Bike porn

...Rossin frame is missing the non drive side crank bolt cap...

oh no, how do they ride it around their bedroom without it???
lol :))

actually a lot of people damaged their knees/ankles

A lot? Really? I think most people are actually fine with fixed cleats as long as they are set up straight and the rest of their position is OK.

What happen to the Ed Merckx???

oh it's not mine. it'd be in current projects if so.

So the stem's holding the carbon fork in place? Rattle, chip, chip, fail?

Most of that bike looks like it would fall apart after 6 months of London riding, OCD much?

Bullshit, the top cap does fuck all once the stem is tightened. I ran my BMX without top cap for well over 2 years without ever getting play in the headset or other movement.

it should really have a compression bung in there though, being a carbon steerer too.

Bullshit, the top cap does fuck all once the stem is tightened.

Bullshit²
On a steel BMX fork, with a heavy duty BMX stem, the steerer clamp is very stiff and can be done up pretty tight, so it's not going to walk up the steerer tube.

On a carbon fork with a light stem, things are a little different, and keeping the headset cap in place does help to prevent the headset preload from going out of adjustment during use. The sequence is
1: adjust headset preload, typically applying about 2Nm torque to the adjuster
2: tighten steerer clamp on stem to 5-6Nm and double check headset adjustment
3: tighten adjuster to 5-6Nm to keep it all tight.

If your bike is just for hanging on scale for the purposes of Weight Weenie bragging rights, it's OK to leave the cap/plug/expander/adjuster thing off, but once you start hauling on the bars, you'll soon realise why it's a good idea to leave it in place for actual riding.

Bullshit²
On a steel BMX fork, with a heavy duty BMX stem, the steerer clamp is very stiff and can be done up pretty tight, so it's not going to walk up the steerer tube.

http://www.universalcycles.com/images//products/medium/27810.jpg

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31DG9CXhPBL.SS500.jpg

Not as light as carbon but the impact you get on a BMX riding street should outweight (haha, what a pun for you there) the "softness" of carbon steerer.

Thanks for the instructions though, you really taught me something grandpa.

the "softness" of carbon steerer.

The "softness" of the carbon steerer is, I think, the lesser part of the problem. Although the lack of crush resistance of a carbon tube does mean that that the clamping force has to be lower, the larger issue I think is that the very thin walls of the steerer clamping band of lightweight stems stretch under load, potentially reducing the clamping force close to zero on some sections of the clamp, which allows the stem to move up the steerer. As the force alternates, first the top of the stem moves up, then the bottom, which is what I call "walking". The problem is reduced by ensuring that the steerer tube projects through the stem clamp, necessitating a small spacer above the stem, and also by stems with a tall stack height. Short stems (e.g. BMX, DH) will obviously be less prone to the problem simple because the force on the bar has less leverage, the overall mechanical advantage being Effective Stem Length/Stack Height.

Effective Stem Length is the radial distance from the force vector applied by the rider at the grips to the steerer clamp. On a road bar, a riding standing up on a climb pulling on the brake hoods can have an effective stem length of over 200mm.

Here is mine...
Few more pics at: http://unfrancaisalondres.over-blog.com/article-j-suis-fixe-49508451.html

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Wrong thread - you want current projects

Ha ha, you've been schooled C:V...

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idiot.

http://prollyisnotprobably.com/atanz_merckx_outside-thumb.jpg

See http://velospace.org/node/20541

noice i just stole it from stolen bikes unfortunately. cheers for those tyres the other day by the way, really came in handy

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/47092896@N03/4589266710/in/photostream/

This isn't "Sticker Porn" thread.

Try
https://www.lfgss.com/thread6261.html

or more likely here
https://www.lfgss.com/thread31750.html

from here http://mountain.bike198.com/candy-red-perfection/

Has it been crashed? Some of the tubes look a bit bent.

When I see bikes like this I always think what is wrong with a normal double-triangle frame?

Also what's the point in having such a low standover with such a high seatpost? Even though it's a thomson, that things going to bend.

Omg it's a steel frame made to look like some off the shelf piece of aluminium shit too.

When I see bikes like this I always think what is wrong with a normal double-triangle frame?

Also what's the point in having such a low standover with such a high seatpost? Even though it's a thomson, that things going to bend.

In defence of some of the bends, it's a 29er, so it probably needs a bent seat tube to get the chainstays short, and the fact that it's a niner probably justifies the dropped top tube too, as 'nad damage is likely without it.

You're right that laying a long Thomson back at that angle is asking for trouble, it would have been better to have extended the seat tube further and run straight seat stays right up to the seat clamp.

yeh I never realised it was a 29er to start with. The bends aren't the really the problem, I just dont really like the bracing or the way the tubes have been put together.

I had a bike pretty similar to this back in the day (red with ridgid p-bones / judy xc's and shorter yellow roox stem) back in the day. I know it's not a 29er, but it's a much cleaner resolution of the problem of low standover.

http://picasaweb.google.com/112513855014137252605/RobertsRoad#

jaygee's roberts deserves its place here.

Certainly does.