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Glad to see the Ace back on the road again .do love a rat bike ,got this Gaint Peleton for cheap and built it up as a Commuter.
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The Ace was far to big for me.
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Oh yes forgot to mention the brakes in the list of problems. I got these XT v brakes off ebay, the ones with the mechanism to keep the pad-to-rim angle fixed as you engage the brakes. Think they call them parallelogram?
Anyway let me tell you they do stop a bicycle. Crazy powerful. Problem was I couldnt get them to stop squealing. They sounded like a David Lee Roth impersonator with his nutsack trapped in the fly zipper.
Tried all the tricks. Koolstop pads, normal pads, toe in, toe out, booster plate, different wheel, rim cleaned with acetone, pads roughed up with sand paper. I even deliberately drove through some muddy puddles. Then I accepted that these just are just loud, and other people seem to have the same problem. It mightbe that the parallelogram gets sloppy and then just vibrates, I dont know. @RickyT has them now and he seemed happy with them so maybe it was just me.Did anybody else experience this?
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Posted in the wanted thread that I was looking for a dyno front wheel and got offered one by @littleK. Cycled out east to pick it up. It looks unused pretty much, with a very shiny sp8 hub and exal lx17 rim. Nice! At this point I'd obviously given up on the plan to use only parts I already had, so ordered a matching rim for the rear from golden age cycles.
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My wheel building experience is limited to watching my father do this when I was a kid but hey cant be that hard. Also perfect in door winter bike building activity. Also I love watching the moustachioed guy in the park tool youtube videos explain stuff and I binged the entire wheel building playlist front to back several times. THATS my escapism.
I had a deore hub that I wanted to use. The frame was able to take 130 OLD already but this hub was 135. probably could have squeezed it in but I felt like I was asking a lot already from these old skinny tubes so I put the axle spacer and axle on the lathe and took 5mm off. I also "borrowed" some Bosch Ali profile "offcuts" and corner pieces and made a truing stand. Truing went okay! Radial is quite hard and I stopped when I was about 1mm off. Not perfect, but with the tyre on it's not really noticeable...
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Time to shine! For the front light I bought a very nice and crazy cheap one from Alixpress. The rear I designed (strong word) a shell and 3D printed it. The shell got some black paint because of vanity. Wired up 6 leds in parallel with a 4 diode rectifier and a smoothing cap. Very simple and effective, but currently doesnt have a standlight. I'm saving this for the next version!
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do you have a link for that front light?
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I think i paid 12 on Alixpress. Its nice, even has a few minutes stand light.
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Rack making for me started with an order of 10mm OD stainless tubing. And a tube bender. It turns out when B&Q states the bender is for copper only, they mean it is...for copper only. But before I knew this I broke one, then bodged it back together, and then broke it again, this time for realz.
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@johnnettles2 sold me an excellent pair of PDW guards (thanks for that!) and the bike was in a much better state to carry me through winter in london
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Thanks!!
Next up is the crankset and RD. For the former I snatched the forum favorite Deore Mt60 in excellent condish'. Slightly decadent choice of RD will be this XTR m900 which is a bit tired from years of use on my old commuter. Gave it a good ultrasonic clean and lube-job and a new chain tension spring and its back in most snappy action.
Love this article about the m900:
https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/shimano_xtr_m900_derailleur.html
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Thanks! I really like your Raleigh...
New drivetrain is installed and works very well.
Chainline is miles off, this makes the easy gears slightly uneasy. I have a replacement bottom bracket which should fix it, however getting the old one out will be a fight. Its one of those plastic cartridge ones from FAG (made in W. Germany, well thats a relief) and the ends are totally chewed off. Might need to get creative on that...
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From the remaining decals: definitely end 70s (~from 78/79 on) to early eighties...decals were different before so far I know...
(oh, and great build btw)
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Hey thanks!
No I'd not done any brazing before. I learned a few things right at the beginning. The first torch I got had too weak a flame. Then it doesnt work. Then good flux is important. Once I got stainless light flux from cycle design (recommended by somebody on here) it worked well each time. I think the hardest part is getting a good fit before you start soldering, this requires patience with a file or dremel and is really important.
Sidenote: I got most parts I needed from Ceeway. The prices seem like from the 50s, the catalogue does too and you order by emailing a really friendly and helpful guy called Peter. Such a wholesome experience, cant recommend enough!