Current Projects chat and miscellany

negative rake is the new tight clearance.

you better dont say anything, because since you change to the right way your forks, you play better polo, and foot down less

here;

YouTube - Cycle Speedway Euro Club Champs: FINAL

you can see why a zero rake fork work well in speedway.

thats is sweet! i can see this working well with beer.

if it's zero rake, the obviously the fork can't be on backwards. fine! To my eye though it looks like the fucking axle nut is trailing behind the fork blades

i'm done with it. someone else is welcome to last word on the matter. a better shot of the bike would be helpful.

out!

here;

YouTube - Cycle Speedway Euro Club Champs: FINAL

you can see why a zero rake fork work well in speedway.

WTF is up with that freaky midget with the big bling bling round his neck!?

My build should be done in a week or so, so I'll post it up here then...

with reversed trail? fucked up. googles speedway bike to see what the fawk is going on

i found nothing.

someone clue me in as to why any kind of bike would want a negative trail, or what this speedway crap is.

Reversed trail, negative trail? Look at the first picture on this explanation here http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/trail-fork-rake-and-little-bit-of.html

You will see that the trail is behind the vertical axle line so is that what you mean by negative/reversed trail and if it is most bikes have it. The zero rake forks just makes that trail a bit larger.

The handling might not be suited to the road but when going round a small track and leaning round all the corners it must work otherwise they wouldn't be made like that I guess. And they always have as I used to watch cycle speedway 30 years ago and the bikes looked pretty much the same.

here;

YouTube - Cycle Speedway Euro Club Champs: FINAL

you can see why a zero rake fork work well in speedway.

Who's the stumpy little fella at 36secs? He looks like a cross between the fella with the vocoder in Alan Partridge and the dwarf in Twin Peaks!

graham, glad it came out looking nice, don't go and put any stoopid stickers on it. it perfect as it is.

Might put the odd one or two on ;-)

ruin it.

Looks great Graham you got the finish really nice! Clean as fuck.

I've just bought a classic 1970's racer with all original parts.. I'm looking for some 26 x 1 1/4 inc 597 tires (with original bronze/yellow stripe) as the tires on it are quite a bit worn. Does anyone know if 26 inc wheels are still made or where I can get some old ones?

I have a Holdsworth Equipe which was my first proper bike at the age of 16 which came with 26 x 1 1/4 wheels originally. I still have a front wheel if you want it. However, it's a steel rim! I think you may have trouble finding anything else. I had a real problem sourcing replacement wheels/rims of this size last year when I built up the Holdsworth again and in fact I ended up fitting 700c wheels in the end- which just about fit the tiny frame. The only 26 1 1/4's I could find for it were NOS steel rims from SJS. I have a couple of tyres to fit these wheels as well but they are just plain old black. They are NOS and I have not used them. If you want wheels and/or tyres they are yours for nothing but the energy you'll need to get to London SE23 and back.

Me.

What frame is that? I'm liking the rear brake bridge and seatstay lugs.

Me.

That is very pretty- fits the launderette's colour scheme very tastefully. I like the pedals, too-

Cheers guys - It's a Freddie Grubb that has been a massive mission to turn into a fixed gear. I bought it on here. I believe it is 1958ish and has had a bob jackson respray.

Very happy to be riding it at last : )

Reversed trail, negative trail? Look at the first picture on this explanation here http://davesbikeblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/trail-fork-rake-and-little-bit-of.html

You will see that the trail is behind the vertical axle line so is that what you mean by negative/reversed trail and if it is most bikes have it. The zero rake forks just makes that trail a bit larger.

The handling might not be suited to the road but when going round a small track and leaning round all the corners it must work otherwise they wouldn't be made like that I guess. And they always have as I used to watch cycle speedway 30 years ago and the bikes looked pretty much the same.

very clear article. thanks for that. I always thought the trail of a bike extended in front of the steering axis. I see now thats wrong.

i've learned quite a bit in the last page of this thread. Heard of speedway racing for the first time, AND it looks cool. Now i know a little more about trail.

Cheers guys - It's a Freddie Grubb that has been a massive mission to turn into a fixed gear. I bought it on here. I believe it is 1958ish and has had a bob jackson respray.

Very happy to be riding it at last : )

What was the main issue? I assume it was spaced to 110mm on the rear, no?

Tim, not keen on the white rims, but love the bike, look really lovely in that shade of green.

who's the stumpy little fella at 36secs? He looks like a cross between the fella with the vocoder in alan partridge and the dwarf in twin peaks!

pmsl!.

I won't be getting any Bianchi decals, that was the main reason for me stripping it. Might try and get some 'Don Walker'

:)

• some tartan bands.
  

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just won this. bit of a tidy and it'll be good to go. v excited.

I won't be getting any Bianchi decals. Might try and get some 'Roy Walker'

Looks great pistanator, that was the finish I would like for my GT, but the lure of autosol won out.
Would like to see it in real life, which drinks are you likely to be at with it? I might be tempted to get my lazy self into the city for a change...

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/singlespeed.html

To find out what size wheels you have, look what it says on the tyres.

Many thanks for info.
Found almost impossible to find 24” rims that not hundred years old.
Wonder if I could squeeze 650C wheels into the frame and fork?
Current wheel size 24x1 3/8 (540-547mm) and 650C is 571mm

Graham the Bianchi looks the nuts now

Try WD40 on the forks, should make finish appear uniform again

Hiya

My first (gosh, exciting!) single-speed project is this Raleigh:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42982288@N02/
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*[COLOR=#0000ff]*It has 501 tubing and a Shimano Dura-Ace EX decal but no idea of the model . Any Raleigh-afficionados recognise her? Frame number is W 8001386 if that helps.