Hacks / Bodges

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Or
https://www.amazon.com/Multi-Color-Universal-Silicone-Bicycle-Motorcycles/dp/B0C81F4LYG
:D

Using 20ps to confirm my suspicion that I was missing a spacer.

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I want to watch le tour at work. I need to bodge together a phone stand. What things around the office could I utilise?

Ta-da!

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What things around the office could I utilise?

A beautiful British plug

A beautiful British plug

This is what I resorted to!

Piece of folded card with a slot in it to hold the phone

Could maybe make a jack the rack style cradle for phone and hang on the top of the computer screen using paperclips? #macguyver

Bodged mount for my varia with cable ties to get it onto my seat pack

Bonus - didn't get attacked by Australian magpies (okay, I was in France, but no attack)

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Stolen from reddit. One way to deal with stripped threads.

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Classic! Guess the other arm would have to be modded the same way otherwise some degree of lop-sided riding is inevitable. Which is probably the least of the bodger's worries.

Just bolt it on!

When I was about to set off on a bike tour, I realized that important parts of the GPS mount were missing, 5 minutes later :

Noice

What's that cable housing, Nokon?

Cable guide bodge for Canti - V brake conversion. Brakes improved performance outweighs the ugliness.

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The whole thing is bodged, but can someone explain the geometry of why rear brake will only reach rim when mounted in front of stays? I think their's tangents and such involved.

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Frame designed for 27 wheels (630 retro) and those are 700 (622 ertro)?

The mounting bolt doesn't look like it is at right angles to the seat stay. It is sloping forwards hence the distance between brake bridge and braking surface is less when the calliper is mounted forward of the seat stay.

Frame designed for 27 wheels (630 retro) and those are 700 (622 ertro)?

Most likely this.

Exactly, Nokon

I would say that both answers are true, but the one about the bolt not being perpendicular to the (radial wrt wheel) seat stays is the one that answers the question asked.

Although the frame lacks cable stops and shifter bosses, it looks like a 700c frame to me - imagine 4mm less space under the fork crown and brake bridge! Pretty tight as it is.

My guess is the brake bridge is faulty; shifted while brazing or something.

The fork seems made for a recessed nut brake, given the head of the nut is flush - doesn't seem like it's been drilled out. What's going on with the rear? Is it meant to take a recessed nut as well, or has that fork just shared a paint job with the frame at some point? It's pretty curious...

The little windows in the lugs suggest it's a reasonably nice frame, making the lack of braze-ons / 700c combo very odd... More pics plz!

Makes sense to me. cheers