Current Projects chat and miscellany

Making her do that

(In French)
"Hey amour, I want to very kindly ask these strangers on the internet if two identical images look the same, don't ask questions"

and she obliges in such fashion than it must be true love! :')

Help! I removed a topcap to install a shim and 1 1/8 stem only to realize I made a piece of the compressor(?) get stuck in an angle inside the carbon fork. I used a long screwdriver to try and wiggle it out with no luck. The local bike shop might be my next stop tomorrow

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you might have already done this but remove the stem. it might be compressing the steerer tube meaning the expander bung doesn't fall out

Oouwh that's an oopsie

I used a long screwdriver to try and wiggle it out with no luck

A spoke has the flexibility and the hook required to pull on it at the right place and in the right direction

Now with drops and a CX guard.

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Amazing! Loved the cable routing for the Dynamo. If it were mine I’d swap the carbon rims for some box section or low profiles.
The modified campy levers are fun 🤩

That's lovely.

You sir have given me hope and inspire me to swap drops onto a winter build w/front rack. I would agree with the previous comment about shallow profile/box wheel set. Thanks for sharing and do what makes you happy!

Don't forget the barplugs, they'll pierce ya!

Don't forget the barplugs, they'll pierce ya!

They arrived today! With a slightly shorter stem, and changed the bars out to M151s.

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No spare spokes but I made this *it’s so twisted nvm I can’t straighten it out any further. I don’t have the hand strength :( I think I was able to bring up some combining hanger wire and a quick release skewer. Now I’m using a longer skewer but it is firmly stuck in place. Give up the fight and buy a new compressor piece(?)**vicious cycle

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Get the fork out of frame and bash it upside down with the steerer on a piece of wood. Could maybe just fall out that way?

Thank you. I’m bugging out *last update I tried that. Killed a plant in the process. Big one is safe but damn. My head is not in the right place. Thank you everybody. Heading to the bike shop tomorrow morning

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Take the stem off, it might (probably is) compressing the steerer tube.

I did it’s firmly in its angle it’s not moving

it’s firmly in

I bet it will rattle loose the first ride after you buy a new expander🙂

🙏

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ideal as its 7th anniversary of DBAD

ideal as its 7th anniversary of DBAD

DBADA

I already ordered one!

Bump

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Nice!

Thank you!