Current Projects chat and miscellany

Need to get one myself, I got a carbon 'cross fork with carbon steerer and an MTB stem.

*moreexcusetogetawoundupcrossfork

3 parcels arrived this morning, so my Planet-X build went from a pile of parts...

To this so far...

Just need to add chain, add brake/gear cables, wrap bars and then waiting for brake callipers to arrive. Not long now :)

Looking good. Front end doesn't look quite as crazy low as before

Just need to add chain, add brake/gear cables, wrap bars

All the really time consuming parts of a build, then.

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I had the same thing in reverse when i put drops on my bike. To start off with I wasn't sure i'd adapt to it but literally within an hour it felt really good. You'll get used to, fear not!

Waiting for my risers to arrive, hopefully today. Havnt ridden a bike without drops in a long time now.

3 parcels arrived this morning, so my Planet-X build went from a pile of parts...To this so far...

Dreamed of owning a Ciöcc track bike forever but gave up searching years ago.

When one became available in my size and favourite colour I had to have it.

This 80's frame was restored in Italy by Samuel Pelizzoli, the son of Giovanni who built it 30 years ago.

Fully chromed with beautiful red laquer finish - cromovelato.

The panto'd bits came from my Mockba 80 and complete the look nicely.

This one is a keeper.

More pics on velospace later...

FMRS! Does not disappoint. Good story. Awesome bike.

My first attempt at a singlespeed conversion:
going from gears like this one:

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to this:

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I'm still trying to sort the chainline and the chainlength but I'm very close to giving up because, to get the right chainline I need to change the bottom bracket which is very stuck.
Plan B is to put all the gears back on and swap it for a road frame at my friendly neighbourhood bike shop. Unless anyone wants to buy it off me that is :)

Added risers, brevet track grips and 80mm sakae stem in white. Feels strange not to be using drops after so long.

Don't worry, it won't be for too long.

You switch back in a few months.

I'm still trying to sort the chainline and the chainlength but I'm very close to giving up because....

What is wrong with it?

If when you're at the back wheel of the bike looking down towards the cranks, and the chain is drifting outwards away from the rear cog, then try putting the front chainring on the inside, rather than the outside of the crank spider like you have now.

If it's drifting inwards then you can put spacers inbewteen the chain ring bolts to effectively shift the chainring further out.

Don't worry, it won't be for too long.

You switch back in a few months.

Haha we'll see

beautiful bike Dwayne

Ciocc is stunning.

Ciöcc is stunning.

Absolutely.
Why do so few nice track frames show up on the market?

^Hopefully they are all busy being loved....

.... or hoarded in the sheds of the greedy!

What is wrong with it?

If when you're at the back wheel of the bike looking down towards the cranks, and the chain is drifting outwards away from the rear cog, then try putting the front chainring on the inside, rather than the outside of the crank spider like you have now.

If it's drifting inwards then you can put spacers inbewteen the chain ring bolts to effectively shift the chainring further out.

The problem is that I need to move the chainring to the inside of the spider but there isn't any room. It's only out by maybe 1 or 2 mm but like I say, without getting the bottom bracket out and fitting one with a longer axle (which I already have) to enable me to adjust things properly there's not a lot I can do about it. Plus the frame is too small for me, hence the half mile of seatpost on show.

There isn't that much seatpost out. The seapost and stem look quite standard for that era of frame.

Out by 1 or 2mm isn't too much. Have you thought of spacing the sprocket out? BB spacers fit IIRC as they're the same dia. threads.

.... or hoarded in the sheds of the greedy!

I'll keep hoarding mine then, if that means keeping them away from being skad on.

Yeah, I suppose the bikes not too bad. It was nothing more than an experiment with some spare bits I had lying around. I really want to do a road style SS though and I've got some much nicer road bits to bolt on as soon as I can get hold of a frame. Think Dura-Ace 7400 cranks and chainring and 105 brake callipers and drop levers :)

MACREADY CAN you please tell me were you got the frame from please?thanks

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Just bagged myself this ^nd not sure what to do with it ( I've just always fantasised over a lo pro). Any suggestions?

Ha ha........
Now I know who I was bidding against!

I was going to build that thing into a old skool/modern take on a TT machine. Old Skool lo pro frame with aero wheels (thinking of converting an old pair of deep section HED's I have to singlespeed), Mike Burrows carbon seatpost, and full modern aerobars.

Basically a stable-mate for this beastie

That was my first build of a singlespeed in all my years of building bikes for myself, family and friends.
Basically I was fed up with riding to work in crummy conditions, and then having to leave one of my nice road bikes gradually corroding in the bike shed before I could return to it later in the day. As my brother-in-law had moved from NZ to London and got into riding fixi,e I kinda thought it may be a good solution to ride a singlespeed as there was less to get crudded up on them, and therefore life would be a whole lot simpler.
This bike started life as a Reynolds 863 frame from the old Raleigh Epecial Products division, but had then been left to rot in someone's shed, where it had got beaten about a bit, and had lost all of it's components including the headset. Thankfully though all the tubes were straight, and the corrosion was very minimal, and only where the paint had been dinked.

First mission was to remove any extraneous clutter from the frame, and as it wasn't going to go back to being geared (and because I know it's not getting sold as my original Raleigh Banana bike did) I removed the mech hangers, and down tube bosses with a cut-off disc, before smoothing everything over perfectly. All the remaining decals were then removed, and the original serial number carefully removed and stuck to some plastic for safe keeping. A brief sanding later and it was off to the paint shop for the yellow and black.

Upon curing the yellow and black the whole frame and forks were sanded down and then returned to me just so that I could do all the decal work. Thanfully when I was up in Scotland a few years ago I went into a bike shop in Edinburgh that actually had two original Raleigh Banana 753 team frames on the wall - a race frame, and Malcolm Elliots lo-pro - so they very kindly took pics of their originals and I went hunting the interweb for the necessary decals. A whole lot of hunting helped me find the decals you see here, and the pics from the Edinburgh bike shop (and old photos of my own old 531c version of the bike - not the scaffold pole version that Raleigh produced in the thousands) helped me get everything in the right position before it went back to the painters for the clear coat.

Upon returning to me it then got a modern rebuild.
It has full carbon wing bars on it, carbon stem, carbon seatpost, and even carbon (effect) brake callipers, so it's old skool with a hint of modern about it.........

And yes I know the saddle is at a funny angle, but seriously I've done two 100 mile rides on this bike this year, and got off without a twinge in the undercarriage, so please just accept that it works for me!

It is may main winter bike, and damn fun training for riding this beastie in the evenings when we have daylight:-

And so the search continues for a big enough lo-pro (I'm 6'5" with a 36" inside leg!)to build up as another winter project, and to take it's place as the Malcolm Elliot Banana Lo-Pro alongside the race replica as my pair of singlespeeds.