Current Projects chat and miscellany

need to find a top cap

Ah, ninja edit. There are people making 3d printed replacements, search ebay for Cinelli Grammo. Also NOS original ones are still out there, some reasonably priced.

New to me. 😏

Found a NOS one in Holland. Ordered it an will cost me 40€. 😩 But I got the stem for a reasonable 65€ so all together still within the budget.

The bike is a rather rare Eddy Merckx Columbus Max Pista so it deserves this little investment.

Ooo! More pix when ready, please

Will do. Bike needs just some bar tape actually.

As it is at the moment.

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That is a top-banana frameset. Looks so tight.

The colour is not my favourite Merckx team livery but it's the original 1993 Team Vlaanderen 2002 colours. Hope it rides well as I intend to use it on the track this autumn and winter.

Well, if you ever get bored of the yellow, I love it

😊

paging @kiskubai

Knowles of Wolverhampton? I never heard of them. Can't find any info online either. I won't do much to it, get some different pedals and maybe some wider tyres.

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That's nice. Maybe a quill stem? What's the clearance like?

@oheyitsd Yeah and that. They make quill stems in 31.8 right? I don't want to swap bars too. Clearances relatively right but I think I can get 34 possibly 36 mm on them

They make quill stems in 31.8 right?

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😅

Hah, nitto make nicer ones I think?

The proportions are still all wrong: take a beautiful thing and give it serious ugly-injections

I wonder if you can see the difference once the bar is in it. It looks hidious without a bar but that's probably only because our eyes are being fooled, no?

(not a fan of them either, let me be clear on that...)

Do you know what stem this is @gbj_tester?

Choose the platform you hate least🙂

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32846327332.html
https://www.amazon.co.uk/SENQI-Gooseneck-Aluminium-Mountain-Handlebar/dp/B07SDG4224
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/203305299477

Temporary coaster bike

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wow....these look horrible.... should "just" get a dura ace ax stem and a nice 26.0 compact alu bar, maybe a nitto something

Or a 25,4 Nitto quill with mtb bars

Mudguards and Dynamo light ditched for some lowercase soft g gravel

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