MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

respectfully, darts were a sketchy easy to puncture front-only tyre (paired with smokes rear) in 1996, i shouldn’t think they have improved unless reissued and redesigned . there’s a reason mint sauce ran smokes front as well as back.

the'ye from 2009, they're re-issued - surely enough to get me riding the bike.

at least enough to convince me that i should give the bike shop ££££££ to bother installing some nicer tubeless tyres before the upcoming [REDACTED] next year with [REDACTED] where we hope to be doing [REDACTED]

lol

Ah no that's not me never.

Note to those who struggle with tyres, if you’ve bought wheels used, so check the previous owner hadn’t done a matryoshka doll of rim tape

Shit was so rancid

Anyway, non tubeless tyres now fit with just me thumbs

Got a nice thin layer of rim tape on now, high tech

(Electrical tape)

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#easy

I did say this a while back.

woop! On with the build!!

Wohoo! Nice tyres. Gonna suit the bike really well

Only thing with electrical tape is it's quite soft and loses its stickiness so you may find in the future it moves a little bit and exposes sharp spoke holes. Keep an eye on it

This^ Not a great solution

I found the pressure pushed and stretched /thinned the tape into each hole, leaving the edge of the spoke hole sharp enough to cause punctures

there’s a reason mint sauce ran smokes front as well as back.

I got this old person's reference. Now Onza Octopus, that was a classic 90s tyre. Still never surpassed for grip on wet surfaces.

Can you show us which other parts you have collected for this build? I lost track
Edit: found it

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I was going to build a bike around that panda stem :(

I have a set of Ritchey 20mm rim tapes I need to send back to SJS, you can have if you want (and if they are wide enough)

having used electrical tape before it just needs to last long enough to get me motivated by having the wheels set up tubeless - although as the tyres need to be non tubeless i will likely have to try it first with local tubeless whisperer/ propagandist @Belagerent

hope i didn't throw those tubeless valves out...

luckily the one kind thing you can say about these stans rims is they're quite well made so the spoke holes/ rim bed is very smooth. i will be throwing the roll of tape in one of my many bike bags for good measure tho.

I look forward to spending 6 hours cycling 30km with you due to frequent puncture repair caused by tape slippage. Good thing that the tyres come off the rims easily.

look it just has to last from my house to tottenham, then cambridge south to yours

right i put it off long enough, i ordered the tool, i'll fit the headset and hopefully build this bike this weekend inshallah

i have secured the parts - now it's a test of my weedy arms if i can set the crown race

This whole thread has "building a neo retro 26 inch bike GOES WRONG" energy.

I CANNOT GET THIS CROWN RACE ON

MY ARMS ARE SO SMALL

ITS SO LOUD TO KEEP WAILING ON IT

WHEN WILL I HAVE A RIDABLE BIKE

CK stuff is hard to get on, I once struggled, then just put loads of grease and hammered it down with a screw driver, didnt die

At the Artisinal framebuilding workshop I worked at for the last couple of years, we put the crown race setting tool over the steerer, turned the whole fork upside down and whacked it against a concrete floor. Never failed. The Earth is a pretty big hammer it turns out.

i will try this, thank you