Current Projects chat and miscellany

Gaston - I may have some Mavic (look delta cleat) pedals lying around somewhere if you are after some (Those look like Looks to me on that bike)?

Gaston.
I too haz Mavic 646 LMS are these the type you're referring to danb?

I think they'd look better on your bike than they do on mine, so if dan can't find his, you'd also be welcome to mine - splendid build by the way... chapeau.

Sorry to interrupt...

My favourite bike has a fucked BB shell : (
There's no metal left to re-tap the threads, and it's 753, which makes major work like a new shell very risky (and too expensive anyway).

I want to run ultra torque cranks if I can.
Is there a solution for running ultra torque BBs with knackered BB threads?

Take it into Oak Cycles and ask Ryan would be my starting point.

Solution will probably be to cover the thread area with braze then tap that, not a quick fix though.

Hmm - no mine are different to that (from what I can remember - its been a couple of years since I used them at least) and a dark green.

^Those would look perfect with your bike Gaston

Solution will be to tap that, for a quick fix.

ftfy

Sorry to interrupt...

My favourite bike has a fucked BB shell : (
There's no metal left to re-tap the threads, and it's 753, which makes major work like a new shell very risky (and too expensive anyway).

I want to run ultra torque cranks if I can.
Is there a solution for running ultra torque BBs with knackered BB threads?

This happened to a frame of mine. I got a VO threadless bb from pedal pedlar but the shell was too worn for it. Was well made just didn't fit.

Solution will probably be to cover the thread area with braze then tap that, not a quick fix though.

If all proven expensive, another solution is threadless BB (admittedly resort to square taper crankset).

Rik Van Looy and danb , kmerOne has found me that héhé
Thanks guys

If all proven expensive, another solution is threadless BB (admittedly resort to square taper crankset).

Back in the 90's I stripped the threads on an mtb BB shell and got round it using a FAG BB, don't know if they still do them in a range of axle lengths, but it seems they're used on the Brompton (119mm)
The plastic threads in the cups are slightly oversized so they grip quite well even with just a modest amount of thread left

^^ That's the ones, they look to be in much better condition than mine...
Not sure why they're being sold with Red Arc's I thought you could only use black hardman delta's since the float is in the pedal not the cleat...
(Thinking about it if you tension up the float adjust to the max and then run the arc cleat it may have the same effect)

new project.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Look-595-Carbon-Road-Bike-Frame-53cm-Medium-/110997705947?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&autorefresh=true&nma=true&si=%2Fvp%2BEuicAkmATB7Go64XSL17YIM%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

For reals?

For reals?

don't think the wininng bidder is laner, his user name is different.

just finished my metayer...

I think the Cork bar ends are a bit to much.

2 bottles of champaign gone in vain ;-)

For reals?

Reals

Ok what is 6pt doing with laners account?

Also, siiiiick.

2013 is all about copying your friends frame choices and making bikes that you ride more than they do their's

Apart from mine of course.

Who's in their right mind would copy my bike?

2013 is all about copying your friends frame choices and making bikes that you ride more than they do their's

nah, its all about being faster...

who has time to keep track of what other peeps are riding

Hard work Pays off and Bitters catch AIDS

Charming turn of phrase.

Aiming to be faster than 6pt would be an ambitious New Year's resolution.

show you're right

Well done to mike 'mad money' laner for upgrading all his bikes to carbon.

I have just dont a rather foolish thing and bought some wheels for a bike I dont even own yet. Slightly worse they wheels are Dura Ace on Mavic Sup's and i was thinking that this as yet fictional bike would be a beater....

soz for crap phone photo

My favourite bike has a fucked BB shell : (
There's no metal left to re-tap the threads, and it's 753, which makes major work like a new shell very risky (and too expensive anyway).

I want to run ultra torque cranks if I can

It wouldn't be rocket science to make an insert in the style of an EBB insert, minus the eccentricity, to take UltraTorque bearings. Shell would need reaming, but at least that won't involve heating. The insert would be 35mm OD and needs to be 26mm ID to clear the UT axle, so 4.5mm wall. Needs a bit of thinking to sort out clamping the two halves together and providing some kind of collet to lock it radially, but they seem like surmountable problems.

that or get one of those VO threadless BB's (assuming its square taper you need)