frame has loads of clearance) and has a bigger main triangle so that I can just use my frame bag on days when I don't need to take a change of clothes/ lunch with me. At the moment I'm using my Carradice every day which means I just fill it with all sorts of crap that I don't actually need. To be honest, I also just like having a project and fucking around with bikes. In theory it should only cost me the ~£25 I've spent on paint.

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Hyvemind.
Looking into building a wheel set with some novatec 4 in one 6 bolt hubs for the bikepacking Kona unit.
I haz Mavic xc 621 rims. They're 22mm internal. Eyeletted, light.
Looking into possibly getting wider rims, for example wtb i29 29mm internal. Not eyeletted. Not as light.
Is de rigeur also in MTB/bikepacking land to go wider or doesn't matter? Will run 2,25", possibly but unlikely 2,35" Mezcals.
What would the forum do?
Thanks!

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wide > light imo

Wider rims also give your tires a better profile and makes them look cooler, and looking cool is the most important thing of all

😎

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Rad