Current Projects chat and miscellany

Shortend the fork on my Surly today.
More photos on my blog:
http://fixedgearphotography.blogspot.com/

End result:

that is the dodgiest bodges i've ever seen on a bike, for the sake of a pair of forks

try again

Shortend the fork on my Surly today.
More photos on my blog:
http://fixedgearphotography.blogspot.com/

Do you have a picture of the end result, but at the connection area, where the braze work has been carried out?

Well done!

Loic

that is the dodgiest bodges i've ever seen on a bike, for the sake of a pair of forks

agreed, what is the point anyway? to get slightly tighter clearances? hmm.

that saxil is porn worthy. very very nice indeed. im very envious, my only cripe is the saddle which looks a bit out of place on a bike with very little black.

those fork do look a bit scary but theyre probably alright if welded well. i dont think i would have bothered and just bought some new forks, but you get points in my book for a bit of ingenuity and DIY.

picture of the fork clearance and weldings

^ I dont think he was talking about your forks, nowt bodged about them.

Duncan i like the makeover

Just to to show you how we did the shortning.
And that pic above is NOT the end result, I will post that as soon as its done.
It´s a fuckings Surly fork, who gives a shit?!

your face when it grinds across the pavement for 5m

Why should it do that?
It´s stronger now then before (yes, heavier too).

^ I dont think he was talking about your forks, nowt bodged about them.

Duncan i like the makeover

Nice pic anyway BaCa.

Cheers Alex, tis fun in the skatepark! ;)

Skate park! WTF? Bloody hipster!

Donut, nice stem x

Just finished this...

I used to ride KHS MTBs a looooong time ago and got

a) nostalgic and
b) lucky

It's a bit of an exclusive. I managed to harrangue the UK KHS distro to part with his only example of this so it's the only 2009 FLite 100 frame in the UK at the mo. It came as a complete bike but I stripped the OTP components off and built it up with a few spare (and not so spare) bits.

picture of the fork clearance and weldings

love the shape and clearance but just wished they tidied that weld

Why in the middle of the fork, and not in the dropouts or in the crown
do you have a pic of the welding?

more space to flex, at either end there is no give. same principle as windows i guess, they are easy to break in the corners because the impact is dissipated through the distance from the impact point to the points it's fixed.

And you can easily insert a supprt in the middle. i don't think it makes it that much more unstable. be good to see the finished product

Looking good Chris, is that going on the track. All you need is some bars!

Nope - replacement for the Gazelle as my daily runner.

well done for finishing it chris. get some black tyres on there :)

On order.

what chainring is that? gerbardt?

Nice work Aroogah ... ditto on the black tyres :-)

Yup. 44T

The KHS is looking good - love the geometry on it - is that the stock fork?

argh, i contacted KHS uk importers a while ago and they were having none of it. they need to start importing that frameset, flat crown forks and good geo at a reasonable price. I want.